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A New Insurgency: The Port Huron Statement and Its Times

Edited by Howard Brick and Gregory Parker

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/maize.13545967.0001.001

Published by: Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2015.

  

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Table of Contents

• [Dedication]
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
  • A New Insurgency and the Port Huron Statement — Howard Brick
• Prologue
  • Before Port Huron — Tom Hayden
  • Students for a Democratic Society: Convention Document #1 — Tom Hayden
  • Students for a Democratic Society: Convention Document #2 — Tom Hayden
  • RE: manifesto — Tom Hayden
• I. Experiences: Being There
  • Introduction
  • 1 | A Call, Again — Alan Haber
  • 2 | Experiencing the Sixties at the Intersection of SDS and SNCC — Martha Prescod Noonan
  • 3 | Returning to Ann Arbor — Casey Hayden
  • 4 | Many Inheritances . . . One Legacy — Maria Varela
  • 5 | Reflections on SDS and the 1960s Movements for Social Justice — Dorothy Dawson Burlage
  • 6 | Reflections on Women and the Culture of Port Huron — Barbara Haber
  • 7 | The Evolution of a Radical’s Consciousness: Living an Authentic Life — Sharon Jeffrey Lehrer
  • 8 | Port Huron: Where’s the Labor Section? — Kim Moody
  • 9 | It’s Time to Change the Water in the Fish Tank — Frank Joyce
  • 10 | Democracy, Labor, and Globalization: Reflections on Port Huron — Robert J. S. Ross
• II. Contexts: The Making of an American New Left
  • Introduction
  • 11 | Lefts Old and New: Sixties Radicalism, Now and Then — Christopher Phelps
  • 12 | Of Little Rocks and Levittowns: The Northern Racial Landscape and the Origins of the 1960s New Left — Matthew J. Countryman
  • 13 | The Lightning Bolt That Sparked the Port Huron Statement — Aldon Morris
  • 14 | A New Left Philosophical Itinerary: Marcuse, Sartre, and Then Camus — Ronald Aronson
  • 15 | Participatory Art as Participatory Democracy: The American Avant-Garde in the 1950s and 1960s — Robert Genter
  • 16 | Facing the Abyss — Todd Gitlin
  • 17 | Beyond Port Huron: The Indiana “Subversion” Case Fifty Years Later — Alan Wald
• III. Connections: The Sixties Movement of Movements
  • Introduction
  • 18 | Refugees from the Fifties — Ruth Rosen
  • 19 | The Empire at Home: Radical Pacifism and Puerto Rico in the 1950s — Andrea Friedman
  • 20 | Radical Pacifism in the Long 1950s: Forging New Forms of Protest and Dissent — Marian Mollin
  • 21 | An Ending and a Beginning: James Boggs, C. L. R. James, and The American Revolution — Stephen M. Ward
  • 22 | The Religious Origins of Reies López Tijerina’s Land Grant Activism in the Southwest — Ramón A. Gutiérrez
  • 23 | Before the Birth of Asian America: Asian Americans and the New Left — Daryl Joji Maeda
  • 24 | The Ann Arbor Teach-In and Beyond: An Oral History — Richard D. Mann
  • 25 | New Indians in the New Frontier — Paul Chaat Smith
• IV. Comparisons: Global New Lefts
  • Introduction
  • 26 | The German New Left and Participatory Democracy: The Impact on Social, Cultural, and Political Change — Michael Vester
  • 27 | European New Lefts, Global Connections, and the Problem of Difference — Rita Chin
  • 28 | “Thought Is Action for Us”: Lloyd Best, New World, and the West Indian Postcolonial Left — Paul Hébert
  • 29 | On the Shores of Japan’s Postwar Left: An Intimate History — Leslie Pincus
  • 30 | Ashamed of Being Middle Class: Mexico’s 1968 Student Movement and Its Legacy — Louise E. Walker
• V. In Memoriam
  • Introduction
  • 31 | New Left Melancholia, or Paul Potter Swallows Television — Michael Szalay
  • 32 | Shulamith Firestone, Social Defeat, and Sixties Radicalism — Alice Echols
• VI. Insurgency Anew: Participatory Democracy at Fifty
  • Introduction
  • 33 | Envisioning Another World: Port Huron’s Continuing Relevance — Dick Flacks
  • 34 | The Wisconsin Uprising and Women’s Power: Report from Madison — Mari Jo Buhle and Paul Buhle
  • 35 | Democracy and the Arab Upheavals of 2011 and After — Juan Cole
  • 36 | Post-Occupy — Sarah Leonard and Sarah Jaffe
  • 37 | Movements for Real Democracy: “The People Must Rule!” — Marina Sitrin
• Contributors
• Notes

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