Learning the left : popular culture, liberal politics, and informal education from 1900 to the present

• Other Authors: Ramsey, Paul J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2015]
• Subjects: Popular culture > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.; Popular culture > Political aspects > United States > History > 21st century.; Mass media > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.; Mass media > Political aspects > United States > History > 21st century.; Non-formal education > United States > History > 20th century.; Non-formal education > United States > History > 21st century.; Popular literature > United States > History and criticism.; Liberalism > United States > History.; Education > Research.; Teaching skills and techniques.; Education.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806611324
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-68123-055-9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 156 pages) : illustration

Learning the Left examines the ways in which young people and adults learned (and continue to learn) the tenets of liberal politics in the United States through the popular media and the arts from the turn of the twentieth century to the present. This collection of essays foregrounds mass culture as...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : Popular culture, learning, and the left / Paul J. Ramsey
• Learning to listen : Conflicts between youth and adults regarding the phonograph in the early-20th century / Jacob Hardesty
• Fanning the flames of discontent : Inciting teachings of the wobblies / Daniel Dethrow
• Teaching children the "real" story : Oppositional children's literature, 1920-1940 / Hani Morgan
• A green peace tinted red : Cold war america in the boy with green hair / Peter W. Lee
• Promoting the political left through popular novels : Howard fast, historical fiction, and the cold war / Paul J. Ramsey
• Pedagogy of the radical black press / Khuram Hussain
• Learning the underground : Plastic childhood and popular culture / Marek Tesar
• Books are weapons in the war of ideas : Educational reform in popular texts / Richard Ognibene.