San Francisco Year Zero, 1978. Milk, Moscone, Jonestown, Punk Rock, the Giants

Session Submission Type: Author meet critics

Session Description

Lincoln Mitchell's new book, San Francisco Year Zero: Political Upheaval, Punk Rock and a Third-Place Baseball Team is an exciting exploration of how cultural change can be reflected in a transformation of urban politics and of the classic conflict between viewing cities as economic engines vs, viewing cities as arenas of conflicting identities

Sub Unit

• APSA Panels and All Meetings and Receptions

Chair

• Kenneth Sherrill Hunter College, CUNY

Presenters

• Susan R. Burgess DePaul University

• Heath Brown City University of New York, Graduate Center and John Jay College

• Lincoln A. Mitchell Columbia University

• Art Agnos Former Mayor of San Francisco