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Title: A Mandate for Hypocrisy: The Black Studies Major at Grinnell College, Campus Culture Wars, CBS Manifesto of 1971
Description: This is an essay chronicling the history of the black studies major at Grinnell College, with an emphasis on the reasons it had such a short career. It also provides an overview of the CBS (Concerned Black Students) Manifesto of 1971.
Date Created: 1997
PID: grinnell:4958

Title: Accepting Plurality as an All-Encompassing Religion
Description: Explores how the Hong Kongese blended ancestor worship into Christianity making the two compatible for individuals.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:13174

Title: Adivasis and the Two Faces of Violence: Emergence of the postcolonial Indian State
Description: This essay investigates the epistemic and physical harms committed against the Adivasis (tribes) of Chhotanagpur by the early postcolonial state.
Date Created: 2022
PID: grinnell:31980

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: 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: Brian Ewing '07 piano recital, Piano recital, Student recital
Description: Concert program for piano recital on December 3, 2006.
Date Created: 2006
PID: grinnell:3475

Title: Cello recital, Student recital
Description: Concert program for cello recital on December 8, 2006.
Date Created: 2006
PID: grinnell:3476

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: Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, Fall 2003, Tutorial Final Papers : Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, Fall 2003
Description: Student papers for Fall 2003 tutorial, Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, taught by Jonahthan G. Andelson.
Date Created: 2003
PID: grinnell:4251

Title: Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, Fall 2004, Tutorial Final Papers : Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, Fall 2004
Description: Student papers for Fall 2004 tutorial, Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, taught by Jonahthan G. Andelson.
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:4252