Does the concept of ethnicity divide the oppressed or unite minorities? Is the term community' a dangerous fiction? What are the relations between the liberal capitalist democratic state and racialized minority groups? The contributors to this book confront and discuss these questions, bringing together ideas on urban social theory, contemporary cultural change and analysis of racial surbordination in order to explore the relationship between racism, the city and the state.
The book concentrates on the urban context of the process of racialization, demonstrating that the city provides the...

In the last two decades, new political subjects have been created through the actions of the new social movements; often by asserting the unfixed and overdetermined' character of identity. Further, in attempting to avoid essentialism, people have frequently looked to their territorial roots to establish their constituency. A cultural politics of resistance, as exemplified by Black politics, feminism, and gay liberation, has developed struggles to turn sites of oppression and discrimintion into spaces of resistance.
This book collects together perspectives which challenge received notions...

After the Cosmopolitan? argues that both racial divisions and intercultural dialogue can only be understood in the context of the urbanism through which they are realized.

All the key debates in cultural theory and urban studies are covered in detail:

• the growth of cultural industries and the marketing of cities
• social exclusion and violence
• the nature of the ghetto
• the cross-disciplinary conceptualization of cultural hybridity
• the politics of third-way social policy.

In considering the ways in which...

In "After the Cosmopolitan "Michael Keith argues that both racial divisions and intercultural dialogue can only be understood in the context of the urban cities that gave them birth. The author addresses debates in cultural theory and urban studies about the growth of cultural industries and the marketing of cities, the debates around social exclusion and violence, the big debate in the US around the nature of the ghetto, the cross disciplinary conceptualization of cultural hybridity, and the politics of third way social policy.

Ed Shane here traces a change in the American pervasive mass media that once disseminated information quickly and stimulated mass cultural response, to a de-massified individual media that incubate a new electronic narcissicism, producing an inwardly-focused society.

Changes in society, the pluralistic nature of the citizens and the geographic breadth of America preclude a common definition of what is indecent, profane, or obscene. What may appear to be 'dirty discourse' to some may be considered to be laudable satire to others. In this fascinating book, renowned media scholars and authors, Robert Hilliard and Michael Keith, examine the history and nature of indecent program content in American radio.

• Examines the blue side of the airways with a first-ever analysis of the history and nature of off-color program content.
  
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This text analyzes China as a 'risk culture', embracing the opportunity & adventure of Beijing's Olympic architecture, Shenzhen investment bank traders, Shanghai property developers & art markets. It examines the risk-sharing of intergenerational family mortgages, wage-pooling microfinance & regimes of collective saving.

"Not A Wake" is a collection of poetry, short stories, a play, a movie script, crossword puzzles and other surprises, constructed according to a unique principle: counting the number of letters in successive words of the text (the first word has 3 letters, the next word has 1 letter, the next word has 4 letters, and so on) reveals the first 10,000 digits of the famous mathematical number pi (3.14159265358979...). Fans of the number pi, constrained writing (such as Georges Perec's "La Disparition"), wordplay, puzzles, or experimental prose and poetry will find much to savor in this, the first...