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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"antiwar"”.
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"Fighting the Wrong War": Radical Pacifists and the Vietnam Antiwar Movement, 1962-1964
The Vietnam antiwar movement developed in stages that reflected the escalation of American involvement in South Vietnam. Between 1962 and 1964 radical pacifist leaders responded to this escalation by questioning the legitimacy of an American military presence in South Vietnam, identifying the …
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Vietnam Veterans and American Mass Media: The Politics of the Image
… Specific attention is devoted to the veterans' antiwar movement of the 1970s, the ways in which this movement actively courted media attention to publicly project an oppositional antiwar image of the returned warrior, and the manner in which this antiwar image was selectively appropriated and …
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News coverage of the U.S. war with Iraq: a comparison of the New York times, the Arab news, and the Middle East times
… while the Arab newspapers devoted more space to antiwar voices, citing primarily Arab sources. These papers were slightly more critical of U.S. interests in the Gulf region than The New York Times. The coverage of The New York Times, however, was more thematic than that of Arab newspapers. In …
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Shared Words, Divided Worlds: Moral Language and the Struggle for Meaning at the Claremont Colleges During the Vietnam War, 1965-1969
… and political language. Rather than interpreting antiwar and prowar activism as expressions of fundamentally opposed value systems, this study argues that students and administrators alike engaged in an ongoing contest to define ideals such as democracy, responsibility, and conscience. Through a …
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The rise of the Reagan Democrats in Warren, Michigan, 1964-1984
… division in the national Democratic Party, as antiwar Democrats contested the meaning of liberalism with the party's Cold War leadership. An antiwar protest march on the Warren Tank Plant in 1971 symbolized this division and provoked contention over the right of the marchers to carry the ''Viet …
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A Translation and Commentary on Maruxa Vilalta's
… Vilalta's theatrical skills and exemplifies her antiwar philosophies as well as her concern for the struggle of people to overcome the dehumanizing forces of their environment. The play is a tragic farce which juxtaposes the childishness and ridiculousness of the fights between people for trivial …
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Voices in the Wind: American Opposition to the Korean War
… Korean troops commenced in 1950, the American antiwar movement stood at its nadir." Lawrence Wittner's fine book Rebels Against War is devoted to the American peace movement from 1941 to 1960. Yet out of this book's 300- odd pages, less than three concern the movement during the Korean war- and …
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Art and ephemerality: The cultural work of American poetry broadsides since 1960
… American poets of the 1960s and 70s--and the antiwar movement--including work by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, and W. S. Merwin--peotry broadsides function as specific material interventions in social and political struggles. A section on Robert Lowell shows how artifacts that bear his …
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The Right Response: The Reaction of the Silent Majority to the Social Movements of the Sixties
… I examine the Silent Majority’s reaction to antiwar demonstrations and Moratoriums through grassroots organizations and pro-war rallies. The project then turns to the response to the counterculture in the fourth chapter, and how citizens distrusted Hippies and eventually tried to incorporate …
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What is Really Funny: Humor Ahead of Its Time in the Twentieth Century American Novel
… and on television specials. Kurt Vonnegut’s antiwar novel <em>Slaughterhouse-Five</em> (1969) was not only a bridge between the counterculture comics that attacked sacred cows in the 1960s and those who would take the torch toward century’s end but also a forerunner to the sketch comedy …
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Traumatic Formations and Psychiatric Codifications: A Rhetorical History of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
… malady. Chapter 4 examines how a small group of antiwar psychiatrists advocated for military veterans who had trouble readjusting to civilian life after fighting in the Vietnam War. They persuaded the American public, the federal government, and mental health clinicians that the veterans' …