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Georgia VanDerwater wrote a new blog post Self-Reflective Essay: Good Faith Contributions in the group American Studies: 2 years, 3 months ago
Ever since I started school, I have been encouraged to “participate in class.” To my teachers and parents, and as a result, to me, this meant speaking up in class and raising my hand to make a point or answer a q […]
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Georgia VanDerwater edited the blog post The Ramifications of Character Reduction and Stereotyping in the group American Studies: 2 years, 3 months ago
By Georgia VanDerwater, Noah Taylor, Ryan Silverstein, Riley Dilger, Marissa Volk, Jose Romero, Kelly Edmond
In their book From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-first Century, […]
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Georgia VanDerwater edited the blog post Forgetting the Medical Practice of Good Faith (revised) in the group American Studies: 2 years, 4 months ago
The story of Fortune’s Bones, written by Marilyn Nelson, begins with a man named Fortune, who was enslaved by an orthopedic surgeon known as Dr. Preserved Porter. Upon Fortune’s death, his skeleton was used for […]
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Georgia VanDerwater wrote a new blog post Goal-Setting Essay: Judge Less in the group American Studies: 2 years, 5 months ago
10/02/2021
“My job is to notice…and to notice that you can notice.”–Dionne Brand
“Judge less; think more.”—Beth McCoy
My job is to notice. Every time I return to the course syllabus and […]
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Georgia VanDerwater wrote a new blog post Dirty Computer in the group American Studies: 5 years, 5 months ago
I honestly really loved the Dirty Computer video, I even watched it twice. I found myself fist-pumping with her feminist lyrics. I find her views very important, and her activism very powerful, because of her […]