American Hippies

Zusammenfassung In the late 1960s and early 1970s hundreds of thousands of white middle-class American youths suddenly became hippies. This short overview of the hippie social movement in the United States examines the movement's beliefs and practices.

Auteur

W. J. Rorabaugh is Professor of History at the University of Washington, Seattle. His numerous books include The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition; Berkeley at War: The 1960s; Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties (Cambridge University Press, 2002); and The Real Making of the President: Kennedy, Nixon, and the 1960 Election. Rorabaugh received his AB from Stanford University and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

Texte du rabat

This short overview of the United States hippie social movement examines hippie beliefs and practices.

Contenu

Introduction; 1. Origins; 2. Drugs, music, and spirituality; 3. Bodies, sex, and gender; 4. Diggers, Yippies, and People's Park, 5. Communes; Conclusion.