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Title Future/Present : arts in a changing America / Daniela Alvarez, Roberta Uno, and Elizabeth M. Webb, editors
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2024

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Description 1 online resource (554 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cultural presence : placekeeping and belonging -- Dismantling borders, building bridges : migration and diasporas -- Creating a world without prisons : culture and the carceral state -- Embodied cartographies : renegotiating relationships with land -- Living our legacy : ancestral knowledge as radical futurity -- Currents beyond : artists shifting paradigms of inequity
Summary "FUTURE/PRESENT brings together a vast collection of writers, artists, activists, and academics working at the forefront of today's most pressing struggles for cultural equity and racial justice in a demographically changing America. The volume builds upon five years of national organizing by Arts in a Changing America, an artist-led initiative that challenges structural racism by centering people of color who are leading innovation at the nexus of arts production, community benefit, and social change. FUTURE/PRESENT includes a range of essays and criticism, visual and performance art, artist manifestos, interviews, poetry, and reflections on community practice. Throughout, contributors examine issues of placekeeping and belonging, migration and diasporas, the carceral state, renegotiating relationships with land, ancestral knowledge as radical futurity, and shifting paradigms of inequity. Foregrounding the powerful resilience of communities of color, FUTURE/PRESENT advances the role of artists as first responders to injustices, creative stewards in the cohesion and health of communities, and innovative strategists for equity. Selected contributors. adrienne maree brown, Dahlak Brathwaite, Jeff Chang, Tameca Cole, Ofelia Esparza, Antoine Hunter, Nobuko Miyamoto, Wendy Red Star, Spel, Jose Antonio Vargas, Carrie Mae Weems, Hinaleimoana Kwai Kong Wong-Kalu"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 27, 2023)
Subject Racism and the arts -- United States -- History -- 21st century
Arts -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century
Arts and society -- United States -- History -- 21st century
Racial justice -- United States -- History -- 21st century
Anti-racism -- United States -- History -- 21st century
ART -- American -- General.
ART -- American -- Asian American & Pacific Islander.
Anti-racism
Arts and society
Arts -- Political aspects
Race relations
Racial justice
Racism and the arts
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- History -- 21st century
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Alvarez, Daniela, 1989- editor.
Uno, Roberta, 1956- editor.
Webb, Elizabeth M., 1989- editor.
ISBN 9781478027256
1478027258
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