Posts by Urban Swing Dance Institute

Mark Charles & Soong Chan Rah, Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery You cannot discover lands already inhabited. Injustice has plagued American society for centuries. And we cannot move toward being a more just nation without understanding the root causes that have shaped our culture and institutions. In this prophetic…

Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the…

Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance is a study of the American empire written by the American linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky, a professor at the MIT. Chomsky’s main argument in Hegemony or Survival is that the socio-economic elite who control the United States have pursued an “Imperial Grand Strategy” since the…

Change the Culture – Change the World We began Week 2 by defining what culture is because Week 1 concluded with the term. It provides comfort, support and justification of one’s behaviors, beliefs, prejudices and bias without knowledge, facts or proof. It is a filter of reality. After western culture replaced monarchs and feudalism with…

Social Constructs This week we will challenge everything you think you know about American/Western Culture and social constructs like; America, religion, race, slavery, education, art, social programs and money. Most of these social constructs are corruptions of ideas from other cultures. For example, the name Jesus, did not exist when he was crucified. The the…