by Katie Rios (Author)

In "This is America," Katie Rios considers current American artists who build encoded gestures of resistance into their works. These gestures recur across images, live performances, and videos, becoming recognizable acts of resistance leveled at injustices based on a number of categories, including race, gender, class, religion, and politics.

Author Biography

Katie Rios is associate professor of music history at the Townsend School of Music at Mercer University.