Class in culture
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Class in culture
(Series in critical narrative / edited by Donaldo Macedo)
Paradigm Publishers, c2008
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-215) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"A gem of a book. Its topics are timely and provocative for cultural studies, sociology, English, literary theory, and education classes. The authors are brilliant thinkers and clear, penetrating writers." -Peter McLaren, UCLA, author of Capitalists and Conquerors: A Critical Pedagogy Against Empire Class in Culture demonstrates the power of moving beyond cultural politics to a deeper class critique of contemporary life. Making a persuasive case for class as the material logic of culture, the book is written in a double register of short critiques of life practices-from food and education to race, stem-cell research, and abortion-as well as sustained critiques of such theoretical discourses as ideology, consumption, globalization, and 9/11. Surpassing the orthodoxies of cultural studies, Class in Culture makes surprising connections among seemingly unrelated cultural events and practices and offers a groundbreaking and complex understanding of the contemporary world.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 All That Is Cultural Is Real-All That Is Real Is Cultural
- Chapter 1 Getting Class Out of Culture
- Chapter 2 Class Binaries and the Rise of Private Property
- Part 2 Tracing Class
- Chapter 3 Class Is
- Chapter 4 Abu Ghraib and Class Erotics
- Chapter 5 Class and 9/11
- Chapter 6 Eating Class
- Chapter 7 The Class Politics of "Values" and Stem-Cell Funding
- Chapter 8 Abortion Is a Class Matter
- Chapter 9 E-Education as a Class Technology
- Chapter 10 Gender after Class
- Chapter 11 The Class Logic of A Beautiful Mind
- Part 3 Class Ecstasies of the Culture of Capital
- Chapter 12 A "Potlatch of Signs"-Burning, Consuming, Wasting
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