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FYS101: Not That Seventies Show: Race and Racial Politics

Secondary Sources

Up Against the Wall by Curtis J. Austin; Elbert "Big Man" Howard (Foreword by)
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2006
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Online Book
Survival Pending Revolution by Paul Alkebulan
Publication Date: 2007
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Online Book

Suggested Articles

Deslippe, Dennis A. ""Do Whites Have Rights?": White Detroit Policemen and "Reverse Discrimination" Protests in the 1970s." The Journal of American History 91, no. 3 (2004): 932-960.
Frank, Gillian. "“The Civil Rights of Parents”: Race and Conservative Politics in Anita Bryant’s Campaign against Gay Rights in 1970s Florida." Journal of the History of Sexuality 22, no. 1 (2013): 126-160.
Hall, Simon. "Protest Movements in the 1970s: The Long 1960s." Journal of Contemporary History 43, no. 4 (2008): 655-672.
Lumsden, Linda. "Good Mothers with Guns: Framing Black Womanhood in the Black Panther, 1968-1980." Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 86, no. 4 (Winter, 2009): 900-922.
Mumford, Kevin J. "The Trouble with Gay Rights: Race and the Politics of Sexual Orientation in Philadelphia, 1969-1982." The Journal of American History 98, no. 1 (2011): 49-72.
Staples, Robert. "Black Manhood in the 1970s: A Critical Look Back." Black Scholar 12, no. 3 (1981): 2-9.
In the library on the first floor
Tuck, Stephen. "'We Are Taking up Where the Movement of the 1960s Left off': The Proliferation and Power of African American Protest during the 1970s." Journal of Contemporary History 43, no. 4 (2008): 637-654.
Wlodarz, Joe. "Beyond the Black Macho: Queer Blaxploitation." Velvet Light Trap: A Critical Journal of Film & Television 53, no. 1 (2004): 10-25.

Shirley Chisholm Videos

Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed (Documentary)
Call Number: DVD 1596
At the Circulation Desk on the second floor

Audio of Shirley Chisholm's Speech for the 1972 Campaign for Presidential Nomination