Set the night on fire : L.A. in the sixties /
Davis, Mike, 1946-
Set the night on fire : L.A. in the sixties / Los Angeles in the sixties Mike Davis and Jon Wiener. - Paperback edition. - ix, 788 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
First published by Verso 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: A movement history -- -- I. A new breed -- II. Alternative culture. -- III. The explosion. -- IV. Vietnam comes home. -- V. The great high school rebellion. -- VI. There is only the gun. -- VII. Reigns of repression. -- VIII. Other liberations. -- Epilogue: Sowing the future
Los Angeles in the sixties was a hotbed of political and social upheaval. The city was a launchpad for Black Powerwhere Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts uprising shook the nation. The city was home to the Chicano Blowouts and Chicano Moratorium, as well as being the birthplace of Asian American as a political identity. It was a locus of the antiwar movement, gay liberation movement, and womens movement, and, of course, the capital of California counterculture. Mike Davis and Jon Wiener provide the first comprehensive movement history of L.A. in the sixties, drawing on extensive archival research and dozens of interviews with principal figures, as well as the authors storied personal histories as activists.
9781839761225 1839761229
Nineteen sixties.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--History--20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social conditions--20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social life and customs--20th century.
Set the night on fire : L.A. in the sixties / Los Angeles in the sixties Mike Davis and Jon Wiener. - Paperback edition. - ix, 788 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
First published by Verso 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: A movement history -- -- I. A new breed -- II. Alternative culture. -- III. The explosion. -- IV. Vietnam comes home. -- V. The great high school rebellion. -- VI. There is only the gun. -- VII. Reigns of repression. -- VIII. Other liberations. -- Epilogue: Sowing the future
Los Angeles in the sixties was a hotbed of political and social upheaval. The city was a launchpad for Black Powerwhere Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts uprising shook the nation. The city was home to the Chicano Blowouts and Chicano Moratorium, as well as being the birthplace of Asian American as a political identity. It was a locus of the antiwar movement, gay liberation movement, and womens movement, and, of course, the capital of California counterculture. Mike Davis and Jon Wiener provide the first comprehensive movement history of L.A. in the sixties, drawing on extensive archival research and dozens of interviews with principal figures, as well as the authors storied personal histories as activists.
9781839761225 1839761229
Nineteen sixties.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--History--20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social conditions--20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social life and customs--20th century.