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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... lives and to tell their stories . Their graciousness , their hospitality , and their openness will always remain with me . They taught me a great deal about the essential decency of middle - class Ameri- cans . Pomona , New Jersey Class ...
... lives and to tell their stories . Their graciousness , their hospitality , and their openness will always remain with me . They taught me a great deal about the essential decency of middle - class Ameri- cans . Pomona , New Jersey Class ...
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... their oral histories were baby boomers whose lives seemed relatively unaffected by the 1960s , who had stayed within the main- stream of what Herbert Gans calls middle American or popular Copyrighted Material 2 Introduction.
... their oral histories were baby boomers whose lives seemed relatively unaffected by the 1960s , who had stayed within the main- stream of what Herbert Gans calls middle American or popular Copyrighted Material 2 Introduction.
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... lives as , at best , spectators to the tumultuous events of the 1960s and early 1970s , for example , civil rights , Vietnam , cultural rebellion . Such were most of the 1966 graduates of Coastal High School . Coasters range from upper ...
... lives as , at best , spectators to the tumultuous events of the 1960s and early 1970s , for example , civil rights , Vietnam , cultural rebellion . Such were most of the 1966 graduates of Coastal High School . Coasters range from upper ...
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... lives inform another central theme of this book : the ways in which suburbanization allows middle - class people , mostly white , to construct cocoons to fend off what they perceive as threats to their families , their work , their ...
... lives inform another central theme of this book : the ways in which suburbanization allows middle - class people , mostly white , to construct cocoons to fend off what they perceive as threats to their families , their work , their ...
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... lives and then establishing families as the American economy began to flourish in the late 1940s and early 1950s , typically had two or three children . The parents , many of them marked by the disruptions of the Great Depression and ...
... lives and then establishing families as the American economy began to flourish in the late 1940s and early 1950s , typically had two or three children . The parents , many of them marked by the disruptions of the Great Depression and ...
Table des matières
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7 | |
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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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