Wed, 19 Oct 1994 07:42:00 -0700 for by KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU (PMDF V4.3-11 #5489) id <01HIGFI84OMO9EJWRT@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU>; Wed, 19 Oct 1994 09:41:53 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1994 09:41:53 -0500 (CDT) Date-warning: Date header was inserted by KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU From: 1k1mgm@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU (Christopher Gunn) Subject: Re: school colors To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Michael Gibbons wrote: > >i've just finished watching the PBS show SCHOOL COLORS, and found it to >be a great production. It did a very good job showing just how pervasive >problems of race are in our country. so often problems like that are easy >to ignore since we live in largely segregated worlds that it was great to >see the tensions and the pressures laid out for all to see. very good. >on more than one occasion you could see that the school's faculty were >operating on an entirely different set of assumptions from an entirely >different world. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I didn't get to see the show--schedule conflict, hope it gets rerun-- but read a *strange* preview in the _Kansas City Star_ on Monday. I don't have the article in front of me (it's at home), but the reviewer, who is not publically or vocally a right-winger (so far as I can remember), saw it as a cry of warning against a coming Politically Correct world. He saw rampant abuse of white people, including Red Guard-style sessions of public denunciation and humiliation. Sort of a rationale for 'fear of a black planet'.... I detected no sense of irony in the article. I'll try to remember to clip it if it hasn't been tossed yet. All a question of set and setting, I guess. (Sorry for the psychologism....) Kit Gunn, Univ. of Kansas Christopher Gunn Molecular Graphics and Modeling Laboratory 1k1mgm@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu University of Kansas Phone: 913-864-4428 or -4495 Malott Hall Lawrence, KS 66045