ABSTRACT

In Real Love, Andrew Ross, one of our preeminent social critics, explores the vital connection between economic life and cultural expression. From the consequences of cyberspace for work and play to the uses and abuses of genetics in the O.J. trial, from world scarcity to world music, Ross interrogates the cultural forms through which economic forces take their daily toll upon our communities and environment.
Examining the effects of debates about race, technology, ecology, and the arts on social and legal change, Ross focuses in particular on how demands for certain forms of cultural justice often go hand in hand with injustices of other sorts, and shows why cultural politics are a real and inescapable part of any argument for social change.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

chapter One|28 pages

Jobs in Cyberspace

chapter Three|8 pages

The Gangsta and the Diva

chapter Four|15 pages

The Private Parts of Justice

chapter Five|22 pages

If the Genes Fit, How Do You Acquit?

O.J. and Science

chapter Six|32 pages

The Great Un-American Numbers Game

chapter Seven|13 pages

What the People Want from Art?

chapter Eight|26 pages

The Lonely Hour of Scarcity

chapter Nine|28 pages

Claims for Cultural Justice