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Contributors include Kafka, Camus, Brecht, Mumford, Malraux, Garcia Lorca. Gunnar Myrdal, Stephen Spender, Waldo Frank, and many others.
Author : William Wasserstrom
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 13,77 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Art and society
ISBN :
Contributors include Kafka, Camus, Brecht, Mumford, Malraux, Garcia Lorca. Gunnar Myrdal, Stephen Spender, Waldo Frank, and many others.
Author : Shizue Seigel
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 32,3 MB
Release : 2021-07-24
Category :
ISBN : 9781733059022
4th in a series of anthologies featuring voices of Bay Area writers, poets, artists of color, and allies.
Author : Teresa A. Carbone
Publisher : Monacelli Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,79 MB
Release : 2014
Category : African American art
ISBN : 9781580933902
* Marking the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Brooklyn Museum offers a sharply focused look at painting, sculpture, graphics, and photography from the counterculture decade defined by social protest and racial conflict.
Author : William Wasserstrom
Publisher :
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 13,83 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Art and society
ISBN :
Author : Chris Moores
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1108124526
The National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL) was formed in the 1930s against a backdrop of fascism and 'popular front' movements. In this volatile political atmosphere, the aim of the NCCL was to ensure that civil liberties were a central component of political discourse. Chris Moores's new study shows how the NCCL - now Liberty - had to balance the interests of extremist allies with the desire to become a respectable force campaigning for human rights and civil liberties. From new social movements of the 1960s and 1970s to the formation of the Human Rights Act in 1998, this study traces the NCCL's development over the last eighty years. It enables us to observe shifts and continuities in forms of political mobilisation throughout the twentieth century, changes in discourse about extensions and retreats of freedoms, as well as the theoretical conceptualisation and practical protection of rights and liberties.
Author : Colin Woodard
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 15,32 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0525427899
The struggle between individualism and the good of the community as a whole has been the basis of every major disagreement in America's history, from the debates at the Constitutional Convention to the civil rights movement to the Tea Party. In American Character, Colin Woodard traces these two key strands in American politics through the four centuries of the nation's existence, from the first colonies through the Gilded Age and Great Depression to the present day, and how different regions of the country have successfully or disastrously accommodated them.
Author : Francis Lieber
Publisher :
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 25,45 MB
Release : 1859
Category : Democracy
ISBN :
Author : Mike Marqusee
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 43,43 MB
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1609801156
Bob Dylan’s abrupt abandonment of overtly political songwriting in the mid-1960s caused an uproar among critics and fans. In Wicked Messenger, acclaimed cultural-political commentator Mike Marqusee advances the new thesis that Dylan did not drop politics from his songs but changed the manner of his critique to address the changing political and cultural climate and, more importantly, his own evolving aesthetic. Wicked Messenger is also a riveting political history of the United States in the 1960s. Tracing the development of the decade’s political and cultural dissent movements, Marqusee shows how their twists and turns were anticipated in the poetic aesthetic—anarchic, unaccountable, contradictory, punk— of Dylan's mid-sixties albums, as well as in his recent artistic ventures in Chronicles, Vol. I and Masked and Anonymous. Dylan’s anguished, self-obsessed, prickly artistic evolution, Marqusee asserts, was a deeply creative response to a deeply disturbing situation. "He can no longer tell the story straight," Marqusee concludes, "because any story told straight is a false one."
Author : Richard Price
Publisher :
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 41,36 MB
Release : 1776
Category : Finance, Public
ISBN :
Author : Laura Weinrib
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 25,45 MB
Release : 2016-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0674545710
In the early decades of the twentieth century, business leaders condemned civil liberties as masks for subversive activity, while labor sympathizers denounced the courts as shills for industrial interests. But by the Second World War, prominent figures in both camps celebrated the judiciary for protecting freedom of speech. In this strikingly original history, Laura Weinrib illustrates how a surprising coalition of lawyers and activists made judicial enforcement of the Bill of Rights a defining feature of American democracy. The Taming of Free Speech traces our understanding of civil liberties to conflict between 1910 and 1940 over workers’ right to strike. As self-proclaimed partisans in the class war, the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union promoted a bold vision of free speech that encompassed unrestricted picketing and boycotts. Over time, however, they subdued their rhetoric to attract adherents and prevail in court. At the height of the New Deal, many liberals opposed the ACLU’s litigation strategy, fearing it would legitimize a judiciary they deemed too friendly to corporations and too hostile to the administrative state. Conversely, conservatives eager to insulate industry from government regulation pivoted to embrace civil liberties, despite their radical roots. The resulting transformation in constitutional jurisprudence—often understood as a triumph for the Left—was in fact a calculated bargain. America’s civil liberties compromise saved the courts from New Deal attack and secured free speech for labor radicals and businesses alike. Ever since, competing groups have clashed in the arena of ideas, shielded by the First Amendment.