ITEM OVERVIEW
Mainstream media has made a concerted effort to polarize African Americans and Latinos, emphasizing differences in culture, religion, and values. In Homegrown, two revolutionary thinkers invite us to reexamine and challenge this popular view of opposition, and consider which differences are manufactured and which are real. 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 between these two feminist cultural workers as they share the ways their work, families, and cultural experiences have shaped their political activism, teaching, and artistic expression. The timely afterword offers the authors' thoughts on the recent emergence of the immigration rights movement in the US.
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