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Michael Dawson, The Consumer Trap: Big Business Marketing in American Life. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2003.

Walter A. Davis,  Deracination: Historicity, Hiroshima, and the Tragic Imperative.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2001.

Julian Markels, The Marxian Imagination: Representing Class in Literature. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2003.

Irwin Silber, Press Box Red: The Story of Lester Rodney, the Communist Sportswriter Who Helped Break the Color Line in American Sports. Foreword by Jules Tygiel. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003.

Edward Said, Freud and the Non-Europeans, with Introduction by Christopher Bollas and response by Jacqueline Rose.  London & New York: Verso, 2003.

This article compares the standard English edition of the collected works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the Marx-Engels Collected Works (MECW), with the international collected works project, the Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe (MEGA).  The MECW is nearly complete.  Begun in 1975, its 50th and final volume will appear in 2004.  By contrast, the MEGA is an ongoing project, only half complete.

The year 2004 offered up a number of notable socially critical documentary films.  A few of these, especially Fahrenheit 9/11, reached an unprecedented American audience, impacting even the “mainstream” corporate media discourse in a major way.  Other left-documentaries, including a number from the Media Education Foundation, as well as the excellent Canadian documentary, The Corporation, have received markedly less attention.  While the success of Michael Moore’s work is a clear sign of our increasingly politicized and polarized times, each of these docud

Introduction

From the time Filipinos arrived in the United States as “colonial wards” or subaltern subjects in the first decade of the twentieth century, the practice of speaking their vernacular tongues (whether Ilocano, Cebuano, Tagalog, or any of the other dozen regional languages) has been haunted by an interdiction. This accompanied the defeat of the revolutionary government of the first Philippine Republic at the end of the Filipino-American War (1899-1903) and the institutionalization of English as the official medium of communication in government, business, education, and so on.

Manifest Destiny