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“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 2012-03-02)“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 2012-12-26)“Teeming with ideas, necessary commentary, refreshing connections and examination of the status quo.”
(Lambda Literary 2012-03-13)“A brilliant critique of contemporary culture. . . . This is the most important book of the year.”
(Jeff Miller Cult MTL 2012-12-27)“Schulman’s personal recollections... are sharp and vivid.”
(Gay & Lesbian Review/Worldwide 2012-08-01)“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 2012-05-18)“The author, a true woman of letters, makes a persuasive case.”
(Roberto Friedman Bay Area Reporter 2012-03-15)“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 2012-03-20)“A polemic, a passionate, provocative . . . account of disappearance, forgetfulness and untimely death.”
(Olivia Laing New Statesman 2013-03-07)"The most rousing thing I've read this year."
(Jessa Crispin Bookslut 2013-07-14)"It's that time of year, when everyone is compiling their Best Of 2013 lists. . . . Do we even need to say again, that Sarah Schulman wins the year with Gentrification of the Mind?"
(Jessa Crispin Bookslut 2013-11-06)“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 2012-05-21)“A galvanizing account of the transformation, both external and mental, in New York City life.”
(Emily Douglas Los Angeles Review Of Books 2012-06-08)“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) 2012-04-13)“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 2012-03-08) 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
“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
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- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: University of California Press; 1 edition (February 6, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0520264770
- ISBN-13: 978-0520264779
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First off, if you've found yourself on this page, I recommend going ahead and buying this book. Chances are you're here because you possess, at the very least, some passing interest in the subject matter or the author, and if that's the case, you will probably enjoy this book and find it useful.
I would absolutely recommend this to anyone else familiar with Sarah Schulman's work, anyone interested in AIDS and the history of the gay rights movement, anyone who lives in New York (especially those in the areas of Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens that are currently experiencing gentrification or have already undergone it,) or any other gentrifying part of the world, and, well, basically anyone asking why we've found ourselves in the intellectual rut we're currently maneuvering our way out of.
Unlike any other author I've read, Sarah has beautifully articulated our current climate of cultural homogeneity and intellectual constipation with this book. Her insights into academia were, to me, just as compelling and surprising as her explication of the role that AIDS played in the gentrification of New York City.
I especially enjoyed her section on the MTV-ification of Kathy Acker, an artist who has always fascinated me, and Schulman seems one of the few living scholars who actually acknowledge what made Acker so brilliant and so interesting to begin with, and, just as importantly, Acker's Judaism and the role it played in shaping her writing.
The way she has tied AIDS to gentrification and gentrification to our current state of cultural and political stagnation is inspired; I just feel that this book is missing that certain something, that devastatingly lucid paragraph, that intellectual kick-in-the-chest that Schulman achieved with "Stagestruck.
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