Winner, 2021 Ray and Pat Browne Edited Collection Award, given by the Popular Culture Association How popular culture is engaged by activists to effect emancipatory political change One cannot change the world unless one can imagine what a better world might look like. Civic imagination is the capacity to conceptualize alternatives to current cultural, social, political, or economic conditions; it also requires the ability to see oneself as a civic agent capable of making change, as a participant in a larger democratic culture. Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination represents a call for greater clarity about what we’re fighting for—not just what we’re fighting against. Across more than thirty examples from social movements around the world, this casebook proposes “civic imagination” as a framework that can help us identify, support, and practice new kinds of communal participation. As the contributors demonstrate, young people, in particular, are turning to popular culture—from Beyonc? to Bollywood, from Smokey Bear to Hamilton, from comic books to VR—for the vernacular through which they can express their discontent with current conditions. A young activist uses YouTube to speak back against J. K. Rowling in the voice of Cho Chang in order to challenge the superficial representation of Asian Americans in children’s literature. Murals in Los Angeles are employed to construct a mythic imagination of Chicano identity. Twitter users have turned to #BlackGirlMagic to highlight the black radical imagination and construct new visions of female empowerment. In each instance, activists demonstrate what happens when the creative energies of fans are infused with deep political commitment, mobilizing new visions of what a better democracy might look like.
Winner, 2021 Ray and Pat Browne Edited Collection Award, given by the Popular Culture Association How popular culture is engaged by activists to effect emancipatory political change One cannot change the world unless one can imagine what a better world might look like. Civic imagination is the capacity to conceptualize alternatives to current cultural, social, political, or economic conditions; it also requires the ability to see oneself as a civic agent capable of making change, as a participant in a larger democratic culture. Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination represents a call for greater clarity about what we’re fighting for—not just what we’re fighting against. Across more than thirty examples from social movements around the world, this casebook proposes “civic imagination” as a framework that can help us identify, support, and practice new kinds of communal participation. As the contributors demonstrate, young people, in particular, are turning to popular culture—from Beyonc? to Bollywood, from Smokey Bear to Hamilton, from comic books to VR—for the vernacular through which they can express their discontent with current conditions. A young activist uses YouTube to speak back against J. K. Rowling in the voice of Cho Chang in order to challenge the superficial representation of Asian Americans in children’s literature. Murals in Los Angeles are employed to construct a mythic imagination of Chicano identity. Twitter users have turned to #BlackGirlMagic to highlight the black radical imagination and construct new visions of female empowerment. In each instance, activists demonstrate what happens when the creative energies of fans are infused with deep political commitment, mobilizing new visions of what a better democracy might look like.
Автор: Lima Lazaro Название: Being Brown: Sonia Sotomayor and the Latino Question ISBN: 0520300890 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520300897 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 2533.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Being Brown: Sonia Sotomayor and the Latino Question tells the story of the country's first Latina Supreme Court Associate Justice's rise to the pinnacle of American public life at a moment of profound demographic and political transformation. While Sotomayor's confirmation appeared to signal the greater acceptance and inclusion of Latinos--the nation's largest "minority majority"--the uncritical embrace of her status as a "possibility model" and icon paradoxically erased the fact that her success was due to civil rights policies and safeguards that no longer existed.
Being Brown analyzes Sotomayor's story of success and accomplishment, despite seemingly insurmountable odds, in order to ask: What do we lose in democratic practice when we allow symbolic inclusion to supplant the work of meaningful political enfranchisement? In a historical moment of resurgent racism, unrelenting Latino bashing, and previously unimaginable "blood and soil" Nazism, Being Brown explains what we stand to lose when we allow democratic values to be trampled for the sake of political expediency, and demonstrates how understanding "the Latino question" can fortify democratic practice.
Being Brown provides the historical vocabulary for understanding why the Latino body politic is central to the country's future and why Sonia Sotomayor's biography provides an important window into understanding America, and the country's largest minority majority, at this historical juncture. In the process, Being Brown counters "alternative facts" with historical precision and ethical clarity to invigorate the best of democratic practice at a historical moment when we need it most.
The Latino Body tells the story of the United States Latino body politic and its relation to the state: how the state configures Latino subjects and how Latino subjects have in turn altered the state. L?zaro Lima charts the interrelated groups that define themselves as Latinos and examines how these groups have responded to calls for unity and nationally shared conceptions of American cultural identity. He contends that their responses, in times of cultural or political crisis, have given rise to profound cultural transformations, enabling the so-called “Latino subject“ to emerge. Analyzing a variety of cultural, literary, artistic, and popular texts from the nineteenth century to the present, Lima dissects the ways in which the Latino body has been imagined, dismembered, and reimagined anew, providing one of the first comprehensive accounts of the construction of Latino cultural identity in the United States.
Автор: Lazarov Dale Название: Super Creeps! ISBN: 1939888557 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781939888556 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 4138.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Lazarov Dale Название: Kindly Woodsmen ISBN: 193988859X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781939888594 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 4138.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Автор: Lazarou, Maria (Author) Название: Words of Men: Book Quotes Colouring Book ISBN: 1717942687 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781717942685 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1878.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Описание: Words Of Men Colouring Book 33 pages of adult colouring. Hours of entertainment, colour in the pages of various book quotes from some of the most fantastic books. Intricate patterns to test your ability to colour inside the lines. Created by Maria Lazarou @Obsessed by Books Designs 2 from each sale will go to CALM The Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) is an award-winning charity dedicated to preventing male suicide, the single biggest killer of men under the age of 45 in the UK. In 2015, 75% of all UK suicides were male. https: //www.thecalmzone.net/ Authors: J Thompson. Christie Adams. J A Heron. D.V. Williams. A.C. Bextor. L Chapman. Avelyn Paige. Holly J Gill. Lily Luchesi. K.L. Humphreys. L. Grubb. Ashe Barker. Stella Eromonsere-Ajanaku. Kylie Hillman. Samantha Jacobey. Helen Bright. T.a. McKay Rachel Van Dyken. Ava Manello. M.L. Kacy. Sienna Grant. J F Holland. Jennah Thornhill. K. Spencer. Isobelle Cate. T.L. Wainwright **Contains Explicit Material**
Автор: Lazaro Rebecca S. Название: Unravel ISBN: 1523408162 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781523408160 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3750.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Lazaro Erwin Название: Angels Among Us: Living Dream Series ISBN: 1546204059 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781546204053 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2344.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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A genuine love story for family and life, Angels Among Us is a philosophical narrative. Memoirs of one man's journey of finding answers to questions revealed along the way. Multidimensional in its telling, music intertwines and connects personal values, popular culture, and a time frame that spans twenty-three years. An appreciation of the built and natural landscape color the canvas of discovery. Angels Among Us is an introspective and physical journey that evokes a wide range of emotions through self-confrontation, revelations, and choices. From the first word to the conclusion of this first installment of the Living Dream series, a desire to learn more will be in order.
