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Title: Were You There - Roland Hayes (1940), essay, Were You There
Description: Essay about tenor Roland Hayes (1887-1977) and the negro spiritual "Were You There" published in 1940 on Columbia Masterworks.
Date Created: 2013
PID: grinnell:19506

Title: Color Culture and Class, 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
Date Created: 2002
PID: grinnell:3432

Title: Food Security Barriers for Rural Food Pantry Clients
Description: The purpose of my research was to identify the barriers that rural food pantries face in trying to provide food security to their clients.
Date Created: 2015
PID: grinnell:13272

Title: Hyphens and Accents: The Hidden Violence of Assimilation
Description: This paper uses Mary Antin's memoir, Promised Land, to examine the issues of a hyphenated identity as a strategy of becoming an American.
Date Created: 2017
PID: grinnell:19508

Title: Limitations of Second-generation Korean Americans’ Ethnic Options: Strategy, Labor, and Reward
Description: Paper exploring the decisions that these children of Korean immigrants make to gain membership in either Korean or American communities.
Date Created: 2017
PID: grinnell:18958

Title: Myth of the Middle Class, Tutorial: The Myth of the Middle Class
Description: The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished. The United States is frequently described as a middle-class society and we hear the description so often that we assume we know what it means. This course will explore the myth of the middle class.
Date Created: 2001
PID: grinnell:3454

Title: The Library Graduate Assistantship: A Crucial Supplement to an LIS Education.
Description: While undertaking their graduate studies, many library and information science (LIS) students seek pre-professional graduate assistantships. These assistantships can serve as excellent opportunities to complement student's education and influence their future careers by providing them with relevant on-the-job education and skills. Graduate assistantships are a crucial to LIS education in helping new LIS professionals develop skills and experiences needed to attain gainful, professional employment.
Date Created: 2017
PID: grinnell:18242