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Title: Confronting the Gaze: Reconfiguring Spectatorship in "Untitled (Kitchen Table Series)" by Carrie Mae Weems
Description: The photographer Carrie Mae Weems creates narratives which bring marginalized people into the center of focus. Weems mobilizes herself as artist and as subject in order to engage with issues much larger than herself.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:13257

Title: Cross-Cultural Differences in Nonverbal Communication
Description: This video is designed for students preparing to study abroad and contains information about the differences in nonverbal communication.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:13273

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: 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: LU Matrix Decompositions., New Formulas from LU Matrix Decomposition
Description: The LU decomposition is a standard matrix factorization which we use to find new formulas in pure mathematics.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:13268

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: Muslim Public Intellectuals: Revealing Conditional Participation Through Circulation
Description: Examines the ways that dominants publics such as religion exist in America and create conditional participation for identities like Muslim Americans.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:18957

Title: Obituaries of Grinnell Civil War Veterans: Value Race and Identity in Small Town Iowa
Description: Project examining how Grinnell, Iowa remembered its Civil War veterans, through the content and language of obituaries written in the Grinnell Herald.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:18758

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