Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism

Mainstream Media Has Made A Concerted Effort To Polarize African Americans And Latinos, Emphasizing Differences In Culture, Religion, And Values. In Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism, Two Revolutionary Thinkers Invite Us To Reexamine And Challenge This Politically Popular Binary. As Renowned Thinker And Writer Bell Hooks And Macarthur Award-winning Artist Amalia Mesa-bains Confront The Challenges Of Building Cross-cultural And Cross-issue Coalitions, They Also Speak To The Viability Of An Oppositional Politic Shared By African Americans And Latinos. Listen In On The Conversation As They Share The Ways Their Work, Families, And Cultural Experiences Have Shaped Their Political Activism, Teaching, And Artistic Expression. Book Jacket.--book Jacket. Family -- Feminist Iconography -- Resistance Pedagogies -- Public Culture -- Multiculturalism -- Home -- Memory -- Altars -- Day Of The Dead. Bell Hooks And Amalia Mesa-bains.