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The Hidden 1970s
Price: $26.95
Subtitle: Histories
of Radicalism
Editor: Dan Berger
Subject: American
Studies
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4874-6
Pages:
302 pages
Publication Date: October 2010
Events:
Sunday,
September 26, 1 p.m.
Baltimore Book Festival
"Rethinking Resistance in the 1970s"
Dan Berger and Daniel Burton-Rose
Wednesday, September 29
Duke University (place & time TBA)
"1970s/Now"
Thursday, September 30, 6 pm to 8:30 pm
Author Book Signing
Association for the study of African American Life and History Annual
Friday, October 2,
2009
The Association for
the Study of African American Life and History
C.B. Powell
Building,
Suite C-142 | 525 Bryant Street, NW |
Washington, DC 20059
ASALH Book Shelf
Conference
(Raleigh, NC)
Thursday, October 7, 7 p.m.
Wooden Shoe Books, 704 South Street, Philadelphia
Wednesday, October 13, 7 p.m.
"Prisoner Support: Lessons from the 1970s"
Freebird Books, 123 Columbia St. (btw Kane and Degraw) Brooklyn
Thursday, October 14, 7:30 p.m.
Brecht Forum, 451 West Street (btw Bank & Bethune) Manhattan
Dan Berger, Andrew Cornell, Victoria Law, Matt Meyer, Ben Shepard &
Meg
Starr
Wednesday, November 10, 7 p.m.
Green Arcade
Dan Berger, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and James Tracy
Friday, November 19, 4 p.m.
Author Book Signing
American Studies Association Annual Conference (San Antonio, TX)
Praise for The Hidden 1970s:
“Out of the dull and ahistorical haze of the alleged “post-civil rights” period arrives The Hidden 1970s, a measured and explosive reminder of the temporary nature of social quiescence and the permanent possibility of radical social crisis. This book offers more than memories and lessons—it awakens an urgent embrace of the kind of political courage and fearlessness that can short-circuit the prevailing liberal-conservative consensus. Dan Berger has assembled a living history of voices that will follow and alter us.”
—Dylan Rodríguez, author of Forced Passages: Imprisoned Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime
"The essays in Dan Berger's finely edited collection showcase organizations and issues rarely discussed in mainstream historical analyses of the 1970s. Together they offer a fine, usable history of radical activism that moves beyond the tired assumption that 'identity politics' dissolved the Left and the radical activism of the 1960s."—Journal of American History
"This exciting volume takes readers to the city neighborhoods, prison yards, contested lands, and factory floors where men and women both sustained and expanded upon left-wing activist traditions during a period of political and economic retrenchment. Tightly organized and accessibly written, this collection is essential reading, not only for those interested in gaining a new perspective on the decade of the 1970s, but for anyone who cares about the fate of radicalism in the neoliberal era."
—Natasha Zaretsky, author of No Direction Home: The American Family and the Fear of National Decline, 1968-1980
"For readers interested
in Red Power, Brown Power, women's liberation, peace movements, queer
politics, and the white left, this important volume offers new
perspectives and information that is not available elsewhere. The
articles, by a mix of emerging scholars and scholar-activists, offer
views of the recent past that should reshape the consensus about the
1970s to focus on activism, organizing, and violence from above and
below."-Felicia Kornbluh, author of The
Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America
"Important and insightful, The
Hidden 1970s boldly reimagines a decade that remains
understudied and misunderstood."-Peniel E. Joseph, author of Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour:
A Narrative History of Black Power in America
Description:
The 1970s were a complex, multilayered, and critical part of
a long era of profound societal change and an essential component of
the decade before—several of the most iconic events of “the sixties”
occurred in the ten years that followed. The Hidden 1970s explores the
distinctiveness of those years, a time when radicals tried to change
the world as the world changed around them.
This powerful collection is a compelling assessment of left-wing social
movements in a period many have described as dominated by conservatism
or confusion. Scholars examine critical and largely buried legacies of
the 1970s. The decade of Nixon’s fall and Reagan’s rise also saw
widespread indigenous militancy, prisoner uprisings, transnational
campaigns for self-determination, pacifism, and queer theories of play
as political action. Contributors focus on diverse topics, including
the internationalization of Black Power and Native sovereignty,
organizing for Puerto Rican independence among Latinos and whites, and
women’s self-defense. Essays and ideas trace the roots of struggles
from the 1960s through the 1970s, providing fascinating insight into
the myriad ways that radical social movements shaped American political
culture in the 1970s and the many ways they continue to do so today.
About the Editor:
Dan Berger is the
author of Outlaws of America: The
Weather Underground and the Politics
of Solidarity and the coeditor of Letters from Young Activists.
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