Reframing 1968: American Politics, Protest and Identity

by Martin Halliwell (Editor), Nick Witham (Editor)

The assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr and Robert Kennedy. Gay rights, women's rights and civil rights. The Black Panthers and the Vietnam War. The New Left and the New Right. 1968 was a tumultuous year for US politics. 50 years on, Reframing 1968 explores the historical, political and social legacy of 1968 in modern protest movements. 14 interdisciplinary essays look at how protest has changed in the US, from Students for a Democratic Society and the Civil Rights Movement in the late 1960s, to the Women’s Movement in the 1970s, through to the contemporary visibility of the Tea Party and the Occupy movement.

Genres: Nonfiction

332 pages, Paperback

Published January 23, 2018

Reviews

[M.L. Rio · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some interesting ideas here but also a few factual errors--which are inconsistent from chapter to chapter within the volume--that undermine the authors' credibility a bit. (Why is it that British scholars can't seem to get their facts straight about DemCon '68?)