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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 years of the AIDS crisis as experienced by a political insider. Interweaving personal reminiscence with cogent analysis, Schulman details her experience as a witness to the loss of a generation’s imagination and the consequences of that loss.
- Sales Rank: #66152 in Books
- Published on: 2013-09-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x .50" w x 5.50" l, .50 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 192 pages
Review
"Teeming with ideas, necessary commentary, refreshing connections and examination of the status quo."--"Lambda Literary"
"Schulman's personal recollections... are sharp and vivid."--"Gay & Lesbian Review/Worldwide"
"This bracing, powerful, and well-reasoned work reaffirms the author's stature as a distinctive American woman of letters. . . . Highly recommended."--Richard Drezen"Library Journal" (03/02/2012)
"The book that's inspired me more than any other this year is Sarah Schulman's Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination, a razor-sharp memoir of New York in the heyday of the AIDS crisis."--Jason King"Slate" (12/26/2012)
"A brilliant critique of contemporary culture. . . . This is the most important book of the year."--Jeff Miller"Cult MTL" (12/27/2012)
"This is a very good, very sad book about the aftershock of the AIDS crisis in New York. Schulman is a truly gifted thinker."--Alex Frank"Fader Magazine" (05/18/2012)
"The author, a true woman of letters, makes a persuasive case."--Roberto Friedman"Bay Area Reporter" (03/15/2012)
"This is why the book is so successful and demands our attention: through a focus on the pulse of the queer community (of the 80s), it touches upon the individual condition (of today)."--Marcie Bianco"Velvetpark" (03/20/2012)
"A polemic, a passionate, provocative . . . account of disappearance, forgetfulness and untimely death."--Olivia Laing"New Statesman" (03/07/2013)
"No book has rocked my world in recent times more than Sarah Schulman's 'The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination' . . . [it ranks] among the best alternative histories published in the last 50 years."--Don Shewey"Culturevulture.net" (05/21/2012)
"A galvanizing account of the transformation, both external and mental, in New York City life."--Emily Douglas"Los Angeles Review Of Books" (06/08/2012)
"The essence of what Schulman calls gentrification is to pretend that privilege and difference do not exist and that any attempt to remember that they do is mere 'political correctness' rather than facing up to the reality to who does what to whom. To forget these things, is to deceive ourselves--and Schulman's harsh, bitter prose is a useful way of waking ourselves up."--Roz Kaveney"Times Literary Supplement (TLS)" (04/13/2012)
"It's a beautifully written screed (not a bad word in my books). . . . Schulman shines when she taps her deep knowledge of the AIDS movement. . . . She can be brilliant."--Susan G. Cole"Now" (03/08/2012)
This bracing, powerful, and well-reasoned work reaffirms the author s stature as a distinctive American woman of letters. . . . Highly recommended. --Richard Drezen"Library Journal" (03/02/2012)"
The book that s inspired me more than any other this year is Sarah Schulman s Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination, a razor-sharp memoir of New York in the heyday of the AIDS crisis. --Jason King"Slate" (12/26/2012)"
A brilliant critique of contemporary culture. . . . This is the most important book of the year. --Jeff Miller"Cult MTL" (12/27/2012)"
This is a very good, very sad book about the aftershock of the AIDS crisis in New York. Schulman is a truly gifted thinker. --Alex Frank"Fader Magazine" (05/18/2012)"
The author, a true woman of letters, makes a persuasive case. --Roberto Friedman"Bay Area Reporter" (03/15/2012)"
This is why the book is so successful and demands our attention: through a focus on the pulse of the queer community (of the 80s), it touches upon the individual condition (of today). --Marcie Bianco"Velvetpark" (03/20/2012)"
A polemic, a passionate, provocative . . . account of disappearance, forgetfulness and untimely death. --Olivia Laing"New Statesman" (03/07/2013)"
No book has rocked my world in recent times more than Sarah Schulman s The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination . . . [it ranks] among the best alternative histories published in the last 50 years. --Don Shewey"Culturevulture.net" (05/21/2012)"
A galvanizing account of the transformation, both external and mental, in New York City life. --Emily Douglas"Los Angeles Review Of Books" (06/08/2012)"
The essence of what Schulman calls gentrification is to pretend that privilege and difference do not exist and that any attempt to remember that they do is mere political correctness rather than facing up to the reality to who does what to whom. To forget these things, is to deceive ourselves and Schulman s harsh, bitter prose is a useful way of waking ourselves up. --Roz Kaveney"Times Literary Supplement (TLS)" (04/13/2012)"
It s a beautifully written screed (not a bad word in my books). . . . Schulman shines when she taps her deep knowledge of the AIDS movement. . . . She can be brilliant. --Susan G. Cole"Now" (03/08/2012)"
From the Inside Flap
"Sarah Schulman, as always, hits the nail on the head. I can't imagine a more insightful probe into gentrification and its inhumane consequences. Everyone needs to read this book."—Martin Duberman, author of Stonewall
“Sarah Schulman's The Gentrification of the Mind is a bulwark against the collective loss of memory. AIDS, gentrification, the struggle for gay rights, the class war that has driven entire communities of artists, immigrants, and outsiders from the neighborhoods they created—all these things have been erased by the official culture. Schulman's book will make you rage and weep, and then—just maybe—organize.”—Luc Sante, author of Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York
"Hard-headed, sensitive, and informed, this book will make the confused world of urban redevelopment and gentrification make notably more sense. Schulman has a mind as clear as a bell in evening. You'll be glad you read it. I was."—Samuel R. Delany, author of Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders
About the Author
Sarah Schulman, Distinguished Professor of English at CUNY, Staten Island, is the author of nine novels, five books of nonfiction, plays, and films.
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29 of 32 people found the following review helpful.
A MOVING AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING MEMOIR
By Butters
I loved reading this moving and thought-provoking memoir by a noted queer activist, novelist and playwright who came of age in the 1980s Lower East Side of Manhattan. Aids, the struggle for gay rights, the electricity of the downtown arts scene, an unfolding class war that would drive the tribes of artists, immigrants and activists from the neighborhood they created -- it is all here.
I lived on the Lower East Side from 1974 to 1984 and this books helps me understand the furious ideological offensive (what Schulman calls "the gentrification of the mind") waged by the same banks and corporations that also profited from the gentrification of such urban neighborhoods. Many community institutions we activists relied upon on the Lower East Side disappeared overnight due to skyrocketing rents or cutbacks of funding. Many institutions claiming to be cultural or political alternatives became slowly coopted by the powers that be.
Reading "The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination", we who lived through this period weep for what we have lost. But Schulman's call is not just to mourn our "lost imagination". It is also a call for us to learn from and build upon the all-too forgotten struggles of our radical ancestors. In this way we can more effectively organize against the banks and corporations, who are still seeking "the gentrification of the mind" today.
Chris Butters
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
No Bones About It -- An Important Book
By James Lough
Sarah Schulman's recent book, "The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination" is one of the most important books of the year. In it, she confronts the problem of gentrification that is endemic to urban neighborhoods in our liveliest cities. Gentrification effectively turns our creative hubs, teeming with diversity, into bland "suburbs in the cities," homogenizing people, tastes, and how we interpret our lives.
My new book, "This Ain't No Holiday Inn: Down and Out at the Chelsea Hotel 1980-1995″ addresses gentrification in its final chapters. But Schulman's book explores gentrification in detail, using the AIDS plague as its central example. The common attitude today is that, "Oh, we took care of AIDS; it's no longer a problem," is a perfect example of how not only our neighborhoods become gentrified, but our very minds become colonized by ignorant attitudes largely propagated by members of the white elite class. Even some gays, more concerned with fitting in than with fighting for their rights, share the attitude.
Here's how Schulman defines gentrification: "Physically it is an urban phenomena: the removal of communities of diverse classes, ethnicities, races, sexualities, languages, and points of view from the central neighborhoods of cities, and their replacement by more homogenized groups. With this comes the destruction of culture and relationship, and this destruction has profound consequences for the future lives of cities."
Did you know that Manhattan and San Francisco used to be affordable for young artists, rebels, bohemians, and freaks to move to and find a home with people like themselves? Now only the rich can afford to move there, so they can be with other rich folk like themselves. Tell me with a straight face that this does not dumb down our culture, our arts, and create a bland, conformist complacency that keeps the rich in power and the poor in poverty.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Amazing Read
By Keystone
This book is listed as biography, but it's so much more. Sarah Schulman writes about her place and time, then provides insight in to where that has led in terms of the changes to Manhattan in the last quarter century. How did New York City go from bankrupt to thriving? Artistic and bohemian to Trumpish and elite? AIDS.
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