Class Of '66: Living in Suburban Middle AmericaTemple University Press, 18 juin 2010 - 288 pages In the midst of the Vietnam war, sit-ins, counter-culture, and campus rallies, the 1966 graduating class of a South New Jersey coast high school came of age on the margins of political and cultural upheaval. Rather than presenting the stereotype of Sixties youth scene, this study reveals this group to be conservative teenagers shaped by mainstream loyalties to God, Country, and Family. These "Coasters"—white, middle-class, suburban baby-boomers—were spectators of rather than participants in the decade's activism. Yet, even as they were missed by the powerful currents of the times, their lives were touched by those currents more than is suggested by the stereotype of Richard Nixon's "Silent Majority." Paul Lyons interviewed 47 members of the class of 1966, recording recollections of their school days, politics, work, family life, community, and expectations for future careers and family. Each chapter is complemented by personal profiles of individual "Coasters." Removed from both the urban experience and that of the elite suburbs, these teenagers disprove popular cultural assumptions that all baby boomers, with few exceptions, went to Woodstock, protested against the Vietnam War, engaged in drug experimentation, or joined the hippie counter-culture. Instead, Lyons' study explores how their then relative ambivalence to political and cultural rebellion did not preclude many "Coasters" from indirectly incorporating over the years certain core Sixties values on issues of race, gender, mobility, and patriotism. |
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... Channing , and South Bay presented attractive options to many of those fleeing both the urban decay and the increasing black presence in Atlantic City and nearby Pleasantville.1 By 1965 , as the decline approached its nadir , Elwood G ...
... Channing , and South Bay presented attractive options to many of those fleeing both the urban decay and the increasing black presence in Atlantic City and nearby Pleasantville.1 By 1965 , as the decline approached its nadir , Elwood G ...
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... Channing , or South Bay . More than half were raised in Atlantic County , with approximately 30 percent from Atlantic City and Pieasanrville . Roughly one - half came from urban environments , especially Phiiadelphia ( 8 ) .3 In 1940 ...
... Channing , or South Bay . More than half were raised in Atlantic County , with approximately 30 percent from Atlantic City and Pieasanrville . Roughly one - half came from urban environments , especially Phiiadelphia ( 8 ) .3 In 1940 ...
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... Channing , or South Bay ; thirteen came over from either Atlantic City or Pleasantville ; and anorher five had some urban childhood experiences . Four migrated from local towns or farm areas ; one graduate was from a western Jersey ...
... Channing , or South Bay ; thirteen came over from either Atlantic City or Pleasantville ; and anorher five had some urban childhood experiences . Four migrated from local towns or farm areas ; one graduate was from a western Jersey ...
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... Channing's posh Seaview section , emerging out of the back- bay marshes . Almost all , from factory workers to physicians , were home owners . They were part of the white suburban middle classes , perhaps more distinguishable by family ...
... Channing's posh Seaview section , emerging out of the back- bay marshes . Almost all , from factory workers to physicians , were home owners . They were part of the white suburban middle classes , perhaps more distinguishable by family ...
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... Channing Country Ciub where several Coasters caddied . Few gave much thought to the fact that the Channing Coun- try Club existed because of the anti - Semitic restrictions of the other major country clubs in the area . Sally Vincent ...
... Channing Country Ciub where several Coasters caddied . Few gave much thought to the fact that the Channing Coun- try Club existed because of the anti - Semitic restrictions of the other major country clubs in the area . Sally Vincent ...
Table des matières
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7 | |
40 | |
3 Vietnam | 72 |
4 The Sixties | 103 |
5 White on Black | 123 |
6 Growing Up Female | 163 |
7 Career Family Community | 202 |
Conclusion | 218 |
Methodological Appendix | 247 |
Notes | 253 |
Bibliography | 263 |
Index | 269 |
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