History 378B - ST:Water Power:Water Control,Race,and Ethnicity in the United States Damico

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Whitman College

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Water is so much a part of our everyday life that we easily take it for granted, from our drinkable tap water, gleaming automobiles, and emerald-green lawns to enormous freighters which transport goods across oceans, to modern-day "oasis" cities like Phoenix, Los Angeles, and Albuquerque, to the enormous, complex systems of levees in places like New Orleans. However, behind each of these forms of water control - whether getting water to very dryplaces, or preventing water from flowing along its natural course - lay the stories of their creation. This course traces how Americans from a variety of ethnic and social backgrounds worked to control water, and, thereby, attain or retain power in their communities. Such efforts oft times affected people of different races and socioeconomic status differently, revealing as much about Americans' everyday lives as they do about physicalities of water control. Distribution Area: Social Science, Alternative Voices.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.whitman.edu

Phone Number:

(509) 527-5111

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

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Semester

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