Graham Cassano
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 140652 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Graham Cassano |
| PRENOMES | Graham |
| SOBRENOME | Cassano |
| ASSINATURA | CASSANO G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Oakland University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The Master's Race
This essay examines two parallel, historically contemporaneous, depictions of the Freudian master-slave dialectic. John Frankenheimer's first film, The Young Savages (1961), reconstructs Hank Bell's (Burt Lancaster) repressed transformation from Italian racial other into a white ethnic. In doing so, the film approaches the possibility that race itself may be a kind of social construction. To get at this notion, the film explores the meaning of ra…
Introduction to the Special Issue
Introduction
In this introduction to the Critical Sociology symposium, 'The Flint Water Crisis and the Failure of Neoliberal Governance,' the authors outline the social and cultural conditions for the racialized underdevelopment of Flint and Detroit in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. We begin with an examination of the racially coded rhetoric of Oakland County manager, L. Brooks Patterson, and the manner in which those racial codes reveal the deep roo…
Phenomenology
Phenomenology is the philosophical and sociological study of experience as a gestalt generated by the relation between self, other, and world. Although in the nineteenth century the term had been used by philosophers as diverse as G. W. F. Hegel and Charles Sanders Peirce, the contemporary study of phenomenology is largely associated with the discourse initiated by Edmund Husserl (1859–1938) in the early twentieth century.
Class Conflict
Class conflict describes the struggle between economic groups, with differing levels of power, over scarce social resources. With the rapid industrialization of Great Britain beginning in the late eighteenth century, then Europe and the United States in the nineteenth century, economic forces unsettled traditional forms of community, solidarity, and work. Proletarianization, or the transformation of male artisans, agricultural workers, and women …
Second Shift
Arlie Russell Hochschild finds that in two‐partner, heteronormative households where both partners work in the formal economy, the husband tends to have more leisure time, leaving most household labor and childcare to the woman of the couple. This constitutes the woman's Second Shift. Hochschild's argument has shaped recent scholarship in the social and political economy of the family, focusing attention on the gendered use of time and the gender…
The Scientific Object of A New Kind Of Public
This response to commentaries from Richard McIntyre, Karen Miller, and Kellie Hay clarifies the scientific object of A New Kind of Public: Community, Solidarity, and Political Economy in New Deal Cinema, 1935–1948 (Haymarket, 2015). For the study of cinematic cultural artifacts, the author proposes neither an audience-response theory of meaning nor an auteur conception of individual intention and cinematic mastery. Films do have intentions, but t…
Labour's 'strange blindness' and the end of Jubilee
This essay responds to David Roediger's Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All. After a brief examination of the central themes of the book, I turn to the author's emphasis upon political agency. I argue that this emphasis is necessary, given the political and scholarly aims of the book. At the same time, I suggest that the agency depicted in Seizing Freedom was simultaneously constrained by the cultural, political, and social fo…
Not a Thing to Prophesy and Plead For”
Class Struggle on the Home Front pursues a dialogue between feminism and nondeterminist Marxism. I will attempt to situate the book's postmodern contribution to this conversation by interrogating the history of these mutually constitutive discourses. Since the conversation between Marxism and feminism began with Marx and Engels, I first examine their early work together. I then compare Engels's later work with that of feminist critic of political…
A Collective Effort to Improve Sociology Students’ Writing Skills
Nationwide, academic sociologists at all types of higher education institutions face the challenge of working to improve students’ writing skills. In this article, we describe a collective effort by a group of faculty members in one undergraduate sociology program to implement several effective writing-improvement strategies. We advocate aiming to improve students’ writing by working together on a united front rather than working in isolation. Af…
Working Class Self-Fashioning in Swing Time (1936)
This article argues that the Depression era musical, Swing Time (1936), provides access to understanding some of the forms of socially constructed desire that shaped working class solidarity in the 1930s. In the first part of this article, I explore the roots of Swing Time's critique of vested forms of desire in Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class. I argue that Swing Time offers an extension of Veblen's theory by analyzing the powe…
Labor and Méconnaissance in the Culture Industry
In her case study of a union in the midst of a strike, Unions and Class Transformation: The Case of the Broadway Musicians (2009), Cathy Mulder argues that only renewed attention to the radical critique of exploitation can salvage a beleaguered movement. While she sees the possibility for a new basis of union activity in the struggles of Broadway musicians, her text makes an equally compelling case that a number of social and cultural processes c…
Return to Culture Wars and the Politics of Culture
The last century ended in a decade of relative prosperity, a generally strong economy, and the ability of the working classes (indeed most people) to mask the fact that real wages had remained more or less stagnant for almost 30 years through access to seemingly unlimited credit sustaining ever growing levels of consumption. Consumption is important in a capitalist economy because, to put it in perhaps simple terms, capitalists cannot realize pro…
Crisis, Politics and Critical Sociology
As the first decade of the 21st century comes to a close, the world has entered a sustained period of crisis. In order to understand the forces that created our current social world, we need the tools provided by a critical sociology. This volume draws upon the work of contemporary critical sociologists searching for the roots of our present social and economic problems. Both prominent figures and emerging voices in sociology come together to off…
Chapter One. What Is Critical Sociology?
This introductory chapter situates the texts within the hisory of sociological discourse. It is the authors' contention that critical sociology is an unfinished project. In order to survive, thought needs to struggle with the forms of scientific conformity that persistently attempt to overtake its gains. The chapter draws on the work of two sociologists from earlier generations to make this claim, Walter Benjamin and C. Wright Mills. The chapter …
Crisis, politics and critical sociology
"As the first decade of the 21st century comes to a close, the world has entered a sustained period of crisis. In order to understand the forces that created our current social world, we need the tools provided by a critical sociology. This volume draws upon the work of contemporary critical sociologists searching for the roots of our present social and economic problems. Both prominent figures and emerging voices in sociology come together to of…
Crisis, Politics and Critical Sociology
The Persistence of Republicanism
The authors argue that there have been moments in American history when a class analysis entered into popular discourse. What has been “exceptional” about American history is the manner in which that class analysis emerged. When Americans speak the language of “class” and “class warfare,” it is often clothed in the rhetoric of labor republicanism. That is, rather than offering a systemic analysis of capitalist processes, American labor republican…
Class Struggle on the Homefront
"Home Front examines the gendered exploitation of labor in the household from a postmodern Marxian perspective. The authors of this volume use the anti-foundationalist Marxian economic theories first formulated by Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff to explore power, domination, and exploitation in the modern household"--Provided by publisher
The Corporate Imaginary in John Ford's New Deal Cinema
This essay examines the critiques of capitalism offered by John Ford's New Deal Cinema. During the period in question (1935–48), Ford's films offered three distinct political stances that reflected forces and transformations in the American political unconscious: in the early and mid-1930s, he built his criticisms of economic distress on a restrained corporatism that advocated a moral capitalism; in the late 1930s and early 1940s, this corporatis…
Introduction
During the 1930s, a rudimentary culture of solidarity was emerging among U.S. workers. That culture was fueled by the economic downturn, but misery itself is never enough to provoke transformation. A new vision of community was emerging through the work of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, revolutionary activists and organizers, and the artists, writers, and theorists associated with the Popular Front. In order to confront the new realiti…
Race-Making and the Garrison State
This essay explores the implications of Paul Massing's findings that CIO union members were slightly more resistant to authoritarianism than AFL affiliated unionists. I begin by sketching the contours of the different forms of union consciousness produced by the AFL's craft unionism and the CIO's industrial unionism. Then, paying special attention to the 'ethnic' constituency of CIO unions, I argue that the CIO offered a particularly egalitarian …
Symbolic Exploitation and the Social Dialectic of Desire
Utilizing the work of Thorstein Veblen, I argue that the interrogation of 'symbolic exploitation' should be of pressing concern to sociologists who hope to end economic exploitation. Contesting economic exploitation must begin with the destruction of traditional sovereign action patterns of desire that ensnare agents. Such a work of destruction must simultaneously be a work of construction, the construction of counter-hegemonic cultures of solida…
Choosing our Ancestors
Hunkies," "Gasbags," & "Reds"
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Remarx
Thorstein Veblen, like W. E. B. DuBois, mobilized the concept of psychological wages to explain working-class identification with the capitalist social and economic system. But while DuBois wrote about the wages of whiteness, Veblen concentrated, instead, upon the symbolic “benefits” provided by American nationalism, arguing that nationalism serves to reunite a community ruptured by inequality. This essay first examines Veblen's theory of nationa…
Symbolic Exploitation and the Social Dialectic of Desire
Utilizing the work of Thorstein Veblen, I argue that the interrogation of 'symbolic exploitation' should be of pressing concern to sociologists who hope to end economic exploitation. Contesting economic exploitation must begin with the destruction of traditional sovereign action patterns of desire that ensnare agents. Such a work of destruction must simultaneously be a work of construction, the construction of counter-hegemonic cultures of solida…
Introduction
In this introduction to the Critical Sociology symposium, 'The Flint Water Crisis and the Failure of Neoliberal Governance,' the authors outline the social and cultural conditions for the racialized underdevelopment of Flint and Detroit in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. We begin with an examination of the racially coded rhetoric of Oakland County manager, L. Brooks Patterson, and the manner in which those racial codes reveal the deep roo…
A Collective Effort to Improve Sociology Students’ Writing Skills
Nationwide, academic sociologists at all types of higher education institutions face the challenge of working to improve students’ writing skills. In this article, we describe a collective effort by a group of faculty members in one undergraduate sociology program to implement several effective writing-improvement strategies. We advocate aiming to improve students’ writing by working together on a united front rather than working in isolation. Af…
Radical Critique and Progressive Traditionalism in John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath 1
This essay explores the radical critique of capitalism offered by John Ford's film, The Grapes of Wrath. Building on E.P. Thompson's notion of 'radical traditionalism', I argue that Ford offers an economically radical critique of capitalism based upon the symbolic resources of patriarchy and racial exclusion. In order to understand the social impact of Ford's cinema, I reconstruct the symbolic and semiotic resources of the laboring community duri…
The Persistence of Republicanism
The authors argue that there have been moments in American history when a class analysis entered into popular discourse. What has been “exceptional” about American history is the manner in which that class analysis emerged. When Americans speak the language of “class” and “class warfare,” it is often clothed in the rhetoric of labor republicanism. That is, rather than offering a systemic analysis of capitalist processes, American labor republican…
The Corporate Imaginary in John Ford's New Deal Cinema
This essay examines the critiques of capitalism offered by John Ford's New Deal Cinema. During the period in question (1935–48), Ford's films offered three distinct political stances that reflected forces and transformations in the American political unconscious: in the early and mid-1930s, he built his criticisms of economic distress on a restrained corporatism that advocated a moral capitalism; in the late 1930s and early 1940s, this corporatis…
Race-Making and the Garrison State
This essay explores the implications of Paul Massing's findings that CIO union members were slightly more resistant to authoritarianism than AFL affiliated unionists. I begin by sketching the contours of the different forms of union consciousness produced by the AFL's craft unionism and the CIO's industrial unionism. Then, paying special attention to the 'ethnic' constituency of CIO unions, I argue that the CIO offered a particularly egalitarian …
Reification, Resistance, and Ironic Empiricism in Georg Simmel's Philosophy of Money
This essay examines Georg Simmel's Philosophy of Money in relation to certain themes in the Marxian philosophical tradition. It first examines Simmel's thoroughgoing and antiessentialist epistemology of exchange. It then looks at a contrary movement taken by Simmel's thought, in which he seems to posit an absolute objectivity in an almost Kantian vein. Finally, it explains Simmel's position through a look at his theory of capitalist reification a…
Working Class Self-Fashioning in Swing Time (1936)
This article argues that the Depression era musical, Swing Time (1936), provides access to understanding some of the forms of socially constructed desire that shaped working class solidarity in the 1930s. In the first part of this article, I explore the roots of Swing Time's critique of vested forms of desire in Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class. I argue that Swing Time offers an extension of Veblen's theory by analyzing the powe…
Introduction
During the 1930s, a rudimentary culture of solidarity was emerging among U.S. workers. That culture was fueled by the economic downturn, but misery itself is never enough to provoke transformation. A new vision of community was emerging through the work of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, revolutionary activists and organizers, and the artists, writers, and theorists associated with the Popular Front. In order to confront the new realiti…
Reification, Resistance, and Ironic Empiricism in Georg Simmel's Philosophy of Money
This essay examines Georg Simmel's Philosophy of Money in relation to certain themes in the Marxian philosophical tradition. It first examines Simmel's thoroughgoing and antiessentialist epistemology of exchange. It then looks at a contrary movement taken by Simmel's thought, in which he seems to posit an absolute objectivity in an almost Kantian vein. Finally, it explains Simmel's position through a look at his theory of capitalist reification a…
Remarx
Thorstein Veblen, like W. E. B. DuBois, mobilized the concept of psychological wages to explain working-class identification with the capitalist social and economic system. But while DuBois wrote about the wages of whiteness, Veblen concentrated, instead, upon the symbolic “benefits” provided by American nationalism, arguing that nationalism serves to reunite a community ruptured by inequality. This essay first examines Veblen's theory of nationa…
Hunkies," "Gasbags," & "Reds"
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Radical Critique and Progressive Traditionalism in John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath 1
This essay explores the radical critique of capitalism offered by John Ford's film, The Grapes of Wrath. Building on E.P. Thompson's notion of 'radical traditionalism', I argue that Ford offers an economically radical critique of capitalism based upon the symbolic resources of patriarchy and racial exclusion. In order to understand the social impact of Ford's cinema, I reconstruct the symbolic and semiotic resources of the laboring community duri…
Class Struggle on the Homefront
"Home Front examines the gendered exploitation of labor in the household from a postmodern Marxian perspective. The authors of this volume use the anti-foundationalist Marxian economic theories first formulated by Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff to explore power, domination, and exploitation in the modern household"--Provided by publisher
The Corporate Imaginary in John Ford's New Deal Cinema
This essay examines the critiques of capitalism offered by John Ford's New Deal Cinema. During the period in question (1935–48), Ford's films offered three distinct political stances that reflected forces and transformations in the American political unconscious: in the early and mid-1930s, he built his criticisms of economic distress on a restrained corporatism that advocated a moral capitalism; in the late 1930s and early 1940s, this corporatis…
Introduction
During the 1930s, a rudimentary culture of solidarity was emerging among U.S. workers. That culture was fueled by the economic downturn, but misery itself is never enough to provoke transformation. A new vision of community was emerging through the work of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, revolutionary activists and organizers, and the artists, writers, and theorists associated with the Popular Front. In order to confront the new realiti…
Race-Making and the Garrison State
This essay explores the implications of Paul Massing's findings that CIO union members were slightly more resistant to authoritarianism than AFL affiliated unionists. I begin by sketching the contours of the different forms of union consciousness produced by the AFL's craft unionism and the CIO's industrial unionism. Then, paying special attention to the 'ethnic' constituency of CIO unions, I argue that the CIO offered a particularly egalitarian …
Symbolic Exploitation and the Social Dialectic of Desire
Utilizing the work of Thorstein Veblen, I argue that the interrogation of 'symbolic exploitation' should be of pressing concern to sociologists who hope to end economic exploitation. Contesting economic exploitation must begin with the destruction of traditional sovereign action patterns of desire that ensnare agents. Such a work of destruction must simultaneously be a work of construction, the construction of counter-hegemonic cultures of solida…
Choosing our Ancestors
Crisis, Politics and Critical Sociology
As the first decade of the 21st century comes to a close, the world has entered a sustained period of crisis. In order to understand the forces that created our current social world, we need the tools provided by a critical sociology. This volume draws upon the work of contemporary critical sociologists searching for the roots of our present social and economic problems. Both prominent figures and emerging voices in sociology come together to off…
Chapter One. What Is Critical Sociology?
This introductory chapter situates the texts within the hisory of sociological discourse. It is the authors' contention that critical sociology is an unfinished project. In order to survive, thought needs to struggle with the forms of scientific conformity that persistently attempt to overtake its gains. The chapter draws on the work of two sociologists from earlier generations to make this claim, Walter Benjamin and C. Wright Mills. The chapter …
Crisis, politics and critical sociology
"As the first decade of the 21st century comes to a close, the world has entered a sustained period of crisis. In order to understand the forces that created our current social world, we need the tools provided by a critical sociology. This volume draws upon the work of contemporary critical sociologists searching for the roots of our present social and economic problems. Both prominent figures and emerging voices in sociology come together to of…
Crisis, Politics and Critical Sociology
The Persistence of Republicanism
The authors argue that there have been moments in American history when a class analysis entered into popular discourse. What has been “exceptional” about American history is the manner in which that class analysis emerged. When Americans speak the language of “class” and “class warfare,” it is often clothed in the rhetoric of labor republicanism. That is, rather than offering a systemic analysis of capitalist processes, American labor republican…
Return to Culture Wars and the Politics of Culture
The last century ended in a decade of relative prosperity, a generally strong economy, and the ability of the working classes (indeed most people) to mask the fact that real wages had remained more or less stagnant for almost 30 years through access to seemingly unlimited credit sustaining ever growing levels of consumption. Consumption is important in a capitalist economy because, to put it in perhaps simple terms, capitalists cannot realize pro…
Labor and Méconnaissance in the Culture Industry
In her case study of a union in the midst of a strike, Unions and Class Transformation: The Case of the Broadway Musicians (2009), Cathy Mulder argues that only renewed attention to the radical critique of exploitation can salvage a beleaguered movement. While she sees the possibility for a new basis of union activity in the struggles of Broadway musicians, her text makes an equally compelling case that a number of social and cultural processes c…
A Collective Effort to Improve Sociology Students’ Writing Skills
Nationwide, academic sociologists at all types of higher education institutions face the challenge of working to improve students’ writing skills. In this article, we describe a collective effort by a group of faculty members in one undergraduate sociology program to implement several effective writing-improvement strategies. We advocate aiming to improve students’ writing by working together on a united front rather than working in isolation. Af…
Working Class Self-Fashioning in Swing Time (1936)
This article argues that the Depression era musical, Swing Time (1936), provides access to understanding some of the forms of socially constructed desire that shaped working class solidarity in the 1930s. In the first part of this article, I explore the roots of Swing Time's critique of vested forms of desire in Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class. I argue that Swing Time offers an extension of Veblen's theory by analyzing the powe…
Not a Thing to Prophesy and Plead For”
Class Struggle on the Home Front pursues a dialogue between feminism and nondeterminist Marxism. I will attempt to situate the book's postmodern contribution to this conversation by interrogating the history of these mutually constitutive discourses. Since the conversation between Marxism and feminism began with Marx and Engels, I first examine their early work together. I then compare Engels's later work with that of feminist critic of political…
Labour's 'strange blindness' and the end of Jubilee
This essay responds to David Roediger's Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All. After a brief examination of the central themes of the book, I turn to the author's emphasis upon political agency. I argue that this emphasis is necessary, given the political and scholarly aims of the book. At the same time, I suggest that the agency depicted in Seizing Freedom was simultaneously constrained by the cultural, political, and social fo…
Phenomenology
Phenomenology is the philosophical and sociological study of experience as a gestalt generated by the relation between self, other, and world. Although in the nineteenth century the term had been used by philosophers as diverse as G. W. F. Hegel and Charles Sanders Peirce, the contemporary study of phenomenology is largely associated with the discourse initiated by Edmund Husserl (1859–1938) in the early twentieth century.
Class Conflict
Class conflict describes the struggle between economic groups, with differing levels of power, over scarce social resources. With the rapid industrialization of Great Britain beginning in the late eighteenth century, then Europe and the United States in the nineteenth century, economic forces unsettled traditional forms of community, solidarity, and work. Proletarianization, or the transformation of male artisans, agricultural workers, and women …
Second Shift
Arlie Russell Hochschild finds that in two‐partner, heteronormative households where both partners work in the formal economy, the husband tends to have more leisure time, leaving most household labor and childcare to the woman of the couple. This constitutes the woman's Second Shift. Hochschild's argument has shaped recent scholarship in the social and political economy of the family, focusing attention on the gendered use of time and the gender…
The Scientific Object of A New Kind Of Public
This response to commentaries from Richard McIntyre, Karen Miller, and Kellie Hay clarifies the scientific object of A New Kind of Public: Community, Solidarity, and Political Economy in New Deal Cinema, 1935–1948 (Haymarket, 2015). For the study of cinematic cultural artifacts, the author proposes neither an audience-response theory of meaning nor an auteur conception of individual intention and cinematic mastery. Films do have intentions, but t…
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