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Title: Russian Public Opinion: Mass Perspectives on the United States and China in 2010
Description: This paper considers how the Russian people feel about the world around them and about the two most significant actors in it, the United States and China.
Date Created: 2011
PID: grinnell:124

Title: Science Classroom Scene, 1977
Description: A scene from a science laboratory or classroom with three students standing around science equipment. May 1977.
Date Created: 1977
PID: grinnell:12900

Title: Students in Robert Gray's Political Science Seminar, April 1976
Description: Two students in Robert Grey's Political Science Seminar. One student is Scott Beers, class of 1978. Taken April 1976.
Date Created: 1976
PID: grinnell:12903

Title: The First Meeting
Description: This piece aims to juxtapose Iowa’s progressive aims with its oppressive past. The centerpiece of this block is a poster publicizing an anti-slavery meeting which took place in Iowa. While anti-slavery meetings such as this one were necessary in the push towards abolition, the artist urges Iowans to explore their state’s relationship to slavery on a deeper level. The artist has incorporated chain-like strands of metal to symbolize the bondage of enslaved peoples, and depictions of genetic material captures the implications of slavery for actual living organisms. While Grinnellians may sometimes put their town on a pedestal for its historic abolitionist position and refusal to join the Confederate Army, this block calls attention to the pain and suffering that still occurred in this state at the hands of racism and white supremacy.
Date Created: 2017
PID: grinnell:25483

Title: The Journey
Description: This block was created around the theme of the journey. We all go through different journeys in our lives, some longer and more challenging than others, but every journey is important and demands courage and strength. This block honors those who were challenged by a specific journey unique to American history and relevant, even more specifically, to the state of Iowa; the story of the Underground Railroad. This block is comprised of a map of the Underground Railroad in the South, framed by a smattering of screws, pill capsules, buttons, stars, and other found objects. It also includes a photograph of the Lewelling House, a popular anti-slavery meeting house and renown safe stop on the Underground Railroad in an area of the Midwest particularly unfriendly to slaves and freed blacks during the years before the Civil War. Although the area of the South portrayed in the map is, of course, miles from the Lewelling House, the experience of black people in America is part of our entire country’s history, not just the areas most ravaged by institutional slavery and injustice. Although we often associate slavery with the American South, we must not forget that slavery was a national issue which demanded the attention of every city, small town, and individual, much like issues of racism still demand every person’s attention, no matter their race, today. The strewn nails and capsules surrounding the images in this block allude to journeys of different kinds, both physical and emotional. As our eyes follow the paths drawn by these loose objects we may be reminded of journeys we have taken in our own lives.
Date Created: 2017
PID: grinnell:25495

Title: The U.S., Russia, and Bridging the East-West Divide, United States, Russia and Bridging the East-West Divide.
Description: Ian Kelly, Diplomat in Residence for the Midwest, give a talk on the the U.S. Russia Divide in 2014.
Date Created: 2014
PID: grinnell:23076

Title: Tutorial: Color, Culture and Class, Color, Culture and Class, Tutorial (2010)
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.
Date Created: 2010
PID: grinnell:11384

Title: Uncommon Carriers: The Effective Regulation of Net Neutrality
Description: Explores issues with the regulation of internet providers as common carriers by the Federal Communications Commission.
Date Created: 2015
PID: grinnell:11386

Title: Unknown to Unknown, January (?), 1859
Description: The letter seems to be a fragment. The first paragraph discusses the where the writer lives, and details of the surrounding area. The second paragraph discusses information concerning state government and jurisdiction districts. Also mentioned is the State University [later University of Iowa].
Date Created: 1859
PID: grinnell:12340

Title: Victim’s Rights in 9/11/01 Violence, Victim's Rights in Nine/Eleven/Two-thousand-and-one Violence
Description: Kathryn Fenster's submission to the 2012 Peace Studies Student Conference
Date Created: 2012
PID: grinnell:89