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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782841403321

Autore

Barber David <1950->

Titolo

A hard rain fell [[electronic resource] ] : SDS and why it failed / / David Barber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2008

ISBN

1-282-48509-1

9786612485091

1-60473-305-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Disciplina

378.1/981

Soggetti

New Left - United States - History

College students - Political activity - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-269) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : why the New Left failed -- The New Left and the Black movement, 1965-1968 -- The New Left and the American empire, 1962-1968 -- The New Left and feminism, 1965-1969 -- The New Left starts to disintegrate -- Reasserting the centrality of White radicals -- Conclusion : the price of the liberation.

Sommario/riassunto

By the spring of 1969, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) had reached its zenith as the largest, most radical movement of white youth in American history-a genuine New Left. Yet less than a year later, SDS splintered into warring factions and ceased to exist. SDS\'s development and its dissolution grew directly out of the organization\'s relations with the black freedom movement, the movement against the Vietnam War, and the newly emerging struggle for women\'s liberation. For a moment, young white people could comprehend their world in new and revolutionary ways. But New Leftists did not