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The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Journal 2017 Through subtle shades of color, the cover design represents the layers of richness and diversity that flourish within minority communities. The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Journal 2017 A collection of scholarly research by fellows of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program Preface It is with great pride that we share with you the 2017 edition of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Journal. For 30 years, the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) program has worked to promote diversity in the faculty of higher education, specifically by supporting students from underrepresented minority groups in their goal of obtaining PhDs. With the MMUF Journal, we further seek to provide an opportunity for students to experience academia through exposure to the publishing experience. This experience offers an introduction to the journal sub- mission process, including manuscript preparation and editor-guided revision of scholarly work for publication, and provides an audience for student work. For most students, the MMUF Journal is their first experience in publishing a scholarly article. In the 2017 Journal, readers will find articles by 27 authors from 18 colleges and universities that are part of the program’s member institutions. These students share with us a diverse range of scholarship, including research con- ducted under the MMUF program, introductions to senior theses, and analytical class essays. The papers presented here represent a wide diversity of subjects, from history to anthropology to African studies, that reflect the full range of MMUF-supported disciplines. The diversity of articles presented here provide a window into the ways in which academic discourse is both time- less and timely. In this publication, you will see students examine classic literature, such as work by Jane Austen or W.E.B. Du Bois, and explore historical moments, to bring a new voice to the table. These scholars also demonstrate that scholarship is not an absolute argument but a timely, constantly evolving conversation. Most notably, Chayanne Marcano’s paper, “Williamsburg” of the Caribbean?: Analyzing the Politics of Reinvestment and Revitalization in Santurce, Puerto Rico, was forced to include a postscript that details the impact of Hurricane Maria on the district of Santurce. Other papers similarly demonstrate the way that scholarship is constantly shaping, and being shaped in response to, important shifting events at the local and global level. It has been an honor to work with these young scholars to bring their work to fruition. It is with great pride and excitement that we share their work with you. Elissa Krakauer Jacobs MMUF Journal Editor-in-Chief University Writing Program Brandeis University Editorial Board Gregory A. Llacer MMUF Journal Editorial Board Chair Director, Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships Harvard University Norm Jones MMUF Journal Editorial Board Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Amherst College Cammi Valdez MMUF Journal Editorial Board Director, McNair Scholars Program Wellesley College Krishna Winston MMUF Journal Editorial Board Marcus L. Taft Professor of German Language and Literature Professor of German Studies Professor of Environmental Studies Wesleyan University Journal Administration Elizabeth Perten Programs Manager, Research and Fellowships Harvard University MMUF Program / Mellon Foundation Armando Bengochea Program Officer and Director of MMUF The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Lee Bynum Senior Program Associate and Associate Director of MMUF The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Journal 2017 Table of Contents 3 55 Angela Acosta, Smith College Jauhara Ferguson, Spelman College Illuminating Paradise: The Motif of the Moon in Vicente Aleixandre’s Radical Narratives of Muslim Male Youth: A Critical Investigation of Sombra del Paraíso the Media Rhetoric of Radicalization Advisor/Mentor(s): María Helena Rueda, María Estela Harretche Advisor/Mentor(s): Nami Kim, Munira Charania 8 61 Candace Borders, Washington University in St. Louis Natasha A. Fernández-Pérez, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Everyday Faith: Black Women’s Appropriation of Religious Space and Campus Ritual in Pruitt-Igoe Flour as Power? An Examination of the Representation of Flour-Based Advisor/Mentor(s): Clarissa Hayward, Jeffery McCune Provisions in Militia Documents of the Spanish Caribbean Colonies, 1599–1904 13 Advisor/Mentor(s): Isabel Rivera-Collazo Gabriella Carmona, Williams College The Kebab Truck: A Study of the Turkish and Moroccan Ethnic Economy 68 in Oxford Breana Gomez, Whittier College Advisor/Mentor(s): Cathy Johnson, Molly Magavern Blurring Lines & Crossing Boundaries: Grant Allen’s The Woman Who Did Advisor/Mentor(s): Andrea Rehn 19 Kevin Cruz, Cornell University 72 “Never in My Backyard”: Aesthetics of the Message and Immigration Gualberto Guzman, University of Texas at Austin Counter-Narratives in the Chicana/o Poster Visualizing and Understanding Code-Switching Advisor/Mentor(s): Ella Maria Diaz Advisor/Mentor(s): Barbara E. Bullock, Almeida J. Toribio 23 77 Juliana Cruz Martínez, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus Jasmine Hope Kasheboon Khoury, City College of New York (CUNY) Linguistic Attitudes towards Velar r in Puerto Rican Spanish Mapping Access: The Mental Health and Dis/ability Crisis in the Advisor/Mentor(s): Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo West Bank Advisor/Mentor(s): Asale Angel-Ajani 30 Liza M. Davis, University of Pennsylvania 84 To Find the Beauty in Labor Sophia Li, University of Southern California Advisor/Mentor(s): Grace Sanders Johnson, Herman Beavers Sugar Workers United: The Effects of Interethnic Asian Relations in Hawaii on Labor Organizing in the Early 20th Century 35 Advisor/Mentor(s): Lon Kurashige, Alisa Catalina Sanchez Kiara Downs, Whittier College “Fanny’s on the Big Screen”: The Troubles of Fanny Price’s Transition 89 from Page to Screen Faith Macharia, Bowdoin College Advisor/Mentor(s): Andrea Rehn The Socio-cultural Impacts of Ethno-Racism in Italy as Functions of the Global Economic North/South Divide 40 Advisor/Mentor(s): Olufemi Vaughan Sofia Dueñas,Whittier College After Back-to-School Night: Lasting Parent Involvement and 94 Support Staff in Elementary Schools Chayanne D. Marcano, City College of New York (CUNY) Advisor/Mentor(s): Rebecca Overmyer-Velazquez “Santurce is Our Williamsburg”: Analyzing the Politics of Reinvestment and Revitalization in Santurce, Puerto Rico 45 Advisor/Mentor(s): Vanessa K. Valdés, Jacqueline N. Brown Malik Earle, Macalester College Violent Play: Ritual and Colonialism in Skyrim 102 Advisor/Mentor(s): Bill Hart Jazmin Ocampo, Pomona College Militarized Notions of Leadership: Experiences of JROTC Latinx Youth 50 at a Local High School Lucero Estrella, University of Texas at Austin Advisor/Mentor(s): Gilda Ochoa Anti-Japanese Sentiment along the U.S.-Mexico Border in the Early 20th Century Advisor/Mentor(s): C.J. Alvarez 1 The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Journal 2017 Table of Contents 106 125 Anwar Omeish, Harvard University Natalie Reyes, University of Southern California Epistemological Resistance in the Work of W.E.B. Du Bois: Mobilizing Confessions of Food Insecure Students at the University of Southern Racial Analysis into a Critique of Social Science California: Using Capital as a Coping Mechanism Advisor/Mentor(s): Jean Comaroff Advisor/Mentor(s): George Sanchez, Edson Rodriguez Cruz, Leland Saito 111 132 Cristina Parajón, Harvard University Sana Saboowala, University of Texas at Austin ¡EL CHISME! Gossip as a Barrier to Contraceptive Care for Adolescents Epigenetic Marks in Trauma Victims: Analyzing Methylation Patterns in Urban Nicaragua in NR3C1 and LINE-1 Advisor/Mentor(s): Jocelyn Viterna Advisor/Mentor(s): Deborah Bolnick 116 137 Shelby Perea, University of New Mexico Phoebe Young, Brown University “One of the Boys”: How Female Journalists Take a Credible Stance On-Air “(Re)Imagining Brown 250+”: Histories of Violence in the Making of Advisor/Mentor(s): Myra Washington, Kate Krause, Kiyoko Nogi Simmons, an American University Ruth Trinidad-Galvan Advisor/Mentor(s): Monica Muñoz-Martinez, Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Shontay Delalue 120 Sacha-Rose Phillips, Carleton College 143 Race, Toxic Waste, and Environmental Justice: Exploring Critiques Pamela Zabala, Bowdoin College of the Disproportionate Siting Theory and the Wider Practice of Hypercultural White Spaces: Resisting Inclusivity Efforts on College Environmental Justice Research Campuses Advisor/Mentor(s): Kimberly Smith, Marynel Ryan Van Zee, Advisor/Mentor(s): Theo Greene, Ingrid Nelson William North 2 Illuminating Paradise: The Motif of the Moon in Vicente Aleixandre’s Sombra del Paraíso1 Angela Acosta, Smith College Angela Acosta graduated from Smith College with bachelor’s Introduction degrees in Spanish and English Language and Literature and “Para ti y todo lo que en ti vive, / yo estoy escribiendo.” a concentration in Translation Studies. Her Mellon Mays project “For you and all that lives in you, / I am writing.” considers how Spanish history and Vicente Aleixandre’s biography – Vicente Aleixandre, “Para quién escribo” manifest themselves in his poetry collection Sombra del Paraíso. Angela visited archives in Madrid and Málaga, Spain during Imagine a bright paradise with rolling hills and baby summer 2016 to learn about the origins of Sombra del Paraíso animals that suddenly falls into the shadowy darkness of par- and its historical moment.