David A. Solis-Enriquez

About David
Year: Senior
Major: History (Certificates: Latine/x Studies; Global Studies Certificate; Cultural Diversity)
Hometown: Dodge City, KS
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kim Perez
Research Recognition: 2025 Outstanding Undergraduate Scholar
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Describe Your Research
My research project reconstructed early American twentieth-century Keystone View Company stereographs of Mexico and examined the imperial rationale embedded into them. They depicted Mexico as a country filled with impoverishment, abundant resources, and a land of economic opportunity. The stereographs played on American racist and paternalistic attitudes towards foreign populations and tried to depict that United States' investment and capital benefitted the local inhabitants of Mexico.