BLACKSPANIC COLLEGE
H.B. KOPLOWITZ’S MASTER WORK
NOW AVAILABLE AS EBOOK
“Blackspanic College” is a true story about the author’s experience teaching journalism at a community college in South-Central Los Angeles. Initially overwhelmed, he’s befriended by some of the students, especially Blackjack Loco, a “retired” gangbanger fresh out of prison, and the wall between insecure teacher and semi-feral students, and black and white, starts to crack. Read more.
|
From the 1976 GOP Convention in Kansas City to the 1995 O.J. Simpson “trial of the century” in Los Angeles, gonzo journalist H.B. Koplowitz explores journalism ethics and other oxymorons in this anthology of seven New Journalism stories. In between, the author goes on an ill-fated media junket to Washington, D.C.; walks on fire; stakes out a media stakeout; tries to “seduce” a source; and slips over to the other side to flack for the Illinois State Fair. Read more. |
IN PAPERBACK:
CARBONDALE AFTER DARK
From panty raids to riots
“Carbondale After Dark” chronicles how a sleepy little college town in the Midwest became a political hotbed and hippie haven during the 1960s and ’70s. Read more.
BLACKSPANIC COLLEGE
Sometimes things aren’t black and white
“Blackspanic College” is a true story about the author’s experience teaching journalism at a community college in South-Central Los Angeles. Initially overwhelmed, he’s befriended by some of the students, especially Blackjack Loco, a “retired” gangbanger fresh out of prison, and the wall between insecure teacher and semi-feral students, and black and white, starts to crack. Read more.
ABOUT H.B. KOPLOWITZ
Harold Koplowitz has been a journalist, educator and publicist who ghostwrote a book for an Illinois governor who did not go to prison. Read more.
More of H.B.’s Writings
Racial Baggage: Prequel to ‘Blackspanic College’
Like a lot of people, I lug around a certain amount of racial baggage as a result of my previous interactions with people of other ethnic groups.
Carbondale Before Dark: Prequel to ‘Carbondale After Dark’
A tree stump in a parking lot at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois, is the last vestige of the front yard of the home I grew up in from 1952, when I was in diapers, to 1964, when I was entering puberty.
Honkeyphobia
A stupid encounter between a black Harvard professor and a white Cambridge police sergeant may have shined a light on a common but rarely discussed phenomenon — honkeyphobia.
Palestinian Prank
I applaud Palestinian students at Florida Atlantic University for posting faux eviction notices on dorm doors to raise awareness of Israel’s controversial policy of allowing Jewish settlers to move into disputed territories in the West Bank.
Snacks Online
Why do snack crackers and potato chips come in as many flavors as mutual funds? For snackaholics who think salt is a sugar substitute, inquiring minds want to know.
Stick Figure Snuff Flicks
No plot, no moral, no redeeming social value. Just pure, unadulterated violence…
Fanfic Online
With Congress wanting to stomp out sex and violence in Hollywood, what are those who want MORE sex and violence to do?
Cyber Sea-Monkeys
In 1957, Harold von Braunhut stared into a vat of brine shrimp and saw … Sea-Monkeys.
Bob Dylan and Paul Simon: Slip Slidin’ Away
Thirty-two years after the “Summer of Love,” the two greatest folk rock composers of the 1960s, Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, teamed up for a concert tour. Attention must be paid.