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

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: (Studies in american sociology ; v. 6)Publication details: [Fayetteville] : University of Arkansas Press, 2001.Description: ix, 428 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1557287112 (cloth : alk. paper)
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-418) and index.

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.