An American Studies: Media

"And I would start out by asking you is anybody ever not making stuff up?"

Black Power & the 1968 Olympics: "Making A Fist"

How “American” are these athletes in comparison with Michael Jordan at the 1992 Olympics?

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Making a Fist from Spiro Bolos

CRM - beginnings

Beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement from Spiro Bolos

Gordon Parks - Segregation Series

These quiet, compelling photographs elicit a reaction that Mr. Parks believed was critical to the undoing of racial prejudice: empathy.

Gordon Parks - Segregation Series from Spiro Bolos on Vimeo.

Johnson / Reconstruction

JOHNSON from Spiro Bolos

Reunion & Reaction from Spiro Bolos

Kalounna in Frogtown

What advice would you give this boy to help him fit in to American society?

Images of Emancipation

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Images of Emancipation from Spiro Bolos on Vimeo.

Music by Nils Frahm. "Si" from Screws