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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... knew the moms . Mart Blake reflects , " When I grew up , most of the men worked , and most of the women stayed home . If Bob was over to my house all the time , or Rick or Johnny , my mom was their adopted mom ; that's how it was ; and ...
... knew the moms . Mart Blake reflects , " When I grew up , most of the men worked , and most of the women stayed home . If Bob was over to my house all the time , or Rick or Johnny , my mom was their adopted mom ; that's how it was ; and ...
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... knew the perimeters ; we knew how far we were going to go ; we knew what we were Copyrighted Material Home Life 21.
... knew the perimeters ; we knew how far we were going to go ; we knew what we were Copyrighted Material Home Life 21.
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Living in Suburban Middle America Paul Lyons. were going to go ; we knew what we were going to do , how we were going to do it , the size it was going to be , the floor sizes . We sat down ; we talked about the good things , what we ...
Living in Suburban Middle America Paul Lyons. were going to go ; we knew what we were going to do , how we were going to do it , the size it was going to be , the floor sizes . We sat down ; we talked about the good things , what we ...
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... knew my brother's tone , my sister's tone ; I would hear a sound , that sound was not necessarily a word . " Finally , at age seven or eight , Bill had an operation on his eardrums and " at that point ... began to hear . " But he adds ...
... knew my brother's tone , my sister's tone ; I would hear a sound , that sound was not necessarily a word . " Finally , at age seven or eight , Bill had an operation on his eardrums and " at that point ... began to hear . " But he adds ...
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... knew we wouldn't have time to nail . We used a lot of clamps , a lot of predriiled holes . They had enough faith in us to know we were going to have water in pools with goldfish in the cafeteria . It worked ! " Bill throws back his head ...
... knew we wouldn't have time to nail . We used a lot of clamps , a lot of predriiled holes . They had enough faith in us to know we were going to have water in pools with goldfish in the cafeteria . It worked ! " Bill throws back his head ...
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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