Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination Lionel Sosa and Jessica Mitford

and Jessica Mitford

Las mujeres ayudaban a sus familias tejiendo huipiles de seda

considering the silly things some people say

sought to recover this looted cultural property and return the millions of treasured objects to their rightful owners

prostitutes and pornographers

Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination Lionel Sosa and Jessica MitfordWinner, 2021 Ray and Pat Browne Edited Collection Award, given by the Popular Culture Association How popular culture is engaged by activists to effect emancipatory political change One cannot change the world unless one can imagine what a better world might look like. Civic imagination is the capacity to conceptualize alternatives to current cultural, social, political, or economic conditions; it also requires the ability to see oneself as a civic