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SOURCE: 19th News
1/12/2023
Anastasia Curwood on New Shirley Chisholm Bio
By framing Chisholm as a person with a life history, Curwood elevates knowledge of the New York congresswoman from a "first major party candidate" to a political theorist and visionary.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/16/2022
Stephen Shames's Photos Document the Lives and Activism of Black Panther Party Women
As a college student, Shames built trust with the members of the BPP and documented their activism. Now, working with former member Ericka Huggins, a book of those photos preserves the history.
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SOURCE: Minnesota Public Radio
12/13/2022
Why a Young Minnesota Woman Joined the SLA
What led Camilla Hall to join the radical Symbionese Liberation Army after a Lutheran upbringing in Minnesota?
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SOURCE: The New Republic
10/27/2022
Urban Unrest, Stagflation, and Labor Strife: Why is 1970s Economic Policy Coming Back, Too?
Is panicky use of weak historical analogies driving economic policy back to the 1970s when the country is still suffering from the fallout of the first round of austerity politics?
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9/4/2022
"Pour Myself a Cup of Ambition": The 1970s Echo in Today's Union Revival
by Ellen Cassedy and Lane Windham
This Labor Day, we’re hopeful about the renewed energy and excitement for workplace organizing—especially by women workers—and cautiously optimistic that today’s workers may overcome the sorts of corporate tactics that blocked organizing in the 1970s.
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SOURCE: Dissent
6/1/2022
Adolph Reed, Jr.: North Carolina's "Soul City" Always Showed the Failings of Black Capitalism
A new book looks at a planned Black-led city in North Carolina as a missed opportunity for establishing political and economic power; a left critic says the project proceeded from bad premises that liberation could be achieved through capitalism.
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
6/1/2022
Rescuing Shirley Chisholm's Life from Symbolism
by Anastasia Curwood
Writing a biography of the Congresswoman and presidential candidate required working through the distinction between Shirley Chisholm the symbol and the much more complex reality of Shirley Chisholm the woman, to see how big trends in Black history unfolded at a human scale.
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SOURCE: The Baffler
4/13/2022
We Got a Great Big Convoy
by Dan Albert
The media obscured the reality of recent protests in Ottawa and Washington by unquestioningly adopting a mythology of the North American trucker drawn from the 1970s when independent truckers had real grievances.
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SOURCE: Rolling Stone
2/9/2022
Betty Davis, Pioneering Queen of Funk, Dies at 77
Her brief marriage to jazz great Miles Davis and ultimate withdrawal from the music business have overshadowed Betty Davis's legacy as a songwriter and performer with lasting influence beyond her album sales.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
1/28/2022
The Four Secrets to Success for "Gonzo Journalism"
by Peter Richardson
Hunter S. Thompson's emergence as a major media figure came from the convergence of the souring of John F. Kennedy-style liberalism and collaborations with fellows like illustrator Ralph Steadman who launched HST's interpretive and visceral style as a critique of the Nixon years.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
12/14/2021
Government Regulation is Necessary, but it has to be Smart
by Paul Sabin
Two legislative initiatives championed by the Carter administration show the challenge of balancing strong environmental regulation with administrative efficiency and accountability. The balance has, of course, been difficult to strike.
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SOURCE: Jacobin
11/6/2021
Stanley George on Putting Viewers in the Middle of the Nation's Bloodiest Prison Rebellion
"It’s like the window has been cracked a little bit, so that people who might never have thought to doubt law enforcement are doubting law enforcement now, and they’re thinking about their cruelty and racism in a way they might not have thought about it five years ago."
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
10/1/2021
New "Wonder Years" Revives a 1970s Tactic for Diversifying TV. Will it Work?
by Kate L. Flach
The technique of "racial inversion" was intended in the 1970s to encourage white viewers to empathize with Black characters. Today, as then, the results show that TV alone can't bridge the nation's racial divisions.
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SOURCE: New York Times
98/15/2021
Edsall: Abortion Has Always Been Part of Broader Politics
Thomas Edsall draws on the work of historians Katherine Stewart, Randall Balmer, Jefferson Cowie and Darren Dochuk, plus other scholars, to argue that the "right to life" movement grew from the movement of resistance to school integration and today is sustained by politics of masculinity.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
9/15/2021
The 70s are Back, But Not How You Think
by Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff
"In the coronavirus era, disco themes resonate. People long for community and wonder if leaders have our backs. Social media offers some of the trappings that defined disco — from the clothes to the allure of being seen in a new way."
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/6/2021
Dawn Turner Looks Back on Her ’70s Girlhood, and Those Who Got Left Behind
"In episodic chapters that read like self-contained short stories woven together into a whole, Turner seeks to understand how three Black girls with very similar aspirations ended up with wildly divergent fates."
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SOURCE: Jacobin
8/9/2021
Blue Collar Is a Dark Masterpiece of Working-Class Cinema
The 1978 film "Blue Collar" is an important but overlooked document of a moment of crisis for the American working class.
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SOURCE: Vox
7/23/2021
Revisiting the 1976 Chowchilla School Bus Kidnapping
The ordeal of 26 children and their school bus driver in California's San Joaquin Valley highlighted the conflicts between rural California and the state's urban centers, class conflict, and the rising fear of crime in 1976.
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SOURCE: Tropics of Meta
7/26/2021
The People’s Bicentennial Commission and the Spirit of (19)76
by Jason Tebbe
As the national bicentennial approached, a group of New Left activists formed the People's Bicentennial Commission and adopted the symbols of the nation's founding to challenge the domination of the rich.
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SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
2/16/2021
How White Liberals Destroyed the 1970s’ Soul City
by Brentin Mock
The new book "Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia," by Seton Hall Law School professor Thomas Healy, explores the history of how and why Floyd McKissick’s experiment came to be, and its unceremonious end.
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