Struggle for Justice in the 1960s American Counterculture (AMER-0173)

Fall 2023 · AMER 0173 · Tufts University · 3 credits · Undergraduate

Study of the American Sixties through film, literature, music, and nonfiction writing, including memoir, manifesto, letters and journalism. Discussion of struggles for social, political, personal, and sexual freedom – all struggles for justice – waged in the Sixties by the civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's movement, and the gay liberation movement. Examination of images and self-expressions of Americans of diverse ethnicities and races in this era including the civil rights movement; war in Vietnam; cultural change including New Journalism; folk, rock, soul, and psychedelic music; the aesthetic expression of consciousness expansion; new wave, no wave, and documentary cinema. Will include works by Eldridge Cleaver, Joan Didion, Ken Kesey, Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston, Oscar Zeta Acosta and Leslie Marmon Silko, and films such as Easy Rider, Milk, Annie Hall and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Course codes: AMER-0173, AMER 0173, AMER0173, AMER-173, AMER 173, AMER173

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