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Title: Were You There - Roland Hayes (1940), essay, Were You There
Description: Essay about tenor Roland Hayes (1887-1977) and the negro spiritual "Were You There" published in 1940 on Columbia Masterworks.
Date Created: 2013
PID: grinnell:19506

Title: Color Culture and Class, Tutorial: Color, Culture and Class
Description: Race thinking dominates ways in which people in the United States differentiate groups of people from each other. This tutorial focuses on associations between color and culture in order to examine how racial meanings are constructed and made comprehensible as well as how they are routed through representations of class. Using a combination of texts -- academic articles, films, newspapers and advertisements -- we will explore representations of
Date Created: 2002
PID: grinnell:3432

Title: Confronting the Gaze: Reconfiguring Spectatorship in "Untitled (Kitchen Table Series)" by Carrie Mae Weems
Description: The photographer Carrie Mae Weems creates narratives which bring marginalized people into the center of focus. Weems mobilizes herself as artist and as subject in order to engage with issues much larger than herself.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:13257

Title: Food Security Barriers for Rural Food Pantry Clients
Description: The purpose of my research was to identify the barriers that rural food pantries face in trying to provide food security to their clients.
Date Created: 2015
PID: grinnell:13272

Title: Myth of the Middle Class, Tutorial: The Myth of the Middle Class
Description: The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished. The United States is frequently described as a middle-class society and we hear the description so often that we assume we know what it means. This course will explore the myth of the middle class.
Date Created: 2001
PID: grinnell:3454

Title: Obituaries of Grinnell Civil War Veterans: Value Race and Identity in Small Town Iowa
Description: Project examining how Grinnell, Iowa remembered its Civil War veterans, through the content and language of obituaries written in the Grinnell Herald.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:18758

Title: Tapping natureG??s bounty: science and sugar maples in the age of improvement
Description: This piece analyzes the eighteenth-century campaigns to develop a maple sugar industry in North America as a way of undercutting slavery and the sugar-plantation complex of the Caribbean. It is part of a larger collection that examines how trees became woven into the cultural, economic, and political fabric of life in the eighteenth century, and uses the case of the sugar maple to explore the intersections between nature, enlightenment science, and new ambitions for societal reform.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:17946

Title: The Library Graduate Assistantship: A Crucial Supplement to an LIS Education.
Description: While undertaking their graduate studies, many library and information science (LIS) students seek pre-professional graduate assistantships. These assistantships can serve as excellent opportunities to complement student's education and influence their future careers by providing them with relevant on-the-job education and skills. Graduate assistantships are a crucial to LIS education in helping new LIS professionals develop skills and experiences needed to attain gainful, professional employment.
Date Created: 2017
PID: grinnell:18242

Title: “Going to Meet the Man”: Scripting White Supremacist Eros
Description: James Baldwin's short story "Going to Meet the Man," builds a channel between the lynching practices of the postbellum South with the violence of the modern police state.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:18768