Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks The Vietnam Antiwar Movement As Myth and Memory

Name: Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks The Vietnam Antiwar Movement As Myth and Memory
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ISBN: 9780801478567

ISBN-10: 0801478561

ISBN-13: 9780801478567

Edition: 2013

Authors: Penny Lewis

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In the popular imagination, opposition to the Vietnam War was driven largely by college students and elite intellectuals, while supposedly reactionary blue-collar workers largely supported the war effort. In Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks, Penny Lewis challenges this collective memory of class polarization. Through close readings of archival documents, popular culture, and media accounts at the time, she offers a more accurate "counter-memory" of a diverse, cross-class opposition to the war in Southeast Asia that included the labor movement, working-class students, soldiers and veterans, and Black Power, civil rights, and Chicano activists.Lewis investigates why the image of antiwar class…

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List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 5/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Penny Lewis is Assistant Professor of Labor Studies at the Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies, City University of New York.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Collective Memory of Vietnam Antiwar Sentiment and Protest



The Antiwar Movement: A Liberal Elite?



Middle-Class Cultures and the Movement's Early Years



Countercurrents in the Movement: Complicating the Class Base



Countermemory I: "A Rich Man's War and a Poor Man's Fight"



Countermemory II: GIs and Veterans Join the Movement



Hardhat Hawks?: Working-class Conservatism



Anticipation of the Class Divide



Hardhats versus Elite Doves: Consolidation of the Image


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index