Younger than that now : the politics of age in the 1960s / Holly V. Scott.
2016
HQ796 .S41925 2016
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Younger than that now : the politics of age in the 1960s / Holly V. Scott.
ISBN
9781625342171
9781625342164
9781625342164
9781613764237 (electronic book)
9781625342164
9781625342164
9781613764237 (electronic book)
Published
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (226 pages)
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HQ796 .S41925 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
320.40835097309/04
Summary
"Retrospectives of the 1960s routinely include the face of youth rebellion: long-haired students occupying campus buildings, young men burning draft cards, hippies dancing at Woodstock. In Younger Than That Now, Holly V. Scott explores how the idea of 'youth' served as a tactic in the political and social activism of these years. In the early part of that decade, young white activists began to learn from the civil rights movement's defiance of racism. They examined their own lives and concluded that campus rules and the draft were repression as well. As a group, they were ripe for revolution, and their age gave them a unique perspective for understanding and protesting against injustice. In short, young people began to use their youth as a political strategy. Some in the New Left were dubious of this strategy and asked how it might damage long-term progress. Young feminists and people of color were particularly quick to question the idea that age alone was enough to sustain a movement. And the media often presented young people as impulsive and naive, undermining their political legitimacy. In tracing how 'youth' took on multiple meanings as the 1960s progressed, Scott demonstrates the power of this idea to both promote and hinder social change"--Provided by publisher.
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Culture, politics, and the cold war.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: The youth frame
Student citizen, part I : the civil rights movement
Student citizen, part II : the early New Left
"No student panty raid" : covering youth activism in the early 1960s
Youth-baiting : coverage of young activists in the late 1960s
"Youth will make the revolution" : creating the youth frame
"It ain't me Babe" : racial and gendered limits of the youth frame
"Now what am I to do with this creature?" : contesting the youth frame
Conclusion: Memory and the meaning of youth.
Student citizen, part I : the civil rights movement
Student citizen, part II : the early New Left
"No student panty raid" : covering youth activism in the early 1960s
Youth-baiting : coverage of young activists in the late 1960s
"Youth will make the revolution" : creating the youth frame
"It ain't me Babe" : racial and gendered limits of the youth frame
"Now what am I to do with this creature?" : contesting the youth frame
Conclusion: Memory and the meaning of youth.