Issue 7

 

AREA Chicago #7 was released December 6th, 2008

Table of Contents

• Bios + Masthead
• Editorial Introduction: Inheriting the Grid #7 by Daniel Tucker
• Introduction: 68/08 by Rebecca Zorach
• Background: Glossary & Key Concepts by Daniel Tucker
• 68/08 Bibliography
• 68/08 Project Overview
• Lesser Known Events

Section I: Hidden History

• Introduction by Aaron Sarver
• The Chicago Seed by Steve Macek and Alyssa Vincent
• Interview with Bernie Farber by Steve Macek and Alyssa Vincent
• Interview with Abe Peck by Steve Macek and Alyssa Vincent
• The Chicago Journalism Review by Steve Macek
• The Cosmic Frog by Steve Macek and Alyssa Vincent
• Listing of Chicago ’68 Magazines by Steve Macek
• Introducing the Alternative Press Centre
• Special Project: Depaul/U of C Student Contributions
  • AACM by Chloe Ottenhoff
  • Conservative Vice Lords by Laura Gluckman
  • Free Schools by Ashley Weger
  • Harper Court by Andrea Baer
  • Chicago area Draft Resisters by A.I. Gray
  • The Chicago Seed by Amy Martin
  • Kartemquin Films by Darcy Lydum
  • Chicago Artist Boycott by Maggie Taft
  • Negro Digest/Black World by Chris Brancaccio
  • Blackstone Rangers by Julie Glasier
  • Chicago Surrealist Group by Joey Pizzolato
• The Woodlawn Organization by Carrie Breitbach
• Rising up Angry by Euan Hague
• Uptown’s JOIN Community Union from 1964-1966 by Amy Sonnie and James Tracy
• Reflections on UIC’s Student Organizing in 1968 by Earl Silbar with Stu Smith
• Native American Organizing by Lauren Cumbia
• AFRICOBRA: An Interview with Barbara Jones-Hogu by Edna Togba
• History, Philosophy and Aesthetics by Barbara Jones-Hogu
• Introducing: The Chicago April 1968 Oral History Project by Sam Barnett

Section II: Then & Now: Legacy

• Introduction by Daniel Tucker
• AREA Dialogue; Archiving ’68 with Faheem Majeed, Sherry Williams, Michelle Puetz, and Estelle Carol
• The Legacy of Sojourner Truth Organization: Interview with Mike Staudenmaier by Daniel Tucker
• Autonomous Grassroots and Non-Profit Organizations by Daniel Tucker with Eric Tang
• Educating ’68 by Eve Ewing
• On Richard Nixon and the Politics of Division: Interview with Rick Perlstein by Aaron Sarver
• What if Chicago Had Been an Orgy by Benjamin Shepard
• Rehearsals by BLW
• Special Project: 17 actions for 1968/13 actions for 2008 by Lucky Pierre
• If its not Love, then its the Om that will bring us together by Bert Stabler
• Letter to the Reenactors by Paige Sarlin
• Uprising by Nicole Garneau
• Young Lords 40th Anniversary Event by Frank Edwards
• Interview with other Chicago organizations having ’68 anniversary events
• Looks Like Freedom by Rebecca Zorach
• Depaul ’68 Art Show by Euan Hague

Special Insert

• Special Project: Al’s West Side ’68 Map. Text and photos by Monica Barra. Map design by Dave Pabellon

Section III: Intergenerationality

• Introduction by Rebecca Zorach
• Generation Monkey by Dan S. Wang
• Intergenerational Dynamics by Chris Brancaccio
• Altered by Ebony by Cathleen Schandelmeir
• Between Lefts by Eric Triantafillou
• A Meadow in Lincoln Park by Pete Zelchenko
• Bob and Margo Crawford
• JB Monorail by Theaster Gates
• Mark and Michael