Jack Nusan Porter’s writings date back to 1966, during the height of the Vietnam War. He describes the anguished struggle against war, racism, and poverty, as well as the radical groups and individuals involved—Jewish socialists, radical Zionists, radical Jews, Rabbi Meir Kahane and the Jewish Defense League, the counterculture, liberals, and conservatives alike. In addition, his writings vividly recount the anti-Zionist, anti-Israel, anti-Semitic, and revolutionary terrorism of the times. Here, Porter draws from the past in an effort to explain the present, walking the precarious bridge between allegiance to Israel and the Jewish people and the universal rights of all people. This collection of older and newer essays combines theory, sociology, film studies, literary criticism, post-modern thought, and politics.

Told through essays, memoirs, and other musings, this is the story of a radical Jew, academic, and educator from his birth in Ukraine during the Holocaust through the radical 60s and 70s, to the present day as he fights anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, xenophobia, and hate. Internationally known in Holocaust, genocide, and Jewish studies, Jack Nusan Porter was born in Maniewicz, Ukraine to Jewish Partisans in the 1940s. Through this engaging and thoughtful memoir, we follow Porter as he recounts his personal journey from a DP camp in Linz, Austria to an idyllic childhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he attended Hebrew day school under Reb Twersk. Porter masterfully details his radicalism in the politically and sociologically turbulent 1960s which would later influence his academic work on genocide, Holocaust studies, and international human rights. Constantly re-inventing himself, readers are treated to engaging anecdotes as they navigate through Porter's highs, lows, and in-betweens.

Message to the Reader p. vii Preface p. ix Introduction: The Death of Sociology? Toward a New Paradigm p. xv I Sociological Theory p. 1 1 Conflict Theory: Classical and Contemporary p. 5 2 Situational Theory p. 15 3 Small Groups: Theory and Methods p. 19 4 Means of Conflict Resolution p. 29 5 The Urban Middleman: A Comparative Analysis p. 47 6 What is Evil? Some New Post-Modern Theories to Explain the Post-9/11 Era p. 69 II Images of Sociology p. 85 7 The Image of Sociology: A Mixed Bag p. 87 8 The Making of a Sociologist p. 93 9 Radical Sociology Textbooks p. 111 10 Confronting the Media: The Impact of Jonestown p. 121 11 The Sociological Imagination of Film p. 125 III Creative Praxis p. 137 12 Talking Police Blues: The Pedagogic Dilemma of the Academic p. 141 13 Corporations that Grant Degrees? p. 149 14 Computer Networks and Metanetworks p. 157 15 Two Newtons or One? One Affluent, One Not! p. 185 16 The Sociological Imagination in Politics p. 193 17 Toward a Sociology and History of Peace p. 197 IV Postscript p. 209 18 Jack Nusan Porter: Thoughts on Internal and External Peace Don Martindale p. 211 Sources p. 231 Index p. 233 About the Author p. 241.

The Genocidal Mind offers unique and under-explored analyses of the Holocaust and the phenomenon of 20th century genocide within a sociological framework. With reference to contemporary scholarly work and using the latest in social structural, psychoanalytical, post-modern, chaos, and uncertainty theory, Dr. Porter attempts to explain why people dehumanize and kill other innocent people. The author also probes the deviant, sexual side of the Nazi party, including the mind of Adolf Hitler.

Dr. Jack Porter, a former Milwaukeean, now living in Newtonville, Mass, continues his memoirs with these two parts of the trilogy. Future memoirs will include How to be a Rabbi in Ten Easy Lessons, Twelve Screen Treatments including 'Key West Rabbi' and 'Partisans'.," and If Only You Could Bottle it: Memoirs of a Radical Son.

This is the first book on Naomi Alderman’s literary production, and highlights the writer’s transcultural recasting of British and Jewish traditions. The four novels analysed here prove to be relevant, not only from a literary viewpoint, but also from the fields of ethics, spirituality and politics. The analysis thus focuses on issues such as alterity and respect towards the other in a globalized context. As such, the book will be of interest to literary critics, researchers, and students in the fields of literature, ethics, and social and cultural studies. The reader will find in the text a comprehensive approach to a young writer who undoubtedly deserves attention given her interrogation of varied and socially relevant topics, including gender and sexual orientation in the early twenty-first century, the rewriting of the Sacred Scriptures, and the discourse of feminist posthuman dystopias.