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Ending of the “long 1960s” o Oil Embargo — 1973 o Water Gate — 1974 o Presents skeptical times, skepticism of government and what it can do o 1970s when ‘60s social movements have further impact o Cultural battles  Abortions rights  Affirmative action  School bussing  Equal rights, regardless of gender o Expansion of marginalized voices  Women are making inroads in the workplace and places of power  LGBTQ are moving further out of the closet and out of the margins of American life  The expansion of Black political power  “The margins sort of talk back” o Disco as product of the times  Embraces the real and natural rather than the fake and synthetic  Commercial and transgressive, really democratic as many come together to dance on the dance floor o No agreement on the singular moment where disco officially began 1970s Context o A time where Blackness was reduced to a commodity o Decline and flight from cities (white flight, white people move from the city to the suburbs) o Black flight to the suburbs reflected on the unwillingness of city leaders to adequately support infrastructural support and the persistence police brutality towards Black people o Post-industrial turn — a removal of industry from the cities  Blue collar jobs were unionized  For many, blue collar jobs would the path to greatness  Signals the end of the Great Migration...