Category: school
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Discussion: Building Resilient Organizations
Gemini summary of discussion on Meeting Purpose & Context:The meeting centers around discussing an article written by Mitchell. Speaker 1 introduces the article as a courageous piece analyzing the current state of grassroots organizing and activism, particularly addressing challenges, errors, and conceptual understanding within the movement. Article Introduction & Initial Framing (Speaker 1): Initial Reactions…
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Transitions – I've Got the Light of Freedom
transitions-ive-got-the-light-of-freedom.doc Payne, Charles M. 1995 Transitions In I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle. Pp. 284-316. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press. I’ve Got the Light of Freedom the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle Chapter Ten Transitions Before the summer project last year…
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May Day 2006 and the Gulf War
Before hitting Wilshire and Western at 4:00 pm, we are sitting in the lounge watching Fox News, which is broadcasting live rallies in Downtown and Santa Ana. That looks pretty hard to match up. Then we think of our plan for today. Ever heard CNN’s of live Gulf War broadcasting? Iraqui scud missile headquarters used…
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Too much school?
Ana put footnotes in Mac’s April 10 Immigrant Rights March flyer. omg. Compare with Berkeley’s flyer. [Tags]Immigration, Agitprop, Humor[/Tags]
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Colorado College American Cultural Studies External Review
http://www.macalester.edu/americanstudies/index.htm REVIEW OF THE AMERICAN CULTURAL STUDIES PROGRAM AT COLORADO COLLEGE Professor Duchess Harris participated in assessing the curricular scope of the American Cultural Studies Department at Colorado College and offered recommendations as to how it can be developed as a program. (Review downloadable as PDF)
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Roberto Rodriguez. As America's Latino diaspora evolves, so does the field
Roberto Rodriguez As America’s Latino diaspora evolves, so does the field Founded some 30 years ago and at one time believed to be on the verge of extinction, the field of Chicano studies is constantly expanding. As Puerto Rican and Cuban communities grew in the United States in the 1960s and ’70s, so did the…
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[DEBATE] peter waterman. International Marxist Embarassment Month?
From: peter waterman To: “debate: SA discussion list” Cc: Virginia Vargas telefonica.net.pe Date: Apr 12, 2005 3:20 AM Subject: [DEBATE] : International Marxist Embarassment Month? If we need this kind (See Below) of gushing, this kind of emoting, this kind of identification between Trotskyism/Geuvarismo and particular contemporary individuals or parties, then I really think we…
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Who Inquires? Assumed Interactions at Art Exhibit
Yongho Kim Principles of Art March 18, 2005 Material Inquiry is a month-long national exhibition of textile and fiber arts works at Macalester College. I briefly toured the exhibit on the morning of March 18th, the closing day, for comments and thoughts to be submitted at the Principles of Art class.
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first I see this article on the pervasive…
first, I see this article on the pervasive effects of Walmart in the city http://www.urbancartography.com/2005/02/die_walmart_die.html and, a commentor had told the writer to not be so blatant about his own “biases”, and mocked at the fact that his google adsense (content-specific text advertising) was showing ADS of Walmart. Indeed, next to the article criticizing Walmart,…
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Outline: AIDS, politics of accusation, and racially bound female bodies in the Korean American public discourse
Medical Anthropology March 3, 2005 Yongho Kim My paper aims to make the claim that geographically and racially imagined narratives within the Korean American community (in particular New York City) that portray the AIDS/HIV epidemic as originating from outside the ehtno-nationally defined core of the Korean American community have contributed to the ongoing process of…
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Polio Resurgence, Control in Saudi Arabia and Surrounding Areas.
Medical Anthropology Short paper on current issues in infectious diseases February 25, 2005 Yongho Kim Poliomyelitis, called “polio” for short, is a viral infectious disease affecting mostly young children between the age of 3 to 5 years. It is caused by the poliovirus, with three recognized strains – non-paralytic, spinal paralytic, and bulbar – and…
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notes, senior seminar. theories and variables
theories in our anthropological paper is a way to explain something. the variable is the thing to be explained. paper 1 building of dams affects women’s livelihoods in a particular river valley in Senegal. variable is the dam and new irrigation methods, which is to be explained, and the result of the dam being there…
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Anthropology Senior Seminar Yongho Kim February 24 2005…
Anthropology Senior Seminar Yongho Kim February 24, 2005 Assignment: One-page summary of the theory of your research paper. Does it belong to a particular type? Is it informed by particular types? If it cuts across theoretical lines, which theories does it cut across? My research paper argues that social relationships among the GW riders is…
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Superstructures and subaltern practices in the ANC and the SCLC
Fredom Movements Essay 1 February 23, 2005 Andrew Ancheta Yongho Kim In his controversial book Black Marxism, Cedric Robinson argues that “the roots of Western racism took hold in European civilization well before the dawn of capitalism” (Kelley, 2000: 12). In a differing approach from George Frederickson to the overlaps of racism and capitalism in…
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after watching Malcolm X so when chicano activists…
after watching Malcolm X so, when chicano activists say “we did not cross the border, the border crossed us”, are they borrowing from Malcolm X’s saying in the NYC church, “we did not come to Plymouth, Plymouth came to us”? the “did you know brother minister what so and so did before going to heaven?…
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False (third world) Consciousness
False (third world) Consciousness Response to presentation on public art Art 149: Principles of Art February 17, 2005 Yongho Kim Assignment: Consider a favorite space in your life. … In a length of 1-2 pages, describe this place in detail, thinking especially about physical qualities of the site which conribute to your positive recollections. Can…
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The Black Body as a feared Necessity in the Post-Industrial Urban Economy
response paper to the Sixth Annual African American Studies Conference at Macalester College Freedom Movements February 16, 2005 Yongho Kim In her keynote speech Democracy and Captivity, Joy Ann James argues that the prison-state constitutes the institution through which neoslave narratives are embodied in the United States. A neoslave narrative, James argues, is “a recycling…
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[email] The Mantra of Multiculturalism, two years later
Adelante! and cultural org leaders, two and half years ago, leaders at orgs of students of color congregated and drafted The Mantra of Multiculturalism, a 13-point document delineating strategies to advocate for multiculturalism in the face of a hostile Macalester administration. Of course, this is my interpretation. Take a look at the document yourself: