Unruly Equality

Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century is a 2016 book by Andrew Cornell on post-war and contemporary anarchism in the United States.

Unruly Equality

Author	Andrew Cornell
Subject	Anarchism in the United States
Publisher	University of California Press
Publication date	January 2016
Pages	416
ISBN	9780520286757

External audio
Interview with the author, April 2016

Synopsis

Unruly Equality focuses on anarchist activity in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s, the period between anarchism's classical era (1880s–1920s) and the contemporary resurgence of anarchist currents. While American anarchism is usually portrayed as having little continuity from the beginning to the end of the 20th century, Cornell argues that anarchism in the midcentury, postwar period both bridged and influenced what would become contemporary anarchism as activism shifted from syndicalism and class struggle to critical analysis, affinity group action, and gradualism. This midcentury anarchism covers bohemian anarchism in the 1940s, which focused on personal liberty and social liberation.

Reception

The Journal of American History's reviewer says that Cornell was unsuccessful in finding causal links between anarchism and the major, midcentury social movements—the civil rights movement, the New Left, and opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War—owing partly to not analyzing anarchism in context of its influence on the larger American Left and labor movements. Cornell is clearer in his connections between anarchism and 20th century subcultures like punk and hippies.

References

• Adams, Matthew S. (2017). "Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the 20th Century". Left History. 20 (2): 113–115. doi:10.25071/1913-9632.39435. ISSN 1192-1927. S2CID 188454400.
• Buhle, Paul (May 4, 2017). "Unruly Equality: US Anarchism in the Twentieth Century". Socialism and Democracy. 31 (2): 184–188. doi:10.1080/08854300.2017.1332168. ISSN 0885-4300. S2CID 148973786 – via Taylor & Francis.
• Hall, Greg (March 2017). "Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century". Journal of American History. 103 (4): 1062–1063. doi:10.1093/jahist/jaw564. ISSN 0021-8723. EBSCOhost edsgcl.489013726.
• Jensen, Richard Bach (2017). "Review of Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century". The Sixties. 10 (2): 259–261. doi:10.1080/17541328.2017.1396739. ISSN 1754-1328 – via Taylor & Francis.
• Konkol, Margaret (November 2017). "Poetry and Anarchism". Modernism/Modernity. 24 (4): 867–873. doi:10.1353/mod.2017.0067. ISSN 1071-6068. S2CID 148831728. Project MUSE 677107.
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• Louzao, Jeremy (April 25, 2016). "Coming of Age: A Review of Unruly Equality". The Institute for Anarchist Studies. Retrieved January 9, 2022.
• Martin, T.S. (September 1, 2016). "Cornell, Andrew. Unruly equality: U.S. anarchism in the twentieth century". CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. Vol. 54, no. 1. p. 103. ISSN 0009-4978.
• Moran, Jessica (February 1, 2016). "Cornell, Andrew. Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century". Library Journal. 141 (2): 90–91. ISSN 0363-0277. EBSCOhost edsbig.A441402134.
• Williams, Dana M. (2019). "Revolutionary anti-authoritarian movements and anarchist studies". Social Movement Studies. 18 (6): 754–758. doi:10.1080/14742837.2019.1596789. ISSN 1474-2837. S2CID 150922896 – via Taylor & Francis.
• Wuske, Melissa (February 29, 2016). "Unruly Equality; U.S. Anarchism in the 20th Century". ForeWord. ISSN 1099-2642. Gale A445401197.
• "Left Behind: Why Marxists Need Anarchists, and Vice Versa". December 20, 2015.
• "Book Review: Unruly Equality: US Anarchism in the 20th Century by Andrew Cornell". May 19, 2016.

External links

• Official website
• Author's website