The art of protest : culture and activism from the civil rights movement to the streets of Seattle / T.V. Reed.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-343) and index.

Introduction -- Singing civil rights : the freedom song tradition -- Scenarios for revolution : the drama of the Black Panthers -- The poetical is the political : feminist poetry and the poetics of women's rights -- Revolutionary walls : Chicano/a murals, Chicano/a movements -- Old cowboys, new Indians : Hollywood frames the American Indian movement -- "We are [not] the world" : famine, apartheid, and the politics of rock music -- Acting up against AIDS : the (very) graphic arts in a moment of crisis -- Environmental justice ecocriticism : race, class, gender, and literary ecologies -- Will the revolution be cybercast? : new media, the battle of Seattle, and global justice -- Reflections on the cultural study of social movements.