EDUC 194: We Demand: Student Power, World Building, and Democratizing Higher Education
A Library Resource Guide for EDUC 194: We Demand: Student Power, World Building, and Democratizing Higher Education, Gonzalo Guzman & Hana Dinku
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Topic Overviews
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Local Historical Resources
- Mac Weekly, The This link opens in a new windowArchive for Macalester's weekly student newspaper publication.
- Mac WeeklyNewspaper1915
St. Paul, Minn. : Macalester College
Began in 1914. - MNOPEDIAA resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.
- MN Historical SocietyThe Minnesota Historical Society preserves Minnesota's past, shares our state's stories and connects people with history in meaningful ways, for today and for tomorrow.
- MN Digital LibraryAccess archives and materials related to Minnesota history. The Minnesota Digital Library (MDL) supports discovery and education through access to unique digital collections shared by cultural heritage organizations from across the state of Minnesota. Our contributors include libraries, historical societies, museums, and archives.
- St. Paul Pioneer Press This link opens in a new windowCurrent content as well as archives going back to 1948. Full-page digital images of the complete paper are available for the historical archive (1948 to 1987) as well as the most recent issues (2018 to present). Articles from 1988 to 2018 are available in full-text, but without page images.
Of Added Interest
Some links to information on local redlining, racial covenants, housing segregation, etc.
- Racism in Macalester-GrovelandA look into redlining and racial covenants in the neighborhood and the impact they still have today. Inspired by the work of Welcoming the Dear Neighbor’s Mapping Prejudice , a volunteer-based project that maps existing racial covenants across the Twin Cities, students at St. Kate's created this StoryMap about the history of redlining and racial covenants in the Macalester-Groveland neighborhood.
- Discharging Racial Covenants: City of St. PaulThe City of Saint Paul has joined the Just Deeds Coalition to connect residents to resources to remove restrictive racial covenants from property deeds in an effort to make Saint Paul more equitable today and contribute to the wellbeing of generations to come.
- Mapping PrejudiceThe work of of historians, geographers, librarians, digital humanists and community activists seeking to expose structural racism.
- New research details historically racist housing practices in Ramsey CountyNewspaper article from Sahan Journal.
Racial covenants were written into a home’s deed, barring people of color from buying or selling the property. They were most common in the first half of the 20th Century, but their impact continues to influence modern-day inequities, researchers say. - Jim Crow of the NorthA Twin Cities PBS Original documentary. Its stories "acknowledge the pain and inequity rooted in our past but feature responses that use nonviolent, direct action."
- Housing Covenants in MinnesotaDiscussion: Housing covenants in Minnesota
Minnesota Public Radio (MPR), 2022.
WorldCat Search
Database for Education Research
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Interdisciplinary Databases
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News Resources
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- US Newsstream (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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Current U.S. news content, as well as archives that stretch back into the 1980s. It features top newspapers, wires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, and news sites in full-text format. US Newsstream provides key national and regional news sources from the U.S. and includes exclusive and preferred access to top titles, including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune. - New York Times Archive This link opens in a new windowSearchable full text of the New York Times from the first issue in 1851 to 4 years ago. Includes full page and article images. Most recent years of the Times can be searched in US Newsstream or New York Times - Digital Microfilm.