Please announce in classes:

As part of my African-Americans in Popular Culture class, in association
with the Africana Minor, I will be showing the movie Crash.

Tuesday Sept 20th 6pm UC Lookout Mountain Room
Pizza and soda provided ­ discussion optional.

Crash, 2004
³A rich, intelligent, and moving exploration of the interlocking lives of a
dozen Los Angeles residents--black, white, latino, Asian, and Persian. A
politically nervous district attorney (Brendan Fraser) and his high-strung
wife (Sandra Bullock) get car-jacked by an oddly sociological pair of young
black men (Larenz Tate and Chris "Ludacris" Bridges); a rich black T.V.
director (Terrence Howard) and his wife (Thandie Newton) get pulled over by
a white racist cop (Matt Dillon) and his reluctant partner (Ryan Phillipe);
a detective (Don Cheadle) and his Latina partner and lover (Jennifer
Esposito) investigate a white cop who shot a black cop--these are only three
of the interlocking stories that reach up and down class lines.
Writer/director Paul Haggis (who wrote the screenplay for Million Dollar
Baby) spins every character in unpredictable directions, refusing to let
anyone sink into a stereotype.²

(I know the irony is astounding isn¹t it?!)

Melissa