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Published: 01 June 2012
... Barbara Murphy Melody 1960s 1970s Shirley Chisholm African American women U.S. Congress inequality feminism civil rights Democratic Party federal government When the Ninety-first Congress convened in January 1969, the Democratic caucus gathered to approve the committee assignments for the new...
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Published: 15 March 2018
... novel suggests about its paradoxical power and vulnerabilities. 1970s 1980s Carter Jimmy crossover Fontaine Dick Just Above My Head New York City Reagan revolution Republican Vietnam American Dream children childhood Hollywood Houston Whitney Nixon Richard Reagan Ronald Baldwin James...
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Published online: 21 May 2020
Published in print: 15 August 2019
... liberation projects. At the beginning of the 1970s, the ethos animating the juridical achievements of the civil rights movement began to wane, and the rise of neoliberalism, a powerful conservative backlash, the co-optation of “race-blind” rhetoric, and the pathologization and criminalization of poverty...
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Published online: 19 September 2019
Published in print: 15 February 2019
...All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence is a history of grassroots activism by, for, and about incarcerated domestic violence survivors, criminalized rape resisters, and dissident women prisoners in the 1970s and early 1980s. Across the country...
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Published online: 18 January 2024
Published in print: 18 April 2023
...This book explores the wide-ranging nature of athlete activism, concentrating on the period between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s. As the nation grappled with a series of upheavals regarding race, gender, sexuality, the economy, and war, sports became enmeshed in a wide range of protest...
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Published: 01 March 2020
... for the first time in his long and outstanding career a rather lifeless film.” Yet what is missed in Richie’s otherwise well-thought-out critique is Kurosawa’s increased concerns about the depictions of environments natural and urban through the film’s sound design. Produced in the early 1970s in the wake...
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Published: 15 April 2018
... pastime McGrory political culture 1970s “Poverty may make a comeback,” [I said]. “Perhaps it won’t be called poverty, but they’ll call it something else.” “Maybe they could call it pro football,” McAlister said. “Americans don’t seem to lose interest in that.” “Let’s not lose our...
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Published: 01 May 2019
...), the Gay Rights movement (especially the Stonewall Uprising in New York in 1969), East Coast hip hop culture in the early 1970s, and the politicized noise-and-dance of 1980s punk rock. It thus emphasizes the wide range of historical and social contexts in which “subaltern dance” may be consistently...
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Published: 15 October 2019
... trilogy El Eternauta Oesterheld Héctor Germán shorts Solano López Francisco race relations class difference political and moral amnesia hit-and run collision Argentina in the 1970s My films are completely political, but in this sense: to make a film, for me, is the desire to share this doubt...
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Sharon Mirchandani
Published online: 20 April 2017
Published in print: 01 November 2012
..., to other musical styles, and to 1970s feminism....
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Published online: 20 September 2018
Published in print: 15 April 2018