Vassar College Digital Library

Vassar Scholarship

Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

From Watts to Ferguson: The Militarized Policing of Black Communities in the United States

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2020-January-01
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Beginning the 1960s, police forces in the United States underwent a transformation. In response to the civil unrest taking place in cities across the country, public support for increased federal funding for law enforcement soared. With this increased funding, police...

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Speaking to the Silences: Black Women's Mediation of Historical Trauma and Healing

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2014-January-01
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Black women's trauma, which is largely unclaimed, un-mediated and unrecognized, is transgenerational. The physical, social, and psychological effects of holding on to a racialized history of trauma, caused by systematic and structural racism and sexism, continue to effect the identity...

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The Children’s Books of Nancy Willard

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2017-August-30
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The exhibition The Children’s Books of Nancy Willard was planned and mounted by the Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College. At the Frederick Ferris Thompson Memorial Library August 30 — December 20, 2017.

Cover illustrations are # 15 in...

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