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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.