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      Paul L. Street is the author of six books to date: Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis: a Living Black Chicago History (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007); Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in the Post-Civil Rights Era (New York: Routledge, 2005); Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2004); Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2008, described by John Pilger in The Guardian in 2009 as “perhaps the only book that tells the truth about the 44thpresident of the United States”);  The Empire’s New Clothes:  Barack Obama in the Real World of Power (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, forthcoming in July 2010); and Crashing the Tea Party Mass Media and the Campaign to Remake American Politics (Boulder, CO Paradigm. 2011, co-authored with Anthony DiMaggio).
       
      Street has published a large number of articles, essays, reviews, and editorials in numerous outlets, including ZNet, Z Magazine, CounterPunch, Black Agenda Report, the Chicago Tribune, Journal of American Ethnic History, Journal of Social History, Mid-America, Critical Sociology, Chicago History,Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, Studies in History and Politics, History of Education Quarterly, Monthly Review,  Iowa City Press-Citizen, In These Times, Economic and Political Weekly (Mumbai, India),  Tinabantu: Journal of African National Affairs (Cape Town, South Africa),  Synthesis/Regeneration, International Socialist Review, Dissent, Capital City Times (Madison, WI),  Black Commentator, Tom’s Dispatch, History News Network, MRZine, Dissident Voice, and Monthly Review.   

      Street has also published a large number of book chapters and project studies, including the widely read reports The Vicious Circle: Race, Prison, Jobs and Community in Chicago, Illinois and the Nation (Chicago Urban League, 2002) and Still Separate, Unequal: Race, Class, Poverty and Policy in Chicago (Chicago Urban League, 2005).  
       
      Street’s writings, research findings, reviews, and commentaries have been cited and quoted in a large number and wide variety of media venues, including The New York Times, CNN, The Huffington Post, Al Jazeera, the Chicago Tribune, The Progressive, The Indypendent (NYC), The Times of India, Morning Star (England), Al-Alkhbar (The News in Beirut, Lebanon),  Canal da Imprensa (Brazil), Real Clear Politics,  NBC-New York City, WGN (Chicago/national), WLS (ABC-Chicago), Press TV (Iran), Fox News, the Chicago Sun Times, Illinois Issues, and theCapital City Times (Madison, WI),and theIowa City Press Citizen. Street has been featured in more than 70 radio and television interviews and broadcasts, and on the popular live book salon at “Firedog Lake.”
       
      Street has a doctorate in U.S. History at Binghamton University and has taught at numerous colleges and universities in and around Chicago.  Street was the Director of Research and Vice President for Research and Planning at The Chicago Urban League from 2000 to 2005. Street is currently an independent policy researcher, historian, journalist, activist, political commentator, and speaker based in Chicago, Illinois and Iowa City, Iowa.
       
      Street has appeared in more than 60 radio and television interviews/broadcasts and on the popular live Web book-chat at Firedog Lake

      Street has taught various aspects of U.S. history at a large number of Chicago-area colleges and universities.  He has been strongly attached to Left political and intellectual culture since he read Volume 1 of Das Kapital and Leon Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution (the first at a snail's pace) in the basement of a house in DeKalb, Illinois in the spring of 1978.  He was the Director of Research at The Chicago Urban League from 2000 through 2005.  

      Street is a (sixth-grade) graduate of (the original John Dewey) Laboratory School at the University of Chicago but it was all public schools after that. Teenage delinquency may have saved him from ruling-class indoctrination/socialization at one of the nation's elite universities or liberal arts colleges and put him on a fateful path to the once-exciting "little red schoolhouse on the prairie" - the formerly Marxist History Department of Northern Illinois University.  The best childhood education he received came from the social movements of the 1960s - a pedagogical engagement that begin with hearing Martin Luther King, Jr, speak at Chicago's Soldier Field during the long hot summer of 1966. Much of Street's writing revolves around criticism and exposure of what King called "the triple evils that are interrelated": racism, economic exploitation (capitalism), and militarism-imperialism. He thinks that other and related evils, including sexism and ecocidalism (and authoritarianism more generally) deserve equal consideration

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