1960s Activism Metamorphosis into the Politics
Describe the perpetuation of 1960s-style activism and how it transformed into a politics of identity in the 1970s.
At least 300 words please
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Describe the perpetuation of 1960s-style activism and how it transformed into a politics of identity in the 1970s.
At least 300 words please
Activism in the 1960s grew from both ideas and events. It perpetuated itself from ideas such as the idea about non-materialism, as with the hippies, especially those who first formed around Haight Ashbury in San Francisco. Shortly after this ideal became well known; popular music (which may have even helped start the burgeoning hippie movement) and the mediums of television and radio continued to help this wave of ideals about peace and love and equality grow much larger. Related closely to this is the ideal was the writings of Timothy ...
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An expert delineates how the political idealism ideas of the 1960s, influenced by activism became larger and more common place and how it eventually and slowly underwent a metamorphosis to become the 1970s identity politics.