On North / South Relations:
• Current Abuses in North Korea by a German Doctor recently expelled
  
• Origins: History is not always as clearcut as it first seems Some smelly roots
  
  

On matters of the heart

How do you feel when a best friend transfers out by Kim Susie
Feeling: The Sea by Jeon Chiman
One Wife, only by Shin Hyun-Guk


In another class, all to themselves...

The 7th Wave Humanities... Freshness from Freshmen 2002



Faculty viewpoints and reflections: Mr. Ganse asked me to recommend some History links for American History, as he will be teaching an In-depth couse on it, this semester. He asked me to provide some views from the perspective of Blacks and of Native Americans--who, today, prefer to be referred to as "First Nation Peoples". I have not read all of the following suggested readings. But do recommend them nontheless, as good places to start. Naturally, I cannot vouch for all the nuances and opinions culled, therein. So pardon the hard balls...

First, the republishing (re-formatting) of:

World History at KMLA by our very own Mr. Alexander Ganse, himself

Then, some suggestions:

The Evolution of Civilizations (Highly Recommended at Amazon)... by Carroll Quigley
First Nation Histories (A collection of histories)... a good place to start
What You Should Know About the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights (Amazon)... by John Coleman
The Peculiar Institution (Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South)
Africans in Pre Columbian America (The Olmecs 1200-300BC)
The Case of the Missing Elephant (Olmec Pre-Columbian Civilization) by Zecharia Sitchin
Reflections on Race and Manifest Destiny... by Thomas Jimson (a look at Reginald Horseman's book on the subject)
All Men are Brother: Autobiographical Reflections... by Gandhi (some of my favorite quotes by 'Mahatma' Gandhi)


Again, while I do not share all of these sentiments, they do represent some of the anxieties and the "han" that has accompanied a torturous history for those experiencing a view from the bottom of the Great American Melting Pot.

On: Manifest Destiny and the 'First Nation Peoples' Some call it genocide
A Presidential Sham... the recent advisory board of Race Relations... by Sonja Keohane
Benefits of Unearned Privilege by Robert Jensen (a White Professor in Baltimore)
A Dissenting View... John Henrik Clarke is Professor Emeritus of African World History
The Need for "Affirmative Action" Theodore Wood, The University of Dayton School of Law
COINTELPRO controversial... For example controversial...
AIDS and Africa : Again, some call it genocide
Suffering and Despair: Humanitarian Crisis in the Congo - by Wayne Madsen
USA, Iraq, and Mother Africa
America's Foreign Policy Complications in the Sudan, of late a report from the other side...

My own study of Social Anthropology began largely out of an attempt, as a Black American, to make sense of a history so skewed in its presentation from a European-centered perspective. The following is an essay I wrote for the first edition of the "Minjok Herald," a piece in which I attempt to reconcile worldviews again, as a Black Man face to face with the fruit of Korean History and culture...

Black/Japanese Descendents of Tan-Gun? a reflection on the nature/future of our identity...






The Leaping Hope