FUTURE/PRESENT
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FUTURE/PRESENT

Arts in a Changing America

  1. 456 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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About this book

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. Dahlak Brathwaite, adrienne maree brown, 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

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Yes, you can access FUTURE/PRESENT by Daniela Alvarez, Roberta Uno, Elizabeth M. Webb, Daniela Alvarez,Roberta Uno,Elizabeth M. Webb in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Art & American Art. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction / Roberta Uno
  3. The Call / Jeff Chang
  4. vestibular mantra (or radical virtuosities for a brave new dance) / taisha paggett
  5. Part 1 / Cultural Presence: Placekeeping and Belonging
  6. Part 2 / Dismantling Borders, Building Bridges: Migration and Diasporas
  7. Part 3 / Creating A World Without Prisons: Culture and The Carceral State
  8. Part 4 / Embodied Cartographies: Renegotiating Relationships with Land
  9. Part 5 / Living Our Legacy: Ancestral Knowledge as Radical Futurity
  10. Part 6 / Currents Beyond: Artists Shifting Paradigms of Inequity
  11. Afterword / Daniela Alvarez and Elizabeth M. Webb
  12. Emergence (after adrienne maree brown) / Sarah Sophia Yanni
  13. Acknowledgments