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Ishmael Reed was born in Chattanooga in 1938 and grew up in Buffalo, New York, where he dropped out of the university because he wasn't interested in being a "slave to somebody else's reading list." Eight years later he moved to Berkeley, where he has been teaching ever since, and in 1979 relocated to an Oakland neighborhood of the type his parents "spent about a third of their lives trying to escape." Reed has published poetry anthologies, plays and 10 novels, including Freelance Pallbearers, Mumbo Jumbo and Reckless Eyeballing. He spoke with The Crimson recently about his latest...
Trinh, a San Francisco resident and professor at the University of California at Berkeley, is well-known for experiments with the film medium. Although her topics are not limited to issues of ethnicity, "Surname name Viet, Given Name Nam," she focused on the experience of Vietnamese women both in Vietnam and in America...
...book and the magazine that inspired it are the product of a group of brainy (if eccentric) visionaries holed up in a rambling Victorian mansion perched on a hillside in Berkeley, California. The MTV-style graphics are supplied by designer Bart Nagel, the overcaffeinated prose by Ken Goffman (writing under the pen name R.U. Sirius) and Alison Kennedy (listed on the masthead as Queen Mu, "domineditrix"), with help from Rudy Rucker and a small staff of free-lancers and contributions from an international cast of cyberpunk enthusiasts. The goal is to inspire and instruct but not to lead...
EVEN THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY, birthplace of the Free Speech Movement, has its limits. The quiet insistence of Andrew Martinez, a.k.a. the Naked Guy, on attending classes and strolling on campus in the nude finally ran afoul of both Berkeley's rules and politically correct culture...
...every sunset takes the day with it. For years Rodriguez has been negotiating the divide in a mood of deep melancholy. In 1981 he published Hunger of Memory, an account of his longings en route through the parochial schools of Sacramento and the university campuses of Stanford, Columbia and Berkeley. Still puzzling over his mixed identity, Rodriguez has moved on to this book, a suite of loosely joined reflections on Mexico and the U.S. by a man making border crossings in his head...