main themes from WWI to the present

in no particular order:

• SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
• resistance to capitalism
• repressive Cold War culture and its impact on gender, race, class, activism and life in general
• representation (documentaries, photographs) of oppressed people as sites of social construction and subversion
• Old Left vs New Left
• fighting globalization
• activism, especially activism that involves people laboring under multiple forms of oppression
• relationships between race and class; deconstructing social categories
• sexuality becomes an issue when everything else is in flux
• figuring out how empire intersects with internal divisions of race and class (this is a major AMS project in the 1990s and 2000s)
• the 1930s
• the 1960s, both from the perspective of the people who were there and the people who weren't.
• structures of power determine the forms of resistance; infrapolitics, turbulence, mass protests
• SMOs and whether they're good or bad
• nuclear technology, WWII, the Cold War, propaganda, the Culture Industry, and American exceptionalism
• people need physical spaces in which to exercise our democratic rights
• are we fighting for democracy or for something beyond capitalism?  or maybe these are the same thing?
• consolidation of industry, agrarian manhood?