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Series: Latin America Otherwise
Published: 01 January 2004
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385462-026
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8546-2
Book Chapter

By Sara J. Grossman
Series: Elements
Published: 11 August 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2703-4
... white women resistance complicity Smithsonian Institution Patent Office ...
Series: Elements
Published: 11 August 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027034-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2703-4
... at the Patent Office for the Smithsonian Meteorological Project, the first settler-operated national weather data collection project in the United States. Making use of correspondence and institutional publications, the chapter shows how women volunteers understood themselves as weather data laborers, how...
Book Chapter

By Eben Kirksey
Published: 02 November 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374800-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7480-0
... Rewinding past more than one hundred years of history, to early U.S. military adventures in Central America, and then fast-forwarding back again, produces a parallax effect—bringing political and economic forces that have shaped the ecology of Panama into sharp relief. As the Smithsonian’s field...
Published: 01 September 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2718-8
... racism Black civil rights slavery The speeches in this chapter reflect on Johnnetta Betsch Cole's contributions to the world of art and museums after becoming director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in 2009. In her 2012 commencement speech at the Duke Ellington School...