Problems of Resistance (continued)
- John Fiske, “Commodity Culture,” from Understanding Popular Culture, Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989, pp.23-47
- Thomas Streeter, "Polysemy, Plurality, and Media Studies," Journal of Communication Inquiry, Vol. 13, No. 2, Summer 1989, pp. 88-106.
- Meghan Morris, “Banality in Cultural Studies,” from Mellencamp (ed.), logics of Television: essays in cultural criticism, 1990, pp. 14-43
- Stuart Hall, "Notes on Deconstructing 'the Popular'," from John Storey (ed.) Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader, 1998, pp. 442-453. (Originally in People's History and Socialist Theory, ed. Raphael Samuel (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981) 227-39.)
Race, Capitalism, and American Culture
- Herman Gray, “Jazz Tradition, Instutional Formation, and Cultural Practice: The Canon and the Street as Frameworks for Oppositional Black Cultural Politics,” in Elizabeth Long (ed.), From Sociology to Cultural Studies: New Perspectives, Blackwell 1997, pp. 351-378.
- Dick Hebdige, “Back to Africa,” Chapter Three of Subculture: The Meaning of Style, London: Methuen, 1979, pp. 30-40.
• Maharaj, G. (Spring 1997) ‘Talking Trash: Late Capitalism, Black (Re)Productivity, and Professional Basketball’, Social Text , vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 97 - 110. - Roopali Mukherjee, “THE GHETTO FABULOUS AESTHETIC IN CONTEMPORARY BLACK CULTURE: Class and consumption in the Barbershop films,” Cultural Studies, Volume 20, Issue 6 November 2006 , pages 599 - 629.