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The Substance of Truth

Editors:

  1. Tolu Olorunda
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  • Written by experts, Gives a modern approach, Comprehensive in Scope

Part of the book series: Transgressions (TRANS, volume 71)

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. This Great Equalizer

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Teachers

      • Tolu Olorunda
      Pages 3-8

    3. Are Schools the Assassins of Education?

      • Tolu Olorunda
      Pages 9-16

    4. Failing Grade

      • Tolu Olorunda
      Pages 17-25

    5. Checkmate

      • Tolu Olorunda
      Pages 27-31

    6. Distant Relatives

      • Tolu Olorunda
      Pages 33-39

    7. Education As Etch-A-Sketch

      • Tolu Olorunda
      Pages 41-44

  3. Youth in a Soulless Society

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
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    3. Children in A Hostile World

      • Tolu Olorunda
      Pages 55-60

    4. Victims and Vultures

      • Tolu Olorunda
      Pages 61-65

    5. In Love With A Stripper

      • Tolu Olorunda
      Pages 67-71

    6. On the Health and Happiness of Kids

      • Tolu Olorunda
      Pages 73-79

    7. Double Major

      • Tolu Olorunda
      Pages 81-85

  4. Speaking Truth

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 86-86
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    2. Words as Weapons

      • Tolu Olorunda
      Pages 89-95

    3. Black Bodies Swinging

      • Tolu Olorunda
      Pages 97-101

    4. Watch What You’re Watching

      • Tolu Olorunda
      Pages 103-110

    5. Can Hip-Hop Save an Illiterate Generation?

      • Tolu Olorunda
      Pages 111-115
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About this book

Tolu Olorunda is a cultural critic whose work has regularly appeared on AlterNet, Black Commentator, CounterPunch, Truthout, and several other publications including ColorLines magazine, The Nation magazine, and Wiretap magazine. His book, The Substance of Truth, takes a frank look into what has become of a society that touts grand and lofty ideals which it often fails to fulfill. With essays addressing issues as broad as the education system, 21st century media culture, Hip-Hop culture, youth culture, neoliberalism, and moral poverty, Olorunda argues the days ahead would darken in promise if rigorous action isn’t soon applied to rectify the way people think, how they respond to their surroundings, and the decisions they take to make the world better than it stands today. This struggle, he insists, could define whether or not a livable future would exist for the most vulnerable of all—children, whose plights are increasingly cast aside and ignored. From the book: “At risk of appearing alarmist, it’s easy to ignore all the warning signs hanging around us that suggest the clock is ticking fast—real fast!—and that time left for due action is short. But if life for the next generation should contain some semblance of sanity—where life itself means more than shopping malls and commodities, where Power stands accountable to the demands of communities—all fear of coming across hyperbolic would have to give way to the realities staring us down. The risk also extends to coming across Pollyannaish, as though all the impurities and iniquities holding hostage society can be cured with essays or lectures. But we cannot afford to let this moment slip by unattended, unengaged. The problems number endless—and so do the possibilities. And at no other moment has a generation been more fortunate, with the ease of technology, to make miracles happen amidst frightening circumstances. At no other moment has the clarion call blared this clearly and loudly.”
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Substance of Truth

  • Editors: Tolu Olorunda

  • Series Title: Transgressions

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-534-5

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6091-534-5Published: 01 January 2012

  • Series ISSN: 2214-9732

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-9740

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 202

  • Topics: Sociology of Education

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