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Welcome to our very first ONLINE BOOK GROUP discussion!  This month (June 2006) we'll be reading and discussing AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BLUE-EYED DEVIL by CUNT author INGA MUSCIO.

Herre's the official description:

It's just called history, asserts Inga Muscio in her newest book. In fact, the controversial author continues, the so-called history we learn in school is no more than a brand, developed by white men who, often unjustly, won the right to spin their stories as hard facts. With Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil, it's Muscio's turn and she's taking it in order to hip the masses to the truth about the American history they think they know. Whose country is it? Has democracy ever really existed? Why does our culture celebrate certain figures and ignore others? Do schools teach kids to perpetuate white supremacist ideologies? Muscio delves deep to answer these questions, marveling at how personal history is to everyone, while challenging people to expand their thinking on America's past and encouraging them to consider how their own histories might read.


You can buy it online at Women & Children First -- and if you use this link, part of the proceeds will benefit CNW: http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/NA … 1580051197

If you've already read it, feel free to jump in and let us know what you thought, what kind of ideas & questions it provoked, and whether you'd recommend it to a friend.  If you haven't read it yet, join us in reading it together!  We'll be talking about it here all June.  More discussion questions to come soon...