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"science, technology and the ideologies of dominance". In Science (Open
University, Milton Keynes 1997) Steve Fuller shows what science may look like to a
Martian anthropologist.
A good overview of the cultural studies of technology is found in Techno-Science
and Cyber-Culture, edited by Stanley Aronowitz, Barbara Matinson and Michael
Menser (Routledge, London 1996). Ziauddin Sardar and Jerome Ravetz provide an
accessible introduction to the cultural politics of Cyberfutures (Pluto Press, London
1996). But there are no substitutes for Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs and
Women (Free Association Books, London 1991).
Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Figures in Black (Oxford University Press, Oxford 1987)
takes issue with the notion of black literature as social realism. Black Literature
and Literary Theory, edited by Gates (Routledge, London 1994) contains several
noteworthy attempts to delineate the boundaries of black criticism. Beyond
Eurocentrism and Multiculturalism, 2 volumes, (Common Courage Press, Monroe,
Maine 1993) brings together the best of Cornel West. The best essays of bell hooks
are collected in Yearnings: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics (South End Press,
Boston, Mass. 1990).
The Identity in Question, edited by John Rajchman (Routledge, London 1995)
leads an informed expedition through the thorny issues of selfhood. Racism,
Modernity and Identity, edited by AN Rattansi and Sally Westwood (Polity Press,
Oxford 1994) is an engaging anthology.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Epistemology of the Closet (Penguin, Harmondsworth
1990) is a landmark introduction to Queer theory. Queer Theory/Sociology, edited
by Steven Seidman (Blackwell, Oxford 1996) contains some illuminating papers on
the construction of homosexual identity.
Avtar Brah's Cartographies of Diaspora (Routledge, London 1996), Raymond
Chow's Writing Diaspora (Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1993) and Paul
Gilroy's The Black Atlantic (Verso, London 1993) provide excellent insights into
Asian, Chinese and Black diasporas in the West.
Glenn Jordan and Chris Weedon's Cultural Politics (Blackwell, Oxford 1995) gives
a comprehensive account of "class, gender, race and the postmodern world".
Feminine Sentences by Janet Wolff (Polity Press, Oxford 1990) contains some
penetrating words on women and culture.
Getting the Message: News, Truth and Power, edited by John Eldridge
(Routledge, London 1993) summarizes decades of research by the Glasgow
University Media Group. The Media Reader, edited by Manuel Alvarado and John
Thompson (BFI, London 1990) provides a sensual tour of the pleasures and
expectations of films and television.
Malcolm Waters makes Globalisation (Routledge, London 1995) relatively
palatable. John Tomlinson gives a very clear account of Cultural Imperialism
(Pinter, London 1991). And Ziauddin Sardar's Postmodernism and the Other
(Pluto, London 1997) tackles "the new imperialism of Western culture". Anwar
Ibrahim, The Asian Renaissance (Times Books, Kuala Lumpur 1996) provides a
perspective from a different culture.

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