Generations of Social Movements

The Left and Historical Memory in the USA and France

Hélène Le Dantec Lowry, Ambre Ivol (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

293 Seiten

2015
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-61205-729-3 (ISBN)

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French political culture has long been seen as a model of leftist militancy, while the left in the United States is often perceived in terms of organizational discontinuity. Yet, the crisis of social democracy today suggests that at a time when the archetypal European welfare state is in danger, critics and citizens interested in understanding or reviving progressive politics are invited to consider the United States, where modes of creative activism recurrently demonstrate potentialities for a renewed leftist culture. Using a transatlantic perspective, this volume identifies activist influence through the designation or rejection of specific intellectual and militant figures across generations, and it examines various narrative modes used by militants to write their own history.

A specialist of African American and women's history, HélèneLe Dantec-Lowry is Professor of American Civilization at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, where she directs the Center for Research on North America. Ambre Ivol is Associate Professor of US Civilization at the University of Nantes. Her research interests include Afro-American history, political history, and the study of intellectual generations. She is currently editing a Howard Zinn Reader (Agone, 2014).

Introduction
Ambre Ivol & Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry

Part I The End of History? From the Fall of Communism to the Resurgence of Militancy

Chapter 1 Blind Spots of the American Left. 1960s to the Present
Stanley Aronowitz with James Cohen

Chapter 2 Memory and Amnesia in the Occupy Wall Street Movement
Jean-Baptiste Velut

Chapter 3 The Decline of the Communist Idea in a French Union (the CGT), a Sociological Case Study, 1945-2000
Guy Groux

Part II. Reassessing Generations: Designated and Forgotten Heirs in Black and White

Chapter 4 Black Radical Thought Over Time: from Marxist Traditions to the Hip Hop Generation
Manning Marable

Chapter 5 Intellectual Origins of the New Left: the Legacy of the "Lyrical Left"
A. Ollivier-Melios

Chapter 6 Radical Voices of the Silent 1950s
Soraya Guenifi

Chapter 7 Rebel Apart: Saul Alinsky and the Troubled Memory of the New Left
Andrew Diamond

Part III Militant Narrative Modes: the Radical Edge of Leftist Memoirs

Chapter 8 Remembrances of Political Things Past: Memoirs of Gay Militancy as Militant Memoirs
Guillaume Marche

Chapter 9 The Sixties Revisited: Tom Hayden's Retrospective Eye
Hélène Christol

Chapter 10 From North to South in the Sixties: A Black Militant's Recollections
John Brown Childs

Chapter 11 Activist Writings: Public Memory and Militant History in Alternative libertaire, a French Anarchist Organization
Irène Pereira

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.3.2015
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-61205-729-2 / 1612057292
ISBN-13	978-1-61205-729-3 / 9781612057293
Zustand	Neuware