Marginalised in the Middle.

WOLFE, Alan

ISBN 10: 0226905160 / ISBN 13: 9780226905167

Published by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago/London, 1996

About this Item

A selection of essays on politics, pornography, race, current affairs etc. from one of America`s leading social critics. xii, 291pp. In this text Alan Wolfe moves from the "golden age" of social criticism of the 1940s and 1950s to the social sciences of today, all in an effort to understand how and why social criticism should be done at all. Addressing volatile social issues such as gender, pornography, race, welfare, immigration, and schooling, the author examines the ills of American society in the 1990s.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Marginalised in the Middle.
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press, Chicago/London
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226905160
• ISBN 13: 9780226905167
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Clean Copy

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Synopsis

In this text Alan Wolfe moves from the "golden age" of social criticism of the 1940s and 1950s to the social sciences of today, all in an effort to understand how and why social criticism should be done at all. Addressing volatile social issues such as gender, pornography, race, welfare, immigration, and schooling, the author examines the ills of American society in the 1990s.

About the Author

Alan Wolfe is professor emeritus of political science at Boston College as well as a contributing editor to the Wilson Quarterly. He is the author of One Nation, After All: What Middle-Class Americans Really Think About God, Country, Family, Racism, Welfare, Immigration, Homosexuality, Work, the Right, the Left, and Each Other, a 1999 New York Times Notable Book of the Year.