In their blog, Modern America: Power and Politics of an Empire, spring 2014 students Sujaya Desai ’14, Maansi Vohra ’15, Najma Yakob ’14, and Bartosz Zerebecki ’15 set out to find the colonial in our supposedly post-colonial world. Through discussion, their tumblr and its followers interrogate the concept of imperialism and track its persistence in today’s world. Their project is…
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From the Archives: Displacement, Genocide, Resistance
Produced by fall 2012 students Eduarda Araujo, Jonathon Tollefson, and Mika Zacks, this zine, “Struggles of Our Time: Memories from Palestine and Guatemala,” is filled at once with exquisite multimedia pieces, a collection of poetry, photography, and other artwork from survivors of displacement, and prose elegant enough to be art itself. In its 44 pages, the zine tells a story…
From the Archives: Walmart Exposé
In this documentary-style final project from fall 2012, Stoni Tomson and Sharina Gordon tell the story of how Walmart, a company considered by many in the mainstream media to be the exemplar of the American entrepreneurial spirit, in fact relies upon exploiting labor at home and abroad for its success. Walmart not only takes advantage of unequal…