Vagrants and Vagabonds: Poetry and Mobility in the Early American Republic

 

From: Monday, March 02, 2020, 04:30pm

To: Monday, March 02, 2020, 06:30pm

Vagrants and Vagabonds: Poetry and Mobility in the Early American Republic

Seminar and Book Party for Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan

 A discussion of two excerpts from Vagrants and Vagabonds: Poverty and Mobility in the Early American Republic (NYU 2019). The book tells the riveting story of control over the mobility of poor migrants, and how their movements shaped current perceptions of class and status in the United States. Commentary 

 

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Location

Center for Cultural Analysis
15 Seminary Place, 6th Floor
New Brunswick, NJ, 08901

 
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