Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Political Undercurrents in the Americas
Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Political Undercurrents in the Americas (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present) by Macarena Gómez-Barris
English | August 28, 2018 | ISBN: 0520296664, 0520296672 | EPUB | 160 pages | 0.9 MB
English | August 28, 2018 | ISBN: 0520296664, 0520296672 | EPUB | 160 pages | 0.9 MB
How can we create a model of politics that reaches beyond the nation-state, and beyond settler-colonialism, authoritarianism, and neoliberalism? In Beyond the Pink Tide, Macarena Gómez-Barris explores the alternatives of recent sonic, artistic, activist, visual, and embodied cultural production.
By focusing on radical spaces of potential, including queer, youth, trans-feminist, Indigenous, and anticapitalist movements and artistic praxis, Gómez-Barris offers a timely call for a decolonial, transnational American Studies. She reveals the broad possibilities that emerge by refusing national borders in the Americas and by seeing and thinking beyond the frame of state-centered politics. Concrete social justice and transformation begin at the level of artistic, affective, and submerged political imaginaries—in Latin America and the United States, across South-South solidarities, and beyond.