The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination

by Sarah Schulman

Book Overview

In this gripping memoir of the AIDS years (1981-1996), Sarah Schulman recalls how much of the rebellious queer culture, cheap rents, and a vibrant downtown arts movement vanished almost overnight to be replaced by gay conservative spokespeople and mainstream consumerism. Schulman takes us back to her Lower East Side and brings it to life, filling these pages with vivid memories of her avant-garde queer friends and dramatically recreating the early...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520280067
• ISBN13: 9780520280069
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.2"