![]() ![]() The book's organization is not chronological rather, it unfolds as a series of snapshots that coalesce around major themes and tropes that Schulman identified from three sources: the 188 interviews that she and filmmaker Jim Hubbard conducted for the ACT UP Oral History Project her own participation in ACT UP from 1988 to 1992 and her decades of activist experiences and research. The direct challenge to history in both discipline and method is explicit and intentional. ![]() Let the Record Show is, Schulman says, a history - not the history - of ACT UP from the movement's origins in 1987 to its split in 1992. In this meticulously crafted history of ACT UP New York, Sarah Schulman invites readers "to imagine ourselves as potentially effective activists and supporters no matter who we are." Offering this history to activists today as a handbook of lessons learned from ACT UP's successes and failures, Schulman illustrates how social movements of the past inform those of the present and how we all have the power to move beyond bearing witness to acting up to help those in need. Let the Record Show is a stunning achievement. ![]()
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