Contents: Lawrence Grossberg: What's in a Name (One More Time) - Deborah P. Britzman: What Is This Thing Called Love? - Aaron D. Gresson III: Postmodern America and the Multicultural Crisis: Reading Forrest Gump as the Call Back to Whiteness - Henry A. Giroux: Black, Bruised, and Read All Over: Public Intellectuals and the Politics of Race - Kurt Kors: The Scenography of HIV Infection for Young Gay Men: Educating Emotion and Desire - Kathalene A. Razzano: Tiger Woods: A Discursive Struggle over the Construction of a Multiracial Image - Awad Ibrahim: Hey, Whadup Homeboy? Identification, Desire, and Consumption - Hip Hop, Performativity, and the Politics of Becoming Black - Molly Quinn: Getting Thrown Around: Little Girls and Cheerleading - Myrna Hant: TV Jewish Mothers: The Creation of a Multiethnic Antiheroine - Michelle Stack: Made for TV: Selling Kids' Suffering and Creating Angels to Save Them - Priya Parmar: Cultural Studies and Rap: The Poetry of an Urban Lyricist - Eric J. Weiner: Constructions of Innocence in Times of War: Breaking into the Hegemony of Peace - Dennis Parsons: Almost Feminist: Truth, the Trope of the Writer, and the Male Gaze in Almost Famous - Roymieco A. Carter/Leila E. Villaverde: Laughing at Ourselves (in the Dark): Comedy and the Critical Reflections of Social Actions.