Disorientation: A People’s History Tour of Macalester
Disorientation: A People’s History Tour of Macalester is a zine, tour, and website created by students in the Fall 2013 class AMST 294-02 Resisting Minnesota. The site, linked above, is available to viewers with a Macalester login. The zine is attached below in printable and web-viewable versions.
From the website:
Who We Are & What We Did
| This project was designed and created by the Fall 2013 class “Resisting Minnesota.” We conceptualized Disorientation: A People’s History Tour of Macalester as a collective final project for the course, and it includes this website, a zine, and a tour we gave on the last day of class. Seeking to flip the script on racist and settler colonial histories of where we go to school, we researched archives, analyzed Macalester statistics, interviewed folks, and conducted anonymous surveys. In asking what peoples and bodies Macalester values, we also include critiques of ableism and heteropatriarchy in our anti-racist and decolonial vision. We highlight stories of struggle and resistance in our enduring belief that oppressed people have (and have always had) the power, tools, and conviction to enact social change. We come from a range of different social locations. We identify as people of color and white, as Indigenous and settler, as cisgender and gender nonconforming, as able-bodied and differently abled, as queer and straight. We come from working-class and middle-class backgrounds, from immigrant and citizen families. We recognize our various and intersecting identities to acknowledge the communities we come from, to affirm our struggles against oppression, and to pledge our solidarity with those less privileged. Abaki, Asa, Sam, Arianna, Sophia, Juliana, Jenny, hannah, elisa, Erica, Luke, Grace, Isabel, Hannah, Ani, Emma, Leewana, Maya, Adinah. |
Title: Disorientation: A People's History Tour of Macalester
Creator: Abaki, Asa, Sam, Arianna, Sophia, Juliana, Jenny, hannah, elisa, Erica, Luke, Grace, Isabel, Hannah, Ani, Emma, Leewana, Maya, and Adinah
Description: This project was designed and created by the Fall 2013 class “Resisting Minnesota.” We conceptualized Disorientation: A People’s History Tour of Macalester as a collective final project for the course, and it includes this website, a zine, and a tour we gave on the last day of class. Seeking to flip the script on racist and settler colonial histories of where we go to school, we researched archives, analyzed Macalester statistics, interviewed folks, and conducted anonymous surveys. In asking what peoples and bodies Macalester values, we also include critiques of ableism and heteropatriarchy in our anti-racist and decolonial vision. We highlight stories of struggle and resistance in our enduring belief that oppressed people have (and have always had) the power, tools, and conviction to enact social change.
Date Created:
Dates of Content: 1805-2013
Type of Content: Text, Still Image
Source: https://sites.google.com/a/macalester.edu/disorientation/
URL: https://dwlibrary.macalester.edu/counterbalance/eeo/disorientation-a-peoples-history-tour-of-macalester/
Suggested Citation: Abaki, Asa, Sam, Arianna, Sophia, Juliana, Jenny, hannah, elisa, Erica, Luke, Grace, Isabel, Hannah, Ani, Emma, Leewana, Maya, and Adinah. "Disorientation: A People's History Tour of Macalester." Counterbalance, Macalester College Archives. . Text, Still Image. https://dwlibrary.macalester.edu/counterbalance/eeo/disorientation-a-peoples-history-tour-of-macalester/.
Disorientation: A People’s History Tour of Macalester