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Cup of Culture
Tangerine
MCC Theater
“Gritty and groundbreaking.” – The Rolling Stone
It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee Rella, a transgender sex worker, is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, Sin-Dee and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Shot with an iPhone camera, their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles. Dr. Mireille Miller-Young, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies, will lead a post-film discussion. (88 min, English, 2015)
Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALSwWTb88ZU
Race Matters Series
Black Citymakers: “How the Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America”
MCC Lounge
Black Citymakers revisits the Seventh Ward immortalized in W.E.B. DuBois’s The Philadelphia Negro. In his book, Dr. Marcus Hunter follows the transformation of the neighborhood from predominately black at the beginning of the 20th Century into the largely white upper middle class and commercial neighborhood it exists as today. Dr. Hunter is Assistant Professor in UCLA’s Department of Sociology, and a faculty affiliate at Yale University.
Race Matters Series
Farm Worker Futurism: Speculative Technologies of Resistance
MCC Lounge
Farm workers, usually viewed by their corporate counterparts as backwards and primitive, have actually been in the forefront of visionary thinking about the future. Dr. Curtis Marez looks at how the appropriation of photography, film, video, and other technologies expressed a “farm worker futurism,” a set of farm worker social formations that faced off against corporate capitalism and government policies. He shows how working-class people of color have often been early adopters and imaginative users of new media. In doing so, he presents an analysis of speculative fiction’s engagements with the farm worker movement in ways that illuminate both. Dr. Marez is Associate Professor and Chair of Ethnic Studies at UC San Diego.
Cup of Culture
Straight Outta Compton
MCC Theater
“…an electrifying piece of hip-hop history that speaks urgently to right now.” – The Rolling Stone
In 1987, the streets of South Los Angeles were some of the most dangerous in the U.S. When five young men translated their experiences growing up into brutally honest music that rebelled against abusive authority, they gave an explosive voice to a silenced generation. Straight Outta Compton follows the rise and fall of N.W.A. as they used the most dangerous weapon around, their music, to expose the world to the truth about life in the hood and ignite a cultural revolution. (147 min, English, 2015)
Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsbWEF1Sju0
