HIST 1378 TTh 2:30-4 PM Lecture 21Outline of Last Lecture 1960s: Questioning Authority and Commodifying an Erao Wright Millso SDSOutline of Current Lecture 1960s: Questioning Authority and Commodifying an Era (cont)o Wright Millso SDSo Countercultureso La Raza Unidao Women’s Liberation Current Lecture1960s- Wright Mills - wrote “The Power Elite”, said that there are few people who are born into power and only a few that work up to their power. This is a prosperous country; Americans will do fine- SDS (students for a Democratic Society)- Port Huron Statement - We are students who are living in comfort, in university, and that are looking uncomfortably at what our society is about to inherit.o Wants a participatory democracy - go to different states to create this idea Tenance union for apartment dwellers under landlordsThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute. Wanted an interactive form of making decisions for the community At whatever level, YOU have to be heard- Countercultures: Sex, Drugs, Rock & Rollo The Beatles - pop music in British band, started creative thinkerso Bob Dylan - folk rock singer-songwriter, songs that defined social issues such as the Vietnam War and Civil Rights Movement- “La Raza Unida” - The Chicano Movemento From restoration of land grants, to farm workers rights, to enhanced education, to voting and political rightso La Raza Unida Party - 3rd party force for political power and the importance ofpolitical rightso Cesar Chavez - organized farm works, emphasized commitment to nonviolenceo Reyes Tijerina (New Mexico) - Land Grant Movement- Women’s Liberationo Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique - book that sparked the beginning of second-wave feminism in the USo Miss America 1968 - “freedom trash can” Feminists protested because they did not like how the pageant portrayed
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