For the reading that focuses on the student movements in the sixties, I immediately saw continuing themes from the last readings. The phrase agents of social or agent of transformation was brought up when the author was talking about C. Wright Mills, since he was relying on the intellectuals to be those agents of social change. (389) other phrases that I found in this reading were ‘makers of history” which I believe that was one of the principles of Marxism
The concept of anti-Americanism is continued in this chapter, which we also talked a lot about in the previous class, that essentially anti Americanism is communism (Soviet Union) and anyone who favors that mentality. Intellectuals gravitate towards communism due to the alienation of their own society, that they feel they dont have a place in.
In the reading, it says that the black student movement was a generational revolt. I had never thought of it in that way, but as I was asking myself why that was the case, later in the reading it said that the educated minority now had the means to “fight back” unlike the previous generation, who did not.
In the section about martyrdom, that part at the end that says “there was the students alienation from the world..”(399) that connected intellectuals to the black led student movements (intellectuals are students)