HIST 124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Assembly Of First Nations, Gay Liberation, Nuclear Arms Race
12 Sep 2016
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Students held immense amounts of social and political power in the 60"s and 70"s. Young people effected a lot of social change. After ww2, post war was supposed to be a time to re-establish normalcy. Post war prosperity meant that families could afford to leave the cities to newly established rapidly expanding suburbs-in the 50"s. Historical memory-the focus is more on how we remember it, not what may have actually happened. Ex: vimy ridge- people talk about it differently. How and why do we remember something like we do. Single parent families, gay families, blended families today. People take comfort in imagining a previous time of remembering the traditional families. It was a simpler time and it romanticizes the 50"s. That is how people are remembering not what actually happened. Dad work, mom stayed at home in the kitchen, then there was gender appropriate activities-romanticized picture.
