The hidden 1970s: histories of radicalism

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations: North American Leftist Organizations in the 1970s -- Introduction: Exploding Limits in the 1970s / Berger, Dan -- PART ONE. Insurgency -- 1. Improvising on Reality: The Roots of Prison Abolition / Samuels, Liz -- 2. Sick of the Abuse: Feminist Responses to Sexual Assault, Battering, and Self-Defense / Law, Victoria -- 3. "The Struggle Is for Land!": Race, Territory, and National Liberation / Berger, Dan / Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne -- 4. Canada's Other Red Scare: The Anicinabe Park Occupation and Indigenous Decolonization / Rutherford, Scott -- PART TWO. Solidarity -- 5. "A Line of Steel": The Organization of the Sixth Pan-African Congress and the Struggle for International Black Power, 1969–1974 / Wilkins, Fanon Che -- 6. How Indigenous Peoples Wound Up at the United Nations / Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne -- 7. "Hit Them Harder": Leadership, Solidarity, and the Puerto Rican Independence Movement / Starr, Meg -- 8. Unorthodox Leninism: Workplace Organizing and Anti-Imperialist Solidarity in the Sojourner Truth Organization / Staudenmaier, Michael -- PART THREE. Community -- 9. Play as World-making: From the Cockettes to the Germs, Gay Liberation to DIY Community Building / Shepard, Benjamin -- 10. "We Want Justice!": Police Murder, Mexican American Community Response, and the Chicano Movement / Behnken, Brian D. -- 11. Rising Up: Poor, White, and Angry in the New Left / Tracy, James -- 12. The Movement for a New Society: Consensus, Prefiguration, and Direct Action / Cornell, Andrew -- 13. Hard to Find: Building for Nonviolent Revolution and the Pacifist Underground / Meyer, Matt / Magno, Paul -- 14. "The Original Gangster": The Life and Times of Red Power Activist Madonna Thunder Hawk / Castle, Elizabeth -- Notes on Contributors -- Index