Roads to dystopia : Sociological essays on the postmodern condition - Lyman, Stanford M. ([Fayetteville] : University of Arkansas Press, 2001)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-418) and index.
Keywords: Postmodernism -- Social aspects; Sociology; Social problems