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The sixties, in America, began in hope and ended in despair. In the early sixties the Beatles, JFK, MLK, the student movement, the civil rights movement--all seemed to promise a new age. Yet, by the late sixties the civil rights movement had collapsed, Vietnam was destroying the country's economic and moral confidence, and civil turmoil was disrupting daily life. The seminar will examine the broad history of the 1960s in America and examine the major cultural and political movements of the decade. The seminar, however, will focus secondarily on changes in American society, particularly those defining the world situation today. Thus, the secondary theme of the course will be: the sixties and the rise of a multicultural world.
COURSE FORMAT: Discussion Lecture
Level: UG Credit: 1.00
Prerequisites: SOC 151
Last Updated on MAR-10-1997
In 1967, the fashion esthetic changed -- from the bright Mary Quant image to a hippy or ethnic style with hallucinatory overtones.
Maltby, Richard, PASSING PARADE: A HISTORY OF POPULAR CULTURE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, New York: Oxford University Press, 1989
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