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

Summary: The first overview of social movements and the cultural forms that helped shape them, The Art of Protest shows the importance of these movements to American culture. In comparative accounts of movements beginning with the African American civil rights movement through the Internet-driven movement for global justice, T.V. Reed enriches our understanding of protest and its cultural expression.

Record details

ISBN: 9780816692637
ISBN: 0816692637
ISBN: 0816637709
ISBN: 9780816637706
ISBN: 0816637717
ISBN: 9780816637713
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource (xxiii, 362 pages) : illustrations
Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press ; [Bristol] : [University Presses Marketing, distributor], ©2005.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:april.15 Multi-user.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-343) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Acknowledgments; Introduction; ONE: Singing Civil Rights: The Freedom Song Tradition; TWO: Scenarios for Revolution: The Drama of the Black Panthers; THREE: The Poetical Is the Political: Feminist Poetry and the Poetics of Women's Rights; FOUR: Revolutionary Walls: Chicano/a Murals, Chicano/a Movements; FIVE: Old Cowboys, New Indians: Hollywood Frames the American Indian Movement; SIX: "We Are [Not] the World": Famine, Apartheid, and the Politics of Rock Music; SEVEN: ACTing UP against AIDS: The (Very) Graphic Arts in a Moment of Crisis.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.