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.

Reflection, Reproduction, and Challenging at the Brooklyn Zen Center: Complexifying Cultural Capital, Gentrification, the Mindfulness Movement, and Scale

Publication Date
2014-January-01
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This project analyzes the Brooklyn Zen Center as a case study in order to complexify our understandings of cultural capital, gentrification, the modern American mindfulness movement, and geographic scale. Through an analysis focused at the local scale, we see how...

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Thurman Opening Comments

Publication Date
2024-February-15
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Opening comments by Jonathon Kahn for the "The Reverend Howard Thurman, Blackness, and Vassar College: Student Panel and Presentations" event on
Feb 15, 2024 5:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m. in the Villard Room.

Black theologian Howard Thurman has been widely credited with...

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