Youth will make the revolution

Creating and contesting the youth frame in the New Left

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ID12919972
AuthorsHolly Scott (0000-0002-0241-2354, Eastern Mennonite University, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume7
Issue1
Pages28-54
Publication date2014-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Sixties (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1754-1336 • E-ISSN: 1754-1328
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17541328.2014.938461
OpenAlexW2124973543
LanguageEN
References cited39

This article examines the discussion of age and youthfulness in the New Left. Youthfulness came to function as an important but contested symbol in the movement. For many, youth status offered an identity apart from racial or economic privilege; thus to embrace being a youth movement was a way to organize around one’s own oppression. Others, however, quickly realized the limits of a youth revolution frame. Painfully aware of the charge that they would someday outgrow radicalism, some activists began to ask questions about how to become life-long radicals. They critiqued a simplistic embrace of youth culture and moved away from privileging youth as the vanguard of revolution

Aesthetics · Art · Identity (music · Media studies · New Left · Oppression · Political radicalism · Political science · Politics · Privilege (computing · Sociology · Vanguard · American Political and Social Dynamics · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Gender Studies · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society

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