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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: 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: Northern Designs: British Science, Imperialism, and Improvement at the Dawn of the Anthropocene
Description: This essay explores the eighteenth-century campaigns in Britain to develop a new kind of imperial economy in the northern reaches of the Atlantic world that would focus less on settler colonies and agriculture, and more on the extraction of minerals, metals, and energy to fuel the burgeoning industrial sectors of England. These efforts reveal how new visions of enlightened progress emerged in the 18th and 19th century that imagined a world filled with endless natural resources capable of being tapped by those with the scientific and administrative know-how to do so.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:17947

Title: South of the Confederacy: Confederate Symbols in Argentine Clothing and the Erasure of History.
Description: The recent globalization of fashion has transmitted not only the American Confederate flag to other countries, but also the debate surrounding its place in popular culture. This paper investigates the case study of COOK, a popular Argentine clothing company that prominently features the Confederate flag in its logo and branding.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:18767

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 Refusal of Russian Motherhood, Annotated Bibliography
Description: An annotated bibliography developed for an analysis of Bolshevik Feminism looking at whether the legalization of abortion in 1920 had any real impact on the lives of Russian women.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:19507