Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Political Undercurrents in the Americas (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present)

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Beyond the Pink Tide considers a wave of artistic and curatorial efforts and social movements that refuse national borders to think hemispherically. In modeling a transnational American Studies, the book considers up to date art and cultural production that engage politics Within the Americas.  Within the late 1990s to the early 2000s, Latin The united states experienced a shift toward left leaning and progressive politics that challenged U.S. neoliberalism and hegemony. The media dubbed this turn the “pink tide,” and by 2009, leftist governments were in power in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, and Venezuela. But by 2010, the tide started to turn as several governments failed to enforce their progressive agendas, leaving the structures of capitalism intact. Beyond the Pink Tide explores new ways of understanding social and political transformation, particularly during the on a daily basis practices of queer communities, anti-capitalist movements, decolonization, feminisms, and the arts. Macarena Gómez-Barris shows readers the possibilities beyond the limited frame of state-centered politics to reach concrete social transformation beginning on the level of artistic and social imagination—in Latin The united states, the US, and the world.
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