CAST 443 - Colloquium: Crisis of Confidence: American History and Culture in the 1970s

FC SSCI WINT

4 credits
Explores the decade between the groovy 60s and Age of Reagan as a distinct era in American history and a critical period whose legacies continue to inform our contemporary world. Through consideration of developments including Watergate, the oil crisis, white backlash, the Battle of the Sexes, and punk music, we interrogate how such moments shed light on contestations over national identity, inclusion, and power in an era regarded as a high point of American cynicism.