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The past is never dead. It's not even pastNOT EVEN PASTSearch the site ...   Like 0TweetThis is Democracy ReadingList: ParticipatoryDemocracy from theSixties to Today (Episode126)Not Even Past is proud to partner with This is Democracy, a groundbreaking podcastthat brings together thoughtful voices from different generations to help make sense ofcurrent challenges and propose positive steps forward. This is Democracy ReadingLists are designed to accompany the podcast interview and to provide additional,curated readings for anyone interested in the topic under discussion.For Episode 126 of This is Democracy, Jeremi and Zachary Suri hosted Dr. VaneesaCook to discuss the Port Huron Statement, and the shifting ideals of democracy inAmerica.And the Students for a Democratic Societyreally wanted to ensure that everyone had theright to vote. But beyond that, they wanted toexpand democracy. So that really became a wayof life for people. And they talked aboutdemocracy as a way of life.Dr. Vaneesa CookListen to the podcast below or access it here.For further readings on the Port Huron Statement and the shifting ideals of democracy“0:00 / 28:17Privacy  - Termsin America, Dr. Vaneesa Cook recommends the following  ve books.Vaneesa Cook, Spiritual Socialists Religion and the American Left (Philadelphia:University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)“Refuting the common perception that the American left has a religion problem, VaneesaCook highlights an important but overlooked intellectual and political tradition that shecalls “spiritual socialism.” Spiritual socialists emphasized the social side of socialismand believed the most basic expression of religious values—caring for the sick, tired,hungry, and exploited members of one’s community—created a  rm footing for society.Their unorthodox perspective on the spiritual and cultural meaning of socialist principleshelped make leftist thought more palatable to Americans, who associated socialismwith Soviet atheism and autocracy. In this way, spiritual socialism continually putpressure on liberals, conservatives, and Marxists to address the essential connectionbetween morality and social justice.Cook tells her story through an eclectic group of activists whose lives and works spanthe twentieth century. Sherwood Eddy, A. J. Muste, Myles Horton, Dorothy Day, HenryWallace, Pauli Murray, Staughton Lynd, and Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke and wrotepublicly about the connection between religious values and socialism. Equality,cooperation, and peace, they argued, would not develop overnight, and a more humanesociety would never emerge through top-down legislation. Instead, they believed that theprocess of their vision of the world had to happen in homes, villages, and cities, from thebottom up.By insisting that people start treating each other better in everyday life, spiritualsocialists transformed radical activism from projects of political policy-making to grass-roots organizing. For Cook, contemporary public  gures such as Senator BernieSanders, Pope Francis, Reverend William Barber, and Cornel West are part of a long-standing tradition that exempli es how non-Communist socialism has gained traction inAmerican politics.”James Miller, Democracy is in the Streets: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994).“On June 12, 1962, sixty young student activists drafted a manifesto for their generation,the Port Huron Statement, that ignited a decade of dissent. Democracy Is in theStreets is the de nitive history of the major people and ideas that shaped the New Leftin America during that turbulent decade. Because the 1960s generation is now movinginto positions of power in politics, education, the media, and business, their early historyis crucial to our understanding. James Miller, in his new Preface, puts the 1960s andthem into a context for our time, claiming that something of value did happen: ‘Most ofthe large questions raised by that moment of chaotic openness—political questionsabout the limits of freedom, and cultural questions, too, about the authority of the pastand the anarchy of the new—are with us still.'”Doug Rossinow, The Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity, and the New Leftin America (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998).“Breaking new ground in cultural, political, and social history, Rossinow tells the story ofthe new left-wing movement that emerged in the 1960s from an innovative perspective:illustrating the spiritual dimension of student activism and providing the  rst account“from the bottom up” — as well as linking local developments to the national scene.”Martin Klimke, The Other Alliance: Student Protest in West Germany and the UnitedStates in the Global Sixties (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011).“Using previously classi ed documents and original interviews, The OtherAlliance examines the channels of cooperation between American and West Germanstudent movements throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, and the reactions theserelationships provoked from the U.S. government. Revising the standard narratives ofAmerican and West German social mobilization, Martin Klimke demonstrates the strongtransnational connections between New Left groups on both sides of the Atlantic.Klimke shows that the cold war partnership of the American and German governmentswas mirrored by a coalition of rebelling counterelites, whose common political originsand opposition to the Vietnam War played a vital role in generating dissent in the UnitedStates and Europe. American protest techniques such as the “sit-in” or “teach-in” becamecrucial components of the main organization driving student activism in West Germany — the German Socialist Student League — and motivated American and German studentactivists to construct networks against global imperialism. Klimke traces the impact thatBlack Power and Germany’s unresolved National Socialist past had on the Germanstudent movement; he investigates how U.S. government agencies, such as the StateDepartment’s Interagency Youth Committee, advised American policymakers onconfrontations with student unrest abroad; and he highlights the challenges studentprotesters posed to cold war alliances.Exploring the catalysts of cross-pollination between student protest movements on twocontinents, The Other Alliance is a pioneering work of transnational history.”Jeremi Suri, Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente (Cambridge:Harvard University Press, 2005).“In a brilliantly conceived book, Jeremi Suri puts the tumultuous 1960s into a trulyinternational perspective in the  rst study to examine the connections between greatpower diplomacy and global social protest. Profoundly disturbed by increasing socialand political discontent, Cold War powers united on the international front, in the policyof detente. Though re ecting traditional balance of power considerations, detente thusalso developed from a common urge for stability among leaders who by the late 1960swere worried about increasingly threatening domestic social activism.RECENT POSTSIHS Book Talk: “Hungry for Revolution: The Politics of Food and the Making of Modern Chile,” by Joshua Frens-String,University of Texas at AustinIHS Podcast: Colonial Peru’s Fractional Freedoms meet Morgan’s thesis: American Freedom, American SlaveryTeaching Global Environmental HistoryNEP Author Spotlight – Nathan StoneReview of The Fishmeal Revolution: The Industrialization of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem by Kristin A. Wintersteen(2021)NOT EVEN PAST is produced byThe Department of HistoryTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN We are supported by the College of Liberal ArtsAnd our READERSDONATECONTACTAll content © 2010-present NOT EVEN PAST and the authors, unless otherwise notedSign up to receive the monthly Not Even Past newsletterSUBSCRIBEIn the early part of the decade, Cold War pressures simultaneously inspired activists andconstrained leaders; within a few years activism turned revolutionary on a global scale.Suri examines the decade through leaders and protesters on three continents, includingMao Zedong, Charles de Gaulle, Martin Luther King Jr., Daniel Cohn-Bendit, andAleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He describes connections between policy and protest from theBerkeley riots to the Prague Spring, from the Paris strikes to massive unrest in Wuhan,China.Designed to protect the existing political order and repress movements for change,detente gradually isolated politics from the public. The growth of distrust and disillusionin nearly every society left a lasting legacy of global unrest, fragmentation, andunprecedented public skepticism toward authority.”Posted December 9, 2020More BlogYour email addressFEATURES BOOKS TEACHING DIGITAL & FILMBLOG IHS TEXAS SPOTLIGHTABOUT

This is Democracy Reading List: Participatory Democracy from the Sixties to Today (Episode 126)

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