The American experience : a radical reader / Edited by Harold Jaffe [and] John Tytell.

This resource is an anthology of essays, manifestoes, speeches, interviews, poetry, and other writings from cultural figures that speak to the experience of living in America in the 1970s.

The resource contains potentially triggering language.

Includes index.

Legacy of the beat generation: America / Allen Ginsberg -- The white negro / Norman Mailer --

Black consciousness: James Baldwin: an interview / Kenneth B. Clark -- The white race and its heroes / Eldridge Cleaver -- The white American psyche - exploration of racism / Lloyd T. Delany -- The ballot or the bullet / Malcom X -- What we want / Stokely Carmichael -- The revolutionary theater / Le Roi Jones -- Puerto Rican life in New York / Oscar Lewis -- How to be a negro without really trying / Piri Thomas -- The white niggers / Abbie Hoffman --

New politics and the university: Herbert Marcuse defines his new left line / Jean-Louis Ferrier -- Skullduggery / Abbie Hoffman -- The humanities and the inhumanities / Louis Kampf -- The student rebellion / New university conference -- On misunderstanding student rebels / Martin Duberman -- The free universities / Ralph Keyes -- American education is an addictive process and its cure / Timothy Leary --

New life styles: Apocalypse: the place of mystery in the life of the mind / Norman. O. Brown -- Joy is the prize: a trip to the Esalen Institute / Leo Litwak -- From the varieties of psychedelic experience / R.E.L. Masters and Jean Houston -- Drugs: a seminar / Michael Aldrich -- Zen flesh, zen bones / Paul Reps -- Why tribe / Gary Snyder -- A social history of the hippies / Warren Hinckle -- Philosophy in a pop key: on Marshall McLuhan / Harold Rosenberg -- Classroom without walls / Marshall McLuhan --

New directions in the arts: No more masterpieces / Antonin Artaud -- A manifesto on happenings / Allan Kaprow -- Soap: a happening / Jerome Rothenberg -- Where are we - the underground? / Jonas Mekas -- The new cinema / Leon Lewis -- Experimental music / John Cage -- Like a rolling stone / Ralph J. Gleason -- Interviews with pop artists: Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist / Gene Swanson -- Notes on "camp" / Susan Sontag --

The literature: The dirty-word concept / Lenny Bruce -- I am waiting / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Patriotic poem / Diane Wakoski -- Meditation on a machine / John Tytell -- Black bourgeoisie / Leroi Jones -- The Klan / Alan Arkin and David Aarkin -- If politicians would learn from poets / George Economou -- Jail break / Jackson Maclow -- Poem against the rich / Robert Bly -- John lied / Barry Wallenstein -- Talking Vietnam pot luck blues / Tom Paxton -- White rabbit / Grace Slick -- Get together / Chet Powers -- Graffiti / Edward Field -- Gorgeous George / Toby Olson -- To the reader / Denise Levertov -- Things to do around San Francisco / Gary Snyder -- Eating poetry / Mark Strand -- Dump poem / Robert Vas Dias -- Assassination: a subway ride in one act / Harold Jaffee --

Whither: The ability to face whatever comes / Tom Hayden -- 1984 / Paul Goodman -- Buddhism and the coming revolution / Gary Snyder -- I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The American Experience is a "radical" reader in this sense: it employs a variety of nonconventional forms (manifestoes, speeches, interviews, a symposium, poetry, rock lyrics, and scenarios), in addition to the essay, to speak directly to - not down to - students about life in contemporary America...The American Experience attempts to document the conflicts of the 1960s while anticipating the directions of the 1970s. Because our anthology is exceptionally readable, as well as uncompromisingly relevant, we like to think of it as a paracollege reader intended primarily, though not exclusively, for the college student, since anyone interested in understanding contemporary America would benefit from reading the selections." - From the book preface.

This resource is intended for college students.