Sut Jhally is Professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Founder and Executive Director of the Media Education Foundation (MEF). He is one of the world’s leading scholars looking at the role played by advertising and popular culture in the processes of social control and identity construction. The author of numerous books and articles on media, he is also an award-winning teacher (a recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award at the University of Massachusetts, where the student newspaper has also voted him “Best professor”).

Enlightened Racism is a major intervention into the public debate about race and perceptions of race — a debate at the heart of American political and public life. This book offers a radical challenge to the conventional wisdom concerning racial stereotyping in the U.S. and demonstrates how apparently progressive programs like The Cosby Show, despite good intentions, actually help to construct “enlightened” forms of racism.
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Hijacking Catastrophe is a riveting collection of 28 interviews with leading political thinkers (Norman Mailer, Noam Chomsky, Scott Ritter, Medea Benjamin, Chalmers Johnson and others) that shows how the Bush administration has used the trauma of 9/11 and the war on terrorism to advance a radical and longstanding neoconservative plan for global geopolitical domination.
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Sut Jhally’s influential work as an activist, writer, film producer, and educator has had a far-reaching impact on the course and concerns of media criticism. This volume captures the full range of Jhally’s thought and covers a variety of issues including the role of advertising in contemporary life, the cultural politics of sport, race, and gender coding in the coverage of current events, and the power of media education to name just a few of the themes covered in this crucial, new work.
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