Blackspanic College

Part memoir, part history and part reflections on race, Blackspanic College is 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.