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MICHI ITAMI:

Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do, Tne Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society by Peter McWilliams

JON YOUNG:

Bugs Nips the Nips, Warner Bros. 1944 (video)

DIYAN ACHJADI:

THE CULTURE OF THE COPY: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles by Hillel Schwarz

EUGENE THACKER:

WALTER KENDRICK'S , "THE SECRET MUSEUM"

For its various historical instances in modern culture where censorship, sexuality, and modern literature collide.

PREMA MURTHY:

JIM NAGEL'S, "WHORES AND OTHER FEMINISTS"

The sex industry through the eyes of self-identified feminist sex workers drawing from postmodern feminism, queer theory, libertarianism and sex radicalism.

ANGIE ENG:

UMBERTO ECO'S, "NAME OF THE ROSE"

The power of the written word never goes underestimated and the dessemination of knowledge feared by the Authority remains one of the strongest political weapons. A classic read told through a murder story during the Holy Crusades.

NELSON WONG:

GARRETT HONGO'S "UNDER WESTERN EYES"

Asian Americans addresses social and political issues and assess how assimilation, generational differences, racism, language, family and stereotypes affect their identities as Americans.

VIRGIL WONG:

HARRY WHITE'S, "ANATOMY OF CENSORSHIP"

Most lucid and well-reasoned arguments on censorship I've encountered in my reading. An inspiration for satire on contemporary issues of who's circumscribing information, how they're doing it and for what motivation.

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