American cultural studies: a reader

Introduction "Cultural Exceptionalism": Freedom, Imperialism, Power, America / John Hartley

Sect. I. New Journalism and Its Legacy

1. What If He is Right? / Tom Wolfe

2. What's Happening to America? / Susan Sontag

3. Black Is Good / Stokely Carmichael

4. Indians Today, the Real and the Unreal / Vine Deloria, Jr.

5. Through the Cracks / Marge Piercy

6. Revisited: The Puerto Rican Problem / Hunter S. Thompson

Sect. II. European Cultural Theory and its Legacy

7. Sexual Solipsism of Sigmund Freud / Betty Friedan

8. Gutenberg Galaxy / Marshall McLuhan

9. Notes on the American Clothing System / Marshall Sahlins

10. Travels in Hyperreality / Umberto Eco

11. Identity and Cultural Studies: Is That All There Is? / Lawrence Grossberg

Sect. III. American Social Science and Its Legacy

12. Return of the Humanities and Sociology / Elihu Katz

13. Mass Communication and Cultural Studies / James W. Carey

14. Mass Media Discourse: Message System Analysis as a Component of Cultural Indicators / George Gerbner

15. Politics of Narrative Form: The Emergence of News Conventions in Print and Television / Michael Schudson

16. Television as a Cultural Forum / Horace Newcomb and Paul M. Hirsch

Sect. IV. History and Literature and Their Legacy

17. Literature as a Weapon in the Colonization of the American Indian / Ward Churchill

18. Handling "Crisis": Great Books, Rap Music, and the End of Western Homogeneity (Reflections on the Humanities of America) / Houston A. Baker, Jr.

19. Writing History: Language, Class, and Gender / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg

20. Doxa of Difference / Rita Felski

21. What's in a Name? Presidential Address to the American Studies Association / Janice Radway

Sect. V. Identities

22. Tremble, Hetero Swine! / Cindy Patton

23. African-American Political Desire and the Seductions of Contemporary Cultural Politics / Herman Gray

24. Cities and Citizenship / James Holston and Arjun Appadurai

25. Plotting Women: Popular Narratives for Women in the United States and in Latin America / Jean Franco

26. Transvestite Continuum: Liberace - Valentino - Elvis / Marjorie Garber

Sect. VI. Practices

27. Great Un-American Numbers Game / Andrew Ross

28. Land of a Thousand Dances: Youth, Minorities, and the Rise of Rock and Roll / George Lipsitz

29. Work(ing) Out / Susan Willis

30. AIDS, Homophobia, and Biomedical Discourse: An Epidemic of Signification / Paula A. Treichler

31. Truth is a Murky Path / Toby Miller

Sect. VII. Media

32. Popularity and the Politics of Information / John Fiske

33. From Theatre to Space Ship: Metaphors of Suburban Domesticity in Postwar America / Lynn Spigel

34. Eurocentrism, Polycentrism, and Multicultural Pedagogy: Film and the Quincentennial / Robert Stam

35. "Out of the Closet and into the Universe": Queers and Star Trek / Henry Jenkins

36. CyberDemocracy: Internet and the Public Sphere / Mark Poster

37. Materials for an Exploratory Theory of the Network Society / Manuel Castells

Epilogue: The Future is Present: American Cultural Studies on the Net / Eva Vieth.