Description
Book SynopsisA comprehensive introduction to the culture of progressive movements in the United States.
Trade Review"Sophisticated yet very accessible, with a fluid writing style and well-organized chapters ranging from black civil rights to global justice. Succeeding on many levels, the book makes a measurable contribution to the literature of several areas of study, offers a well-informed and insightful introduction to students at every level, and tenders various ideas and tactics to add to an activist toolkit. Essential." -Choice
"An ambitious project that breathes some vitality back into the study of social movements at a time when we need to remember the lessons of the past and become much more active in the present. Highly recommended as a bird's eye view into major social movements." - Sociological Inquiry
Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Singing Civil Rights: The Freedom Song Tradition2. Scenarios for Revolution: The Drama of the Black Panthers3. The Poetical is the Political: Feminist Poetry and the Poetics of Women's Movements4. Revolutionary Walls: Chicano/a Murals, Chicano/a Movements5. Old Cowboys, New Indians: Hollywood Frames the American Indian Movement6. "We Are [Not] the World": Famine, Apartheid, and Rock Music in Movements of the 1980s7. ACTing UP Against AIDS: The (Very) Graphic Arts in Postmodern Movement8. Race, Class, Gender, Environment, Literature: Environmental Justice Ecocriticism9. Will the Revolution Be Cybercast? New Media, the Battle of Seattle, and the Movement for Global Justice10. Reflections On the Cultural Study of Social Movements NotesIndex
