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Title The Third World in the global 1960s / edited by Samantha Christiansen and Zachary A. Scarlett
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2013

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Series Protest, culture and society ; v. 7
Protest, culture and society ; v. 7.
Contents A shared space of imagination, communication, and action : perspectives on the history of the "third world" / Christoph Kalter -- China's great proletarian cultural revolution and the imagination of the third world / Zachary Scarlett -- Politics and periodicals in 1960s India : the Naxalite movement / Avishek Ganguly -- Liberation struggle and humanitarian aid : international solidarity movements and the "third world" in the 1960s / Konrad Kuhn -- "A more systemic fight for reform" : university reform, student movements, society, and the state in Brazil, 1957-1968 / Colin Snider -- "Speaking the language of protest" : African student rebellions at the Catholic Major Seminary in colonial Zimbabwe, 1965-1979 / Nicholas Creary -- 1968 and the context of apartheid : students, race, and politics in South Africa / Chris Saunders -- Brother Wally and de Burnin of Babylon : Walter Rodney's impact on the reawakening of black power, the birth of reggae, and resistance to global imperialism / James Bradford -- June 4th 1969 : violence, political imagination, and the student movement in the Congo / Pedro Monaville -- Revolution on the national stage : Mexico, the PRI, and the student movement in 1968 / Julia Sloan -- Students, identity and strategic alliance building : the emergence of university students as a political opposition force in Indonesia in the 1960s / Stephanie Sapiie -- Putting up a united front : MAN in the rebellious sixties in the Philippines / Erwin Fernandez
Summary Decades after the massive student protest movements that consumed much of the world, the 1960s remain a significant subject of scholarly inquiry. While important work has been done regarding radical activism in the United States and Western Europe, events in what is today known as the Global South - Asia, Africa, and Latin America - have yet to receive the requisite attention they deserve. This volume inserts the Third World into the study of the 1960s by examining the local and international articulations of youth protest in various geographical, social, and cultural arenas. Rejecting the not
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Youth protest movements -- Developing countries -- History -- 20th century
Youth -- Political activity -- Developing countries -- History -- 20th century
Student movements -- Developing countries -- History -- 20th century
Students -- Political activity -- Developing countries -- History -- 20th century
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- Adolescence.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- Teenagers.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
Social conditions
Student movements
Students -- Political activity
Youth -- Political activity
Youth protest movements
SUBJECT Developing countries -- Social conditions -- History -- 20th century
Subject Developing countries
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Christiansen, Samantha, editor
Scarlett, Zachary A., editor
ISBN 0857455745
9780857455741