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Title: Birth of a Nation as an ‘Educational’ Tool for Racialized Violence
Description: Examines the attempt by the film Birth of a Nation to shape one's perception of American history and culture.
Date Created: 2021
PID: grinnell:29700

Title: Bob
Description: Poem.
Date Created: 2010
PID: grinnell:3413

Title: Brian Ewing '07 piano recital, Piano recital, Student recital
Description: Concert program for piano recital on December 3, 2006.
Date Created: 2006
PID: grinnell:3475

Title: Building Community Behind Barbed Wires: The ‘Religious Life’ of Japanese American Youth In Internment Camps
Description: Japanese Americans sought to build a sense of community within the bounds of the internment camps during World War II using participation in religious activity.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:18952

Title: Cello recital, Student recital
Description: Concert program for cello recital on December 8, 2006.
Date Created: 2006
PID: grinnell:3476

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: Critical Fabulation for Survival: Knowledge of Pre-colonial Gender in Igbo Culture to Sustain Queer Imaginings of Care
Description: Through legislation and social code, modern-day Nigeria has become a hostile and dangerous country for queer people. As a queer person of the Nigerian diaspora, I struggle to hold both my “queer” and “Nigerian” identities because they seem contradictory. In this paper, I detail my journey reckoning with these two seemingly dissonant parts of my identity. In my endeavor to find communal belonging in Nigeria and its diaspora, I turn to the archive of pre-colonial Nigeria to discover if the nation of my ancestry was always hostile towards queer people. In particular, I try to uncover the violence British colonialism introduced to Nigeria. In this paper, I draw on the work of Saidiya Hartman to contextualize and guide my research and archivally-driven quest for belonging. As I have matured into myself, I have grappled with the intersections of my Nigerian-American and queer identities. Recently, I learned how Saidiya Hartman's "critical fabulation," a method for being attuned to and coping with archival gaps, can be a tool for survival when multiple realities conflict (Hartman, 2008). I practice critical fabulation in my venture to grapple with my “contradicting” identities by researching and drawing on the history of gender in Nigeria to imagine a more inclusive nation. Further, in this essay, I co-opt W. E. B. Du Bois’ framework of double consciousness to describe the internal conflict I feel regarding the friction between my Nigerian heritage and my queer identity because of the violence modern-day Nigeria inflicts upon queer people (Du Bois, 2007). Throughout this auto-ethnography, I discuss my double consciousness that stems from the intersectional oppressive structures in my life, such as patriarchy, transphobia, and homophobia. Additionally, in this paper, I demonstrate how the act of critical fabulation allows me to reconnect with myself and my (pre-colonial) Nigerian heritage to imagine and create spaces where queer Nigerians and I can belong (Hartman, 2008, p. 11).
Date Created: 2023
PID: grinnell:34246

Title: Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, Fall 2003, Tutorial Final Papers : Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, Fall 2003
Description: Student papers for Fall 2003 tutorial, Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, taught by Jonahthan G. Andelson.
Date Created: 2003
PID: grinnell:4251

Title: Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, Fall 2004, Tutorial Final Papers : Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, Fall 2004
Description: Student papers for Fall 2004 tutorial, Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, taught by Jonahthan G. Andelson.
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:4252

Title: Determining Students’ Postsecondary Plans: A Program Evaluation of the Tools Used by Grinnell High School’s Counseling Departmen, Program Evaluation of the Tools Used by Grinnell High School’s Counseling Department
Description: Exploration of the effectiveness of the tools used by the counseling department at Grinnell High School to determine students’ postsecondary plans.
Date Created: 2015
PID: grinnell:12982