Excerpt one: Entitled " 'Hey, Everyone Knows Hippies Were Just a Thing of the Sixties,' " this excerpt is from Chapter Two, an introductory chapter. It has several purposes: First, it refutes the widespread notion that hippies were a decade-specific phenomenon now over and done with---too many assume that hippies are the stuff of history and nostalgia, are in denial about the existence of post-sixties hippies. Second, by showing that hippies continue to exist, it helps undermine the misguided notion that hippies are no longer important. Third, it helps introduce some of the book's themes such as the ongoing ethnocide being waged against the counterculture.

Excerpt two: Entitled "Ethnicity and Race--Not the Same," this excerpt is from later in Chapter Two. Sometimes, I find people refuse to consider the notion of countercultural ethnicity because they mistakenly believe that ethnicity requires biological or racial distinctiveness. This passage squelchs that misconception.

Excerpt three: Entitled "Hippie Baiting: What Makes Modern American Politics Tick," this excerpt is also from the introductory Chapter Two. It's there to begin showing how prejudice towards hippies has become a mainspring of American politics and thus undercut the notion that hippies are no longer important; it's there to show that the impact of hippies on society--and of society's prejudice towards hippies--continues today. I say "begin" because the section is supplemented by a longer section in Chapter Four further documenting the impact of hippie baiting on American politics over the last forty years.

Excerpt four: Entitled "Evidence of Ethnicity: Countercultural Settlement Patterns," this excerpt is from Chapter Three, a deductive proof of hippie ethnicity. It's the first half of the tenth item ("Settlement and employment patterns") in a list of seventeen ethnic traits taken from an expanded definition of ethnicity; the first 14 of those traits are from the definition of ethnicity in the Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. Like this trait, several have subparts; to better show how well the counterculture fits this expanded definition, I give a full point to a trait or subpart of a trait where the counterculture fits the definition to a tee, half a point where the counterculture fits somewhat.

Excerpt five: Entitled "Bigotry Always Looks Better in a Bowtie: The Stereotyping of Hippies," this excerpt is from early in Chapter Four, an inductive proof of hippie ethnicity; in other words, when we look at the specific ways hippies and the counterculture behave and the specific ways society treats them/it, we see the many characteristics we tend to associate with ethnicity, especially with American ethnic minorities. Immediately following this passage is a much longer segment discussing seventeen particular stereotypes that have been used against various traditionally formed American ethnic groups and that in the last forty years have also been used against hippies.

Excerpt six: Entitled "Writhing at the Love In!: Hippie as Promiscuous Hedonist," this excerpt is from Chapter Four, the inductive proof of hippie ethnicity; specifically, it's from the list of seventeen particular stereotypes that have been used against various traditionally formed American ethnic groups and that are now used against hippies. The stereotype examined here is that of ethnic-minority member as lewd and lascivious. It follows a section on hippie as welfare bum and precedes a section on hippie as permanent child.

Excerpt seven: Entitled "Slouching Towards the Third Reich," this is another excerpt from Chapter Four, an inductive proof of hippie ethnicity. Although most of this chapter deals with parallels between the counterculture and traditionally formed American ethnic groups, this excerpt, of course, concerns parallels with a specific period of German history.

Excerpts works cited: An asterisk before a citation indicates that the bibliographic information is incomplete in some way. Although I have notes for the Goebbels jazz quotation in Excerpt Six, I have no other source at this time. I believe it came from a documentary on the Third Reich.