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Lädt ... Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury (2024. Auflage)von Drew Gilpin Faust (Autor)
Werk-InformationenNecessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury von Drew Gilpin Faust
   Keine Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.  tangledthread | Mar 1, 2024 |   EllenH | Jan 15, 2024 | I have mixed feelings about the book. She has an interesting story to tell about mid-century America, but it is a story of privilege that I found hard to relate to. Despite a difficult relationship with her parents, there is never a mention of the funding of her exceptional lifestyle, which helped give her such insight into the larger world. She went to a boarding school, and then could choose pretty much any college she preferred, which in her writing she doesn’t seem to recognize as privileged. I appreciate what she did and learned given her background, but coming from quite a different background myself, it feels like quite an elitist perspective. I tip my hat to her accomplishments, but they seem a little less remarkable given her background. (  ) peggybr | Oct 4, 2023 | ) mojomomma | Sep 26, 2023 | I almost gave up at the beginning because she straight up gives long biographies of her grandparents and parents before finally telling her stories and experiences; I’m not sure exactly what the point was considering it sounds like they had no affect on her determination and work for justice. For me it was most interesting because she was born in 1947 exactly three days after my dad, so it was the first chance I got to see what was happening in the country for him too (especially since he never told his story and passed twenty years ago). She tells a fascinating tale of a very short period which ends as she turns 21 and can vote for the first time, but it’s all of such an important time in our history and worth sharing. ( ) spinsterrevival | Sep 12, 2023 | keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized national alliances, nuclear threat, and destabilized social hierarchies. Two world wars and the depression that connected them had unleashed a torrent of expectations and dissatisfactions?not only in global affairs but in American society and Americans' lives. To be a privileged white girl in conservative, segregated Virginia was to be expected to adopt a willful blindness to the inequities of race and the constraints of gender. For young Drew Gilpin Faust, the acceptance of both female subordination and racial privilege proved intolerable and galvanizing. Urged to become "well adjusted and to fill the role of a poised young lady that her upbringing imposed, she found resistance was the necessary price of survival. During the 1960s, through her love of learning and her active engagement in the civil rights, student, and antiwar movements, Faust forged a path of her own?one that would eventually lead her to become a historian of the very conflicts that were instrumental in shaping the world she grew up in. Culminating in the upheavals of 1968, Necessary Trouble captures a time of rapid change and fierce reaction in one young woman's life, tracing the transformations and aftershocks that we continue to grapple with today. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Granted the author had the privileges of race, social class, and economic security. But the narrative of her activism demonstrates that she leveraged those advantages to take a stand for her beliefs as a teen and young adult.
I'm slightly younger than the author and remember most of the events in the late 50's and 60's. Reading this book reminded me of the discomfort I felt as a child & youth regarding those news stories. That discomfort remains with me today, because the issues are still unresolved. There is some irony that by participating in history, this young woman then made a life out of history. Relevant quote: "Coming to terms with the past would ultimately become an intellectual and professional commitment as well as a personal necessity. I grew up to be a historian." p. 257. (