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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: 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