[Marxism-Thaxis] 'Neo-racism' at American Universities

2007-05-06 Thread CeJ
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/soe/cihe/newsletter/Number44/p3_Lee.htm NUMBER 44, SUMMER 2006 International Student Experiences of Neo-Racism and Discrimination Jenny J. Lee Jenny Lee is assistant professor in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona. Address: 305

[Marxism-Thaxis] Our_Gang: Gangism in American working class culture

2007-05-06 Thread Charles Brown
Our Gang From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search The Little Rascals redirects here. For other uses, see The Little Rascals (disambiguation). For the novel by Philip Roth see Our Gang (novel). A poster for the

[Marxism-Thaxis] A Split Emerges as Conservatives Discuss Darwin (NY Times)

2007-05-06 Thread Jim Farmelant
May 5, 2007 A Split Emerges as Conservatives Discuss Darwin By PATRICIA COHEN http://tinyurl.com/yvt74k Evolution has long generated bitter fights between the left and the right about whether God or science better explains the origins of life. But now a dispute has cropped up within

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] West_Side_Story: artists romanticizing gangs

2007-05-06 Thread CeJ
The ethnicity and racial setup of WSS seems ultimately to have escaped me. The male hero, Tony, is supposed to be of white but ethnic and Catholic descent. He was originally supposed to be of some sort of Italian background, the key to his tragedy being to fall for a Jewish girl. As the story was

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] West_Side_Story: artists romanticizing gangs

2007-05-06 Thread andie nachgeborenen
WSS is coming to Chicago on tour, as a degenerate Sondheim fan, I await this with considerable eagerness. I am also a hopeless fan of gangster movies and stories, and an occasional client. But the gangs romanticized in WSS are so abstract and stylized it is difficult to think of them in the same

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] West_Side_Story: artists romanticizing gangs

2007-05-06 Thread CeJ
AN: A final note: the original treatment of WSS called for the gangs to be Irish and Jewish rather than Polish Puerto Rican. Don't laugh at the idea of Jewish hoods. Whose laughing? Not me, that is for sure. I can find accounts where 'Americans' were complaining about Jewish criminality, and