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

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Singing Civil Rights: The Freedom Song Tradition -- 2. Dramatic Resistance: Theatrical Politics from the Black Panthers to Black Lives Matter -- 3. The Poetical Is the Political: Feminist Poetry and the Poetics of Women's Rights -- 4. Revolutionary Walls: Chicano/a/x Murals, Chicano/a/x Movements -- 5. Old Cowboys, New Indians: Hollywood Frames the American Indian Movement -- 6. "We Are [Not] the World": Famine, Apartheid, and the Politics of Rock Music -- 7. ACTing UP against AIDS: The (Very) Graphic Arts in a Moment of Crisis -- 8. Novels of Environmental Justice: Toxic Colonialism and the Nature of Culture -- 9. Puppetry against Puppet Regimes: The "Battle of Seattle" and the Global Justice Movement -- 10. #Occupy All the Arts: Challenging Wall Street and Economic Inequality Worldwide -- Conclusion: The Cultural Study of Social Movements -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z

"Now thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition of T.V. Reed's acclaimed work offers engaging accounts of ten key progressive movements in postwar America, from the African American struggle for civil rights beginning in the 1950s to Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter in the twenty-first century."--Provided by publisher

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