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David Goodman

David Goodman teaches American history at the University of Melbourne.

David Goodman reviews 'Textual Spaces: Aboriginality and cultural studies' by Stephen Muecke

December 1992, no. 147 01 December 1992
Stephen Muecke’s Textual Spaces offers both new material and versions of some of the essays he has published on Aboriginal and cultural studies published through the 1980s. Many of these have already been very influential, but the welcome appearance of the book invites consideration of the continuities in Muecke’s arguments, the programme they suggest. ... (read more)

David Goodman reviews 'Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem between the Wars' by Shane White, Stephen Garton, Stephen Robertson and Graham White

September 2010, no. 324 01 September 2010
Gambling was and is an economically and culturally important activity in many urban African American communities, and ‘numbers’ was from the mid-1920s a ‘full-blown craze’ in Harlem. It was a complicated method of gambling on a set of three numbers generated by an apparently incorruptible process. The numbers, posted each day by the New York Clearing House, a financial institution just a c ... (read more)