The voice of violence : performative violence as protest in the Vietnam era by Rhodes, Joel P., 1967- instant download

The voice of violence : performative violence as protest in the Vietnam era by Rhodes, Joel P., 1967- instant download

1 online resource (224 pages) :, The tide of 1960s political upheaval, while mistaken at the time by some as a unified assault against America carried out by revolutionaries at home and abroad, was actually hundreds of locally constructed expressions of political discourse, reflecting the influences of race, class, gender, and local conditions on each unique group of practitioners. This is a comparative study of how radicals at the local level staged, displayed, and ultimately narrated symbolic acts of performative violence against the symbols of the American system. The term performative violence refers to a method of public, Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-220) and index, It finally happened here: the 1968 riot in Kansas City, Missouri -- Short-haired kids with gasoline cans: Kansas State University -- Happiness is a warm gun: the University of Kansas -- Revolutionary commitment?: the Detroit Black Panthers -- Women and performative violence, Print version record, Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002, digitized 2010