• Free lunch
• Meet the faculty and majors
• Junior Paper Prize announcement

Please RSVP to Kathy Izumi (kizumi@oxy.edu).

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.

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 

Senior comps presenters:

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).

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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.