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Title: Russian Public Opinion: Mass Perspectives on the United States and China in 2010
Description: This paper considers how the Russian people feel about the world around them and about the two most significant actors in it, the United States and China.
Date Created: 2011
PID: grinnell:124

Title: Surveying Current Perspectives of Porgy and Bess
Description: George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess celebrated its 75th anniversary with nearly as much controversy as when it premiered in 1935.
Date Created: 2011
PID: grinnell:230

Title: The Call of the Cross: Four College Sermons, The Call of the Cross: 4 College Sermons
Description: Four sermons by George Herron, with an introduction by President George Augustus Gates.
Date Created: 1892
PID: grinnell:1751

Title: The First Meeting
Description: This piece aims to juxtapose Iowa’s progressive aims with its oppressive past. The centerpiece of this block is a poster publicizing an anti-slavery meeting which took place in Iowa. While anti-slavery meetings such as this one were necessary in the push towards abolition, the artist urges Iowans to explore their state’s relationship to slavery on a deeper level. The artist has incorporated chain-like strands of metal to symbolize the bondage of enslaved peoples, and depictions of genetic material captures the implications of slavery for actual living organisms. While Grinnellians may sometimes put their town on a pedestal for its historic abolitionist position and refusal to join the Confederate Army, this block calls attention to the pain and suffering that still occurred in this state at the hands of racism and white supremacy.
Date Created: 2017
PID: grinnell:25483

Title: The Social Appropriation of Legacy : A Symptom of Elite Control in American Society
Description: This paper examines how the legacies of assassinated individuals are preserved in the collective consciousness of America.
Date Created: 2013
PID: grinnell:3202

Title: The U.S., Russia, and Bridging the East-West Divide, United States, Russia and Bridging the East-West Divide.
Description: Ian Kelly, Diplomat in Residence for the Midwest, give a talk on the the U.S. Russia Divide in 2014.
Date Created: 2014
PID: grinnell:23076

Title: Tutorial: Color, Culture and Class, Color, Culture and Class, Tutorial (2010)
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 "whiteness," "blackness," and other "race-d" identities in the public arena. Throughout the semester we will interrogate the language, ideas and assumptions that give meaning to the different ways we perceive the world around us and through which we understand our individual experiences.
Date Created: 2010
PID: grinnell:11384

Title: Uncommon Carriers: The Effective Regulation of Net Neutrality
Description: Explores issues with the regulation of internet providers as common carriers by the Federal Communications Commission.
Date Created: 2015
PID: grinnell:11386

Title: Victim’s Rights in 9/11/01 Violence, Victim's Rights in Nine/Eleven/Two-thousand-and-one Violence
Description: Kathryn Fenster's submission to the 2012 Peace Studies Student Conference
Date Created: 2012
PID: grinnell:89

Title: “Fear God, Tell the Truth, and Make Money”
Description: “Fear God, tell the truth and make money” was the motto of The Iowa Bystander, a newspaper established by ten black businessmen in Des Moines, Iowa in 1894. The Iowa Bystander targeted a black audience and employed black writers, unlike most Iowa newspapers at the time who would not hire black journalists. The Bystander outspokenly criticized American society, taking on several different issues such as the Ku Klux Klan, racist advertising practices, and unequal treatment of blacks in the American armed forces. Most black newspapers in the United States at this time had an average lifespan of about nine years, but the Bystander lasted more than eighty years due to its strong leadership under publishers like John Lay Thompson and J.B. Morris, making it one of the most successful black newspapers in the country. This block incorporates different clippings from the Iowa Bystander. The clippings include several ads for employment opportunities, an advertisement for a colored cafe, and an article about the Iowa State Federation Colored Women’s Club. The paper paid tribute to various women in the ranks of the club, and included beautiful portraits of many of the women involved. Through their journalism, the Bystander was able to empower and connect blacks across America. Newspapers like the Bystander played a critical role in uniting black communities and creating a space for them in white America.
Date Created: 2017
PID: grinnell:25509