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The Voice of Violence Performative Violence as Protest in the Vietnam Era

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Joel P. Rhodes

ISBN: 0-275-97055-8

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97055-0

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240 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 4/30/2001

List Price: $110.95 (UK Sterling Price: £76.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Description: 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 protest whereby participants create the conditions in which their violent actions become a political text, a powerful symbol with a strong historical precedent.

Recognizing the textuality of history, this interdisciplinary examination deconstructs the performative violence within its historically specific and socially constructed contexts using four representative case histories of late 1960s and early 1970s activism. These are the African-American rioters in Kansas City, the Black Panther Party in Detroit, campus radicals at Kansas State University, and activists at the University of Kansas. Rather than focusing on the major clashes of the Vietnam era, this book contributes to recent scholarship on the 1960s which has attempted to offer a more textured analysis of the era's activism, particularly its political violence, based on more local studies.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
It Finally Happened Here: The 1968 Riot in Kansas City, Missouri
Short-haired Kids with Gasoline Cans: Kansas State University
Happiness in a Warm Gun: The University of Kansas
Revolutionary Commitment?: The Detroit Black Panthers
Women and Performative Violence
Conclusion
Bibliography

About the Author: JOEL P. RHODES is Assistant Professor of history at Southeast Missouri State University./e

LCC Class: 959


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