TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scott,Holly V.
TI  - Younger than that now: the politics of age in the 1960s 
T2  - Culture, politics, and the Cold War
AV  - HQ796 .S41925 2016
U1  - 320.40835097309/04 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Amherst
PB  - University of Massachusetts Press
KW  - Youth
KW  - Political activity
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Youth movements
KW  - Student movements
KW  - Political activists
KW  - Age
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Social change
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1961-1963
KW  - 1963-1969
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 1960-1980
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: The youth frame -- Student citizen, part I : the civil rights movement -- Student citizen, part II : the early New Left -- "No student panty raid" : covering youth activism in the early 1960s -- Youth-baiting : coverage of young activists in the late 1960s -- "Youth will make the revolution" : creating the youth frame -- "It ain't me Babe" : racial and gendered limits of the youth frame -- "Now what am I to do with this creature?" : contesting the youth frame -- Conclusion: Memory and the meaning of youth
N2  - "Retrospectives of the 1960s routinely include the face of youth rebellion: long-haired students occupying campus buildings, young men burning draft cards, hippies dancing at Woodstock. In Younger Than That Now, Holly V. Scott explores how the idea of 'youth' served as a tactic in the political and social activism of these years. In the early part of that decade, young white activists began to learn from the civil rights movement's defiance of racism. They examined their own lives and concluded that campus rules and the draft were repression as well. As a group, they were ripe for revolution, and their age gave them a unique perspective for understanding and protesting against injustice. In short, young people began to use their youth as a political strategy. Some in the New Left were dubious of this strategy and asked how it might damage long-term progress. Young feminists and people of color were particularly quick to question the idea that age alone was enough to sustain a movement. And the media often presented young people as impulsive and naive, undermining their political legitimacy. In tracing how 'youth' took on multiple meanings as the 1960s progressed, Scott demonstrates the power of this idea to both promote and hinder social change"--Provided by publisher
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