These are texts we will discuss in terms of understanding the interdependence of agency and structural context. They are well written and will intrigue you. You are welcome to read and comment on them in place of some other work. The underlines are links to information on the authors and texts.

• Paul Beatty's White Boy Shuffle. Beatty's work shows some of the anger I feel in Frantz Fanon's work. He uses four letter words, but the words are there to make a statement. The despair and anguish, alongside the hero's understanding of revolutionary leadership are worth the romp through this crazy and wonderful postmodern novel, set in Los Angeles.

• Eduardo Galeano's Days and Nights of Love and War. Galeano. Galeano doesn't write a straight autobiography. He keeps this journal, which provides brief excerpts of what it feels like to fight oppression and colonialism. Beautifully written.

  Days and Nights of Love and War at Monthly Review Online "Alternating between reportage, personal vignettes, interviews, travelogues, and folklore, and richly conveyed with anger, sadness, irony, and humor, Days and Nights pays loving tribute to those who continue to believe in, and fight for, a more human existence."

• John Gonzalez' Harvest of Empire. This is a very readable journalist's account of what it's like to grow up as a Latino in the United States. Gonzalez divides the text into the different Latino groups that compris the U.S. Latino population, giving the unique story of each group. Forces us to take a hard look at

• Phoebe Hoban's Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art. This biography of Basuiat's art world gives a compelling account of the people involved in his life. We have discussed the story's implication for the juvenile who is different by virtue of being exceptionally gifted. Basquiat was very bright, very rebellious, and provides poignant evidence of the extent to which the individual and the structural context are interdependent.

• Patrick Tierney's Darkness in El Dorado. The Yanomami Crisis in Anthropology Tierney is a journalist who researched this book extensively. He paints the Yanomami in a way that lets us understand how devastating the anthropological research on them proved to be. The anthropologists involved did not break any laws, as they continually hasten to remind us. But Tierney's thesis is not about the law; it is about the human dignity we owe to one another, including indigenous people.

• Richard Rhodes' Why They Kill. Story of Lonnie Athens' theory on what makes violent criminals. Lonnie Athens and Richard Rhodes, both of whom experienced violence as children, speak of Athens' extensive work with those incarcerated for violent crime, such as rape and murder. Athens describes the process of violentization, which he claims is essential to the creation of a virulent criminal. Rhodes applies Athens' process to the perpetrators of many well known crimes. Finally, Rhodes summarizes Athens' application of his theory to choices we all make in everyday life.

• Edward Said's Culture AND Imperialism Edward Said shows how empire and dominance of others is at the very foundation of our system. He does a careful and readable analysis of how authors like Jane Austen, in Victorian England, skirted the issues of England's empire building, accepting that it was OK for the English to live off the work of the colonized. Said helps us to see how deep the privilege of race and ethnicity runs. Through permeating our culture, colonialism, or its present equivalent in Western hegemony, limits our imaginary and permits our denial of any complicity in wrongdoing.

• Philip Gourevitch's Stories from Rwanda: We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families Gourevitch brings up all the questions we've discussed on the process of violentization, on the meaning of such violence, on our fascination with it, on our moral obligation to understand it. "I presume that you are reading this because you desire a closer look, and that you, too, are properly disturbed by your curiosity. Perhaps, in examining this extermity with me, you hope for some understainding, some insight, some flicker of self-knowledge---a moral, or a lesson or a clue about how to behave in this world: some such information. I don't discount the possibility, but when it comes to genocide, you already know right from wrong. The best reason I have come up with for looking closely into Rwanda's stories is that ignoring them makes me even more uncomfortable about existence and my place in it. . . ." (At p. 19)

• Lawson Inada's only what we could carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience.Heyday Books. Berkeley, Calif. California Historical Society. San Francisco, Calif. 2000. $18.95 in paperback. A Project of the California Civil Liberties Ppublic Education Program. Stories, drawings, thoughts of all those to whom internment mattered, both inside and outside the camps. Summary materials not yet up on this one. jeanne