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US Culture, Multiculturalism - Coggle Diagram
US Culture
Counter Culture
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Hippies- rejection of US lifedtyle- long hair, colourful clothes; communal living; 'free love' 'Summer of Love 1967; Timothy Leary: 'Turn on, tune in, drop out'- increasing drug use- psychedelics-LSD
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Music Festivals Woodstock 1969- 400,000
Decline of Counter-Culture throughout the 1970s- economic decline, War on Drugs, end of Vietnam, rise of conservativism
Mailer- left wing criticism- 'The Prisoner of Sex' (1971); 'The Armies of the Night' (1969); 'The Fight' (1975)
"Red Scare"
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Hollywood investigated- Reagan et al named Communist sympathisers- blacklisted- refusal to answer questions- Hollywood 10
Effects on Hollywood- refusal to tackle 'issues' or be controversial- use of WWII film; musicals; Westerns; Biblical or historical epics . Seeming outliers 'Rebel Without a Cause' support status quo
Youth Culture
1940s-60s Baby Boom- low unemployment, religious revivial, cold war paranoia, cultural consensus background, with $20bn spending money from part time jobs
Music- rock and roll- Elvis, Bill Haley, overtaken by British invasion- Beetles
1960s politicised- rise in crime- Beatniks of 1950s give way. Rise in alcohol, drugs, anti-social crime
Sexual revolution- Pill, rise of pre-marital sex, second wave feminism, Hays code influence wanes- rise of sexual content of media
Education- GI Bill; post-war boom; Cold War science needs; corporation needs; Affirmative Action- Colleges increasingly large, bureaucratic, , inflexibie led to student protests, countercultural and anti-war protests
Collapse of Consensus
Rise of television, decline of film, more questioning of authority, eventually
Vietnam- credibility gap- American patriotism used to hide cost of war- undermines government and previous beliefs
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Civil Rights Movement- highlighted how note everyone had access to American Dream, how US culture was not actually equal
JKF- assassination symbolic end to consensus- Warren Commission questioned- undermined authority of government
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Multiculturalism
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African Americans: Civil Rights Movement- rise in 'Black Consciousness' Black Pride- rise of black history, culture in curriculums
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