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"The Sixties: Passion, Politics and Style makes a significant contribution to the existing historiography in Canada. The new areas in Canadian history addressed by the authors make this volume especially important." Robert Rutherdale, Algoma University College, Laurentian University
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For those who did not live through the experience of the Sixties, it is often difficult to comprehend this tumultuous period. Even those who lived though the era and have studied the Sixties have wrestled with its deeper meaning. While the Sixties ultimate "meaning" remains elusive, there can be no doubt that the period's transformative effect upon Canadians - culturally, politically, and economically - was immense. From arts and architecture to politics and protest, the decade has attained near-mythical status, leaving an undeniable influence on virtually every aspect of Canadian life.The images, sounds, and tastes of the decade remain an indelible part of our own twenty-first-century experience, yet for a decade that remains so well defined within the public memory, the Sixties left behind an ambiguous historic legacy for those who study the period. Taking a multidisciplinary approach that includes history, architecture, art, political science and journalism, this volume provides fresh new perspectives on Canada's loudest, liveliest, and most debated period. Four decades after Canada's own Expo 67 "summer of love", this timely book explores issues from dope, de Gaulle, and driver education, to Trudeau, Vietnam, and Africville, all thought the colourful kaleidoscope of the Sixties.
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This group of essays edited by Dimitry Anastakis is proof that the writing of Canadian history is alive and well. It would be impossible for any collection, a short 190 page one at that, to capture the totality of the revolutionary epoch of the 1960s, even such periodization is problematic as Anastakis admits to in the introduction. But each essay addresses a particular issue in the postwar liberal consensus with academic rigor. I can't go through with a close analysis of each essay (you'll have to buy the book and read for yourself) but I will highlight the ones I felt had the most significance.The first is Kristy A. Holmes essay "Negotiating Citizenship" which explores Trudeau's grand social experiments into bilingualism, multiculturalism, and feminism incorporated into the motto "Reason over Passion." Holmes problematizes the gendered notions of liberal citizenship through its universalizing tendencies and individualistic masculinity. De Gaulle's "Vivre Le Quebec" speech is given a close contextual analysis by Olivier Courteaux who argues that de Gaulle's vision of a commonwealth of francophonie nations was too utopian and neglected the divergent paths that say Quebec and France had taken in the past 200+ years. Finally, Krys Verrall's essay "Art and Urban Renewal" compares slum clearances in the U.S. with Canada with close attention to the racialized aspects in Africville in Halifax as they were in Harlem in New York. I could go on, but the other essays on automobiles and masculinity, social control over drug use, the legacy of the Quiet Revolution, and suburbanization are all prominently featured as well. Ultimately, the over-arching theme is the ambiguous legacy of the 1960s. A time of great contradiction, and as Anastakis' fellow Trent Professor Bryan Palmer argues, great irony. We may never fully explore what the 1960s meant to Canadians, but this book is a good start.
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