usable pasts
To speak of usable pasts is to adopt an active and pragmatic stance toward history. The usable past is an interpretive strategy that approaches history as a renewable resource in complex service of the present. This volume works in that spirit, bringing together 164 written documents, 20 images, and 32 short essays that reflect a wide mix of organizations, campaigns, tactics, and visions. Grouped into thematic sections that reflect multiple approaches to different sites of struggle and to struggle on different scales, the book’s sources reflect the modes of thinking and organizing among left-wing US social movements from 1973 to 2001.
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