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Be a Human: Student Led Activism at Westminster College, 2016
In 2016 a group of Westminster College students created three art installations that demanded a new approach to addressing systemic racism and its…
The Past is Present: Dixie State University and the battle to change
This collection brings together newspaper articles and images related to the fight for (and against) changing the name of Dixie State University in…
Whistling Dixie in Utah: White Supremacist Ideology and Identity at Dixie State University
This collection investigates the history of the rise of the "Rebel" and "Dixie" identity in Southern Utah as intextricably tied to racist and white…
Slavery, Minstrelsy, and Utah Mormons
This collection brings together newspaper descriptions of minstrel shows actively taking place in Salt Lake City in the late 19th and early 20th…
Confronting Our Racist Past: Westminster College, Minstrelsy, and White Supremacist Narratives
This collection interrogates and brings to light Westminster College yearbook images which utilize blackface, minstrel shows, and racist cartoons from…
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Be a Human: Student Led Activism at Westminster College, 2016
In 2016 a group of Westminster College students created three art installations that demanded a new approach to addressing systemic racism and its…