The American Minervan

Tag: 1960s

  • Paradise Lost: Why Americans have trouble with their idea of Authority?

    Paradise Lost: Why Americans have trouble with their idea of Authority?

    Cultural and philosophical shifts in thinking between the 40s and 60s in the United States were reactions one after the other partly as a result of social engineering and enforcement of social rules (or pressures). This history demonstrates the illusion of free choice and individualism in the U.S., particularly in our present time. The very…

  • Preparing Black Youth in the 1960s: Education and Class Issues

    Preparing Black Youth in the 1960s: Education and Class Issues

    This documentary from 1968 in Brooklyn highlights the controversial Ocean Hill-Brownsville conflict that focused on community control of schools. It also reveals past problems in the education system decades ago, and the struggles of parenting our Black youth, and inculcating in them the desire and love for learning. In the backdrop, we get young Black…