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Reckoning with the Past: National Geographic and the Limits of Social Justice Rhetoric
Leland G. Spencer examines the brand’s recent attempts to reckon with that legacy across its magazine and television platforms, efforts that signal a move toward inclusivity.
A Guide to Flint, the Saginaw Valley, and the Thumb
Inspired by the iconic American Guide Series published by the Federal Writers Project in the 1930s, this new guide to Flint, the Saginaw Valley and the Thumb showcases the industrial-agricultural heart of Michigan.
My Sugar Beet Summer
Based on stories from the author’s grandparents about their lives as Texas migrants in Michigan’s Thumb, this book pulls the reader into the life of 9-year-old Teresa and her family in a new land, on a sugar beet farm on the eve of the Great Depression.
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