Pernicious Deeds

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. García
Keyword(s):  
Residential Segregation ◽  
Mexican Women ◽  
School Segregation ◽  
The West ◽  
West Side ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Spatial Mechanisms ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter investigates the White architects' public and private actions to link residential and school segregation. Specifically, the chapter exposes the racial covenants burdening the west-side properties of the very school and city officials who designed the blueprints for school segregation, and argues that they colluded to discriminate against Mexicans in perpetuity. Considering the link between school and residential segregation across four decades, from the 1920s through the 1950s, this chapter explores the subtle and stunning spatial mechanisms of mundane racism in Oxnard. It also analyzes various oral accounts of Mexican women and men who recalled navigating racially segregated spaces in Oxnard from the 1930s to the 1960s.

‘And I’ll Sing Once More’

2019 ◽  
pp. 11-27
Author(s):  
Dominic McHugh
Keyword(s):  
Early Stage ◽  
The Other ◽  
West Side ◽  
West Side Story ◽  
Film Version ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Town

This chapter outlines some of the key trends in the history of the screen musical adaptation. Noting how Hollywood initially seemed like an exciting prospect for some of the leading Broadway writers of the 1920s and ’30s, the chapter examines the liberal nature of most of the early stage-to-screen musicals up to On the Town (1949). In those days, Hollywood frequently retained only the title and a song or two from the Broadway shows it bought the film rights to, much to the frustration of the original composers and lyricists. But in the 1950s, a new trend saw an increasing move from the reasonably faithful Annie Get Your Gun (1950) and Kiss Me Kate (the title lost its comma in the film version of 1953) to the reverential adaptations of Oklahoma! (1955), West Side Story (1962), and My Fair Lady (1964). The mixed results of many of the other screen adaptations of the 1960s, including Paint Your Wagon and Hello, Dolly!, led to the near-collapse of the genre, with only a few successful titles such as Cabaret (1972) and Grease (1978) appearing over the next thirty years. But the release of Chicago in 2002 led to an apparent renaissance that has seen one or more screen musicals made each year since, most of which have been movie adaptations of Broadway shows (e.g., Into the Woods, 2014).

Cold War Strategies/Power and Culture—East

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladislav Zubok
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
The West ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
International Behavior ◽  
Cold War Consensus

This chapter examines the root motives behind the Soviet struggle against the West and the paradigm of Soviet international behavior related to the Cold War. It suggests that decolonization contributed to the Cold War because the decline of European colonial empires in the 1950s created irresistible temptations for Soviet leaders to intervene in parts of the globe previously beyond their reach. The chapter also suggests that the Soviet Cold War consensus began to crumble when the key tenets of the revolutionary-imperial paradigm became suspect in the 1960s and 1970s. These tenets held that the West was determined to destroy the Soviet Union and its “socialist empire” by force.

“Everyone has their own reality”. “Realism” – topicality in the East and in the West at the end of the 1950s and the 1960s

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Genova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Complex Dynamics ◽  
Iron Curtain ◽  
The West ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Critical Discourses

In the decade up to 1968, “realism” was a key ideological notion on both sides of the Iron Curtain. It was not unambiguous; it expressed misunderstandings and contradictions, and gave room for manipulative interpretations and diversion of meanings. The visions of “reality” and “realism” were often conflicting in national artistic milieus, as was the case in France. The Neo-avant-garde communities did not stay away from the dispute over the notion and Pierre Restany even appropriated it by using it to name the art group which he unified as an ideologist in 1960. The complex dynamics of the ideas in “the opponents’ field” was closely followed both in the East and the West. At international art forums the notion of “realism” played a role in different critical discourses. The opposing ideologies, through mediation and transfer, mutually modelled both its use by critics and the art practices themselves.

Conclusion: The Big Historical Picture

2018 ◽  
pp. 131-140
Author(s):  
Andrew Altman
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Sexual Revolution ◽  
The West ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Sexual Norms ◽  
Sexually Explicit ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The 1960S

Social norms regarding sex and its representations have changed radically in the West, from ancient times to the present. The sexually permissive norms of ancient Greece and Rome were replaced by the highly restrictive norms of the Christian world. In Greece and Rome, sexually explicit images were routinely displayed in public and private settings. Prostitution and pederasty were permitted by prevailing norms. By contrast, Christian doctrine and culture regarded it as a sin to engage in sex outside of marriage and for reasons other than procreation. Sexually explicit images were condemned and suppressed. The sexual revolution of the 1960s, in turn, fundamentally altered the sexual norms of society, relaxing many of the previous restrictions but without returning to the norms of the ancient pagan world. This chapter places the current issue of pornography in the context of those large-scale historical changes and explains how the issue is, in a certain sense, a moral one.

A note on John Hawkins (1761–1841) and the Hawkins archive

2000 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-268
Author(s):  
R. J. CLEEVELY
Keyword(s):  
Major Part ◽  
Reference Lists ◽  
The West ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S

A note dealing with the history of the Hawkins Papers, including the material relating to John Hawkins (1761–1841) presented to the West Sussex Record Office in the 1960s, recently transferred to the Cornwall County Record Office, Truro, in order to be consolidated with the major part of the Hawkins archive held there. Reference lists to the correspondence of Sibthorp-Hawkins, Hawkins-Sibthorp, and Hawkins to his mother mentioned in The Flora Graeca story (Lack, 1999) are provided.

Studying Modern Arabic Literature

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Arabic Literature ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
The West ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
The Face ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Modern Arabic

This book is devoted to the life and academic legacy of Mustafa Badawi who transformed the study of modern Arabic literature in the second half of the twentieth century. Prior to the 1960s the study of Arabic literature, both classical and modern, had barely been emancipated from the academic approaches of orientalism. The appointment of Badawi as Oxford University's first lecturer in modern Arabic literature changed the face of this subject as Badawi showed, through his teaching and research, that Arabic literature was making vibrant contributions to global culture and thought. Part biography, part collection of critical essays, this book celebrates Badawi's immense contribution to the field and explores his role as a public intellectual in the Arab world and the west.

Transformations: The New Deal through the 1950s

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Woloch
Keyword(s):  
Women Workers ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Federal Court ◽  
Labor Standards ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Single Sex ◽  
Fair Labor Standards Act ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The New Deal

This chapter traces the changes in federal and state protective policies from the New Deal through the 1950s. In contrast to the setbacks of the 1920s, the New Deal revived the prospects of protective laws and of their proponents. The victory of the minimum wage for women workers in federal court in 1937 and the passage in 1938 of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which extended labor standards to men, represented a peak of protectionist achievement. This achievement rested firmly on the precedent of single-sex labor laws for which social feminists—led by the NCL—had long campaigned. However, “equal rights” gained momentum in the postwar years, 1945–60. By the start of the 1960s, single-sex protective laws had resumed their role as a focus of contention in the women's movement.

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