TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lyman,Stanford M
TI  - Roads to dystopia: Sociological essays on the postmodern condition 
SN  - 1557287112 (cloth : alk. paper)
U1  - 301 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - [Fayetteville]
PB  - University of Arkansas Press
KW  - Postmodernism
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Social problems
N1  - 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
ER  -