Includes bibliographical references (215-225) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: the American protest tradition -- The forests for the trees: neoliberalism and the environment -- Rebel spaces: youth, art, and countercultures -- Links in the chain: workers' rights networks and globalization -- Invasion and occupation: fighting the "war on terror" -- Eviction and occupation: austerity and the global recession -- Epilogue: Kennedy International Airport, 2017.
Summary:
"The history of the United States is a history of oppression and inequality, as well as raucous opposition to the status quo. It is a history of slavery and child labor, but also the protest movements that helped end those institutions. Protesters have been the driving force of American democracy, from the expansion of voting rights and the end of segregation laws, to minimum wage standards and marriage equality. In this exceptional new book, Dawson Barrett calls our attention to the post-1960s period, in which US economic, cultural, and political elites turned the tide against the protest movement gains of the previous forty years and reshaped the ability of activists to influence the political process."-- provided by publisher.
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