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Can White Hollywood Get Race Right?

By Jeff Chang and Sylvia Chan, AlterNet. Posted July 19, 2005.


Film critics proclaimed 'Crash' one of the best recent movies about race. Our cultural critics disagreed; so they sat down, Ebert and Roeper-style, to make their case.
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Jeff Chang is the author of Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (St. Martins Press, February 2005), which today won a 2005 American Book Award!! AlterNet congratulates Jeff! Sylvia Chan is a Ph.D. candidate in Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley.

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