This article was written by Axell Boomer and was awarded the Civil Resistance Prize by the History Department in 2024. It was originally written for the Nonviolence Project: As systemic inequalities—which arrived from the institution of American slavery—manifested themselves into the classroom, Black students were left with less federal support than White students in the American South. Black students in Mississippi, despite comprising fifty-seven percent of “school-aged children,” received “only thirteen percent of state funds.”
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The Filipino Mafia: A Study of Filipino Solidarity in the United States Navy from the 1950s to the Present
This paper was written by Beatrice Millan-Windorski and was awarded the Civil Resistance Prize by the History Department in 2023. It was written for History 345: Military History of the United States taught by Professor …
Deconstructing Folk Catholicism: Combating Catholic Hegemony during the Philippines’ Colonial Era
This paper was written by Chloe Foor and was awarded the Civil Resistance Prize by the History Department in 2023. It was written for History 600: Empire and Revolution in Southeast Asia taught by Professor …
The Body’s Cartography: on Dance, Queerness, and White Hegemonic Masculinity
This paper was written by Jackson Neal and was awarded the Civil Resistance Prize by the History Department in 2022. It was written for a class taught by Professor Christopher Walker. I started dancing in …
The Underground Railroad: David Ruggles’s Fights Against the Institution of Slavery
This paper was written by Emilie Springsteen and was awarded the Civil Resistance Prize by the History Department in 2022. It was written for History 393: Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction taught by Professor …