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 today's crisis of social democracy suggests that while the archetypal European welfare state is in danger, critics and citizens interested in understanding or reviving progressive politics are invited to consider the US, where modes of creative activism demonstrate potentialities for a renewed leftist culture. This volume uses a transatlantic perspective to identify activist influence through the designation or…mehr
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 today's crisis of social democracy suggests that while the archetypal European welfare state is in danger, critics and citizens interested in understanding or reviving progressive politics are invited to consider the US, where modes of creative activism demonstrate potentialities for a renewed leftist culture. This volume uses a transatlantic perspective to identify activist influence through the designation or rejection of specific intellectual and militant figures across generations.
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).
Inhaltsangabe
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
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
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