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White Guys
Studies in Postmodern Domination and Difference
Av Fred Pfeil
Häftad, 1995
472 kr
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What do men-white straight men in particular-want? In a series of witty and provocative investigations of American popular culture, Fred Pfeil exposes the contradictions in the construction of white heterosexual masculinity over the last fifteen years. White Guys probes such topics as the …
Strange Weather
Culture, Science and Technology in the Age of Limits
Av Andrew Ross
Häftad, 1991
316 kr
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Who speaks for science in a technologically dominated society? In his latest work of cultural criticism Andrew Ross contends that this question yields no simple or easy answer. In our present technoculture a wide variety of people, both inside and outside the scientific community, have become …
Imagining Home
Class, Culture and Nationalism in the African Diaspora
Av Robin DG Kelley, Sidney J Lemelle
Häftad, 1994
471 kr
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This collection of original essays brilliantly interrogates the often ambivalent place of Africa in the imaginations, cultures and politics of its "New World" descendants. Combining literary analysis, history, biography, cultural studies, critical theory and politics, Imagining Home offers a fresh …
Race, Politics, and Economic Development
Community Perspectives
Häftad, 1992
325 kr
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In April 1992, the world witnessed a renewal in South Central Los Angeles of the urban violence that had exploded there over a quarter of a century earlier. As in 1965, the spark that ignited the firestorm was Black rage over police brutality. But in both eras the tinder was prepared by decades of …
Towards the Abolition of Whiteness
Essays on Race, Politics, and Working Class History
Häftad, 1994
335 kr
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Towards the Abolition of Whiteness collects David Roediger's recent essays, many published here for the first time, and counts the costs of whiteness in the past and present of the US. It finds those costs insupportable. At a time when prevailing liberal wisdom argues for the downplaying of race in …
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Literary Theory and American Cultural Politics
Häftad, 1994
374 kr
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In the years of the Reagan-Bush era, the controversy over 'political correctness' erupted on American campuses, spreading to the mainstream media as right-wing pundits like Dinesh D'Souza and Roger Kimball prosecuted their publicity campaign against progressive academics. Michael Bérubé's brilliant …
Where the Boys Are
Cuba, Cold War and the Making of a New Left
Av Van Gosse
Häftad, 1993
385 kr
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The ignominious failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 marked the culmination of a curious episode at the height of the Cold War. At the end of the fifties, restless and rebellious youth, avant-garde North American intellectuals, old leftists, and even older liberals found inspiration in the …
Building the Workingman's Paradise
The Design of American Company Towns
Häftad, 1996
373 kr
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This innovative and absorbing book surveys a little known chapter in the story of American urbanism-the history of communities built and owned by single companies seeking to bring their workers' homes and place of employment together on a single site. By 1930 more than two million people lived in …
African and Caribbean Politics
From Kwame Nkrumah to Maurice Bishop
Häftad, 1987
343 kr
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What explains the proliferation of authoritarian regimes-some calling themselves "socialist"-in contemporary African and Caribbean politics?One of America's leading black scholars assesses the historical and social forces that have undermined democracy and social reform in the societies of Africa …
Social Origins of Private Life
A History of American Families, 1600-1900
Häftad, 1988
373 kr
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Current debates about the future of the family are often based on serious misconceptions about its past. Arguing that there is no biologically mandated or universally functional family form, Stephanie Coontz traces the complexity and variety of family arrangements in American history, from Native …
Postmodernism and Its Discontents
Theories, Practices
Av E Ann Kaplan
Häftad, 1988
472 kr
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On the current battlefield of cultural criticism and production, no term has been more vigorously contested than 'postmodernism'. Defying clear definition, yet persisting as an indispensable category, it has become one of the central topics in the theory and practice of contemporary …
Injury to All
The Decline of American Unionism
Av Kim Moody
Häftad, 1988
421 kr
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Over the past decade American labor has faced a tidal wave of wage cuts, plant closures and broken strikes. In this first comprehensive history of the labor movement from Truman to Reagan, Kim Moody shows how the AFL-CIO's conservative ideology of "business unionism" effectively disarmed unions in …
Corruptions of Empire
Life Studies and the Reagan Era
Häftad, 1988
525 kr
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"The implied narrative of this collection is the journalist's background, the imperial myths that helped to shape him, the impulse to exile and his encounter with the Reagan era. The background, the myths and the impulse to exile form the first three sections of this book, whose overall …
Our Own Time
A History of American Labor and the Working Day
Av David R Roediger, Philip S Foner
Häftad, 1989
457 kr
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Our Own Time retells the story of American labor by focusing on the politics of time and the movements for a shorter working day. It argues that the length of the working day has been the central issue for the American labor movement during its most vigorous periods of activity, uniting workers …
Youth, Identity, Power
The Chicano Movement
Av Carlos Muñoz
Häftad, 2007
385 kr
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Youth, Identity, Power is the classic study of the origins of the 1960s Chicano civil rights movement. Written by a leader of the Chicano student movement who also played a key role in the creation of the wider Chicano Movement, this is the first full-length work to appear on the subject. It fills …
Writing from the Left
New Essays on Radical Culture and Politics
Av Alan M Wald
Häftad, 1994
417 kr
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In this wide-ranging new collection the author of the acclaimed The New York Intellectuals surveys the current crisis of the writers and cultural workers radicalized by the 1960s. He argues that the left can draw strength by reconceptualizing its cultural legacy as a rich, diverse stream of …
Circus Americanus
Av Ralph Rugoff
Häftad, 1995
385 kr
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Circus Americanus is a riotous excursion through America's changing visual landscape. Exploring its remote corners and bizarre byways, Ralph Rugoff takes us on a tour of theme park slums and mystical police cars, futurist war and the "aesthetics of safe chaos." With an idiosyncratic eye for detail, …
Anything But Mexican
Chicanos in Contemporary Los Angeles
Häftad, 1996
325 kr
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By the year 2000, Mexicans and other Latinos will comprise fifty percent of the population of Los Angeles. In this new book, the author of the widely praised Occupied America describes the harsh realities facing Chicanos in LA today.
Late Imperial Culture
Av Roman de la Campa, E. Ann Kaplan m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
335 kr
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Spanning time and space from late Victorian Britain and Ireland to postwar America and Latin America, Late Imperial Culture maps crucial regions in the terrain of imperial cultural practices including theater, film, photography, fiction, autobiography, and body art. The forms reviewed in this …
Roll Over Che Guevara
Travels of a Radical Reporter
Av Marc Cooper
Häftad, 1996
325 kr
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At the age of 20, after being expelled from his California university for anti-war activism, Marc Cooper moved to Santiago and worked as translator for Chilean President Salvador Allende. The heat of Allende's socialist revolution forged Cooper's political and reporting skills, indelibly imprinting …
Twice the Work of Free Labor
The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South
Häftad, 1996
335 kr
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For the first time in a generation chain gangs have reappeared on the roads of the American South. Associated in the past with racial terrorism, this cruel and unusual punishment should invoke strong memories. But, in the rush to embrace ever-harsher sanctions, the American public has ignored the …
Workers in a Lean World
Unions in the International Economy
Av Kim Moody
Häftad, 1997
374 kr
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In this comprehensive study of current labour relations worldwide, Kim Moody surveys both sides of the picket lines. He provides a measured assessment of multinational managements' strategies to downsize, introduce flexible production and compel workers to accept less pay for more work. He …
Labor and the Course of American Democracy
US History in Latin American Perspective
Häftad, 1996
329 kr
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The American hemisphere is now more tightly interconnected than ever before, with the trend toward greater economic, social and cultural integration apparently certain to continue. In this landmark text, Charles Bergquist offers a fresh interpretation of the historical background to this …
Imagineering Atlanta
The Politics of Place in the City of Dreams
Häftad, 1996
325 kr
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In the age of decentralization, instant communications, and the subordination of locality to the demands of a globalizing market, contemporary cities have taken on place-less or a-geographic characters. They have become phantasmagorical landscapes. Atlanta, argues Charles Rutheiser, is in many ways …
Way the Wind Blew
A History of the Weather Underground
Av Ron Jacobs
Häftad, 1997
284 kr
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Bombing its way into the headlines of the early 1970s, the Weather Underground was one of the most dramatic symbols of the anger felt by young Americans opposed to the US presence in Vietnam. Mauled in street battles with the Chicago police during the Days of Rage demonstrations, Weather concluded …
Pickup Artists
Street Basketball in America
Av Chad Millman, Lars Anderson
Häftad, 1999
385 kr
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The history of blacktop basketball in fast-paced words and pictures. A New York street hustler. A lonely man in a Maryland prison. A confused Native American on a reservation in Idaho. What do they all have in common? They are among the best pickup basketball players in the country. In Pickup …
Mechanic Accents
Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in America
Häftad, 1998
416 kr
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Mechanic Accents is a widely acclaimed study of American popular fiction and working-class culture. Combining Marxist literary theory with American labor history, Michael Denning explores what happened when, in the nineteenth century, working people began to read cheap novels and the "fiction …
Other Side
Fault Lines, Guerrilla Saints, and the True Heart of Rock ’n’ Roll
Inbunden, 1992
246 kr
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Stories from the front line of the war in El Salvador are juxtaposed with tales of a Hollywood-mythological childhood, and the history of Los Angeles, the city-stage where today many of the world's political, cultural and aesthetic battles take place-both symbolically and literally. The parade of …
No Crystal Stair
African-Americans in the City of Angels
Inbunden, 1992
220 kr
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The Los Angeles riots brought the frustrations of America's poor to public attention around the world. The media's treatment of the "race riots" shows only one side of African American experience. Ignoring their strength and everyday courage, the media offers only crack-houses, tenements and …
Unfinished Business
Twenty Years of Socialist Review
Häftad, 1991
218 kr
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Founded in 1970, the journal Socialist Review has played a uniquely important role in the recent history and intellectual development of the American left. When other left groups and organizations retreated into a depressed sectarianism, Socialist Review was elaborating a vision of a broad-based …
