ABSTRACT
The culture is particularly intense in courses that emphasize "theory" rather than practice. The culture that students themselves produce encourages their own continued "superexploitation" as blacks in American society. Faculty nevertheless contribute to the shape and form of student culture in some rather fundamental ways. Well-meaning faculty contribute to the process of cultural production unbeknown to them simply because they are participants in a day-to-day drama. The production of a culture that largely reproduces and legitimates social inequalities and antagonisms is a very human process; one which is mediated by people at the level of their own lived culture. It is significant that the culture students themselves produce provides a basis for their own continued superexploitation. Community colleges must be seen as something other than "all encompassing footholds of domination". Students and faculty alike must engage in a process of self-reflection. Such self-reflection will go much further than externally imposed teaching ever could.
