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The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle
T. V. Reed
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Description for The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle
Paperback. Num Pages: 408 pages, 17ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; AB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
Imagine the civil rights movement without freedom songs and the politics of women's movements without poetry. Or, more difficult yet, imagine an America unaffected by the cultural expressions and forms of the twentieth-century social movements that have shaped our nation. The first broad overview of social movements and the distinctive cultural forms that express and helped shape them, The Art of Protest shows the vital importance of these movements to American culture. In comparative accounts of movements beginning with the African American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s and running through the Internet-driven movement for global justice ( ... Read more
Imagine the civil rights movement without freedom songs and the politics of women's movements without poetry. Or, more difficult yet, imagine an America unaffected by the cultural expressions and forms of the twentieth-century social movements that have shaped our nation. The first broad overview of social movements and the distinctive cultural forms that express and helped shape them, The Art of Protest shows the vital importance of these movements to American culture. In comparative accounts of movements beginning with the African American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s and running through the Internet-driven movement for global justice ( ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Weight
519g
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816637713
SKU
V9780816637713
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About T. V. Reed
T. V. Reed is director of American studies and professor of English at Washington State University. He is the author of Fifteen Jugglers, Five Believers: Literary Politics and the Poetics of American Social Movements.
Reviews for The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle
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 An ambitious project that breathes some vitality back ... Read more