Originally published in 1993, this was the first systematic attempt to understand the criminalization of Black people without resorting to either crude state conspiracy theories or pathological portrayals of Black communities. Instead, the author places police/Black conflict in a geographical and historical context. A rigorous analysis of recent riots in London, informed by theoretical debates at the time, allowed Keith to demonstrate that both the riots and subsequent popular and official...

After the Cosmopolitan? argues that both racial divisions and intercultural dialogue can only be understood in the context of the urbanism through which they are realized.All the key debates in cultural theory and urban studies are covered in detail:the growth of cultural industries and the marketing of citiessocial exclusion and violencethe nature of the ghettothe cross-disciplinary conceptualization of cultural hybridity

Porsche, a beautiful young college girl, finds out that love is reserved for hopeless hearts. Being young, wild, and sexy she thinks she has life in the palm of her hands.Porsche has a terrible secret which she tries to hide from her family. Trapped between good and evil her secret grows out of control. Time and time again she gives in to the whispers. Slowly, Lucifer begins to take over her soul.As Porsche uses men to get what she wants her soul is badly bruised by her pas...

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Euphony: Micro Prose Poems contains works best defined as thoughts, both observational and insightful, expressed in laconic form. The collection delivers the reader through subatomic communiques, electric "jolts of awareness," about the ever-shifting realm of human emotion and experience—a world both known and exotic. In Euphony over 40 lyrical sketches inspire the reader to thought and inquiry—both familiarly-footed and utterly transcendent—about who we are and why we ac...

Broadcast Voice Performance (1989) incorporates the insights and experience of more than 100 successful practising voice performers to succinctly and realistically examine the techniques, equipment and criteria of announcing within the context of major types of radio and television productions and programming formats.

Quirky, original, and surprisingly moving short stories exploring the human condition.In the tradition of Lydia Davis, Kurt Vonnegut, and Joy Williams, Michael C. Keith's Stories in the Key of Me explores the full range of human experience and behavior, both good and bad. These compelling and provocative stories take the reader to places that only a truly vivid and original imagination could conjure. Frequently disquieting in theme and plot, these stories ...

Includes interviews with such well known personalities as Walter Cronkite, Dick Clark, Steve Allen, Art Linkletter, Paul Harvey, Howard K. Smith, Ed McMahon, Bruce Morrow, as well as more than fifty other individuals who were or continue to be actively involved in radio.

In Pieces of Rags and Bones Michael Keith brings to the reader a singular collection of idiosyncratic and laconic narratives designed to amuse and enlighten. In the tradition of Lydia Davis, Kurt Vonnegut, and Joy Williams, this quirky volume mines the full range of human behavior and experience for all its varied and distinct manifestations and consequences. Powerfully imagined, the epigrammatic tales between these covers provide a sometimes numinous, often harrowing, sojourn across lands...

Nestled beneath the escarpment and a short drive from the beach, Nunnkirk has been a dairy farming town for a hundred and fifty years. It's the kind of place where everyone knows your name-and your business-and where the local footy team, the Bulls, still matters. But Nunnkirk is changing, and not everyone can afford the price of progress.House prices are soaring as cashed-up Sydneysiders snap up property, pushing locals to the margins. School enrolments are shrinking. The Bulls ca...

Some girls love him, some mother him, and some just want sex with him, but he just can't seem to keep the one he loves. What is it with girls?Fifteen-year-old Tim Walsh just can't seem to work them out. Tim and his mates stumble through first love, first car, first sex, and unwanted pregnancy, their rigorous military training hardly preparing them for the vagaries of the adult world.From a Dungog dairy farm, to Wagga Wagga, Operational Squadrons, and then the steamy back st...

In the last two decades, new political subjects have been created through the actions of the new social movements; often by asserting the unfixed and `overdetermined' character of identity. Further, in attempting to avoid essentialism, people have frequently looked to their territorial roots to establish their constituency. A cultural politics of resistance, as exemplified by Black politics, feminism, and gay liberation, has developed struggles to turn sites of oppression and discrimintion...