Ethnicity: Free Films

These four short films from the University of Manchester focus on two broad aspects of ethnicity – identity and inequality – that might serve as interesting introductions / discussion starters. • We need to find a new way to talk about ethnicity (4 minutes) looks at the history of multi-ethnic diversity in Britain in the […]

Crime Statistics

In many nations around the world – particularly Britain and America – a 50-year overview of crime sees much the same kind of general trend: A strong and consistent rise in crime from the 1980’s that peaks in the mid-1990’s and then generally falls over the next 25-years. In England and Wales, for example, this […]

Ruling class or Power Elite? A contemporary application of C. Wright Mills?

If you’re looking for ways to give the concept of a Power Elite a contemporary classroom update you might like to think of how it can be applied in the context of a “War on Terror” and NSA / GNCQ surveillance. Noam Chomsky’s article “Whose Security? How Washington Protects Itself and the Corporate Sector” contains […]