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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452217803321

Autore

Reed T. V (Thomas Vernon)

Titolo

The art of protest [[electronic resource] ] : culture and activism from the civil rights movement to the streets of Seattle / / T.V. Reed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press

[Bristol, : University Presses Marketing, distributor], c2005

ISBN

0-8166-9263-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (388 p.)

Disciplina

303.484

Soggetti

Radicalism - United States

Protest movements - United States

Social movements in art

Social movements in literature

Radicalism in art

Radicalism in literature

Radicalism - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-343) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Singing civil rights : the freedom song tradition -- Scenarios for revolution : the drama of the Black Panthers -- The poetical is the political : feminist poetry and the poetics of women's rights -- Revolutionary walls : Chicano/a murals, Chicano/a movements -- Old cowboys, new Indians : Hollywood frames the American Indian movement -- "We are [not] the world" : famine, apartheid, and the politics of rock music -- Acting up against AIDS : the (very) graphic arts in a moment of crisis -- Environmental justice ecocriticism : race, class, gender, and literary ecologies -- Will the revolution be cybercast? : new media, the battle of Seattle, and global justice -- Reflections on the cultural study of social movements.

Sommario/riassunto

A comprehensive introduction to the culture of progressive movements in the United States.