Unit Number:
Unit 6
Week of:
Monday, March 15, 2021
- Film:
- Easy Rider (1969), 95 minutes
[VHS 3002, DVD 01067 (3 copies), and LD 2998]
- Easy Rider (1969), 95 minutes
- PERUSE the Roundtable
- Read:
- Hugh Heclo, "The Sixties False Dawn: Awakenings, Movements, and Postmodern Policy-Making", in Balogh, Integrating the Sixties, 34-63.
- Terry H. Anderson, The Movement, Ch. 2, pp. 87-130 Ch. 5, pp. 241-292.
- Port Huron Statement please read Introduction through Politics without Publics [stop at The Economy] This is about 8 printed pages; AND THe Univeristy and Social Change to the end. This is roughly the last two pages of the document.
WRITE: a very shory proposal for the format of the final exam- prepare discuss in section.
Unit Outline:
- From New Left
- The Difference Between Old Left and New Left
- Where Did the New Left Come From
- Demographics of youth culture
- expansion of the university
- Catalyst is Civil Rights Movement
- The Port Huron Statement
- Roots in Liberal Programs
- But Rejects Cold War Formula
- Critiquce of Pluralism
- Participatory Democracy
- To Counterculture
- Counterculture promises to link the personal and the political
- Critique of existing culture
- alienating
- materialistic
- constrciting
- Counterculture stresses action; experience
- tension between freedom and commitment to community
- counterculture commercialized
- Berkeley in 1964
- personalizing the struggle
- participatory democracy in action