| Description |
1 online resource (v, 179 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Freedom's ring throughout the post-WWII decades -- Talking first and shooting later in the Black Power era -- Nothing left to lose : maximizing liberties in the late 1960s free-for-all -- Tools of the trade : working women and radical women in the liberation era -- Conclusion: Postscript from the present day. |
| Summary |
"Freedom's Ring begins with the question of how the American ideal of freedom, which so effectively defends a conservative agenda today, from globally exploitative free trade to anti-French "freedom fries" during the War in Iraq, once bolstered the progressive causes of Freedom Summer, the Free Speech Movement, and more militant Black Power and Women's Liberation movements with equal efficacy. Focused as it is on the faring of freedom throughout the liberation era, this book also explores attempts made by rights movements to achieve the often competitive or cross-canceling American ideal of equality-economic, professional, and otherwise. Although many struggled and died for it in the civil rights era, freedoms such as the vote, integrated bus rides, sex without consequences via the Pill, are ultimately free-costing officialdom little if anything to fully implement-while equality with respect to jobs, salaries, education, housing, and health care, will forever be the much more expensive nut to crack. Freedom's Ring regards the politics of freedom, and politics in general, as a low-cost substitute for and engrossing distraction from substantive economic problem-solving from the liberation era to the present day"-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Civil rights -- United States -- History.
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Civil rights. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Liberty -- History.
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Liberty. |
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Equality -- United States.
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United States -- History -- 1945-
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| Chronological Term |
1945- |
| Subject |
United States -- Politics and government.
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Politics and government. |
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Equality. |
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HISTORY -- General. |
| Chronological Term |
Since 1945 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Foertsch, Jacqueline, 1964- Freedom's ring. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2021] 9781978822719 (DLC) 2020031105 (OCoLC)1182863112 |
| ISBN |
9781978822733 (electronic book) |
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1978822731 (electronic book) |
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9781978822757 |
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1978822758 |
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9781978822719 |
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1978822715 |
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9781978822726 |
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1978822723 |
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