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"Afrikaner Blood"

Although most South African's have wholeheartedly embraced Nelson Mandela's vision of a multicultural rainbow nation, some right-wing Afrikaans extremist groups continue to promote racist discourses and insist that they are not a part of the new South Africa. 

The following documentary, Afrikaner Blood, provides a shocking view into a boys camp run by the group Kommandokorps (led by old-apartheid leader Franz Jooste) at which Afrikaans teenagers are indoctrinated with Apartheid ideals and taught to defend themselves and their families against South African crime. The fact that these young boys have not been allowed to embrace the freedom of the country that they were born into is nothing less than a tragedy. 

Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Videos

So you think music videos are harmless... think again.

Dreamworlds 3, a ground breaking documentary by Sut Jhally, examines the stories contemporary music videos tell about girls and women, and encourages us to consider how these narratives shape individual and cultural attitudes about sexuality.

Illustrated with hundreds of up-to-date images, Dreamworlds 3 offers a unique and powerful tool for understanding both the continuing influence of music videos and how pop culture more generally filters the identities of young men and women through a dangerously narrow set of myths about sexuality and gender. In doing so, it inspires us to reflect critically on images that we might otherwise take for granted. 

Warning: The following images are not for the faint of heart, but it is nothing you wouldn't see on MTV...