Dear RSF:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Please join us in the library at 11:00 on Wednesday March 4\nfor Visiting Scholar Marisa Chappell\u2019s presentation \u201cACORN: Working-Class\nPolitics in America\u2019s Second Gilded Age.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chappell received both her PhD in US History and MA in\nLiberal Studies from Northwestern, and a BA in History from Emory\nUniversity. She is Associate Professor of History at Oregon State\nUniversity, <\/em>specializing in 20th-century US history with a\nparticular focus on politics, social policy, and the political economy of race\nand gender. She has been at Oregon State since 2005. Chappell is the\nauthor of <\/em>The\nWar on Welfare: Family, Poverty and Politics in Modern America<\/em> (University of\nPennsylvania Press, 2009), one of <\/em>Choice<\/em> magazine\u2019s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010. \n <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chappell is working on a book\nthat explores how the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now\n(ACORN), once the nation\u2019s largest social justice organization, organized low-\nand moderate-income Americans to win political power locally and nationally. Using\narchival materials, Congressional records, press coverage, and interviews with\nformer ACORN staff and members,<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chappell is examining how\nACORN\u2019s membership and campaigns\u2014as well as sustained political efforts to\ndiscredit the organization\u2014illuminate the trajectory of working-class politics\nover the last half-century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear RSF: Please join us in the library at 11:00 on Wednesday March 4 for Visiting Scholar Marisa Chappell\u2019s presentation \u201cACORN: Working-Class Politics in America\u2019s Second Gilded Age.\u201d Chappell received both her PhD in US History and MA in Liberal Studies from Northwestern, and a BA in History from Emory University. She is Associate Professor… Read More Visiting Scholar Seminar, Mar 4: Marisa Chappell<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46193801],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wednesday-seminars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rsfintranet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/chappell.jpg?fit=430%2C220&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13092,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13091\/revisions\/13092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}