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Title: Big Data under Obama and Trump: The Data-Fueled U.S. Presidency
Description: The much-heralded use of data, analytics, and evidence-based decisions marks the U.S. presidencies of Obama and Trump.
PID: grinnell:26654

Title: Current Perspectives on Porgy and Bess
Description: A conversation between Randye Jones and George Shirley at the time of the celebration of the 75th anniversary of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
PID: grinnell:231

Title: Girls on Film : The Intersecting Histories of Queer Cinema and Feminist Filmmaking
Description: Explores the history of the feminist movement in the Twentieth Century through the lens of film history.
PID: grinnell:3409

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. While the opera is known for sparking the professional careers of many African American vocalists, its storyline has been thought to portray African Americans negatively. Secondly, despite the unquestioned musical quality of Porgy and Bess, companies, directors, and critics continue to debate whether to treat it as an opera, a musical, or a hybrid of the two. Furthermore, singing roles in staged productions of the opera, at least in the United States. are restricted to Black vocalists, challenging companies that would have to import enough Blacks to fill the opera‘s solo and choral parts.
PID: grinnell:230

Title: Tutorial: Color, Culture and Class
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.
PID: grinnell:11384