2nd Edition
Power and Inequality Critical Readings for a New Era
Successfully bringing together accessible readings that cover the broad range of issues of importance to those studying politics and society, this new edition of Power and Inequality provides a unique mix of theoretical and empirical pieces, such as state and electoral politics, that address both classic issues in political sociology and more recent developments, such as globalization. With strong integration of race and gender throughout, this collection offers a coherent analysis of power that reflects the contributions of a variety of critical perspectives, including Marxism, feminism, critical race theory, postmodernism, and power structure theory.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Joel Kovel - The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?
Yale Magrass - That's What They Call Democracy: Capitalism, Democracy & the State
Section I. Critical Theories of Power
Karl Marx - The Fetishism of Commodities
Herbert Marcuse - The New Forms of Control
Antonio Gramsci - Hegemony
Michel Foucault - The Body of the Condemned
Frantz Fanon - Race and Culture
Judith Butler -Women as the Subjects of Feminism
Section II. The State: Theory
Hal Draper - The State as Superstructure
G. William Domhoff - Definingthe Class Dominance View
Mimi Abramovitz -A Feminist Theory of the State
Michael Omi and Howard Winant - Racial Politics and the Racial State
Robert JS Ross - Domhoff, Mills, and Slow Power
Section III. The State: Practice
James W. Russell - The Politics of Income and Wealth Inequality
John Arena - A Right to the City?: Race, Class, and Neoliberalism in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Lorraine Minnite and Frances Fox Piven - Voter Suppression: The Attack on Rights
David Harvey - The Construction of Consent
Christopher McMichael---Pacification and the Police: A Critique of the Police Militarization
Thesis
Section IV. Media and Ideology
Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent
Edward S. Herman - Still Manufacturing Consent
Jerry Lembcke - Yellow Ribbons and Spat-Upon Veterans: Making Soldiers the Means
and Ends of War
Juan Gonzalez and Joseph Torres - News for All the People
Earl Wysong and Robert Perrucci - The Future of Inequality: Polarization, Gridlock, and
Global Warming
Section V. The Nation-State and the Global Economy
Leo Panitch and Sam Gimlin - The Making of Global Capitalism
Radhika Desai - The Multipolar Moment
David Harvey - The New Imperialism
Immanuel Wallerstein - The Twin Towers as Metaphor
Section VI. War, Genocide, and Repression
Charles Tilly - War Making and State Making as Organized Crime 243
Levon A. Chorbajian---Getting Away_withMurder (Almost): A Genocide Primer
Michelle Alexander---The New Jim Crow
Section VII. Revolution and Social Movements
Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward - The Structuring of Protest
Mark Neocleous - Fascism: Revolution Against the Revolution
Chip Beret and Matthew N. Lyons-Right - Wing Populism in America
Noam Chomsky and Charles Derber - Interview
Biography
Levon Chorbajian is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He is a two-time Fulbright Senior lecturer in the Republic of Armenia and the Soviet Union. His research interests center around political sociology and comparative genocide studies, with an emphasis on the Armenian Genocide. Key concepts for Chorbajian are class, power, and inequality. He has written, translated, and edited seven books including, The Caucasian Knot, Armenia in Crisis, The Making of Nagorno-Karabakh, Studies in Comparative Genocide and Power: A Critical Reader.
