Editors’ Preface

Abstract

A the world, the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s were years of intense political confrontations shaped by the Cold War. The United States faced the antagonism of the Soviet Union and became more involved in Vietnam. Domestically, Lyndon B. Johnson implemented his Great Society plan, which aimed to combat socioeconomic inequalities, and the civil rights movement worked to end discrimination against African Americans. As the editors of Social Text summed it up in The 60s without Apology,