Itching to learn more about the activism of womyn of color at Brown University since the 1960s? Look no further than A People’s Herstory of Womyn of Color at Brown, an archive created by spring 2014 students Sarah Day Dayon ’15, Kendra Cornejo ’15, Hector Peralta ’16, and Julmar Carcedo ’16. This rich archive includes eight interviews with…
Category: Resources
Resource: National Priorities Project
The National Priorities Project seeks to make the federal budget easy to understand in order to encourage people to make informed choices about how they want their taxes spent. The website includes a huge amount of information about the federal budget, how taxes are allocated, and even has a tool for you to see how your…
Resource: Costs of War
At some point over the course of spring 2014, the class explored an informative–and enraging, for some–resource that details the costs of the wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq since 2001. The Costs of War Project was assembled by dozens of lawyers, economists, anthropologists, and many other academics and professionals who came together to analyze the human,…
Resource: The Refugee Project
The Refugee Project is a great interactive map created with UN data to help visualize refugee movements since 1975. Words can’t do the wealth of information on the website justice, so go check it out for yourself!
Resource: Visualizing History
For students in the 2014 Decolonizing Minds course, this video will be very familiar. Presented by Swedish global health professor Hans Rosling, the five minute video is a visualization of the progress of 200 countries in the last 200 years, measured as life expectancy against income per capita. The video is a captivating visualization of the data; however, it ends on…