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This account of the Latinisation of the American urban landscape explores questions such as, is the capital of Latin America a small island at the mouth of the Hudson River? and, will Latinos reinvigorate the US Labour movement?

In this collection of essays, the author combines a series of assessments of "classic" and "lost" texts in the US Marxist literary tradition, and analyzes developments in Marxist scholarship by Robin Kelley, Michael Lowy, James Murphy, Paula Rabinowitz and Alexander Saxton.

Discusses US-Latin relations in the 1950s. Drawing equally on cultural and political materials, Van Gosse investigates the alliance of North American intellectuals, old leftists and rebellious youth which came together through the inspiration of Fidel Castro's revolutionary guerillas.

An indictment of the decision to close fire companies in New York City in the 1970s, and a frightening study of the way misguided and malevolent social policy can spark a chain reaction of enormous and unforeseen urban collapse.

This history of the Weatherman Underground covers the origins, development and ultimate demise of the organization. Drawing on an array of documents, interviews with participants, and a knowledge of the history of the New Left, Jacobs gives an objective assessment of US 1960s radicalism.

“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 architecture will, I hope, give some sense of the terms in which I have viewed my trade.”—Alexander Cockburn, from the introduction

This text provides an explanation of the political correctness argument: how it emerged and how right-wing pundits have used it to undermine contemporary criticism. In a series of essays, Berube examines such issues as the current state of cultural studies and the significance of postmodernism.

Classic study of Chicano Los Angeles

Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, this prize-winning author offers reflections on how the history of white racism continues to have impact on political and social life today. His previous book, "The Wages of Whiteness" won the Merle Curti Prize for Social History in 1991.

This study on economic development and ideological formation in the Americas shows how the much-vaunted achievement of US democracy has been secured by the political stunting of Latin America, and how US historians have systematically ignored the intertwining of Latin America and US history.

Travelling as a radical journalist in a reactionary world, Marc Cooper chronicles, with humour and detail, the events that make the headlines. He takes readers on a tour of the New World Order - Pinochet's Chile, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama, Iraq, Soweto, Moscow and the USA.

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 along lines of craft, gender and ethnicity. The authors hold that the workweek is likely again to take on increased significance as workers face the choice between a society based on free time and one based on alienated work and unemployment.

Takes readers on a guided tour of some of the world's leading museums and some of the most unusual. Making unexpected connections and juxtapositions, this book allows readers to perceive and enjoy the beautiful, the bizarre and the downright perverse in places we never thought of looking before.

This collection of essays exposes the contradictions and constituencies in the ongoing reconstruction of white heterosexual masculinity during the 1980s and 1990s. It considers white, mainstream masculinity through direct participation in its rituals and practices.

A study of American popular fiction and working-class culture, combining Marxist literary theory with American labour history. The text explores what happened when, in the 19th century, working people began to read cheap novels and the "fiction question" became a class question.

This text examines documentary in print, photography and film from the 1930s to the 1990s, using the lens of feminist film theory as well as scholarship on race, class and gender. Rabinowitz discusses the ways in which the media have shaped the truth over the decades.

This is an examination of Atlanta, the city of the 1996 Olympics, looking at its uneven development. Focusing on the historic core of the city, it shows how it provides a fertile ground for the investigation of culture and power within the city.

A comprehensive study of current labour relations worldwide, this book surveys both sides of the picket lines, and provides an assessment of multinational managements' strategies to downsize, introduce flexible production and compel workers to accept less pay for more work.

This collection of essays questions the often ambivalent place of Africa in the imaginations, cultures and politics of its American and British descendants. It combines literary analysis, history, biography, cultural studies, critical theory and politics.

This volume provides coverage of musical styles from around the world, from Havana to Tokyo. It explores the fusion of immigrant and mainstream cultures displayed in world music, including: rap, jazz, reggae, zouk, bhangra, juju, swamp pop, and Puerto Rican Bugalu and Chicano punk.

Discusses the politics and culture of architecture - its powerful institutions and personalities, its various schools, and its background of hidden deals. These essays range from the skyscrapers and development scandals of New York to the architectural culture of Los Angeles.

Both a study of penal labour in the Southern United States and a revisionist analysis of the political economy of the South after the Civil War, this book reveals that the economic modernization of the South was largely promoted through the use of forced black labour - penal slavery.

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 increasingly vocal in exercising their right to speak about, on behalf of, and often against, science and technology.Arguing that science can only ever be understood as a social artifact, Strange Weather is a manifesto which calls on cultural critics to abandon their technophobia and contribute to the debates which shape our future. Each chapter focuses on an idea, a practice or community that has established an influential presence in our culture: New Age, computer hacking, cyberpunk, futurology, and global warming.In a book brimming over with intelligence—both human and electronic—Ross examines the state of scientific countercultures in an age when the development of advanced information technologies coexists uneasily with ecological warnings about the perils of unchecked growth. Intended as a contribution to a ¿green¿ cultural criticism, Strange Weather is a provocative investigation of the ways in which science is shaping the popular imagination of today, and delimiting the possibilities of tomorrow.