Category: school
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Beginning again, from refugee to Citizen
BEGINNING AGAIN: FROM REFUGEE TO CITIZEN Keynote Presentation by Professor Ahmed I. Samatar. “Somalis in America,” conference held at Macalester College, July 15-17, 2004. I. Introduction: II. Why People Decamp A.Push. B. Pull. C. Terms. III.Waves and Models IV.The Somali Moment A.Tacabir vs. Qaxootin: B.Issues: V.The Dialectic of Critical Adaptation A.English Language B.Racism C.Somali and…
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Faith and Social Justice
Yongho Kim March 11, 2004 Anthropology Internship: Faith and Social Justice Prof. Sonia Patten Finding Common Grounds: Religious Morality as a Catalyst for Economic Justice What Faith Groups Say About “The Right to Organize”, by the National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice (NICWJ), brings together the strongest arguments made in alliance with the workers’ rights…
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Making connections with the audience: professionalism and alienation
Yongho Kim Labor’s Story through Music May 10, 2004. (due May 7th – three days late ) Making connections with the audience: professionalism and alienation In reflecting on the production of “Forgotten”, I want to focus on the difference between the performance at the Union Hall and the one at Macalester in the level of…
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imagined conversation between Benjamin Filene and Ruth Glasser on "authenticity"
Yongho Kim Labor’s Story through Music May 10, 2004 (due April 15 – 3 weeks late) [DJ plays “We shall not be moved” by the Almanac Singers] Glasser: I like how the band uses the banjo, which gives it a more folk feel. Were the instruments made in the east coast before being sold to…
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Coalition-making in The Fuse’s Seattle 1919
Yongho Kim Labor’s Story through Music February 25, 2004 Coalition-making in The Fuse’s Seattle 1919: Class Solidarity and Divisiveness, and Incorporation of the Other in post-World War I Unionism. Seattle 1919 addresses issues of class solidarity frequently present in the newly emerging U.S. unionism and attempts to unite workers from different race, gender, and skill…
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Next year plans
So, some things I want to pull together for next year just don’t work. This year I was lucky and managed to always leave large chunks of time to be used for my off-campus work study. Next year, I’ve got these two annoying major requirements that stick in the middle of the day – MWF…