Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement as Myth and Memory
- ISBN-10
- 0801467802
- ISBN-13
- 9780801467806
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-05-15
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Author
- Penny Lewis
Description
In the popular imagination, opposition to the Vietnam War was driven largely by college students and elite intellectuals, while supposedly reactionary blue-collar workers largely supported the war effort. In Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks, Penny Lewis challenges this collective memory of class polarization. Through close readings of archival documents, popular culture, and media accounts at the time, she offers a more accurate "counter-memory" of a diverse, cross-class opposition to the war in Southeast Asia that included the labor movement, working-class students, soldiers and veterans, and Black Power, civil rights, and Chicano activists. Lewis investigates why the image of antiwar class division gained such traction at the time and has maintained such a hold on popular memory since. Identifying the primarily middle-class culture of the early antiwar movement, she traces how the class interests of its first organizers were reflected in its subsequent forms. The founding narratives of class-based political behavior, Lewis shows, were amplified in the late 1960s and early 1970s because the working class, in particular, lacked a voice in the public sphere, a problem that only increased in the subsequent period, even as working-class opposition to the war grew. By exposing as false the popular image of conservative workers and liberal elites separated by an unbridgeable gulf, Lewis suggests that shared political attitudes and actions are, in fact, possible between these two groups.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2013-04-12
- 272 pages
- Paperback
- Cornell University Press
-
- 2013
- 240 pages
- Paperback
- ILR Press
Similar books
-
Power to the Poor: Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974
By Gordon K. MantlerDrawing on oral histories, archives, periodicals, and FBI surveillance files, Mantler paints a rich portrait of the campaign and the larger antipoverty work from which it emerged, including the labor activism of Cesar Chavez, opposition of ...
-
Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War
By Richard Stacewicz“Winter Soldiers is an immensely valuable contribution to the history of the Vietnam War. It brings to life, through the words of the veterans themselves, the journey each individual made,...
-
Henry Ford's War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech
By Victoria Saker Woeste1; Harry Carr, “The Lancer,” LAT, 13 July 1927, p. ... The Happiness Boys, “Since Henry Ford Apologized to Me,” track 10, disc 2, From Avenue A to the Great White Way: Yiddish and American Popular Songs from 1914–1950, Columbia/Legacy, ...
-
The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution
By David Paul KuhnDavid S. Broder, “The Controversial Candidate,” WP, October 3, 1971. David Paul Kuhn, The Neglected Voter: White Men and the Democratic Dilemma (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), 61. “Cope Unable to Cope,” Economist, October 14, 1972.
-
Current Approaches in Drama Therapy
By David Read Johnson, Renee Emunah( 7 x 10 ) • 116 illustrations • 3 tables $ 59.95 ( paper ) • $ 59.95 ( ebook ) 3DR . ELLING , MOROVITE SPIRITUAL ART THERAPY AN ALTERNATE TANI ETHICAL ISSUES IN ART THERAPY llius SPIRITUAL ART THERAPY ( 3rd Edition ) by Ellen G.
-
Interpretation and Social Knowledge: On the Use of Theory in the Human Sciences
By Isaac Ariail ReedInterpretation and Social Knowledge suggests a different route, offering a way forward for an antinaturalist sociology that overcomes the opposition between interpretation and explanation and uses theory to build concrete, historically ...
-
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
By Naomi KleinThomas L. Friedman, “Big Mac I,” New York Times, December 8, 1996. 31.Steve Quinn, “Halliburton's 3Q Earnings Hit $611M,” Associated Press, October 22, 2006. 32. Steven R. Hurst, “October Deadliest Month Ever in Iraq,” Associated Press, ...
-
Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts
By Blake Scott BallCharlie Brown's America covers all of these debates and much more in a historical journey through the tumultuous decades of the Cold War as seen through the eyes of Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Peppermint Patty, Snoopy and the rest of the ...
-
The Book of King Solomon
The story of King Solomon, as told by his court historian.
-
The F***ing Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel
By Dan SinkerPresents the full content of the popular fake twitter account that followed Rahm Emanuel's 2011 Chicago mayoral campaign.