Which Way, L.A.?
White Studies
White Studies are gaining academic acceptance and joining the ranks of college courses across the country. What can Spam and Twinkies tell us about cultural dominance? Does the heritage of Europe have to be banned before we have racial healing?
Neil Gotanda: Visiting professor of law at Boston College Law School, teaching constitutional law and critical race theory. On leave from Western State University in Fullerton.Matt Wray: Graduate student in ethnic studies at Berkeley; organizer of recent conference there called "The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness" co-editor with Ann Lee Newitz of White Trash: Race and Class in America.Noel Ignatiev: Editor of Race Traitor, a journal of the New Abolitionist movement; author of How the Irish Became White, and lecturer in Harvard's history and literature department. Phyllis Berry Myers: Political consultant; Board Member, Center for New Black Leadership, and co-chair, Black Americans Political Action Committee. Lowell Thompson: Founder of Partnership against Racism, a non-profit advertising organization, and author and publisher of White Folks, a non academic look at racism in America. Peter Collier: Co-publisher of "HETERODOXY", a newspaper that takes as its mission the shattering of all things politically correct. Co-author with David Horowitz, of the book Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About The '60's. Leonce Gaiter: ArchEditor of Chico News in Review. His novel, Jest Tiddy Boom will be published by Noble in Spring 1998. Kent Richland: Founding partner of Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland, a civil appellate firm; former president, California Academy of Appellate Lawyers. Ron Brownstien: National Political Reporter, Los Angeles Times.