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The way groups of Black and white people talk is the topic of Tom Kochman's book, "Black and White Styles in Conflict". White people, says Kochman, will have a discussion about items of disagreement. Black people will be more confrontational with the disagreement. Kochman also talks about white people practicing self control of repression. Mahalia Jackson is brought up as an example of when she sings, she demonstrates her words with her body movements.
Discussing the controversy over the use of the book "Working" by author Studs Terkel in a senior vocational class. Interviews with Kay Nichols, teacher, and two high school classes, as well as Bob Burns and Jim Richardson. The students talk of how the "bad" language in the book is heard from their peers on a daily basis and they don't find it offensive. [recorded in Girard, Pennsylvania]
Studs Terkel discusses gang life with Allan Evans and Henry Jordan, members of the Vice Lords, an urban street gang based in Chicago. Evans and Jordan were both born and grew up in Chicago.
According to Paul Chevigny’s book, “Police Power: Police Abuses in New York," disobeying the police is what precipitated violence. Chevigny explained some of the police felt if they had to deal with the undesirables, whether they were criminals or not, anything goes on the street to get these guys and anything goes in court to make a conviction stick.
Fly fishing, relationships and people Norman Maclean has met are all apart of his book, "A River Runs Through It." Maclean's father taught Maclean and his brother the art of fly fishing. Maclean's book is semi-autobiographical with three short stories.
Milton Mayer discusses the state of U.S. education and the educational ideas of Robert Hutchins.
Northeastern Illinois University professor June Sochen discusses her book "Movers and shakers;: American women thinkers and activists, 1900-1970". Sochen and Studs cover a wide range of female activists and radicals who fundamentally reshaped American society via their efforts in the labor movement and union organizing, the arts and culture, and research.
According to Joseph Campbell's book, "Myths to Live By," myths put people in touch with dimensions of their own being and consciousness. Dreams, Campbell explained, are private myths and myths are a public dream. Campbell also talks about how the west and the orient view myths and symbols.
Power, the misuse of power and the hollowness of one's heart and soul are the main themes covered by Helene Rosenberg. In Shakespeare's plays, the higher one rises in power, mortality can not be escaped and he will fall into the depths of hell. Justice, law and order, one's own being versus having (things) are also discussed.
An interesting, half-hour interview conducted while Taylor was visiting Chicago on a lecture tour. The two discuss student discontent on campuses across the United States, intellectuals' work in military defense and cynicism among those in the professional-education hierarchy.
Discussing the book "Who Rules America Now?: A View for the '80s" with author and educator William Domhoff.
Discussing the book "Covering Islam" with the author Edward Said.
A short clip of Studs Interviewing educator Harold Taylor. The two briefly discuss what it would be like for the United States of America to use its resources in a way to become a "vast meeting ground of people," in which American citizens are exposed to a variety of the arts from different cultures in an effort to become a "teacher in the world."
Harold Taylor and Studs look in-depth at the definition of what it means to be a "student," including on-campus protests, gaining life experience by teaching and challenging the mainstream social order. Includes a brief reading from Taylor's speech, "Preparation of American Teachers in the Field of World Affairs."