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A Hard Rain Fell: Sds and Why It Failed
Contributor(s): Barber, David (Author)

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 ISBN: 1604738553     ISBN-13: 9781604738551
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
OUR PRICE: $36.75  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Political Ideologies - Radicalism
- History | United States - 20th Century
- Education | Higher
Dewey: 378.198
Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.97 lbs) 300 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
- Chronological Period - 1920's
- Chronological Period - 1960's
- Chronological Period - 21st Century
- Cultural Region - Deep South
- Cultural Region - Mid-South
- Cultural Region - Mississippi River Basin
- Cultural Region - Southeast U.S.
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
 
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A study of the growth and demise of the most radical white student group of the sixties 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 respond as a tabula rasa. On the contrary, these young people's consciousnesses, their culture, their identities had arisen out of a history which, for hundreds of years, had privileged white over black, men over wo-men, and America over the rest of the world. Such a history could not help but distort the vision and practice of these activists, good intentions notwithstanding. A Hard Rain Fell: SDS and Why It Failed traces these activists in their relation to other movements and demonstrates that the New Left's dissolution flowed directly from SDS's failure to break with traditional American notions of race, sex, and empire. David Barber is assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee at Martin. His work has appeared in Journal of Social History, Left History, and Race Traitor.

Contributor Bio(s): Barber, David: -

David Barber is assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee at Martin. His work has appeared in Journal of Social History, Left History, and Race Traitor.
 
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