HIST 124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: List Of Universities In Canada, Gay Liberation, Middle White
21 Jan 2016
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Protest and survive: students, the 1960s and beyond. Setting the scene: 1950s: romanticization revisited, youth of 1960s wielded immense socio-cultural influence; university, post-war could now afford to leave the city, out to new suburbs students actually affected immense social transformation. Also of nuclear families, idea that period after upheaval of 2nd world war, hankering for return to normalcy. See this in term of family and gender relations. sprouting up in margins of canadian cities, bungalows, and shopping malls. Leave it to beaver convention - misleading, idea that you can look back to post-war period and discover traditional family and simpler time, is historical memory rather than of history. Historical memory: dominant perception of history ignoring facts and the process by which we remember that, factors that lead us to remember a point in history that may not be true but lead to the dominant memory.
