History 2181A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lgbt Social Movements, Die Sexualität Im Kulturkampf, Nuclear Family
4 Jan 2019
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1960s and 1970s = sexual revolution, civil rights movement erupted addressing the oppression of blacks, originals, women, gays, and lesbians, and highlighted the need for greater rights of these marginalized groups. They required more attention and better civil rights: the activists at the time, many were women, white, and middle class. The social reformers of the civil rights movement tend to be young-adults who had grown up in the 1950s. They saw the way their parents lived and by the late 1960s, they were rebelling against the middle class conservatism and conformity of their parents" generations. Black civil rights activist: less on parents, but discrimination that was present, this new generation of social activist many of whom tend to be white, middle class, and suburban. They rejected all the badges of this establishment: they rebelled against conventional wisdom, that the universities were teaching them. They would take classes and learn about old, dead white guys.
