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Biographic Currency in Crisis
Ebony Coletu is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at The American University in Cairo. Her Research focuses on the transactional value of documented suffering within philanthropies, welfare agencies, and transnational aid programs. She addresses the relationships between image, text, hunger, and safety, particularly in fundraising operations that emphasize the brief biographies of domestic minorities and aid beneficiaries in the global south.
[1] The Welfare Rights Movement emerged as a coalition of Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Mexican American women and others, inspired by the United Farmworkers Movement, which was organized by César Chávez. Because African American women came to represent the “face of welfare” in the 1960s and 1970s, this article focuses on the management of this public face vis-à-vis administrative protocols of aid determination, which affected all recipients.
[2] See: Michael Katz, In the Shadow of the Poorhouse (New York: Basic Books, 1996); Linda Gordon, Pitied but not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare (New York: Free Press, 1994); Robert Bremner, From the Depths: The Discovery of Poverty in the United States (New York: New York University Press 1956); and Walter
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As National Hispanic Heritage Month comes to a close on Oct. 15, we’d like to highlight some additional resources. The Emory Libraries hold thousands of streaming video titles, including educational documentaries, feature films, and primary source materials such as interviews. This blog post focuses on some of the platforms and feature films that may be of interest for Hispanic Heritage Month. Streaming video is accessible to current Emory ID holders.
Streaming Video Platforms
The newly acquired Digitalia Film Library is a multilingual, multinational collection of over 1,400 feature films and documentaries. Latin American and Iberian films are an important component of this platform. Digitalia includes collections of Argentine, Bolivian, Brazilian, Central American, Chilean, Cuban, Spanish and “Latinoamerican” cinemas.
Alexander Street Press Academic Video Online (AVON) is a collection of more than 70,000 videos. This service offers Emory faculty, staff and students access to several of Pedro Almodovar’s feature films, including “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” “The Law of Desire,” “Volver,” and “The Skin I Live In.” AVON has over 40 feature films from the Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE) mainly from the 1970s and 1980s. Finally, AVON has the st
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