Photographs
Far left: Dorothy Allison (third from left) and students following Allison's 2005 Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration keynote address. Photo by Joseph Mehling, College Photographer. Center: Members of AXIS Dance Company, a mixed-ability dance troupe, performing at the Hopkins Center as part of a Hopkins Center campus residency cosponsored by IDE. Photo by Jack Rowell. Right: Discussions at a Diversity Forum hosted by IDE. Photo by The Dartmouth.
Artwork
Detail from mural produced by Ernesto Cuevas and Dartmouth students as part of Encuentro Latino, a 2005 Summer Arts Festival coordinated by the Leslie Center for the Humanities.
American Dream (Miramax Home Entertainment, 102 min) DVD
This documentary captures the stark reality of working men and women making impossibly tough choices about survival during a time of extreme economic crisis.
IR: Not Getting by in America (Amy Briamonte, 100 min) VHS
The program chronicles the struggle of America's "working poor" to survive in an increasingly (and often prohibitively) expensive society. Emphasis is placed upon five workers, most of them single parents, trying to survive on salaries ranging from six to seven dollars hourly.
Marty Pottenger: “The Making of Abundance” (The Hopkins Center, 100 min) VHS
The solo performance artist Marty Pottenger gives a performance/lecture that combines stories from her four year exploration into the public and private experience of economics in the U.S. with music and excerpts from the performance ABUNDANCE.
Marty Pottenger: “Tipping the Scale: Civic Dialogues about Economic Equity” (The Hopkins Center, 94 min) VHS
This is an interactive lecture by Marty Pottenger to have people open up about money. She addresses the taboo of money, the lies told about money and people’s positive and negative experiences with money. She also discusses the nature of money and socioeconomic classes.
Pharaoh’s Streets: Homelessness and Voices of Providence in the City of Angels (Jethro Rothe-Kushel, 45 min) VHS
A modern-day tale of an ancient battle against oppression, the film wrestles with Rothe-Kushel's experience at a historical moment in Los Angeles during the Democratic National Convention.
Way Home,The (World Trust, 92 min) VHS
The Way Home shows what happened when eight ethnic councils of women came together to talk honestly about race, gender and class in the US. It exposes the effects of social oppression.
Who's Getting Rich and Why Aren't You? (CBS News, 60 min) VHS
This report examines the changing US economy and the middle class it is affecting, interviewing people who have experienced a profound economic change, from the entrepreneurs and specialists who became successful to the workers holding on to ideals that may no longer apply.
