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A Face to a Name: From audio recording to visual storytelling

In 1995 Mary Ann Villarreal conducted her first oral history interview. With a list of questions, a cassette recorder, and microphone in hand she met Marisela Norte at the Astro Burger on Beverly Blvd. In between the street noise, she collected a set of moving stories about the places that inspired Norte’s writings. A few years later, Villarreal used both a cassette recorder and digital video camera to capture the oral histories of the women who took center stage in her book Listening to Rosita.

American Studies Senior Comps Presentations

3:00-4:00PM 

Autumn Brook Johnson: Flash Publications of Antebellum New York City: Exposing Hypocrisy & Imparting Titillating Sexuality 

Peri Warren: Getting Down to Black Business: The National Negro Business League and the Economoic Praxis of Uplift Entrepreneurship

Maximillian Baroni: Remembering the Braceros: Regulation and Action

Reilly Torres: 'Far Away Blues': Emotional Geographies of the Great Migration

4:00 -4:15PM 

Coffee Break

4:15-5:15PM 

Public talk by Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, PhD: ‘A Toda Madre (ATM)’: Migrant Dreams and Nightmares in El Norte

Using more than 300 letters exchanged among family members across the U.S.-Mexico borderlands in the 1960s, this talk explores the financial, emotional, and personal longing of young Mexican migrant males. Focusing on the experiences of Rogelio Martínez Serna and that of his male peers in Mexico and the United States, this essay explores his repeated yet often failed attempts to achieve an economically, physically, and emotionally stable family life.