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This article critically analyzes the rapid growth in the United States of sports talk-radio programs, teasing out their race, class, and gendered implications, and attendant particularly to their role in commodification of American sports. The author argues that, far from being a democratizing force in America, sports talk radio reinscribes as it reflects and, indeed, covers up dominant positions of power and powerlessness. Thus, the proliferation of sports talk-radio programs is actually one more indication of democracy's demise than of its regeneration.

A discussion of the sociospatial dynamics of race in the West & South Africa. It is argued that postapartheid space in South Africa is being representationally reconstructed to reflect the norms of racialized space in the West: specifically, the planning prototype of project housing & slum reproduction for the racially marginalized in the West are idealized in the Group Areas Act of the apartheid polis. Urban revenue requirements combine with lingering racist language in determining the fates of urban residents. Distance is interpreted in terms of difference via the reinvented articulation of racist concepts. It is concluded that given peripheral places may emerge as sites of affirmative resistance in the same way that "black" has been assumed affirmatively as a designation of resistance. 77 References. D. Schwartz

Two classes of argument, logical and moral, are usually offered for the general assumption that racism is inherently irrational. The logical arguments involve accusations concerning stereotyping (category mistakes and empirical errors resulting from overgeneralization) as well as inconsistencies between attitudes and behavior and inconsistencies in beliefs. Moral arguments claim that racism fails as means to well-defined ends, or that racist acts achieve ends other than moral ones. Based on a rationality-neutral definition of racism, it is argued in this article that none of these arguments establish exhaustively that racism is inherently irrational. Ways are suggested to proceed in condemning racism(s) as morally and socially unacceptable, independent of the irrationality claim.