Bush-League Spectacles: Empire, Politics, and Culture in Bushwhacked America - Softcover

Shor, Fran

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0971186375 ISBN 13: 9780971186378

Publisher: Factory School, 2005

Synopsis

Cultural Writing. Politics. Shor's incisive commentaries and essays survey the spectacles that have come to dominate the political and cultural landscape of Bushwhacked America. "Combining an academic's careful research and a political activist's quest for justice, Shor speaks plainly and speaks with passion in these essays that analyze the political and cultural crisis of the contemporary United States"--Robert Jensen, author of Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity. "Shor really helps us to understand how we got into the current mess and what might be done to create a much more humane future. He encourages us to leave illusions behind and get on with confronting grim realities of this era"--Norman Solomon, Author of War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death. Fran Shor, a Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, teaches historical and cultural studies at Wayne State University.

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Francis Shor, a Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Wayne State University in Detroit, teaches courses in the fields of historical and cultural studies. He has been a recent recipient of a Fulbright Distinguished Scholars Award to New Zealand and Visiting Faculty Fellowship to the University of Melbourne. His books include Utopianism and Radicalism in a Reforming America, 1888-1918 (Greenwood 1997) and a forthcoming comparative study of the Industrial Workers of the World. His present research is focused on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Other publications range from chapters on the IWW in New Zealand, gender and socialism, and anarchist communitarianism in twentieth century America to scholarly articles covering topics in 19th and 20th century cultural and social history that have appeared in journals such as Radical History Review, International Labor and Working Class History, Journal of American Culture, Journal of Men's Studies, Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture, Prospects, Labour History, Film & History, The Insurgent Sociologist, and Utopian Studies. During the last several years he has also published scores of political and cultural commentaries on progressive websites such as Common Dreams and CounterPunch. These commentaries have, in turn, been republished on numerous other websites around the world and translated into Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Farsi, Dutch and other languages. A veteran activist in peace, justice, and international solidarity campaigns, he is a long-time member of the Michigan Coalition for Human Rights.

About this edition

• Publisher: Factory School
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0971186375
• ISBN 13: 9780971186378
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 132