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Set the night on fire : L.A. in the sixties / Mike Davis and Jon Wiener.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Verso, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: Paperback editionDescription: ix, 788 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781839761225
  • 1839761229
Other title:
  • Los Angeles in the sixties
Subject(s):
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Los Angeles Times Bestseller

This riveting tour through 1960s Los Angeles is a "history from below, in the very best sense" as it celebrates the "grassroots heroes and struggles" of the social movements of the era (Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Natural Causes ).

"Authoritative and impressive." -- Los Angeles Times
"Monumental." -- Guardian

Los Angeles in the sixties was a hotbed of political and social upheaval. The city was a launchpad for Black Power--where 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 women's 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. Following on from Davis's award-winning L.A. history, City of Quartz , Set the Night on Fire is a historical tour de force, delivered in scintillating and fiercely beautiful prose.

First published by Verso 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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

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