Guide to the Karen Brodkin papers, 1960-2010
John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts
Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148
Email: Manuscripts: hay@brown.edu; University Archives: archives@brown.edu
Published in 2015
Collection Overview
Title: |
Karen Brodkin papers |
Date range: |
1960-2010 |
Creator: |
Brodkin, Karen |
Abstract: |
The Karen Brodkin Papers consist of writings, photographs, audio and visual materials, correspondence, and ephemera from 1960-2010. The materials in the collection relate to her research and work in the field of Anthropology. |
Language of materials: |
English |
Repository: |
John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts
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Collection number: |
Ms.2010.007 |
Scope & content
The Karen Brodkin papers contain materials related to and including Brodkin’s writings, talks, trips to Cuba, professional organizations, and conferences. Brodkin’s materials are arragned according to her own organizational scheme. The “Writings” subseries contains Brodkin’s articles and book reviews written of other authors’ works, along with articles reviewing or citing her works. The “Talks” subseries includes physical copies of talks she presented throughout her career. Within these two subseries are some audio and video recordings and discs of her talks and her research. The “Travel to Cuba” subseries includes newspaper clippings, stamps, notebooks, documents relating to her lost passport case, and a disc of pictures from her two trips to Cuba. The “Professional Organizations and Conferences” subseries includes programs and newsletters for specific organizations and conferences, including. The “Non-Teaching Faculty Activity” subseries includes papers relating to various events Brodkin participated in while Brodkin a faculty member at various institutions. The “Miscellaneous” subseries contains a booklet of WAC Stats and information about a Guess? Workers controversy.
Access Points
Subject Names
Subject Organizations
Subject Topics
Occupations
Document Types
Subject Topics
Arrangement
The collection is divided into the following series:
Series 1. Accession from 2010
- Subseries 1. Writings
- Subseries 2. Talks
- Subseries 3. Travel to Cuba
- Subseries 4. Professional Organizations and Conferences
- Subseries 5. Non-Teaching Faculty Activity
- Subseries 6. Miscellaneous.
Series 2. Accession from 2015
Biographical note
Karen Brodkin is a prominent figure in the field of Anthropology. Her research focuses on gender studies and race studies, primarily dealing with Jewish issues. Brodkin received her A.B. from Brandeis University in 1963, her M.A. from Harvard University in 1964, and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1971. Her dissertation was titled “Economic Bases of Sexual Equality: A Comparative Study of Four African Societies.” She held Assistant Professor positions at several universities from 1967-1980 and spent seven years at Oakland University during that time. After holding various other faculty positions, Brodkin served for six years as the Director of Women’s Studies at UCLA beginning in 1987. In 1989, she became Professor of Anthropology and Women’s Studies at UCLA, and is currently Professor Emerita.
Brodkin has received several fellowships, honors, and grants in her scholarly career, including an Honorable Mention for the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award for
How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America (Rutgers University Press, 1998) and the Conrad Arensberg Award from the Society for the Anthropology of Work for
Caring by the Hour (University of Illinois Press, 1998). Her other awards include two National Science Foundation grants.
Brodkin’s published books are
Sisters and Wives: The Past and Future of Sexual Equality (University of Illinois Press, 1982),
My Troubles are Going to Have Trouble with Me (Rutgers University Press, 1984),
Making Democracy Matter: Identity and Activism in Los Angeles (Rutgers University Press, 2007), and
Power Politics: Environmental Activism in South Los Angeles (Rutgers University Press, 2009). She has also been published in scholarly journals including
Anthropologica,
American Ethnologist, and
Jewish Currents, and has served on over fifteen editorial and advisory boards.
Access & Use
Access to the collection: |
There are no restrictions on access, except that the collection can only be seen by prior appointment. Some materials may be stored off-site and cannot be produced on the same day on which they are requested. |
Use of the materials: |
Although Brown University has physical ownership of the collection and the materials contained therein, it does not claim literary rights. Researchers should note that compliance with copyright law is their responsibility. Researchers must determine the owners of the literary rights and obtain any necessary permissions from them. |
Preferred citation: |
Karen Brodkin papers, Ms.2010.007, Feminist Theory Archive, Brown University Library. |
Contact information: |
John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts Box A Brown University Providence, RI 02912 Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148
Email: Manuscripts: hay@brown.edu; University Archives: archives@brown.edu
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Administrative Information
ABOUT THE COLLECTION |
Acquisition: |
Gift of Karen Brodkin beginning in 2009. |
Accruals: |
Further accruals for this collection are possible. |
Processing information: |
Collection processed in 2010 by Miranda Nero, with additions processed in 2015 by Wendy Korwin. |
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ABOUT THE FINDING AID |
Author: |
Finding aid prepared by Miranda Nero and Wendy Korwin on behalf of the Pembroke Center for the Teaching and Research on Women and the Brown University Library. |
Encoding: |
This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit
2015-05-26 |
Descriptive rules: |
Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) |
Sponsor: |
Curatorial work and processing provided by the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women on behalf of the Feminist Theory Archive, Brown University Library. |
Additional Information
Related material: |
To find Karen Brodkin's published works, follow this link:
Brodkin,Karen.
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Inventory
Series 1. Accessions from 2010, 1960-2006
Subseries 2. Writings
Box 1-2
Box 1, Folder 1 |
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Article: "Agrarian Reform in Cuba"
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1968 |
Box 1, Folder 2 |
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Article: "Social Bases for Sexual Equality: A Comparative Review"
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1970 |
Box 1, Folder 3 |
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Brodkin's Review of Women and the Public Interest: An Essay on Policy and Protest
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1972 |
Box 1, Folder 4 |
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Article: "Engels Revisited: Women, The Organization of Production, and Private Property"
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1974 |
Box 1, Folder 5 |
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Article: "Class Roots of Feminism"
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1976 Feb |
Box 1, Folder 6 |
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Article: "State Bias and Women's Status"
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1976 Sep |
Box 1, Folder 7 |
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Brodkin's Review of Salt of the Earth
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undated |
Box 1, Folder 8 |
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Article: "Women and Class Struggle in Sembene's God's Bits of Wood"
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1978 |
Box 1, Folder 9 |
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Reviews of Brodkin's Sisters and Wives: The Past and Future of Sexual Equality
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1981 |
Box 1, Folder 10 |
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Article: "Causality and Chance on the Upper Nile"
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1979 Feb 11 |
Box 1, Folder 11 |
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Brodkin's Review of
Pseudoscience and Mental Aibility: The Origins and Fallacies of the IQ Controversy
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1980 Feb |
Box 1, Folder 12 |
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Book Reviews by Brodkin: "Racist Eugenics Dissected"
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1981 Feb |
Box 1, Folder 13 |
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Article: "The New 'Rassenscience': The Racism of the Jensens and Shockleys"
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1978 Feb |
Box 1, Folder 14 |
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Article: "An Overview of Women & Power in Africa"
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1982 |
Box 1, Folder 15 |
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Article: "Equal Pay for Work of Comparable Value"
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1982 Apr |
Box 1, Folder 16 |
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Article: "Women and Work: A New Response"
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1982 |
Box 1, Folder 17 |
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Article: "Then, Now & Future Women"
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1983 Jul-Aug |
Box 1, Folder 18 |
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Article: "Networking: When Potluck is Political"
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1983 Apr |
Box 1, Folder 19 |
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Brodkin's Review of The Goba of Zambezi: Sex Roles, Economics, and Change.
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1981? |
Box 1, Folder 20 |
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Article: "Work" in The Women's Annual
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1982-1983 |
Box 1, Folder 21 |
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Article: "Women and Power Within the Historical Dynamic of Feminist Scholarship"
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undated |
Box 1, Folder 22 |
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Essay: "Part VI: Kinship and Class Consciousness" in "Interest and Emotion"
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undated |
Box 1, Folder 23 |
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Book Reviews by Brodkin: "Lab Coats and Pink Collars"
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1984 Jul |
Box 1, Folder 24 |
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Report: "Women's Wages: A Key to Preserving Middle Income Jobs" Contents Note: Includes two newspaper clippings that cite this report and correspondence regarding the report
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1986 Aug |
Box 1, Folder 25 |
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Brodkin's Review of Trade, Women, Class, and Society in Ancient Western Asia
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1986 Dec |
Box 1, Folder 26 |
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Introduction to Women's Studies 13(3)
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1987 |
Box 1, Folder 27 |
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Working Paper: "A Two-Way Street: Gendering International Studies and Internationalizing Women's Studies"
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1987 |
Box 1, Folder 28 |
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Book Reviews by Brodkin: "'Dirty Old Ladies,' Mothers, and Others: Age and Gender in Cultural and Biological Perspectives"
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1987 |
Box 1, Folder 29 |
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Article: "The Origins of Women's Oppression" Contents Note: Brodkin's Review of Women's Work, Men's Property: The Origin of Gender and Class
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1986? |
Box 1, Folder 30 |
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Reviews of Brodkin's Caring By The Hour
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1989? |
Box 1, Folder 31 |
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Article: "Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire: Macroeconomic Trends and Women's Life Chances"
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1988 Mar |
Box 1, Folder 32 |
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Article: "The Demise of Domesticity in America"
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undated |
Box 1, Folder 33 |
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Article: "Gender and Grassroots Leadership"
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undated |
Box 1, Folder 34 |
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Article: "Toward a Unified Theory of Class, Race and Gender"
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1989 Aug |
Box 1, Folder 35 |
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Article: "What's a Life Story Got to Do with It?" Contents Note: Includes two articles that cite this article
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undated |
Box 1, Folder 36 |
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Brodkin's Review of
Patriarchy and Class: African Women in the Home and the Workforce
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1989 Mar |
Box 1, Folder 37 |
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Brodkin's Review of
Marriage and Inequality in Classless Societies
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1988? |
Box 1, Folder 38 |
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Brodkin's Review of
Feminism and Anthropology
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1990 May |
Box 1, Folder 39 |
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Paper: "Does It Pay to Care?"
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1988 Apr |
Box 1, Folder 40 |
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Interview with Brodkin: "Everyday Women's Values"
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1992 |
Box 1, Folder 41 |
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Fishing in the City Contents Note: VHS, Cassette, and Papers from the film Fishing in the City
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1990-2002 |
Box 1, Folder 42 |
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Brodkin's Review of Michael Levin's "Black Antisemitism"
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1992 Jun |
Box 1, Folder 43 |
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Introduction: New Views of Middle-Aged Women
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undated |
Box 1, Folder 44 |
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Two Book Reviews by Karen Brodkin
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1992? |
Box 1, Folder 45 |
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Article: "Euro-Ethnic Working-Class Women's Community Culture"
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1993 |
Box 1, Folder 46 |
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Article: "How Did Jews Become White Folks?"
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undated |
Box 1, Folder 47 |
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Article: "Anthropology, Imperialism and Resistance: The Work of Kathleen Gough"
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1993 |
Box 1, Folder 48 |
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Brodkin's Review of
Anthropology and the Crisis of the Intellectuals
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1995 |
Box 1, Folder 49 |
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Brodkin's Review of
Hear My Testimony: Maria Teresa Tula, Human Rights Activist of El Salvador
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1994? |
Box 1, Folder 50 |
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Brodkin's Review of
Beyond A Dream Deferred: Multicultural Education and the Politics of Excellence
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1995 May |
Box 1, Folder 51 |
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Brodkin's Review of
White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness
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1995 Feb |
Box 1, Folder 52 |
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Book:
How Jews Became White Folks
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1998 |
Box 1, Folder 53 |
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Reviews of
How Jews Became White Folks
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1998? |
Box 1, Folder 54 |
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Papers relating to
How Jews Became White Folks
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1990-2002 |
Box 1, Folder 55 |
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Video:
Let's Own It! Contents Note: Includes laminated set of pictures, VHS, and invitation
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1998 Oct 4 |
Box 1, Folder 56 |
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Book Reviews by Brodkin: "A Better World Is Possible? Anthropology and Social Movements"
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2005 |
Box 2, Folder 1 |
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Article: "Survival of the Fattest"
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1978 Mar |
Box 2, Folder 2 |
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"The Struggle for Justice" and "Race, Class and Gender" in Transforming Anthropology
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1998 |
Box 2, Folder 3 |
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Article: "Race, Class, and the Limits of Democratization in the Academy"
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undated |
Box 2, Folder 4 |
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Brodkin's Review of
The Teeth Are Smiling: the Persistence of Racism in Multicultural Australia
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1998 May |
Box 2, Folder 5 |
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Book Reviews by Karen Brodkin
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1996? |
Box 2, Folder 6 |
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Article: "Women, Work, and Karl Marx"
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1998 |
Box 2, Folder 7 |
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Article: "Studying Whiteness: What's the Point and Where do We go from Here?"
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1999 May |
Box 2, Folder 8 |
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Article: "Once More into the Streets"
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2000 |
Box 2, Folder 9 |
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Article: "Global Capitalism: What's Race Got to Do With it?"
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2000 |
Box 2, Folder 10 |
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Article: "Comments on 'Discourses of Whiteness"'
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2001 Jun |
Box 2, Folder 11 |
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Article: "Diversity in Anthropological Theory"
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undated |
Box 2, Folder 12 |
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Article: "Whiteness: A Mixed Bag"
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2002 |
Box 2, Folder 13 |
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Article: "On the Politics of Being Jewish in a Multiracial State"
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2003 |
Box 2, Folder 14 |
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Article: "The Struggle for Hearts and Minds: Organization, Ideology, and Emotion"
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2004 |
Box 2, Folder 15 |
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Brodkin's Review of
Upheaval in the Quite Zone: A History of Hospital Workers' Union, Local 1199
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1989 |
Box 2, Folder 16 |
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Article: "Race and Gender in the Construction of Class"
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1996-1997 |
Box 2, Folder 17 |
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CD: "Karen Brodkin Files: Talks, Writing, + Misc"
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undated |
Box 2, Folder 18 |
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Proof: "Making Democracy Matter: Identity and Activism in Los Angeles"
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2006 Aug |
Box 2, Folder 19 |
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Non-Academic Writing and Activity (1 of 2) Contents Note: "Two Steps Forward, One Step Back," "Women, Technology and Health Care"
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1982 Jun - 1985 Jul 10 |
Box 2, Folder 20 |
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Non-Academic Writing and Activity (2 of 2) Contents Note: "Theft of Parenting," " Work and Family Lives," "Murphy Hall goes marching in," "Let there be light!," "UCLA Executive Program"
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1986-1993 |
Box 2, Folder 21 |
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Cassettes Contents Note: Beyond the Pale: The Progressive Jewish Radio House 11/7/99, Includes Karen Brodkin Interview, Plenary Sessions "Politics of Women's Work" 1994, Joe Domanick's Beneath the Surface, Williams/Jews 5/27/99
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1991-1994 |
Subseries 2. Talks
Box 2
Box 2, Folder 22 |
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Talks Folder (1 of 2) Contents Note: "Anthropological Research on Women in the Workplace," "Look What they Done to my Song," "The Political Economies of Kinship: The Political is Really Personal," "Network Paper," "Theft of Parenting," "MOMDIDIT," "Presentation, Women at Work Conference."
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1990-1999 |
Box 2, Folder 23 |
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Talks Folder (2 of 2) Contents Note: "Captialism Hurting American Family," "Social Darwinism, Sociobiology and Sexism: IPS 11/9/82," "Greensboro Talk @ Equity and Excellence," "Racism and Sexism in the Groves of Academe," "What do Workers Want?," "Can We Be Scholars and Activists at the Same
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1990-1999 |
Subseries 3. Travel to Cuba
Box 2
Box 2, Folder 24 |
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Brodkin's Trip to Cuba (1 of 3): Newspaper Clippings
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1964 |
Box 2, Folder 25 |
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Brodkin's Trip to Cuba (2 of 3): Stamps
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1962-1965 |
Box 2, Folder 26 |
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Brodkin's Trip to Cuba (3 of 3): Notebooks
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1964 |
Box 2, Folder 27 |
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Passport Case
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1964-1966 |
Box 2, Folder 28 |
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Brodkin's Trip to Cuba
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1991 |
Box 2, Folder 29 |
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Cuba Photo Disc
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1964 |
Subseries 4. Professional Organizations and Conferences
Box 3
Box 3, Folder 1 |
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Conference on Anthropology In and About Los Angeles Contents Note: Photographs, program, and paper abstracts
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2002 Apr 5 |
Box 3, Folder 2 |
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American Ethnological Society 116th Annual Spring Meeting Contents Note: Program and abstracts
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1994 Apr 14-16 |
Box 3, Folder 3 |
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ARPA Newsletters
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1970-1979 |
Box 3, Folder 4 |
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ARPA and Radical Anthropology
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1960-1979 |
Box 3, Folder 5 |
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Rebellion Contents Note: Newsletters and other papers
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1965 |
Subseries 5. Non-Teaching Faculty Activity
Box 3
Box 3, Folder 6 |
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Miscellaneous Correspondence
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1964 |
Box 3, Folder 7 |
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Chain Letter & Faculty Organizing
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1989 |
Box 3, Folder 8 |
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Faculty for Affirmative Action/ Amicus Brief
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1995-1997 |
Box 3, Folder 9 |
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Luckman Teaching Award Nomination
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1997-1998 |
Box 3, Folder 10 |
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Funded NSF Grants/ Applications
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1984, 1990 |
Box 3, Folder 11 |
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Oakland University Sex Discrimination Suit and Reappointment Fight
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1975 |
Subseries 6. Miscellaneous
Box 3
Box 3, Folder 12 |
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Common Threads Contents Note: Information regarding Guess? Workers Controversy
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1990-1999 |
Box 3, Folder 13 |
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WAC Stats
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undated |
Box 3, Folder 14 |
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Brodkin's CV
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undated |
Series 2. Accessions from 2015, 1964-2010
Box 3, Folder 15 |
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50-Mile Walk Completed with Carol Jacklin
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1990 |
Box 3, Folder 16 |
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Boston C.O.R.E. Reunion
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1992 |
Box 3, Folder 17 |
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CD of Photographs, Writings, and Course Materials
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1964-2010 |