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Teaching to Transgress
Posted on July 8, 2010 - 1:20pm — akadagathurIn Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks -writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual-writes about a new kind of education, education as a practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teacher's most important goal.

PInochet's Last Stand
Posted on July 6, 2010 - 1:48pm — abipolinskyEmmy Award-Winning actor Derek jacobi stars in the HBO Film Pinochet's Last Stand.

Walkout
Posted on July 6, 2010 - 1:00pm — abipolinskyFrom the producers of Selena and directed by award-winning actor Edward James Olmos comes a stirring true story of courage and justice. The year is 1968, the height of the national civil-rights movement. Paula Crisostomo (Alexa Vega, Spy Kids) is an idealistic honor student who refuses to "play it safe" in a school system that discriminates against Mexican-Americans.

It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
Posted on June 25, 2010 - 11:27am — akadagathurChristopher R. Weingarten provides a thrilling account of how the Bomb Squad produced such a singular-soundingrecord: engineering, sampling, scratching, constructing, deconstructing, reconstructing - even occasionally stomping on vinyl that sounded too clean.

Nommo (2/2001)
Posted on March 4, 2010 - 5:32pm — J.ColemanThe Source No. 162 (03/2003)
Posted on November 13, 2009 - 1:01pm — sfayele
Counting Headz
Posted on September 28, 2009 - 12:50pm — sfayeleSouth Africa

Ethnicity, Inc.
Posted on September 25, 2009 - 10:36am — sfayeleIn Ethnicity, Inc., John L. and Jean Comaroff explore a range of intriguing, disturbing, even absurd phenomena to analyze a new moment in the history of human identity: its rampant commodification.

Daniel's RIde
Posted on September 16, 2009 - 1:44pm — sfayeleA small Latino boy goes for a ride in big brother Hector's '63 Impala convertible "complete with spider hydraulics and gold wire wheels." Daniel snaps his fingers to the loud boom-boom of the radio, loves the look and even the smell of the car, and when he's spotted his peers as he zooms by, he knows he's "gonna be the coolest kid in school." But-big brother has a bigger plan i

Hip Hop Underground
Posted on September 16, 2009 - 11:53am — sfayeleHip Hop Underground is a vivid ethnography of the author's observations and experiences in the multiracial world of the San Francisco underground hip hop scene.
