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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.

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Foraging in the Urban Food Forest: Noticing the Possibilities for Communal Cultivation within Urban Ruination

Publication Date
2023-May-03
Authors
Allen, Monique
Department or Program
Science, Technology, and Society Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Open
Abstract

In this thesis, I use the Beacon Food Forest, located in Seattle, WA, as a case study to investigate how food and community grow in an urban community food forest. I discuss the founding of the Beacon Food Forest, the...

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Histories of Color in Critical Pedagogy: The Collective Re-Memory of Trauma and Resistance

Publication Date
2014-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Poole, Thomas
Department or Program
Sociology Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Archive Only
Abstract

In this paper I analyze learning communities of color of the past and present and how they resist the dominant White narratives of racial progress and consensus in their social studies teaching, both in curricula and in praxis/structure. I will...

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