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
Alex Lee: Angel Island Detainee Poetry Inscriptions as Everyday Resistance, 1910 – 1940
Rosa Pleasant: Contentious Land: Sapelo Island and the Use of Narrative as a Political Tool
Samantha Royall: A Different Shade of White: White Anti-Racist Organizing and the Im/possibility of a Radical White Identity
**Dinner reception immediately following
Enjoy a free lunch, say goodbye to our graduating seniors, and get the scoop on Fall 2018. The department will also announce the winners of the prizes for Best Honors Thesis, Best Senior Thesis, and Service to the Department.
Please RSVP to Kathy Izumi (kizumi@oxy).
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.
