Rethinking the New Left: An Interpretative History

by Van Gosse

Book Overview

From the 1950s to the 1970s, a host of movements struggled to make democracy and equality realities in America. A radical conception of democracy animated the movements for civil rights and black power, for peace and solidarity with the Third World, and for gender and sexual equality. From Vietnam to the war at home against African and Native Americans, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Asian Americans, from Women's to Gay Liberation, the New Left was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140396694X
• ISBN13: 9781403966940
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"