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Calling All Cars shows how radio played a key role in an emerging form of policing during the turbulent years of the Depression. Until this time popular culture had characterized the gangster as hero, but radio crime dramas worked against this attitude and were ultimately successful in making heroes out of law enforcement officers.

How new ideas of space contributed to a broad mobilization of American power.

Investigating how the fraught political economy of migration impacts people around the world, Donald Martin Carter raises important issues about contemporary African diasporic movements. Developing the notion of the anthropology of invisibility, he explores the trope of navigation in social theory intent on understanding the lived experiences of transnational migrants.

Presents a conversation about culture wars and affirmative action. This book analyzes reversals and reinterpretations that mark the turn from the civil rights era of the sixties to the post-soul decade of the nineties. It exposes a discursive tug-of-war over antidiscrimination policies during the nineties.

Offers an account of how race and gender reveal the fissures of capitalist society. This work examines two key social formations - women of color feminism and racialized immigrant women's culture - in order to argue that race and gender are contradictions within the history of US capital that should be understood as marked by its crises.

Presents a social and cultural history of the contentious, diverse, and experimental culture of musical production and enjoyment that aims to understand how recording technologies fit into and influence musicians', as well as listeners', lives.

Events of the past decade have dramatically rewritten the American national narrative, bringing to light an alternate history of nation, marked since the countrys origins by competing geopolitical interests, by mobility and migration, and by contending ethnic and racial groups.

The text of the Bongiorno-Livingston translation of Trattato di sociologia generale has been preserved wherever possible.

How immigrants' stories can transform social power.

Confronts the gulf between social movement theory and activism. This book exposes the frayed relations between activism and social movement scholarship, and examines the causes and consequences of this disconnect. It asserts that partnerships among scholars and activists benefit both academic inquiry and social change efforts.

The onset of the Cold War in the 1940s and 1950s precipitated the exile of many U.S. writers, artists, and filmmakers to Mexico. Rebecca M. Schreiber illuminates the work of these cultural exiles in Mexico City and Cuernavaca and reveals how their artistic collaborations formed a vital and effective culture of resistance.

Why do modern people assume that there will be perpetual economic growth? Because, David W. Noble tells us in this provocative study of cultural criticism, such a utopian conviction is the necessary foundation for bourgeois culture. One can imagine the existence of modern middle classes only as long as the capitalist marketplace is expanding.

Gregg Lambert demonstrates that since the publication of Proust andSigns in 1964 Gilles Deleuze's search for a new means of philosophicalexpression became a central theme of all his oeuvre, including thosewritten with psychoanalyst Felix Guattari. Lambert, like Deleuze, callsthis "the image of thought."