Roads to dystopia : sociological essays on the postmodern condition / Stanford M. Lyman.

Author/creator Lyman, Stanford M.
Format Book
Publication InfoFayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, ©2001.
Descriptionix, 428 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesStudies in American sociology ; v. 6
Studies in American sociology ; v. 6. ^A239195
Contents 1. Gunnar Myrdal's An American dilemma after a half century: critics and anticritics -- 2. The "Yellow Peril" mystique: origins and vicissitudes of a racist discourse -- 3. The "Chinese question" and America's labor historians: a wrong turn in a quest for a usable past -- 4. The lost tribes of Israel as a problem in history and sociology -- 5. Postmodernism and the construction of ethnocultural identity: the Jewish-Indian theory and the lost tribes of Israel -- 6. Social reality as theater: dramas, narratives, and the postmodern challenge -- 7. Cinematic ideologies and societal dystopias: filmmaking in the United States, Japan, Germany, and the Soviet Union, 1900-1996 -- 8. Community: a theoretical perspective on its dilemmas, contradictions, and possible future.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [281]-418) and index.
LCCN 2001001999
ISBN1557287112 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HM449 .L94 2001 ✔ Available Place Hold