This collection attempts to answer the question of how do people who are defined as outsiders create agency? How do they become agents of change, of social, political, spiritual, and cultural power outside of those spaces that we traditionally understand as belonging to the powerful? The subjects in this collection vary: authors discuss contemporary hip-hop music, early twentieth-century literature, prison publications, post-Civil War treatment of free African Americans, queer culture, and more. They are loosely categorized as covering issues of race, class, gender, and contemporary issues of...
This collection attempts to answer the question of how do people who are defined as outsiders create agency? How do they become agents of change, of s...
