Mix Tape Memories

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This book ¿plays up¿ stories of mostly unknown figures and their journeys through a life affected by movement, and a search for home. It engages with individuals and groups whose passions have carried the subjects through ¿uncharted¿ or unhomely territories, here told in a series of ¿tracks¿ depicting their roles in community memories and histories. Side A engages with individual journeys, such as Lewis, the American black literature book seller, the civil rights activist, Izzy, an American-Swedish folklorist, Eugene, a black classical pianist, and Pi, the Jew transported to Sweden during WWII. Side B focuses on communal histories and alternative educational and artistic spaces, addressing life writing and memory in German comic books, alternative educational spaces in Israel-Palestine and Africa, and ¿small press passions¿ of zines/newsletter culture. Tellers and their interpreters are mediating identities where nationality, race, and class (and other markers of identity) have influenced selfhood and collective belonging - revealing how individuals and outsider cultures have the power to influence dominant cultures and inspire societal change.