The University of Maine Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Collection is a curated collection of items compiled by Raymond H. Fogler Library's Special Collections' staff as part of a project to to create an archive of primary sources by, from, and about the diverse University of Maine community and social justice issues at the University of Maine and in the greater Bangor region. The Collection was created in response to the increased social awareness of racial justice issues in the United States following the death of George Floyd in the spring and summer of 2020.
The resources include newsletters, theses, videos of presentations and events, interviews, articles, posters, webpages, correspondence, and reports from University of Maine administrators, departments, student groups, and individual faculty, staff, students, and alumnus. The material includes born digital items captured from the web and scans of analog items from records held in the University of Maine Archive.
Please contact University Archivist Matthew Revitt (matthew.revitt@maine.edu) if you have content you would like to submit to the collection.
Submissions from 2016
Whitewashing in Hollywood silently affects our children, Sam Tracy
2016 Minutes of the Student Women's Association, Student Women's Association
The Presidential election affects sports, Griffin Stockford
What is the White Band?, Wilde Stein: Queer Straight Alliance
Hispanic Heritage Lecture Series highlights diversity in conservation jobs, Ashley Sarra
The Devil of Hell's Kitchen : Social constructions in the best of us, Sam Tracy
Response to "Kaepernick saga telling of America’s racial divides", Sarah Witthauer
Kaepernick saga telling of America's racial divides, Jacob Posik
Is anti-patriotism a fair method of protest?, Nina Mahaleris
Faculty, Ph.D. student explore poverty, racial privilege and reform in rural schools, Casey Kelly
Thinking Beyond an Evidence-Based Model to Enhance Wabanaki Health: Story, Resilience and Change, Mary E. Jude
We Think We Are Not: Embodied Knowledge and Queer Practice, Sarah Hollows
The Greatest Good: Black Reformers and the Early Civil Rights Movement in Pittsburgh, 1915-1945, Adam L. Cilli
Dropping the Gloves: Fighting for Varsity Status Under Title IX— The Rise of Women’s Ice Hockey at the University of Maine, Emily K. McNair
Sexual Assault Awareness Writing Showcase, LGBTQ Services and Office of Sexual Assault & Violence Prevention
The Slut Walk, Student Women's Association
Wearing makeup is not an indicator of being anti-feminist, Kim Crowley
Diversity Week highlights many walks of life across UMaine community, Josh Fabel
Redefining Transitional Justice in the North American Context? The Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Evan P. Centala
Maine Peace Action Committee Newsletter, April 2016, Maine Peace Action Committee
Beautiful Week Promotion, Student Women's Association
2016 Slut Walk Poster, The Feminist Collective
The falsified face of feminism pushes us away from progress, Kim Crowley
Political correctness not an issue; bigotry is, Brooke Bailey
Humanization of non-violent inmates critical to prison reform, Kim Crowley
Student Women's Association Meeting Minutes, Student Women's Association
Beautiful Week 2016, Student Women's Association
2015-2016 Collaboration Excellence Award, Wilde Stein: Queer Straight Alliance
Submissions from 2015
UMaine Women in Academia makes presence on campus with upcoming presentation, Josh Fabel
Somali Parents' Involvement in the Education of Their Children in American Middle Schools: a Case Study in Portland, Maine, Abdullahi Ahmed
Missouri football team sets new precedent for college athletes, Derek Douglass
Islamophobia is not the answer, Alan Bennett
Physical Activity Levels and Health of Passamaquoddy Tribe at Indian Township, Michael R. Best
Student Activism Involvement Increases as 2016 Election Moves Forward, Mary Celeste Floreani
Out of Silence: Abortion Stories from the 1 in 3 Campaign, Student Women's Association
Governor's remarks evoke concerns of sexism, Brooke Bailey
Single Mother Storytelling: "I Have Something I Need to Say to You", Allison M. Noonan
Between Mothers and the State: Mothers' Allowances in Maine and New Brunswick, 1915-1960, Rebecca A. White
Informed Consent, Abortion, and Reproductive Autonomy, Heather Dawn Lakey
Rising Tide Internal Salary Equity Study for the University of Maine, Laura Risler, Valerie Martin Conley, and Robert K. Toutkoushian
For Women and Themselves: Lou Hoover, Betty Ford, and the Women's Movements of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Lisa Marie Rude
Decolonizing Academic Writing on Native Non-Heteronormative Identity: Creating Space for Community and Nation-Based Scholarship, Meghan Elise Sills
SlutWalk participants, 2015, Student Women's Association
The Beautiful Project 2015, Student Women's Association
Maine Peace Action Committee Newsletter, April 2015, Maine Peace Action Committee
Tea and Conversation with Women Student Leaders, Emily Haddad, Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, and Division of Student Life
Leadership Unplugged: A Women in Leadership Week Event, Susan J. Hunter and Division of Marketing and Communications
Patriarchy getting you down?, Student Women's Association
UMaine Women's History Trivia, Student Women's Association
Women in Leadership Panel Discussion, Carol Kim, Emily Cain, Elizabeth Sutherland, Meredith Jones, and Division of Marketing and Communications
Men's Matters, Office of Multicultural Student Life
The Vagina Monologues, Student Women's Association
Pro-Choice Week 2015, Student Women's Association
Student Women's Association Logo, Student Women's Association
Student Women's Association Meeting Minutes, Student Women's Association
Submissions from 2014
The Vagina Monologues 2014, Student Women's Association
WGS: This is What a WGS Student/Alumni Looks Like, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Maine Peace Action Committee Newsletter, October 2014, Maine Peace Action Committee
11-Year Trends in Pregnancy-Related Health Indicators in Maine (2014), David E. Harris, AbouEl-Makarim Aboueissa, Nancy Baugh, Cheryl Sarton, and Erika Lichter
The Muslim Veil in America: A Symbol of Oppression or Empowerment?, Hannah Blakeman
The Relationship Between Speaking Voice and Gender Identity Among Transgender and Transsexual Individuals, Addie J. Pelletier
Inside and Out: A Phenomenology of Young Women's Sexiness, L. Shelley Rawlins
White Students' Understanding of Race: An Exploration of How White University Students, Raised in a Predominately White State, Experience Whiteness, Barbara A. Smith
Socialization of International Women Faculty, Daniela Ximena Véliz Calderón
Forming Impressions Of Others: Does Sexuality Matter?, Abigail V. Szotkowski
UMaine Disabilities Insider. Late Spring 2014, University of Maine Disability Support Services
UMaine Disabilities Insider, Spring 2014, University of Maine Disability Support Services
Polarizing Issues in the American Political Parties: Women In Party Platforms, Hannah Vail
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Slavery, rhetoric, and race: a British Atlantic perspective on the meaning of slavery and race in Nova Scotia, 1791-1833, Gabriel Louis Levesque
Domestic Transracial Adoption: In the Words of African American Adoptees, Ellen M. Smith
The Beautiful Project 2013, Student Women's Association
Maine Peace Action Committee Newsletter, April 2013, Maine Peace Action Committee
The 'A' Word: Memoir of a Maine Abortion Rights Activist, Student Women's Association
Pro-Choice Week 2013, Student Women's Association
Equal Pay Day Bake Sale, Student Women's Association
Letters to Annie - Ordinary Women in Late Nineteenth Century Maine (2011), Rachel Catherine Thomas
Submissions from 2012
UMaine Disabilities Insider, August 27, 2012, University of Maine Disability Support Services
Determinants and Interdependencies of Household Poverty and Food Insecurity in the United States, Wendy Lynne Eckert
Supporting the Micmac Farms Through Ethnographic Communication Research, Anthony Sutton
A Change Occurring: The Evolving Relationship Among Archaeologists and Wabanakis in Maine, Rosemary A. Cyr
The Original Meaning and Intent of the Maine Indian Land Claims: Penobscot Perspectives, Maria L. Girouard
Reading Bitch Magazine: Audience Interaction with Third Wave Feminism, Chelsea L. Grieve
UMaine Disabilities Insider, February 27, 2012, University of Maine Disability Support Services
Transgender awareness leader speaks at UMaine, Eric Berard
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Relatively Good or Absolutely Not: Examining Relative vs Absolute Stereotyping in Emotional Reactions to Discrimination, Brandon J. Cosley
Caucasian Teachers of Native American Students: the Interplay of Ideology and Practice, Heather L. Ball
Maine Peace Action Committee Newsletter, April 2011, Maine Peace Action Committee
15th annual MLK day breakfast draws 300, Heather Pilling
How Maine Women's Involvement in the Woman's Board of Missions Expanded the Lives of Women at Home and Abroad, 1873-1927, Linda Cooper Costelloe
Chinese Women in the Chinese Restaurant: Work and Cultural Identity, Elizabeth Louise Hardink
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Framing a Killing: The Stuart Murder Hoax, the Boston News Media, and the Politics of Modern Racism, Brian Lepine
Maine Peace Action Committee Newsletter, October 2010, Maine Peace Action Committee
The Palliative Role of Meritocracy in Women's Reaction to Impending Discrimination, Ellen E. Newell
Five Modules on Immigration for Third-Year College Level and AP Spanish Classes: A Model for Other Languages and Multiculturalism, Maria D. Sandweiss
Transgender guidelines stir controversy, Dylan Riley
Pimps, Pushers, and Politics, A Historical Examination of the Blaxploitation Genre from 1971-1976, Barry Morgan
Seeking the "Mother of Exiles": A Cultural and Political History of American Refugee Policy in the Twentieth Century, Katherine M. O'Flaherty
Cripping the Workspace: Performing Physically Disabled Professional Identity in Personal Narrative, Julie-Ann Scott
Making the Theory Work: How the Spruce Run Association Used Radical Feminist Theory in Their Organizational Practice, 1972-1992, Margaret A. Solic