The art of protest : culture and activism from the civil rights movement to the streets of Seattle

Reed, T. V. (Thomas Vernon) (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0816637717 (pb : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780816637713 (pb : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0816637709 (hc : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xxiii, 362 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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 postmodern epidemic -- 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.