This compilation opens up primary sources for the exploration of cultural studies, including race and gender studies and media studies. Selections include: Matthew Arnold, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Frederick Douglass, Walter Benjamin, Claude Levi-Strauss, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Germaine Greer, James Clifford, Jean Seaton, Lawrence Grossberg, Cornell West, Paul Gilroy, Richard Johnson, Henry Giroux, and Stuart Hall.