Acknowledgments
Contents
Part I: Introduction
Part II: Legacies of the American Dilemma
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
Part III: The “Jewish Question” and the Lost Tribes of Israel
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
Part IV: Cinematic Routes to Malaise
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
Part V: Beyond Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
8. Community: A Theoretical Perspective on Its Dilemmas, Contradictions, and Possible Future
Notes
Index