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Title: Alumni Oral Histories: A Collaboration Between the Libraries and Development and Alumni Relations
Description: This article describes a collaboration between Grinnell College's libraries and its Office of Development and Alumni Relations
Date Created: 2019
PID: grinnell:27777

Title: Eating Graphic History: Japanese American Pioneers of the California Food Revolution
Description: Today, Americans are more aware than ever of their food choices—where the food comes from, its locality, how it was produced, and its health quotient. But back in the 1970s, local food movements were largely nonexistent. It was the Japanese Americans living in California who began advocating for local, organic farming—and despite systemic racism, were able to make America better.
Date Created: 2019
PID: grinnell:26669

Title: Facing Uncertainty: Norms and Formal Institutions as Shared Mental Models
Description: This paper presents a theoretical argument focused on how social norms and formal institutions operate as cognitive coping mechanisms among groupings of boundedly rational actors who face fundamental uncertainty concerning their political and economic environments.
Date Created: 2019
PID: grinnell:27808

Title: Grinnell Science Project: Motivating First-Year Students to Persist in Scientific Inquiry, Motivating First-Year Students to Persist in Scientific Inquiry, the Grinnell Science Project
Description: Librarians Kevin Engel, Liz Rodrigues, and Rebecca Ciota discuss the library instruction session portion of the Grinnell Science Project, a program to promote diversity in STEM majors at Grinnell College.
Date Created: 2019
PID: grinnell:23739

Title: Japanese American Artisan of California Cuisine and Produce
Description: This comic tells the story of one of my case studies, Bill Fujimoto, a Japanese-American food retailer. Berkeley-based Fujimoto was the first person to source locally grown and specialty produce for Alice Waters’ revolutionary California Cuisine restaurant Chez Panisse when it opened.
Date Created: 2019
PID: grinnell:26670

Title: The Fortunes of Grenceaster: A Collection of Stories
Description: The Fortunes of Grenceaster" is a collaborative work of historical fiction created by the students in the Grinnell 1st year Tutorial "Old English Re-Imagined,"
Date Created: 2019
PID: grinnell:29788

Title: Working Hard in Hollywood: How Hollywood Casting Directors' Performances of Gatekeeping Invest in Whiteness
Description: The relationship between casting and race has been insufficiently examined in both popular and academic writings on Hollywood.
Date Created: 2019
PID: grinnell:26708

Title: “If you are going to say you’re Afro-Latina that means that you are Black”: Afro-Latinxs Contesting the Dilution of Afro-Latinid, Afro-Latinxs Contesting the Dilution of Afro-Latinidad
Description: Afro-Latinidad has gained a lot of popularulty over the last number of years. However, the visibility of Afro-Latinidad does not mean that Afro-Latinxs are being listened to or that thier concerns are being meet. The increased visibility of Afro-Latinidad has actually lead to what i deem the dilution of Afro-Latinidad. In this paper, I highlight the ways Afro-Latinxs respond to the dilution of Afro-Latinidad.
Date Created: 2019
PID: grinnell:26671