FUTURE PRESENT : Arts in a Changing America FUTURE PRESENT brings together a vast collection of writers artists activists and academics working at the forefront of todays most pressing struggles for cultural equity and racial justice in a demographically changing America. The volume builds upon five years of national organizing by Arts in a Changing America an artist led initiative that challenges structural racism by centering people of color who are leading innovation at the nexus of arts production community benefit and social change. FUTURE PRESENT includes a range of essays and criticism visual and performance art artist manifestos interviews poetry and reflections on community practice. Throughout contributors examine issues of placekeeping and belonging migration and diasporas the carceral state renegotiating relationships with land ancestral knowledge as radical futurity and shifting paradigms of inequity. Foregrounding the powerful resilience of communities of color FUTURE PRESENT advances the role of artists as first responders to injustices creative stewards in the cohesion and health of communities and innovative strategists for equity.Selected contributors. Dahlak Brathwaite adrienne maree brown Jeff Chang Tameca Cole Ofelia Esparza Antoine Hunter Nobuko Miyamoto Wendy Red Star Spel Jose Antonio Vargas Carrie Mae Weems Hinaleimoana Kwai Kong Wong Kalu