Rethinking the New Left

1. Defining the New Left
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2. America in the 1950s: “The Best of All Possible Worlds”
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3. The New Left’s Origins in the Old Left
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4. The Black Freedom Struggle: From “We Shall Overcome” to “Freedom Now!”
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5. Challenging the Cold War Before Vietnam: “Ban the Bomb! Fair Play for Cuba!”
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6. The Northern Student Movement: “Free Speech” and “Participatory Democracy”
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7. Underground Feminists and Homophiles: “The Problems that Have No Name”
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8. Vietnam and “The War at Home”
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9. Black Power: “A Nation Within a Nation?”
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10. Red, Brown, and Yellow Power in “Occupied America”
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11. Women’s Liberation and Second-Wave Feminism: “The Personal is Political”
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12. Gay Liberation: “Out of the Closets and into the Streets!”
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13. Winning and Losing: The New Left Democratizes America
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Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Political History, US History, Modern History, History of the Americas, European Politics, Political Science