The Art of Protest

Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle

• Author(s): Thomas Vernon Reed,
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Pages: 362
• ISBN_10: 0816692637
  ISBN_13: 9780816692637
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Political Science / Civil Rights , Political Science / American Government / General ,

Description:... 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.