politics

Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks on Chicago culture and politics, including the mayoral election of Harold Washington.

Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks, treating contemporary racial and political issues.

Published to coincide with a two-part exhibition presented in 2008 at the Van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands and at the University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art, Heartland offers an idiosyncratic look at innovative forms of cultural production taking place across the vast majority of the United States. This book is part exhibition catalog, part critical reader: contributors explore the region through topics ranging from art and music to urban farming and political history. Through an engaging mix of essays, personal meditations, and images, Heartland challenges understandings of place and community and explores the rule of contemporary art in shaping our changing world. --from book jacket

A collection of broadsheets stapled together, with anonymously written manifestos on various political topics, such as abortion rights and immigration, along with photocopied topical articles from major news sources.

A collection of "pieces" by former Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times columnist Bill Granger, who grew up on the south side of Chicago and experienced its colorful neighborhoods.

Voices of women whose lives have been deeply affected by the experience of cancer speak of pain and solace, isolation and community, fear and power. This anthology explores how cancer affects women individually and collectively.

Short political poems

Discusses the liberal renaissance emerging in Iran and the intellectual upheaval that accompanies it.

"The stories presented here tell tales of a new Chicago, a Chicago that, like the Scott Mutter montage that fronts this book, is made up of diverse images that suggest new ways of seeing. They provide alternative interpretations of life in the city. What you will find in this collection is a a multi-cultural neighborhood in print, a neighborhood which has yet to surface on Chicago streets, one which is perhaps still years away in a city that touts its culturally plural make-up while still enforcing rigid boundaries between segregated neighborhoods. Murder by industrial pollution (often masked by self-abuse), racism, homophobia, the disintegration of family life, the struggle for control of one's own body and mind, the troubles facing a growing elderly population, the subjugation of minority cultures to the rich, the white, the male, are all issues confronted by the writers of these stories. They speak through a range of voices, creating a new, urgent sense of Chicago Realism. These storytellers provide testimony to a new Chicago, a Chicago that while steeped in American tradition challenges the narrow boundaries of its stereotype. They speak to a changing America, an America that has awakened from decades of a false, prosperity-driven revelry with a reality hangover. They speak of an America that must now begin to turn its attention to the social and environmental problems it has too long ignored." - From the back cover

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