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DESCRIPTION:In 1970\, Black employees at Polaroid discovered their employer
 ’s equipment was being sold to the South African government to create ID c
 ards and passbooks under the apartheid system and organized as the Polaroi
 d Revolutionary Workers Movement. In this presentation\, educator and acti
 vist Caroline Hunter recounts her experiences as a co-organizer of a grass
 roots boycott that forced the Polaroid Corporation to withdraw from South 
 Africa.  Caroline Hunter hails from New Orleans. She graduated from Xavier
  University of Louisiana with a BS in chemistry\; she holds a master’s deg
 ree in education from Antioch College and Harvard Graduate School of Educa
 tion. Hunter is a retired educator\, having served 34 years in the Cambrid
 ge Public Schools District. Her career spanned from high school teacher to
  administrator. In the 1970s while she was working as a research scientist
 \, Hunter co-founded the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement and co-or
 ganized a grassroots boycott against Polaroid Corporation for its involvem
 ent in apartheid in South Africa. Hunter has been recognized for her anti-
 apartheid work\; her honors include the National Education Association’s R
 osa Parks Memorial Award. When not traveling for speaking engagements\, sh
 e spends time between Cambridge and Martha’s Vineyard.Drew Thompson is ass
 ociate professor of Black studies and visual culture at Bard Graduate Cent
 er\, where he researches and teaches in the areas of African and Black dia
 spora visual and material culture. Curating exhibitions is a fundamental p
 art of his teaching and scholarship. He recently co-curated Benjamin Wigfa
 ll and Communications Village\, the first posthumous survey of the Black A
 merican artist Benjamin Wigfall\, which opened in September 2022 at the Do
 rsky Museum before traveling to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. He is al
 so at work on an exhibition about African metalwork that will open at the 
 Bard Graduate Center Gallery in fall 2023. He authored Filtering Histories
 : The Photographic Bureaucracy in Mozambique\, 1960 to Recent Times (Unive
 rsity of Michigan Press\, 2021) and numerous publications about the histor
 y of photography and contemporary art in southern Africa.AccessAssistive l
 istening devices are available. American Sign Language interpretation and/
 or CART Captioning are available upon request (email public.humanities@bgc
 .bard.edu). Learn more about visiting BGC here.Covid PoliciesLearn more ab
 out our COVID policies here.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: The Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement
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