Nina Simone That's My Place

“They can try to kill me—I know they want to—but I’m not going to be quite, no way!” This defiant quote by Nina Simone, a singer, songwriter and civil rights activist, was a defining attribute of her, and many other activists alike, professional, artistic, and political influences. As the civil rights movements around the United States of America exploded, activists, such as Nina Simone, laid their life on the line to secure equal opportunities for members of minority groups. “Soul Intact” by Shana L. Redmond follows the adversity Nina Simone as well as other activists faced and provides insightful analysis of how she and many others used music and other forms of popular culture in expressing ideas of diversity, oppression, and also situates the black response to injustice. During the 1950s to the mid 1980s marginalized groups used popular culture as a civil rights tool to counter the normative idea at the time on race, gender and sexuality.
Roque Ramirez, Ramirez analyzes and conveys how the Gay Latino Alliance (Gala) used popular culture to negotiate the racial, gender, and sexual politics of the