1968/2008

Topics

• American Liberalism and the 60s
• Conservatism and the New Right
• Policy Reactions: Anti Riots and Neoliberal Economics
• Civil Rights: US South
• Civil Rights: US North
• Internal Self Determination: Black Power
• Chicano and Farmworkers Struggle
• American Indian Struggle
• Student Left
• Counter Culture
• Peace Movement: Anti-War
• New Communist Movement
• France 1968
• Womens Liberation and Gender Politics
• Theoretical and Ideological Influences
• Movement Media
• Chicago Specific
• Legacy and Aftermath of 1968
• Primary Sources

*This Bibliography is a compilation of lists from Amazon.com, the Bibliography of “The Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis if 1968″ by George Katsiaficas and John D’Emilio’s syllabus for “The US in the 1960s” course taught in 2005 at the University of Illinois in Chicago.

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American Liberalism and the 60s
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Boyle, Kevin.  The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945-1968.  1995.

Brinkley, Alan.  Liberalism and Its Discontents.  1998.

Fraser, Steve, and Gary Gerstle, ed.  The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980.  1989. [anthology]

Harrington, Michael.  The Other America:  Poverty in the United States.  1962.

Hodgson, Godfrey.  America in Our Time.  1976.

Horowitz, Morton J.  The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice.  1998.

Kearns, Doris.  Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream.  1976.

Matusow, Allen J.  The Unraveling of America:  A History of Liberalism in the 1960s.  1984.

Palermo, Joseph A.  In His Own Right:  The Political Odyssey of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.  2001.

Quadagno, Jill.   The Color of Welfare:  How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty.  1994.

Schulman, Bruce.  Lyndon Johnson and American Liberalism.  1995.

Steigerwald, David.  The Sixties and the End of Modern America.  1995.

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Conservatism and the New Right
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Andrew, John A.  The Other Side of the Sixties:  Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of Conservative Politics.  1997.

Brennan, Mary C.  Turning Right in the Sixties:  The Conservative Capture of the GOP. 1995.

Carter, Dan T.  Politics of Rage:  George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics.  1995.

Goldberg, Robert Alan.  Barry Goldwater.  1995.

Goldwater, Barry.  The Conscience of a Conservative.  1960.

Hodgson, Godfrey.  The World Turned Right Side Up:  A History of the Conservative Ascendancy in America.  1996.

Klatch, Rebecca.  A Generation Divided:  The New Left, the New Right, and the 1960s.  1999.

Mason, Robert.  Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority.  2004.

Rieder, Jonathan.  Canarsie:  The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn against Liberalism. 1985.

Sugrue, Thomas. J.  The Origins of the Urban Crisis:  Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit.  1996.

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Policy Reactions: Anti Riots and Neoliberal Economics
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“Kerner Report” - US Riot Commission Report: Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders

“Walker Report” To the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence (The violent confrontation of demonstrators and police in the parks and streets of Chicago during the week of the Democratic National Convention)

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Civil Rights: Southern US
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Burner, Eric.  And Gently He Shall Lead Them:  Robert Parris Moses and Civil Rights in Mississippi.  1994.

Carson, Clayborne.  In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s.  1981.

Chafe, William H.  Civilities and Civil Rights:  Greensboro, North Carolina and the Black Struggle for Freedom.  1981.

Chappell, David L.  Inside Agitators:  White Southerners in the Civil Rights Movement.  1994.

Chappell, David L.  A Stone of Hope:  Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow.  2004.

Curry, Constance, et al.  Deep in Our Hearts  Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement.  2000.  [Memoir]

D’Emilio, John. Lost Prophet - The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin

Eskew, Glenn T.  But for Birmingham:  The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle.  1997.

Estes, Steve.  I Am a Man!:  Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement.  2005.

Fairclough, Adam.   To Redeem the Soul of America:  The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr.  1987.

Farmer, James.  Lay Bare the Heart:  An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement.  1985.  [Memoir]

Forman, James.  The Making of Black Revolutionaries. 1972.  [Memoir]

Graham, Hugh Davis.  The Civil Rights Era:  Origins and Development of National Policy, 1960-1972.  1990.

Greene, Christina.  Our Separate Ways:  Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina.  2005.

Hill, Lance.  The Deacons for Defense:  Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement.  2004.

Honey, Michael K.  Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights:  Organizing Memphis Workers.  1993.

Jackson, Esther Cooper. Freedomways Reader, Prophets in Their Own Country

King, Mary.  Freedom Song:  A Personal Story of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.  1987.  [Memoir]

Lawson, Steven.  Black Ballots:  Voting Rights in the South, 1944-1969.  1976. rev. ed., 1999.

Lee, Chana Kai.  For Freedom’s Sake:  The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer.  1999.

Lewis, John, and Michael D’Orso.  Walking with the Wind:  A Memoir of the Movement.  1998.  [Memoir]

Lipsitz, George.  A Life in the Struggle:  Ivory Perry and the Culture of Opposition.  1988.

Meier, August and Elliott Rudwick.   CORE:  A Study in the Civil Rights Movement, 1942-1968.  1973.

Moody, Anne.   Coming of Age In Mississippi.  1968.  [Memoir]

Morris, Aldon.  The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement:  Black Communities Organizing for Change.  1984.

Norrell, Robert J. Reaping the Whirlwind:  The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee.  1985.

Patterson, James T.  Brown v. Board of Education:  A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy.  2001.

Payne, Charles M.  I’ve Got the Light of Freedom:  The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle.  1995.

Ransby, Barbara.  Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement:  A Radical Democratic Vision.  2003.

Tyson, Timothy B.  Radio Free Dixie:  Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power.  1999.

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Civil Rights: The North
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Biondi, Martha.  To Stand and Fight:  The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City.  2003.

Brown, Elaine.  A Taste of Power:  A Black Woman’s Story.  1992.   [Memoir]

Ralph, James.  Northern Protests:  Martin Luther King Jr., Chicago, and the Civil Rights Movement.  1993.

Roderick, Tom.  A School of Our Own:  Parents, Power, and Community at the East Harlem Block Schools.  2001.

Self, Robert.  American Babylon:  Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland.  2003.

Smith, Suzanne.  Dancing in the Street:  Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit.  1999.

Sugrue, Thomas J.  The Origins of Urban Crisis:  Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit.  1996.

Theoharis, Jeanne F. and Komozi Woodard, eds.  Freedom North:  Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980.  2003.  [anthology]

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Internal Self Determination: Black Power
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Cleaver and Katsiaficas. Liberation, Imagination, and the Black Panther Party

Van DeBurg, William L.  New Day in Babylon:  The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-1975.  1992.

Woodard, Komozi.  A Nation within a Nation:  Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Joines) and Black Power Politics.  1999.

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Chicano and Farmworkers Struggle
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Ferriss, Susan, and Ricardo Sandoval.   The Fight in the Fields:  Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement.  1997.

Garcia, Ignacio M.  Chicanismo:  The Forging of a Militant Ethos among Mexican Americans.  1997.

Gomez-Quinones, Juan.  Chicano Politics:  Reality and Promise, 1940-1990.  1990.

Griswold del Castillo, Richard, and Richard A. Garcia:  Cesar Chavez:  A Triumph of Spirit. 1995.

Jenkins, J. Craig.  The Politics of Insurgency:  The Farm Worker Movement in the 1960s.  1985.

Munoz, Carlos, Jr.  Youth, Identity, Power:  The Chicano Movement. 1989.

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American Indian Struggle
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Cornell, Stephen.  The Return of the Native:  American Indian Political Resurgence.  1988.

Smith, Paul Chatt, and Robert Allen Warrior.   Like a Hurricane:  The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee.  1996.

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Student Left and its Aftermath
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Ayers, Bill.  Fugitive Days.  2001.  [Memoir]

Berman, Paul.  A Tale of Two Utopias:  the Political Journey of the Generation of 1968.  1996.

Berger, Dan. Outlaws in America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity

Breines, Wini.  Community and Organization in the New Left, 1962-1968:  The Great Refusal.  1989

Farber, David R.  Chicago ’68. 1988.

Gitlin, Todd.  The Sixties:  Years of Hope, Days of Rage.  1987.

Gosse, Van.  Where the Boys Are:  Cuba, Cold War America, and the Making of a New Left.  1993.

Hayden, Tom.  Reunion:  A Memoir.  1988.   [Memoir]

Hayden, Tom. Rebel: A Personal History of the 1960s

Isserman, Maurice.  If I Had a Hammer:  The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left.  1987.

Jeffrey-Jones, Rhodri.  Peace Now!  American Society and the Ending of the Vietnam War.  1999.

Mailer, Norman.  Miami and the Siege of Chicago.  1968.

Miller, James.  “Democracy Is in the Streets”:  From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago.  1987.

Rorabaugh, W. J.  Berkeley at War:  the 1960s.  1989.

Roszak, Theodore.  The Making of a Counter Culture.  1969.

Sale, Kirkpatrick.  SDS.  1973.

Wolfe, Tom.  The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.  1968.

Wynkoop, Mary Ann.  Dissent in the Heartland:  The Sixties at Indiana University.  2002.

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Counter Culture
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Firestone, Shulamith.  The Dialectic of Sex:  The Case for Feminist Revolution.  1970.

Frank, Tom.  The Conquest of Cool:  Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism.

Katzman    Our Time: Interviews from the East Village Other

O’Rourke, PJ.  25 Year of PJ O’Rourke: Age and Guile - Beat, Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut

Peck, Abe.  Uncovering the Sixties:  The Life and Times of the Underground Press.  1985.

Rosemont, Franklin and Radcliffe, Charles (ed.), Dancin in The Streets: Anarchists, IWWs, Surrealists, Situationists, and Provos in the 1960s as recorded in the pages of The Rebel Worker and HeatWave

Stevens, Jay.  Storming Heaven:  LSD and the American Dream.  1987.

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Peace Movement: Anti-War
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Carroll, James.  An American Requiem:  God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us.  1996.  [Memoir]

Farber, David R.  Chicago ’68. 1988.

Foley, Michael S.  Confronting the War Machine:  Draft Resistance during the Vietnam War.   2003.

Hall, Mitchell K.  Because of Their Faith:  CALCAV and Religious Opposition to the Vietnam War.  1990.

Heineman, Kenneth J.  Campus Wars:  The Peace Movement at American State Universities in the Vietnam Era.  1993.

Hunt, Andrew E.  The Turning:  A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War.  1999.

Katz, Milton. S.  Ban the Bomb:  A History of SANE, the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy.  1987.

Kovic, Ron. Born on the Fourth of July.  1976.  [Memoir]

Moser, Richard.  The New Winter Soldiers:  GI and Veteran Dissent during the Vietnam Era.  1996.

Small, Melvin.  Johnson, Nixon, and the Doves.  1988.

Swerdlow, Amy.  Women Strike For Peace:  Traditional Motherhood and Radical Politics in the 1960s.   1993.

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New Communist Movement
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Avakian, Bob. From Ike to Mao and Beyond: My Journey from Mainstream America to Revolutionary Communist, A Memoir. 449 pages Publisher: Insight Press (2005) ISBN 0-9760236-2-8

Committee on Internal Security. America’s Maoists: The Revolutionary Union; The Venceremos Organization. 202 pages. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972. index. Trade Paperback. Photos & facsimile documents.

Elbaum, Max. Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals turn to Lenin, Mao and Che. 320 pages Publisher: Verso (June, 2002) ISBN 1-85984-617-3.

Georgakas Dan and Marvin Surkin. Detroit, I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution. 254 pages Publisher: South End Press; Revised edition (August 1, 1998) ISBN 0-89608-571-6.

Haywood, Harry. Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist. Liberator Press, Chicago: 1978. 700 pages. ISBN 0-930720-53-9

Mitchell, Roxanne and Frank Weiss. Two, Three, Many Parties of a New Type? Against the Ultra-Left Line. Publisher: United Labor Press (1977).

Sojourner Truth Organization (1969-1983) - Digital Archive a digital archive for STO’s work. http://www.sojournertruth.net/

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France 68
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Cohn-Bendit, Daniel - Obsolete Communism: The Left-Wing Alternative

Cornelius Castoriadis avec Claude Lefort et Edgar Morin - Mai 1968: la brèche

Dark Star Collective - Beneath the Paving Stones: Situationists and the Beach, May 68

Gregoire, Roger and Perlman, Fredy - Worker-Student Action Committees: France May ‘68

Jones, James - The Merry Month of May (novel).

Adair, Gilbert - The Holy Innocents (novel).

Ross, Kristin - May ‘68 and its Afterlives

Quattrochi, Angelo and Nairn, Tom. The Beginning of the End.

Singer, Daniel - Prelude To Revolution: France In May 1968

Touraine, Alain - The May Movement: Revolt and Reform

Vienet, Rene - Enrages And The Situationists In the Occupation Movement, France May ‘68

Debord, Guy - The Society of the Spectacle

Vaneigem, Raoul  - The Revolution of Everyday Life

Knabb, Ken - The Situationist Anthology

Plant, Sadie - The Most Radical Gesture: Situationist International in a Postmodern Age

Cliff, Tony  - France – the struggle goes on

Kurlansky, Mark - 1968: The Year That Rocked The World

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Womens Liberation and Gender Politics
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Bailey, Beth.  Sex in the Heartland.  1999.

*Cobble, Dorothy Sue.  The Other Women’s Movement:  Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America.   2004.

D’Emilio, John.  Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities:  The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970.   1983; 1998.

Duberman, Martin.  Stonewall.  1993.

DuPlessis, Rachel Blau and Ann Snitow.  The Feminist Memoir Project:  Voices from Women’s Liberation.  1998 [Memoir, Oral History]

Echols, Alice.  Daring to be Bad:  Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975.   1989.

*Evan, Sara.  Personal Politics:  The Origins of Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left.  1979.

Ezekiel, Judith.  Feminism in the Heartland.  2002.

Firestone, Shulamith.  The Dialectic of Sex:  The Case for Feminist Revolution.  1970.

Friedan, Betty.  The Feminine Mystique.  1963.

Horowitz, Daniel.  Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique:  The American Left, The Cold War, and Modern Feminism.  1998.

Jay, Karla.  Tales of the Lavender Menace:  A Memoir of Liberation.  1999.   [Memoir]

Kaplan, Laura.  The Story of Jane:  The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service.  1995.

*Rosen, Ruth.  The World Split Open:  How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America.  2000.

Stein, Marc.  City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves:  Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, 1945-1972.  2000.

Swerdlow, Amy.  Women Strike For Peace:  Traditional Motherhood and Radical Politics in the 1960s.   1993.

Weigand, Kate.  Red Feminism:  American Communists and the Making of Women’s Liberation. 2001.

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Theoretical and Ideological Influences
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Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks

Debray, Regis. Revolution Within the Revolution

Jackson, Esther Cooper. Freedomways Reader, Prophets in Their Own Country

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Movement Media
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Jackson, Esther Cooper. Freedomways Reader, Prophets in Their Own Country

Katzman    Our Time: Interviews from the East Village Other

O’Rourke, PJ.  25 Year of PJ O’Rourke: Age and Guile - Beat, Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut

Peck, Abe.  Uncovering the Sixties:  The Life and Times of the Underground Press.  1985.

Rosemont, Franklin and Radcliffe, Charles (ed.), Dancin in The Streets: Anarchists, IWWs, Surrealists, Situationists, and Provos in the 1960s as recorded in the pages of The Rebel Worker and HeatWave

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Chicago Specific
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Hirsch, Arnold R.  Making the Second Ghetto:  Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960.  1983.

Ralph, James.  Northern Protests:  Martin Luther King Jr., Chicago, and the Civil Rights Movement.  1993.

Farber, David R.  Chicago ’68. 1988.

Mailer, Norman.  Miami and the Siege of Chicago.  1968.

Miller, James.  “Democracy Is in the Streets”:  From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago.  1987.

“Walker Report” To the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence (The violent confrontation of demonstrators and police in the parks and streets of Chicago during the week of the Democratic National Convention)

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Legacy and Aftermath of 1968
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Berman, Paul. Power and the Idealists, or The Passion of Joschka Fischer and its Aftermath

Katsiaficas, George. The Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis if 1968

Kurlansky, Mark - 1968: The Year That Rocked The World

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Primary Sources
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Russ Gilbert “New Left” Pamphlet Collection -  the collection at the University of Illinois at Chicago
http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/specialcoll/services/rjd/findingaids/RGilbertb.html