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Art Practice
When African-American travelers wanted to drive across the U.S. in the Jim Crow era, they consulted a guidebook specially made and marketed to the growing Black middle class. The Negro Motorist Green Book, published between 1936 and 1966, told them where it was safe to stop for gas, where to eat...
Film and Media Studies
Stanford Global Studies has awarded three Stanford faculty members Course Innovation Grants, which support courses that creatively offer ways for students to learn about topics of regional and global importance.
“Our goal is to engage students with these topics—regardless of their field of study...
After recognizing that there was not anything like it on campus, two Stanford students have founded a student arts organization with a dual mission: to strengthen the arts community on campus and to provide students potential career pathways in the arts.
Art History
Scales aren’t changing and the weather won’t be noticeably different, but on May 20 the definitions that underlie what your scale and thermometer report – along with standard definitions used in chemistry and electronics – are undergoing a major overhaul. That’s the date that a more-than-centuries-...
In The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois makes a prescient declaration: “The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color-line.”
As the United States continues to struggle with “the problem of the color-line” in the 21st century, Stanford University’s School of Humanities and...
