Tuesday, May 12 2009
Independent Lens: Crips & Bloods: Made in America
In Crips & Bloods: Made in America, airing as part of Independent Lens, Kumasi's memories of rejection and resentment are typical of his generation.
Thursday, January 29 2009
Crips and Bloods: Made in America
Stacy Peralta's documentary traces the emergence of gangs in L.A., as well as their contexts and causes.
Monday, January 14 2008
Oswald’s Ghost: American Experience
Regarding the Kennedy assassination, Norman Mailer describes an utterly "American" problem and seeming solution, the simultaneous determination and inability to believe.
Friday, November 30 2007
Oswalds Ghost
The question at the center of Oswald's Ghost is less about facts and figures, the unsolved case, than it is about perception.
Monday, July 9 2007
A People’s Historian
Howard Zinn: You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train serves as an important reminder to anyone academia-minded that professional advancement and the goals of education do not always converge.


































