Let the record show : a political history of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 / Sarah Schulman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schulman, Sarah, 1958- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--United States--History--20th century.

AIDS (Disease).

AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects--United States--History.

AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects.

ACT UP New York (Organization)--History--20th century.

ACT UP New York (Organization).

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 702 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Other Title:

Political history of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993

Place of Publication:

New York : Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

Summary:

"Based on more than two hundred interviews with ACT UP members and rich with lessons for today's activists, Let the Record Show is a revelatory exploration--and long-overdue reassessment--of the coalition's inner workings, conflicts, achievements, and ultimate fracture. Schulman, one of the most revered queer writers and thinkers of her generation, explores the how and the why, examining, with her characteristic rigor and bite, how a group of desperate outcasts changed America forever, and in the process created a livable future for generations of people across the world."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: BOOK ONE POLITICAL FOUNDATIONS

pt. I Change and Power

Introduction: How Change Is Made

1. Mechanisms of Power: Puerto Ricans in ACT UP

2. The First Treatment Activists

pt. II The Dynamics of Effective Action

3. Choosing the Right Target: Seize Control of the FDA

4. Collective Leadership: Stop the Church

pt. III Paths of Leadership

5. Inspiration and Influence: Larry Kramer, Maxine Wolfe, Mark Harrington

6. Treatment and Data #2: Citizen Scientists

7. Changing the Definition: Women Don't Get AIDS, We Just Die from It

pt. IV Radical Resistance and Acceptance

8. Mother and Son: The Death of Ray Navarro, the Vision of Patricia Navarro

9. Harm Reduction as a Value, an Ideal, a Way of Life and Death: ACT UP's Campaign for Needle Exchange

BOOK TWO ART IN THE SERVICE OF CHANGE

pt. V Art Making as Creation and Expression of Community

10. The Artistic Life of Resistance

11. Strategic Images: Photography, Video, and Film

BOOK THREE CREATING THE WORLD YOU NEED TO SURVIVE

pt. VI Activism Coheres Values and Creates Counterculture

12. Getting and Creating Media

13. Community Research Initiative, Dr. Joseph Sonnabend, and the Battle over AZT

14. ACT UP and the Haitian Underground Railroad

15. Lawyers for the People

16. The Culture and Subculture of Civil Disobedience

pt. VII Money, Poverty, and the Material Reality of AIDS

17. Insurance Equals Access, and Without Access There Is No Treatment

18. How the ACT UP Housing Committee Became Housing Works, Housing for Homeless People with AIDS

19. YELL: The Evolution of Queer Youth Politics

20. Funding ACT UP's Campaigns

BOOK FOUR DESPERATION

pt. VIII Division

21. Storm the NIH Action at the National Institutes of Health, Washington, D.C., May 21, 1990

22. The Dinner: December 1, 1990

23. Day of Desperation: January 23, 1991

24. Are Women "Vectors of Infection," or People with AIDS? Clinical Trial 076, April 1991

25. AIDS Hysteria: The Case of Derek Link

26. The Split: January 1992

pt. IX Living and Dying the Mass Death Experience

27. Treatment and Data #3

28. Ashes Action: October 5, 1992

29. Political Funerals.

Notes:

Includes index.

Stonewall Book Award - Non-Fiction, Honor, 2022

ISBN:

1250849128

9781250849120

OCLC:

1263339404

Publisher Number:

99991832120