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Title: Beginner's Field Guide to Grinnell and its Environs
Description: A field guide to the natural environment of the Grinnell area.
Date Created: 2006
PID: grinnell:1676

Title: Big Meat, Small Towns: The Meatpacking Industry’s Shift to Rural America and the Reemergence of Company Towns, Meatpacking Industry's Shift to Rural America and the Reemergence of Company
Description: This study explores the reemergence of company towns in American society through the analysis of slaughtering communities in rural Iowa.
Date Created: 2012
PID: grinnell:122

Title: Biopolitics, Gendered Nationalism, and Abortion: The Influence of the Catholic Church in Poland and Ireland
Description: Poland and Ireland each have some of the world's most restrictive abortion legislation, with abortion being nearly if not entirely criminalized in both countries. The Catholic Church filled a nationalist role, setting the stage for each country to become a modern theocracy.
Date Created: 2017
PID: grinnell:18757

Title: Birth of a Nation as an ‘Educational’ Tool for Racialized Violence
Description: Examines the attempt by the film Birth of a Nation to shape one's perception of American history and culture.
Date Created: 2021
PID: grinnell:29700

Title: Bob
Description: Poem.
Date Created: 2010
PID: grinnell:3413

Title: Building Community Behind Barbed Wires: The ‘Religious Life’ of Japanese American Youth In Internment Camps
Description: Japanese Americans sought to build a sense of community within the bounds of the internment camps during World War II using participation in religious activity.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:18952

Title: CAFOs, Conflict, and Compromise: An Ethnographic Approach to Attitudes Towards Livestock Production and Related Conflict in Iowa
Description: Concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) are agricultural operations where animals are kept and raised in confined situations. .
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:18956

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: Critical Fabulation for Survival: Knowledge of Pre-colonial Gender in Igbo Culture to Sustain Queer Imaginings of Care
Description: Through legislation and social code, modern-day Nigeria has become a hostile and dangerous country for queer people. As a queer person of the Nigerian diaspora, I struggle to hold both my “queer” and “Nigerian” identities because they seem contradictory. In this paper, I detail my journey reckoning with these two seemingly dissonant parts of my identity. In my endeavor to find communal belonging in Nigeria and its diaspora, I turn to the archive of pre-colonial Nigeria to discover if the nation of my ancestry was always hostile towards queer people. In particular, I try to uncover the violence British colonialism introduced to Nigeria. In this paper, I draw on the work of Saidiya Hartman to contextualize and guide my research and archivally-driven quest for belonging. As I have matured into myself, I have grappled with the intersections of my Nigerian-American and queer identities. Recently, I learned how Saidiya Hartman's "critical fabulation," a method for being attuned to and coping with archival gaps, can be a tool for survival when multiple realities conflict (Hartman, 2008). I practice critical fabulation in my venture to grapple with my “contradicting” identities by researching and drawing on the history of gender in Nigeria to imagine a more inclusive nation. Further, in this essay, I co-opt W. E. B. Du Bois’ framework of double consciousness to describe the internal conflict I feel regarding the friction between my Nigerian heritage and my queer identity because of the violence modern-day Nigeria inflicts upon queer people (Du Bois, 2007). Throughout this auto-ethnography, I discuss my double consciousness that stems from the intersectional oppressive structures in my life, such as patriarchy, transphobia, and homophobia. Additionally, in this paper, I demonstrate how the act of critical fabulation allows me to reconnect with myself and my (pre-colonial) Nigerian heritage to imagine and create spaces where queer Nigerians and I can belong (Hartman, 2008, p. 11).
Date Created: 2023
PID: grinnell:34246

Title: Cross-Cultural Differences in Nonverbal Communication
Description: This video is designed for students preparing to study abroad and contains information about the differences in nonverbal communication.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:13273