Lecture: Robert Self, “A Strange but Righteous Power: Cultural Politics in an Age of Economic Decline”

A Strange but Righteous Power: Cultural Politics in an Age of Economic Decline

Robert Self

Associate Professor

Brown University

<br>From the 1960s on, family, gender, and sexuality have stood at the center of American political rhetoric. This talk examines the liberal claim that families require economic assistance, the conservative claim that they require moral protection, and the ways that family, gender, and sexuality have structured not just private life, but public life and the state as well.

Robert Self is Associate Professor of History at Brown University. His most recent book is All in the Family:The Realignmnet of American Democracy since the 1960s.

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