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Wednesday, October 1, 2008 001.
9:00 am to 5:00 pm Special Session
3rd Floor Back Lobby Area
STAFF OFFICE 002.
9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Registration
On-Site Registration Room D
ASALH REGISTRATION. 003.
10:00 am to 3:00 pm
Meeting Ballroom I
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEETING. Presiding: John E. Fleming, ASALH National President Participants: Richard T. Adams, ASALH Vice President for Membership Thomas Battle, Moorland Spingarn Research Center Felix Armfield, Buffalo State College Zende Larmar Clark, Hillside, NJ Public Schools Elizabeth Clark-Lewis, Howard University William Jelani Cobb, Spelman College Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH, Executive Director David C. Dennard, East Carolina University Gloria Dickinson, The College of New Jersey Lucenia W. Dunn, DDL, Inc. Stephanie Y. Evans, University of Florida Sheila Flemming-Hunter, Rust College Bettye J. Gardner, Coppin State University Louis Hicks, Alexandria Black History Museum Debra Newman Ham, Morgan State University Annette Palmer, Morgan State University June O. Patton, Governors State University Randy Rice, Farmers Insurance Daryl Scott, Howard University Janet Sims-Wood, Prince George’s Community College Mark M. Spradley, Mazao Capitol, LLC James B. Stewart, Pennsylvania State University Troy Thornton, Goldman Sachs
Francille Wilson, University of Southern California Lerone Bennett, Jr., Johnson Publishing Co. Samuel Black, Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center Madlyn Calbert, Advisory Board Member Adelaide Cromwell, Advisory Board Member Vincent DeForest, ASALH Advisory Board Member John Hope Franklin, James B. Duke Professor Emeritus, Duke University V.P. Franklin, University of California Riverside Henry Louis Gates, Harvard University Robert Harris, Cornell University Darlene Clark Hine, Northwestern University Sylvia Jacobs, North Carolina Central University Shirley Kilpatrick, ASALH Advisory Board Member Manning Marable, Columbia University Kim Pearson, The College of New Jersey Florence Radcliff, ASALH Advisory Board Member, Bethel Dukes Branch Member Amilcar Shabazz, University of Massachusetts Amherst Barbara Walker, ASALH Advisory Board Member Sheila Walker, Afrodiaspora, Inc. Tracey Weis, Millersville University Jeanette Marie Williams, ASALH Advisory Board Member Special Session Exhibit Area J
004. 1:00 pm to 10:00 pm EXHIBIT HALL OPENING DAY. Participants:
Cheryl Smith, Market Woman! Black Women Entrepreneurs Past, Present & Future Marjory Tuff, The American Institute for History Education Robert Martin, Proquest Shana Rivers, University of Alabama Press Charles Bittner, The Nation Michelle Alamillo, SUNY Press Alan Spears, National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) Jovita A. Simons, Jovita’s Place ASALH Journal of African American History, ASALH Kim Greene, B.L.A.C.K. Francine Henderson, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History Susan LaMont, Pathfinder Press Margaret Miles, Bethune and Woodson Historic Sites Daryl Scott, Woodson’s Appeal: The Lost Manuscript Edition VP Franklin, Editor, JAAH
Rosaline C. Tench, The Panama Canal Tours (MiraFlores) Caroline L. Martin, Univ. of South Carolina Press LaRonda Koffi, Jesus Loves Me Children’s Books, LLC Jackie Peters Cully, J.B.C. Artworks Mary Lynn Howe, Scholars Choice Margo Cheney, University of Illinois Press Valerie M. Mack, Saxx Silver Jewelry & Art Jennie Hopkins, Elderhostel Angela Anthony, J & A Distributors Mark A. Trocchi, Association Book Exhibit Frances Jones, African Butterfly Sherrod N. Gresham, Gresham’s Coins, Stamps and Medals Okeyo Jumal, Spiritual Shackles Susan D. Soule, Cambridge University Press Caryn Koplik, National Humanities Center Vincent Hamilton, Hamilton Books Eva Bridges, Bridges Book Center and Museum
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3:00 pm to 5:00 pm Meeting
Ballroom I
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL AND BRANCH PRESIDENTS MEETING. Presiding: John E. Fleming, ASALH National President Participants: Richard T. Adams, ASALH Vice President for Membership Thomas Battle, Moorland Spingarn Research Center Felix Armfield, Buffalo State College Zende Larmar Clark, Hillside, NJ Public Schools Elizabeth Clark-Lewis, Howard University William Jelani Cobb, Spelman College Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH, Executive Director David C. Dennard, East Carolina University Gloria Dickinson, The College of New Jersey Lucenia W. Dunn, DDL, Inc. Stephanie Y. Evans, University of Florida Sheila Flemming-Hunter, Rust College Bettye J. Gardner, Coppin State University Louis Hicks, Alexandria Black History Museum Debra Newman Ham, Morgan State University Annette Palmer, Morgan State University June O. Patton, Governors State University Randy Rice, Sponsor, Farmers Insurance Daryl Scott, Howard University Janet Sims-Wood, Prince George’s Community College Mark M. Spradley, Mazao Capitol, LLC James B. Stewart, Pennsylvania State University Troy Thornton, Goldman Sachs Francille Wilson, University of Southern California Lerone Bennett, Jr., Johnson Publishing Co. Samuel Black, Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center Madlyn Calbert, Advisory Board Member Adelaide Cromwell, Advisory Board Member Vincent DeForest, ASALH Advisory Board Member John Hope Franklin, James B. Duke Professor Emeritus, Duke University V.P. Franklin, University of California Riverside Henry Louis Gates, Harvard University Joseph Harris, Howard University Robert Harris, Cornell University Darlene Clark Hine, Northwestern University Sylvia Jacobs, North Carolina Central University Shirley Kilpatrick, ASALH Advisory Board Member Manning Marable, Columbia University Kim Pearson, The College of New Jersey Florence Radcliffe, ASALH Advisory Board Member, Bethel Dukes Branch Member Amilcar Shabazz, University of Massachusetts Amherst 006.
Barbara Walker, ASALH Advisory Board Member Sheila Walker, Afrodiaspora, Inc. Tracey Weis, Millersville University Jeanette Marie Williams, ASALH Advisory Board Member BRANCHES Dexter Harper, Amarillo Texas Branch Fred Hearns, ASALH of Tampa Bay John & Ann R. Rice, BEASLEY/BURKS Tashia Bradley, Florida State University/Berea College Helen Janice Dada, Bethel Dukes Otis Dismuke, Birmingham-Charles A. Brown Birmingham Montoya Kemp, Bluefield State College of ASALH Bessie Jackson, Bronx Charles W. White, Buckingham Lopez Matthews, Howard University Elnora E. Lewis, CGW Barbara E. Blackwell, Charleston Marion C. Madison, Clunie Branch of ASALH at Westchester Margaret E. Peters, Dayton Harold Robinson, Pastor, Price Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church Connie M. Blake, Dr. Mary Mcleod Bethune Branch of ASALH of Montgomery County Krystle Loftan, Dr. Mary Mcleod Bethune Campus-Base Joseph Brandon Stafford, Ella Baker/Robert Williams Wanda Stewart, Coppin State Ruthine Tidwell, Jacksonville (James Weldon Johnson) Ramla Bandele, Joseph Taylor , IUPUI Phyllis Watkins, Julian Emanuel Cooper, Lorenzo J. Greene Irene & John Loftin, Louisa Lois Watson, Manasota Robert C. Hayden, ASALH, Martha’s Vineyard Genevieve Shepherd, Our Authors Study Club Dorothy F. Bailey, PG County Truth Selma R. Young, Philadelphia Heritage Shirley Turpin Parham, Phila-Montco Andre Maurice Lee, Roland McConnell Franklin R. Morris, Samuel L. Banks Bernice Musgrave, Sullivan County Jamie D. Bennett, North Carolina Central University Melva Becnel, Pearl Suel Branch-Houston, Texas Jonathan Fenderson, University of Massachusetts Amherst Jean Carne, Van McCoy Legacy
3:30 pm to 6:00 pm Special Session Auditorium
HIDDEN TREASURES OF THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: DISCOVERING AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY IN OUR NATIONAL PARKS. Sponsor: Alan Spears, National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA)
Presenter: Alan Spears, National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) Tom Kiernan, National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA)
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Moderator: Julia Yarbough, NBC 6 Panelists: Robert Parker, National Park Service Tara Morrison, National Park Service Robert Stanton, Chairman Emeritus, African American Experience Fund of the National Park Foundation and Audrey Peterman, Earthwise Productions, Inc. 007.
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm Special Session Reception Room K
OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION. Sponsor: Alan Spears, National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) Presiding: John E. Fleming, ASALH National President Welcome: Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH, Executive Director Presenter of Awards: Thomas Battle, Moorland Spingarn Research Center Recipients: Mary McLeod Bethune Service Award: Dolores Nehemiah, Our Authors Study Club Council Award: Our Authors Study Club, Genevieve Shepherd, President 008.
8:30 pm to 11:00 pm
Meeting Ballroom I
ACADEMIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEETING. Presiding: James B. Stewart, Pennsylvania State University Participants: Stephanie Y. Evans, University of Florida Daryl Scott, Howard University David C. Dennard, East Carolina University Derrick P. Alridge, University of Georgia Clementine Carr, Morgan State University Emanuel Abston, Howard University Felix Armfield, Buffalo State College Flora Brown, Elizabeth City State University Tamara Brown, Bowie State University Richard K. Dozier, Tuskeegee University Bertis English, Alabama State University Sheila Flemming-Hunter, Rust College Bettye J. Gardner, Coppin State University Horace Huntley, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute/University of Alabama at Birmingham James James, African American Heritage Society, Inc. Peniel E. Joseph, Brandeis University Leslie Burl McLemore, Jackson State University Gregory L. Mixon, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Freddie Parker, North Carolina Central University June O. Patton, Governors State University Merlene Pitre, Texas Southern University Janet Sims-Wood, Prince George’s Community College Carlton E. Wilson, North Carolina Central University Alfred Young, Georgia Southern University
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8:30 pm to 11:00 pm
ASALH BRANCH WORKSHOP.
Meeting Ballroom III
Presiding: Richard T. Adams, ASALH Vice President for Membership Welcome: John E. Fleming, ASALH National President Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH, Executive Director Otis Dismuke, Birmingham-Charles A. Brown Birmingham Presenter: Daryl Scott, Howard University Presenter: Thomas Battle, Moorland Spingarn Research Center
Thursday, October 2, 2008 010.
7:30 am to 5:00 pm Special Session 3rd Floor Back Lobby Area
STAFF OFFICE.
011.
7:30 am to 5:00 pm Registration On-Site Registration Room D
ASALH REGISTRATION.
012.
8:30 am to 9:50 am Paper Session Auditorium
AFRICAN AMERICAN AND AMERICAN INFLUENCES ON AFRICAN CULTURES. Chair: Benjamin Onu Arah, Bowie State University Participants: African American Cultural Influence on South African Townships, 1951-1960. Johannah Caitriona Duffy, University of Nottingham Providential Design: “American Negroes” and Garveyism in South Africa. Robert Trent Vinson, College of William and Mary Soul to Soul: The Soul Music Concert in Africa. W.S. Tkweme, University of Louisville Commentator: The Audience, ASALH
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8:30 am to 12:00 pm
Special Session Hotel Lobby
AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE BUS TOUR OF BIRMINGHAM. Sponsor: Larry Jordan, ARAMARK Presenter: Donna Edwards-Todd, Abracadabra Tours 014.
8:00 am to 9:50 am Paper Session Meeting Room A
BLACK STUDENT ACTIVISM AND EFFICACY: PAST AND PRESENT. Chair: Amilcar Shabazz, University of Massachusetts Amherst Participants: Anti-Imperialist Black Student Activism: The Student Organization for Black Unity (SOBU), Malcolm X Liberation University (MXLU), and the February First Movement (FFM) 1971-7975. Richard Benson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Drawing Sustenance at the Source: African American Students’ Participation in the Black Community as an Act of Resistance. Kristine Lewis, Drexel University
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Perceived Self-Efficacy Among Black Students as it Relates to Learning and Performance. Brittany Nicole O’Neil, University of Central Florida Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 015.
8:30 am to 9:50 am Paper Session Meeting Room B
“MOVIN’ ON UP?”: A LOOK AT NEW BLACK POLITICS. Chair: Bennis Blue, Virginia State University Participants: “Movin’ on Up” The Black Middle-Class in Post Civil Rights Philadelphia 1965-2000. David Canton, Connecticut College “The Lingering Affects of Jim Crow upon African American Voting and Political Participation in the 21st Century South.” Johnny Gilbert, Jackson State University A Missed Opportunity: President Clinton’s Race Initiative. Daryl Anthony Carter, University of Memphis From Here to Yonder: Comparing the Presidential Campaigns of Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm and Barack Hussein Obama. Erik Brooks, Georgia Southern University
Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 016.
8:30 am to 9:50 am Paper Session Meeting Room C
URBAN MIGRATION AND FREEDOM IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. Chair: Perry A Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Participants: “For the Advancement of the Race”: Agency, Work, and the Great Migrations to Houston, Texas, 1900-1941. Bernadette Pruitt, Sam Houston State University ‘3 Months to Hurry, 9 Months to Worry’: African Americans in Atlantic City, NJ (1850-1940). Richlyn Goddard, Independent Scholar Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 017.
8:30 am to 9:50 am Paper Session Meeting Room E
BEYOND BLACK AND BROWN: POTENTIAL FOR BLACK/LATINO COALITION. Chair: Daniel Widener, UC San Diego Participants: Beyond Black and Brown: Black Politics in the Latino Electoral Age. Daniel Widener, UC San Diego How Latinos/Hispanics Interact with the African American Community. Laura R Drain, Hispanic Professional Women Corporation Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 018.
8:30 am to 9:50 am Paper Session Meeting Room F
BLACK WOMEN’S ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIAL ACTIVISM DURING THE BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLE. Chair: Freda Giles, UGA Participants: African American Women and the Struggle for Rights in Georgia, 1961 to 1971. Christina L. Davis, University of Georgia “Helping to introduce the Negro to [herself]”:The National Negro Business League in Early Twentieth Century America. Daleah Goodwin, University of Georgia Incorporated Societies: A Critique of Contemporary Black Women’s Organizations. Dawn Hazelton, University of Georgia
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Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 019.
8:30 am to 9:50 am Paper Session Meeting Room G
BLACK ATHLETES: REPRESENTATION AND REINTERPRETATION. Chair: Kelton R Edmonds, California University of Pennsylvania Participants: Jack Johnson, Paul Robeson and the Hyper-masculine African American Ubermensch. Paula Marie Seniors, Virginia Tech Kenyan Running: “My How Far They’ve Run”. Rachel Laws, Michigan State University Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 020.
8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Meeting Room H
HBCUS AND THE PROCESS OF INTEGRATION. Chair: Jelani Favors, Morgan State University Participants: Cease to Live, Begin to Be: Black College Faculty and the Struggle for Liberation. Jelani Favors, Morgan State University The End of an Era: Black College Football, Florida A&M, and the Ordeal of Integration. Derrick White, Florida Atlantic University Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Public History: Fueling the Passion for Teaching and Research. Sandra Jowers-Barber, University of the District of Columbia Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 021.
8:30 am to 9:50 am Paper Session Meeting Room I (Film Festival)
HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES ON THE FREEDOM STRUGGLE IN ALABAMA. Chair: Hasan Kwame Jeffries, The Ohio State University Participants: Birmingham, Alabama and the Modern Black Freedom Struggle. Robert W. Widell, Jr., University of Rhode Island From Protest to Politics in the Alabama Black Belt. Hasan Kwame Jeffries, The Ohio State University State Repression of Black Elected Officials in Alabama after the 1960s. G. Derek Musgrove, University of the District of Columbia Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 022.
8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Meeting Room K1
RACIAL SYSTEMS AND BLACK RESISTANCE IN COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA. Chair: Sherwin K Bryant, Northwestern University Participants: Mexico’s Colonial Marriage Record and the Lives of Lobos (Wolves) and Moriscos (Moors). Ben Vinson III, Johns Hopkins University Conspiracy, Race, and Gender: Free Women of Color in Nineteenth-Century Cuba. Michele Reid, Georgia State University Maroon and Cimarrón: African and Amerindian resistance through escape in colonial Spanish America. Charles Medina, University of Toledo Commentator: Sherwin K Bryant, Northwestern University
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9:00 am to 3:45 pm Special Session Ballroom IV
TEACHERS WORKSHOP - TRAIN THE TRAINER - PART I. Sponsor: Georgette Dixon, Wachovia Presiding: La Vonne Neal, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Presenters: Regina Lewis, Pikes Peak Community College Alicia Moore, Southwestern University Gwen Webb-Johnson, Texas A&M University Richard Schramm, National Humanities Center 024.
9:00 am to 10:00 pm
Special Session Exhibit Area J
EXHIBITORS. 025.
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Paper Session Auditorium
REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES AND STUDIES IN MOVEMENT POLITICS. Chair: Cornelius Bynum, Purdue University Participants: Beyond A. Philip Randolph: Reconfiguring the March on Washington Movement. David Lucander, University of Massachusetts City of Big Shoulders/City of Big Riots: Chicago, the 1966 Fire Hydrant Riot, and Working Class Politics. Ashley M. Howard, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign March on Milwaukee: A Struggle for Civil Rights. Clayborn Benson, III, Wisconsin Black Historical Society On the Front Line: the Committee on the Appeal for Human Rights and the Struggle to End Jim Crow in Atlanta. Carla Nichole Glosson, Purdue University Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 026.
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Paper Session BALLROOM
“THIS AIN’T NO VAUDEVILLE”: POPULAR CULTURE AND REPRESENTATIONS OF BLACKNESS. Chair: Adele Newson-Horst, Missouri-State University Participants: “The Struggle for Inclusion: African Americas at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and the Haitian Pavilion.” Barbara J Ballard, Marymount Manhattan College Multiculturalism and Radio Broadcasting in Post-World War II New Orleans. Bala Baptiste, Miles College “This Ain’t No Vaudeville!”: Civil Rights and the 1956 Assault of Nat King Cole. Michael T. Bertrand, Tennessee State University “The White Queens Got Scared!”: The Making of an African American Gay Nightlife in Bronzeville (1935-1965). Tristan Cabello, Northwestern University Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 027.
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Paper Session
DOCUMENTING AND ASSESSING THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. Chair: Sundiata Cha-Jua, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Participants: Building a National African American Congress: A Proposal. Wesley Sikivu Kabaila, California African American Political and Economic Institute (CAAPEI) A Black Think Tank Contributions of African American Inventors to the History of the Development of the United States. Raymond Bernard Webster, Consultant Declaration of Independence, A Commentary - Analysis of Race, Economics and Politics, Circa 1776 - A Conflicted Document. James Clifton Wilkerson, William Paterson University
Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 028.
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Paper Session Ballroom IX
PORTRAITS IN BLACK: AFRICAN AMERICAN BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. Chair: Shawn Leigh Alexander, University of Kansas Participants: A ‘Chosen Man of God, Carved in Ebony’: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Alabama Businessman, Educator, Minister, and Community Builder William R. Pettiford. Bertis English, Alabama State University Joel Augustus Rogers: The Life of a Pullman Porter. Thabiti Asukile, University of Cincinnati Robert Heberton Terrell: The First Black Man Appointed to a Judgeship by a U.S. President. Stephen Middleton, Mississippi State University Robert W. Williams and the Political Career of North Carolina Female Activist, Rosemary Crowell. Frederica Harrison Barrow, University of South Florida School of Social Work “One of the Most Dastardly Crimes Ever:” The Lynching of Marie Scott, Oklahoma, 1914. Maria DeLongoria, Medgar Evers College - CUNY
Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 029.
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Paper Session Meeting Room A
TEACHING TO TRANSFORM: STUDIES IN LIBERATION PEDAGOGY. Chair: Sandra Jowers-Barber, University of the District of Columbia Participants: Teaching to Transform: The Legacy of African American Educators. B. Gina Collins, Independent Scholar Readin’, ‘Ritin’, and Revolution: Heeding the Call for a Liberation Pedagogy. Shawn Lamar Williams, Georgia Perimeter College Curriculum Design and Its Historical Implications It Has Had on Race and Democracy in American Classrooms. Michelene McGreevy, University of Toledo Learn Experientially to Achieve Renewal of Neighborhoods. Thelma Baxter, Manhattan College; Joan Tropnas, St. John’s University Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 030.
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Paper Session Meeting Room B
PUBLIC POLICY AND SOCIAL OPPRESSION: FROM HISTORIC ENSLAVEMENT TO CONTEMPORARY ENTRAPMENT IN NEW ORLEANS. Chair: Lionel Kimble, Jr., Chicago State University Participants: Multiculturalism of a Different Sort: Slavery, Race, and Nation in Enslaved New Orleans. Rashauna Johnson, New York University Rescue Dreams - Katrina, the California Wildfires, and Racial/Political Backlash. Najja Modibo, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis The Multicultural Perspectives of Historic Environmental Disasters that Changed America: The Mississippi Flood of 1927
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and Hurricane Katrina and its Aftermath, New Orleans, Louisiana, Alabama, and the Gulf Coast, 2005. Dolores Alleyne Goode, Lesley University I Too Sing, AMERICA: A Sociological Prospectus on Race, New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina. Keisha Hicks, Cornell University
Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 031.
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Paper Session Meeting Room C
PSYCHOLOGICAL EMPOWERMENT: BLACKNESS IN THOUGHT AND PRACTICE. Chair: Kijua Sanders-McMurtry, Agnes Scott College Participants: A Global Operational Paradigm for Cultural Competency for People of African Descent. Nathaniel James Bracey, Independent Scholar Addressing Anti-Blackness: Challenging Communities of Color in a Growing Black/non-Black Society. Mei-Ling Nomusa Malone, UCLA; Neva M Pemberton, UCLA Redeeming the African American Knighthood: Alienation, Ownership and the Concept of Race Pride. Maryam Sharron Rahil Muhammad, Howard University The Intersection of Race, Culture, and Identity in African Liberation and Development. Jimmy Kirby, Jr., Temple University Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 032.
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Paper Session Meeting Room E
CULTURAL IDENTITY AND AFRICAN AMERICAN EDUCATION. Chair: Karen Y. Jackson-Weaver, Princeton University Participants: Learning What It Means to Be Black: African-American Identity and Progressive Reforms in Florida’s Schools. Paul Berk, Christian Brothers University The Disruption of Cultural Knowledge in Schools. Aziza Braithwaite Bey, Lesley University A New Approach to the Curricula of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in a Post-Affimative Action Society. Michael Silver, Independent Scholar Recast in the Image of Me: Race, Memory, and the Long Process of School Desegregation. Dwana Waugh, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 033.
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Paper Session Meeting Room F
DISCUSSIONS IN BLACK LITERARY TRADITIONS: CLASSIC AND CONTEMPORARY. Chair: Dorothy R. Tsuruta, San Francisco State University Participants: Redefinition of Human Liberation in the Poetry of Audre Lorde, 1968-1976. Markeysha Dawn Davis, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Subverting the Scapegoat: An Examination of Girardian Theory in Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time. Ernest Lee Gibson III, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies (University of Massachusetts - Amherst) The Politics of Culture and Religion in African Literature: Reflections on Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. Benjamin Onu Arah, Bowie State University Transnational Identity in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory. Maha Marouan, University of Alabama Commentator: The Audience, ASALH
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10:00 am to 11:45 am
Paper Session Meeting Room G
NEW STUDIES IN ENSLAVEMENT AND RESISTANCE. Chair: John W Grant, University of Arizona Participants: Literacy and Freedom: Ownership at the Dawn of North American Slavery. Perry A Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Proposing an Anti-Child Trafficking & Slavery Institute. Benjamin K. Fred-Mensah, Howard University Releasing Joshua Glover: Wisconsin’s Response to Popular Sovereignty, States’ Rights, and the Fugitive Slave Law. David Boers, Marian College The Role of Africans in the Design and Building of Baltimore Clipper Illegal Slaving Vessels. Harmon Carey, ASALH Impertinent Hussies and Ungrateful Wenches:Enslaved Women’s Resistance Through Delaware’s Newspapers and Official Records, 1775-1820. Darlene Spitzer-Antezana, Prince George’s Community College Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 035.
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Paper Session Meeting Room H
“ALL EYES ON ME”: REPRESENTATION OF BLACK WOMEN IN POPULAR CULTURE. Chair: Yuya Kiuchi, Michigan State University Participants: Duke: Sexualizing Black Citizenship During the Civil Rights Era. Kimberly Michele Stanley, Indiana University Happily Ever After?: Culture and the Construction of Disney Princesses of Color. Ashley Talley, Michigan State University Not Exactly Real Sisters: Decoding Racial Stereotypes in Dreamgirls and other Hollywood Productions. Tani Dianca Sanchez, University of Arizona The Woman on the Cover: Black women on the cover of Ebony magazine, 1980-2005. Leslie Campbell, University of Arizona
Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 036.
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Paper Session Meeting Room I (Film Festival)
PERCEPTIONS AND IDENTITY IN BLACK RELIGION. Chair: Judy Purnell, Independent Scholar Participants: Hollis F. Price and the Congregational Church. George Bagby, Hampden-Sydney College Identity Politics and Cultural Hybridity: African Americans and African Canadians in the Black Protestant Church, 1825-1910. Julia Robinson-Harmon, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Islam and the Black Encounter: The Dialogic and Dialectic of Race, Ethnicity, and Islamicity. Amir Al-Islam, Medgar Evers College Perceptions of the other: a European view of Daniel A. Payne. Nelson Timothy Strobert, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg
Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 037.
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Paper Session Meeting Room K1
IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES: MULTICULTURAL INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES. Chair: Fenobia I. Dallas, Saginaw Valley State University
Participants: Ideas Have Consequences: Conservative Philanthropy and the Attack on Black Studies. Donna J. Nicol, California State University Fullerton
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Loyalty, Duty, and Discrimination: Black Men in the U.S. Army. Zac Peterson, University of Alabama at Birmingham The Responsibility of the University to Address Multiple World Views. Shirley Ahera White, Clark Atlanta University “There is so Much More to Know than I am Accustomed to Knowing” Multiculturalism at the 1931 International Student Services Conference. Lauren L Kientz, Michigan State University
Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 038.
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Paper Session Meeting Room K2
HISTORICAL MODELS OF BLACK BUSINESS: CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS. Chair: Jerry Gershenhorn, North Carolina Central University Participants: Building Multiculturalism and Entrepreneurial Capacity: A Comparative Analysis of Black Entrepreneurs in Cleveland, Ohio and Indianapolis, Indiana. Bessie House-Soremekun, Indiana University, Indianapolis; Monroe Henry Little, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis William Washington Browne and the Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain, United Order of True Reformers. Daniel Acker, Economic Development Woodson’s Concept of the “Negro in Business”: Joseph Cassey, an Early Philadelphia Black Entrepreneur. Valeria Harvell, Penn State University, Abington College; Janine Black, Penn State University, Abington College Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 039.
12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Luncheon Ballroom I
THURSDAY LUNCHEON: NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE LUNCHEON. Welcome: John E. Fleming, ASALH National President Emcee: Eddie Laird, Birmingham News Speaker: Lonnie Bunch, NMAAHC Director Special Recognition: Kinshasha Holman Conwill, Independent Scholar Invocation: Arthur Price, Pastor of the historic 16th Street Baptist Church
Benediction: Arthur Price, Pastor of the historic 16th Street Baptist Church
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2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Paper Session Auditorium
CARTER G. WOODSON AND BLACK EMPOWERMENT. Chair: Monroe Henry Little, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Participants: Burroughs, Georgia Through the Prism of Carter G. Woodson’s ‘The Rural Negro’. Karen B Bell, Howard University Carter G. Woodson, Multiculturalism and Black Empowerment: Is There a Fit? Monroe Henry Little, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis History, Culture, and an Identity of Black Power: Carter G. Woodson and the “New Negro.” Al Smith, Modesto Junior College Carter G. Woodson’s Proposal for a Distinct African American Culture. Arsene O Boykin, Southern Illinois University Emeritus Commentator: The Audience, ASALH
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2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session BALLROOM
PLANNING WITH THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR THE CARTER G. WOODSON HOME NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE. Chair: Sheila Flemming-Hunter, Rust College Speakers: Gayle Hazlewood, National Park Service Robert Parker, National Park Service Commentators: Elizabeth Clark-Lewis, Howard University Bettye J. Gardner, Coppin State University 042.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Paper Session Ballroom III
HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY STRUGGLES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE IN BIRMINGHAM. Chair: Horace Huntley, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute/University of Alabama at Birmingham Participants: America’s Johannesburg and the Struggle for Civil Rights. Bobby Wilson, University of Alabama - Birmingham Goin’ North: The African American Women of Sloss Quarters. Karen Utz, University of Alabama - Birmingham Is Activism Still Alive in Post-Civil Rights Birmingham?: Intergenerational Reflections from African American Educators. Tondra L Loder-Jackson, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Michael Chambers, II, Birmingham Boys & Girls Club Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 043.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Ballroom IX
TRANSNATIONAL BLACKNESS: NAVIGATING THE GLOBAL COLOR LINE. Chair: Vanessa Agard-Jones, SOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society Participants: Blackness Beyond Boundaries. Manning Marable, Columbia University Global Apartheid, Foreign Policy, and Human Rights. Faye V. Harrison, University of Florida African American Expatriates in Ghana and the Black Radical Tradition. Kevin K. Gaines, University of Michigan Salvaging Lives in the African Diaspora: Anthropology, Ethnography, and Women’s Narratives. Irma McClaurin, Ford Foundation Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 044.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Meeting Room A
BLACK STUDIES, USA (DOCUMENTARY). Chair: Niyi Coker, University of Missouri-Saint Louis Participant: Jean-Richard Bodon, University of Alabama at Birmingham 045.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Meeting Room B
MUSIC, EDUCATION, AND STRUGGLE. Chair: Marcia E. Hardney, Jacksonville State University Speakers: Renee Lanette Baptiste, Jacksonville State University Myrtice E. Collins, Jacksonville State University
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Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 046.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Paper Session Meeting Room C
CRITICAL TRENDS: ANALYZING COMMUNITY VIOLENCE AND INCARCERATION. Chair: Wornie Reed, University of Tennessee Participants: African American Male Youth Violence and Internalized Racism. Wesley W Bryant, ASALH Dead Women Walking: the Death Penalty and Black Women in Rural Georgia and Florida, 1944-1952. Uche Egemonye, Independent Scholar Patterns of Modern Day Slavery: America’s War on Drugs. Linda D Tomlinson, Clark Atlanta University Criminal Injustice: Comparing the Post-Civil Rights Era to the Post-Reconstruction Era Justice. Wornie Reed, University of Tennessee Arson, Hate Crime, and Black Churches: A Critical Inquiry. Christopher Barry Strain, Florida Atlantic University Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 047.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Meeting Room E
BATTLING BIGOTS: THE CHALLENGE OF MANAGING MULTICULTURALISM AT MUSEUMS AND NATIONAL PARK SERVICE HISTORIC SITES. Chair: Alan Spears, National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) Speaker: Chuck Hunt, National Park Service Participants: Mary Williams, National Park Service Robert Stanton, Chairman Emeritus, African American Experience Fund of the National Park Foundation and Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 048.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Paper Session
Meeting Room G
MARTIN’S MOSAIC AND BARACK’S CONUNDRUM: THE CONSCIENCE OF THE BLACK CHURCH, AMERICAN MULTICULTURAL POLITICS, AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL CHANGE. Chair: Zachery Williams, University of Akron
Participants: Reawakening the Ghost of C. Eric Lincoln: Barack Obama, the Complicated Politics of Race in America, and the Continuing Challenge of Black Liberation Theology. Zachery Williams, University of Akron Half a Life: Acting Colored, Agitating for Change: Arnaud Bontemps. Holly Fisher, Independent Scholar Black Sheep of Another Flock: Seventh-day Adventist Influences in the Black Radical Tradition. Seneca Vaught, Niagara University
Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 049.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Meeting Room H
BLACK-EYED SUSANS AS ACTIVIST RESEARCHERS IN HIGHER EDUCATION: A CRITICAL EXPLORATION OF BLACK WOMEN’S EXPERIENCES IN POST-BACCALAUREATE PROGRAMS. Chair: Rhoda E. Johnson, University of Alabama Participants: (Re) visioning Race, Class, and Gender in Higher Education: A Critical Narrative Approach to Understand Gendered Racism in Ivory Towers. Rondee Gaines, Georgia State University
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An Unlikely Sisterhood: The Day I Talked with Mrs. Harris and Reverend Pauli. Zenobia Harris, Northwestern University Law School Eye and I Skinflectionz: At the Center of Katrina’s Hurricane. Rachel N. Hastings, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 050.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Meeting Room I (Film Festival)
CIVIL RIGHTS THROUGH THE EYES OF LOCAL PEOPLE. Chair: Michelle D. Deardorff, Jackson State University Participants: Emilye Crosby, SUNY-Geneseo Daphne Chamberlain, University of MS Hasan Kwame Jeffries, The Ohio State University Peter Levy, York College of Pennsylvania Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 051.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Meeting Room K1
MULTICULTURALISM AND ELECTORAL POLITICS IN MISSISSIPPI. Chair: Alferdteen B. Harrison, Jackson State University Participants: Robert G. Clark: Mississippi Educator, Legislator and Gentleman Farmer. Emanuel Abston, Howard University Reflections of an Advocate for Educational Reform and Public Service. Robert G. Clark, Former Speaker Pro Tempore, Mississippi House of Representatives Commentator: Barron Banks, Jackson State University 052.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Meeting Room K2
NEW PUBLICATIONS IN BLACK INTELLECTUAL LIFE AND HISTORY. Chair: Stephanie Y. Evans, University of Florida Participants: Introducing the Panelists of New Publications in Black Intellectual History. Stephanie Y. Evans, University of Florida The Early Black History Movement, Carter G. Woodson, and Lorenzo Johnston Greene. Pero Dagbovie, Michigan State University The Educational Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Intellectual History. Derrick P. Alridge, University of Georgia Outsiders Within: Black Women in the Legal Academy After Brown v. Board. Elwood David Watson, East Tennessee State University 053.
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm Plenary Session BALLROOM
PLENARY: REFLECTIONS ON RETURNING TO BIRMINGHAM. Moderator: John H. Bracey, University of Massachusetts Amherst Greetings: John E. Fleming, ASALH National President James B. Stewart, Pennsylvania State University Panelists: Sonia Sanchez, Temple University Mary Frances Berry, University of Pennsylvania Presenter of Award: Thomas Battle, Moorland Spingarn Research Center
Recipient of Award: John H. Bracey, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Book Signing
Ballroom-Prefunction Area
2008 AUTHORS’ BOOK SIGNING. Authors: Muhamad Felix
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Curtis Andrew
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John Orville
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Emory
Ahmad
We Will Return in The Whirlwind
Armfield
Journal of Afro Americans in NY Life & History/Special Issue: Niagara Movement
Austin
Up Against the Wall: Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panthers
Billingsley
Yearning to Breathe Free! Robert Smalls of South Carolina and His Families
Bracey
Black Protest in the Sixties, African-American Women and the Vote
Burton
Toward the Meeting of the Waters Currents in the Civil Rights Movement of South Carolina during the Twentieth Century
Campbell
Gullah Cultural Legacies
Cheryl Stephanie Wilson
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Cashin
The Agitator’s Daughter
Y
Evans
Black Women in the Ivory Tower
Fallin, Jr.
Uplifting the People
Edda VP
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Fields-Black
Deep Roots
Franklin
Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
Ronald Delores Ernestine
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Gauthier
Crescent City Countdown; Prey for Me: A New Orleans Mystery
Antonio Irma
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A
Goode
Hurricane Katrina In Focus
Harris
Dancing With Fireflies
Holland
Nathan B. Young and the Struggle over Black Higher Education
Jenkins
Dear Honeybunches, A Novella; The Davies of Fairfield County, South Carolina
Karen
Johnson
Uplifting The Women In The Race: The Educational Philosophy and Social Activism of Anna J. Cooper and Nannie Helen Burroughs
Ricky
Jones
What’s Wrong With Obamamania?
Jesse
Jones
And The Greatest of These Is Love
Peniel
Joseph
Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
Jumal
Spiritual Shackles
Okyeo Doris Rodgery
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Mangum
After the Bungy Jump, There’s Still A Lot Of Jerkin Goin On
McClain
Pearl Street Park: the Proving Grounds
Lois
MerriweatherMoore
The Dispersion of African American Culture throughout the World: Essay on the African Diaspora; Voices of Successful African American Men
Tommie
Morton-Young
Ride a Dark Horse
Paul
Ortiz
Emancipation Betrayed
Parent
Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660-1740
Anthony Timothy Wornie
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Pinnick
Finding and Using African American Newspapers
Reed
Blacks in Tennessee: Past and Present
Sonia
Sanchez
Wounded in the House of a Friend; Homegirls and Handgrenades
Daryl
Scott
Woodson’s Appeal
A
Smith
Market Women: Black Women Entrepreneurs Past, Present and Future
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Sumler-Edmonds
The Secret Trust of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault
Taylor-Gaines
Fia and the Butterfly: 7 Stories for Character Education; The Faith Story: How Butterflies Came to Be CD)
Marilyn
Thomas-Houston
Stony the Road to Change: Black Mississippians and the Culture of Social Relations; Homing Devices: the Poor as Targets of Public Housing Policy and Practice
Lela
Williams
Servants of the People: The 1960s Legacy of African American Leadership
Cheryl Janice Lonetta
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7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Special Session Ballroom I
92ND ANNIVERSARY RECEPTION FOR THE JOURNAL OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY. Sponsored by: The University of Alabama in Birmingham Presiding: V.P. Franklin, University of California Riverside Presenter: Karen Johnson, University of Utah Greetings: John E. Fleming, ASALH National President Award Presenters: Felix Armfield, Buffalo State College V.P. Franklin, University of California Riverside Recipients of Award: Graduate Essay Contest Winner: Jonathan Fenderson, University of Massachusetts Amherst Undergraduate Essay Contest Winner: Jackson Christopher Bartlett, Wayne State University Blassingame Prize Winner: Nashay M Pendleton, Temple University Recipient of Award: Gloria Dickinson, The College of New Jersey
Presenter of Council Award: Thomas Battle, Moorland Spingarn Research Center Unveiling of the 2009 Black Heritage Stamp: Roy Betts, USPS 056.
9:30 pm to 11:00 pm
Meeting
BALLROOM
ASALH BUSINESS MEETING. Presiding: John E. Fleming, ASALH National President Participants: Daryl Scott, Howard University Janet Sims-Wood, Prince George’s Community College Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH, Executive Director Annette Palmer, Morgan State University Richard T. Adams, ASALH Vice President for Membership Thomas Battle, Moorland Spingarn Research Center
Friday, October 3, 2008 057.
8:00 am to 5:00 pm Special Session 3rd Floor Back Lobby Area
STAFF OFFICE. 058.
8:00 am to 2:00 pm Special Session Wenonah High School
YOUTH DAY. Presiding: Barbara Dunn, Consultant Kiamsha Youth Empowerment Organization Greetings: Cedric D. Sparks, Sr., Mayor’s Office Division of Youth Services, City of Birmingham 059.
8:00 am to 5:00 pm Registration On-Site Registration Room D
ASALH REGISTRATION.
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8:30 am to 9:50 am Paper Session Auditorium
CARTER G. WOODSON AND THE ORIGINS OF MULTICULTURALISM. Chair: Annette Palmer, Morgan State University
Participants: “Carter G. Woodson and Multiculturalism: Linkages Among African and African American slaves.” Jackie Robinson Booker, Austin Peay State University The Origins of Multiculturalism: from Carter G. Woodson to a Free Negro, 1789. Jack, Jr. Carson, University of Wisconsin Dr. Carter G. Woodson and the Origin of Multiculturalism. J.D. Jackson, Dr. Brown Chapter ASALH Carter G. Woodson and Arturo “Arthur” Schomburg: Flip Sides of The Caribbean Connection. Dellita Lillian Martin-Ogunsola, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 061.
8:30 am to 9:50 am
Paper Session Ballroom III
HIP-HOP IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM: THE NEED FOR NEW DISCOURSE ON THE CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HIP-HOP AND RAP-RELATED GENRES. Chair: Derrick Mckisick, Cal-U of Pennsylvania Participants: Hard Times: a Historical Analysis of Hip Hop Aesthetics Circa 1984. William Boone, Temple University Differently Similar Paths: The Emergence, Proliferation, & Cultural Significance of Go-go & Hip-hop. Kelton R Edmonds, California University of Pennsylvania The Herstory of Global Sistahs in Hip-life and Hip-hop. Tara A Jabbaar-Gyambrah, Niagara University Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 062.
8:30 am to 9:50 am Paper Session Ballroom IV
MULTICULTURALISM IN THOUGHT AND PRACTICE. Chair: Marcia E. Hardney, Jacksonville State University Participants: From Montauk to the White House: Multicultural Change from Within and Without. Bennis Blue, Virginia State University From the Melting Pot to the Diversity Diversion: Multiculturalism as Anathema. Fenobia I. Dallas, Saginaw Valley State University Multiculturalism in Higher Education: A Tool for Success. Debra Rozell Davis, Wisconsin Black Historical Society Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 063.
8:30 am to 9:50 am Paper Session Ballroom IX
EMPLOYING STORY TELLING AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN ORAL TRADITION IN THE MULTICULTURAL CLASSROOM. Chair: Adah L Ward Randolph, Ohio University Participants: The Oral Tradition: Telling the Multicultural Story. Mbiyu Kamau Chui, Shrine of the Black Madonna “OUR Stories: An ethnically focused supplemental education program designed to engage high school age students in the discovery and writing of history of the Black experience in Cleveland, Ohio.”. Dwayne Wright, Cleveland State University “Standing in the Gap”: Parents and Teachers as Life Agent Strategies in a Multicultural Charter School Program. Aaron Smith, Hillsborough County ASALH
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Representations of Civil Rights Era Nonviolent Resistance in Selected Educational Resources for Middle School Students. Gregory Lewis Bynum, SUNY Fredonia College of Education Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 064.
8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Meeting Room A
E-LEARNING: LIBRARY INSTRUCTION FOR RELUCTANT READERS, TEENS AND CHILDREN RESEARCHING AFRICANS & AFRICAN AMERICANS. Speakers: Arglenda J. Friday, San Jose State University Keith Jemison, Independent Scholar 065.
8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Meeting Room
WATERWAYS OF FREEDOM: GAMING AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN HAMPTON ROADS. Participants: Developing a Gaming Program. Rasha Morsi, Norfolk State University Developing a Gaming Program: An Historian’s Perspective. Cassandra L. Newby-Alexander, Norfolk State University Developing a Gaming Program: The Construction of a Storyboard. Philip Bruner, Norfolk State University Developing a Gaming Program: A Programmer’s Perspective. Mona Rizvi, Norfolk State University 066.
8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Meeting Room C
CHALLENGING RACISM: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND SPORT IN THE BAY AREA. Chair: Malik Simba, California State University at Fresno Participants: The Oakland Larks of the West Coast Baseball Association: The Negro Leagues Move West. Amy Essington, California State University, Long Beach “Prior to Mexico City”: Radical Black Politics and Athletic Boycotts in the Silicon Valley, 1960-1967. Herbert G. Ruffin III, Syracuse University The Misinterpretation of John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s Olympic Games Protest. Urla Maureen Hill, History San Jose Commentator: Malik Simba, California State University at Fresno 067.
8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session
Meeting Room E
BLACK SCIENCE FICTION VAMPIRES, SUPERWOMEN AND SUPERMEN. Chair: Jonathan Gayles, Georgia State University Participants: Octavia Butler and the Budding Vampire Aesthetics: An Analysis of The Fledgling. Adele Newson-Horst, Missouri-State University Womanist Audacity in the Science Fiction of Octavia Butler. Dorothy R. Tsuruta, San Francisco State University Blackness and the Progressive Deracialization in the Blade Trilogy. Sundiata Cha-Jua, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign A Dull Blade: The Truncation of Progressive Black Masculinity in Wesley Snipes’ Blade. Jonathan Gayles, Georgia State University Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 068.
8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Meeting Room F
EDUCATING POSTBELLUM BLACK AND WHITE HEADS, HEARTS, AND HANDS IN ALABAMA: MULTICULTURALISM AND THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF ALABAMA HBCUS 1867-1901. Speakers: Bertis English, Alabama State University Dorothy Autrey, Alabama State University
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Howard Overton Robinson, Alabama State University Rolundus Rice, Alabama State University 069. 8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Meeting Room G LEARNING AND UNLEARNING JIM CROW: LESSONS IN RACISM AND BLACK RESISTANCE IN LOCAL, NATIONAL, AND GLOBAL CONTEXTS. Chair: Brenda Plummer, University of Wisconsin-Madison Participants: Mapping Race: Geography Textbooks and a Pedagogy of American Exceptionalism, 1880-1930. Clif Stratton, Georgia State University Resistance Begins at Home: Lessons in Survival and Racial Pride in Black Families and Schools in Jim Crow Mississippi. Stephen A. Berrey, Indiana University-Bloomington ‘Little Rock’ in London: The Political Language of Jim Crow in 1950s Britain. Kennetta Hammond Perry, Michigan State University Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 070.
8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Meeting Room H
BUFFALO SOLDIERS, NEGRO COWBOYS, AFRO-MEXICANS, AND BLACK INDIANS: UNCOVERING THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE WEST. Chair: Chuck Hunt, National Park Service Participants: Bill Gwaltney, National Park Service Alan Spears, National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) Commentator: Robert Stanton, Chairman Emeritus, African American Experience Fund of the National Park Foundation and 071.
8:30 am to 9:30 am Film Meeting Room I (Film Festival)
WHAT’S RACE GOT TO DO WITH IT (49 MIN.). Filmmaker: Jean Cheng, What’s Race Got to Do with It? 072.
8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session
Meeting Room K1
STATE OF THE BLACK UNION: YOUNG SCHOLARS RESPOND. Chair: Shawn Leigh Alexander, University of Kansas Participants: African American Acculturation and Parenting: The family as metaphor in this year’s election. Chris Reine, University of Kansas Soul Survivors: Constructing and Identifying the Survivor in Post-Katrina America. Derrais Carter, University of Kansas Collegiate Color-Lines: What is the Role of the Black Student Union? Ebony S. Howard, University of Kansas Commentator: Shawn Leigh Alexander, University of Kansas 073.
8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session
Meeting Room K2
THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF THE BLACK POWER MOVEMENT: HISTORICAL PROCESSES AND CONTEMPORARY LEGACIES. Chair: Yuichiro Onishi, University of Minnesota Participants: The Black Power Movement and the Rise of Black Professional Associational Life, 1966-1976. Joyce M. Bell, University of Georgia
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Reading “Black Power” in the African American Neighborhood Museum Movement. Andrea Burns, University of Minnesota “We Hope to Celebrate Days that Are More Relevant:” Kwanzaa and the Making of a Black Power Calendar. Keith Mayes, University of Minnesota Commentator: Scot Brown, University of California at Los Angeles 074.
9:00 am to 10:00 pm
Special Session Exhibit Area J
EXHIBIT HALL. 075.
9:30 am to 11:00 am Film Meeting Room I (Film Festival)
BANISHED (84 MIN.).
Filmmaker: Marco Williams, Banished
076.
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Panel Session Auditorium
THE SOUTHERN FACE OF ANTI-MULTICULTURALISM: RACIALIZED & ETHNIC-SPECIFIC VIOLENCE, 1885-1970? Chair: Dernoral Davis, Jackson State University
Participants: A Memory So Dark and Horrific—Lynching in the African American Historical Experience. Dernoral Davis, Jackson State University; C. Leigh McInnis, Jackson State University Without Sanctuary: Art as Protest and Protest as Art. C. Leigh McInnis, Jackson State University “Strange Fruit” in Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Fig Tree. Patsy Daniels, Jackson State University Manifestations of Oppression: A Typology of Lynching in American Culture. Michelle D. Deardorff, Jackson State University
Commentators: Preselfannie McDaniels, Jackson State University Elizabeth Sharpe Overman & Davis, Jackson State University 077.
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Paper Session Ballroom III
BLACK LIBRARIANS: KEEPING OUR STORIES. Chair: Sharon Johnson, Austin Peay State University Participants: Activism in the Modern Library Profession: E.J. Josey Challenges the Status Quo. Renate L Chancellor, UCLA Keeping Our Story:The role of African American librarians in protecting and perpetuating African American History and Culture. Sharon Johnson, Austin Peay State University
Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 078.
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Paper Session Ballroom IV
CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES ON URBAN REBELLION AND POPULAR CULTURE. Chair: Vivian Mae Newman, Coppin State University Participants: Stupid Fresh: Hip-Hop Culture and Perceived Anti-Intellectualism in Urban Black Youth. Don Sawyer, Syracuse University The Root Causes of 1960s Urban Rebellions and Their Lingering Social and Political Effects on Urban America. Vivian Mae Newman, Coppin State University What It Be Like? Sayin’ What We Mean-Dat’s the Hip-Hop Scene. Carol Anne Manget-Johnson, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA; Crystal M Hills, Georgia State University “African Americans and Cocaine: A Historiography”. Daniel Ryan Davis, Michigan State University
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10:00 am to 11:45 am
Paper Session
Ballroom IX
BLACK NATIONALISM: CONSCIOUSNESS AND CURRENCY. Chair: Daniel Widener, UC San Diego Participants: Hidden Legacy: Hubert Harrison and the birth of the Black nationalist movement. Holly Roose, Columbia University On the Currency of Black Culture: Ameliorating the Symbolic Injustice of African-Americans. Brian Thomas, Independent Scholar “From Mao to Yao: Chinese - African American Exchanges in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century.”. Robeson Taj Frazier, University of California at Berkeley “Slave of a Slave No More”: The Revolutionary Racial Consciousness of the Third World Women’s Alliance”. Ashley Dawn Farmer, Harvard University Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 080.
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Panel Session
Meeting Room A
CARTER G. WOODSON AS A SCHOLAR AND MENTOR. Chair: J. Vern Cromartie, Contra Costa College Participants: From the Coal Mine to the Ivory Tower: Carter G. Woodson as a Pioneer Ethnician. J. Vern Cromartie, Contra Costa College Carter G. Woodson and the Study of Classical African Civilizations. Manu Ampim, Contra Costa College History, Culture, and an Identity of Black Power: Carter G. Woodson and the “New Negro.” Al Smith, Modesto Junior College Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 081.
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Panel Session
Meeting Room B
GRANTS AND MORE: HOW TO USE YOUR STATE HUMANITIES COUNCIL. Chairs: Jamila Owens, Georgia Humanities Council Susan Perry, Alabama Humanities Foundation Participants: Priscilla Hancock Cooper, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Georgette M. Norman, Rosa Parks Museum 082.
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Panel Session
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MULTICULTURAL ARCHIVES.
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Chair: Adrena Ifill, DoubleBack Productions, LLC Speaker: Donna M Wells, Howard University 083.
Meeting Room C
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Panel Session
Meeting Room E
AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE AND HISTORY IN MUSEUMS, ARCHIVES, AND HISTORIC PLACES IN ALABAMA. Chair: Amilcar Shabazz, University of Massachusetts Amherst Participants: Rhoda E. Johnson, University of Alabama
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Tara White, Middle Tennessee State University Gwen Patton, Trenholm State College Ruby Sales, Spirit House Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 084.
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Panel Session
Meeting Room F
BLACK WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVES ON BEAUTY, COMMUNITY, AND RELIGION. Chair: Derrick P. Alridge, University of Georgia Participants: Black Women and the Movements: Using Art to Re-Define Beauty. Darlene White, University of Georgia The Stigmatization of the African American Community. Kaylah Walker, University of Georgia The Black Woman’s Marriage to Christianity. Delila Wilburn, University of Georgia Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 085.
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Panel Session Meeting Room G
NEW REFLECTIONS ON THE MODERN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. Chair: Leslie M Alexander, The Ohio State University Participants: “A Mean City”: The Baltimore NAACP and the Student Movement’s Efforts to Dismantle Segregation and Racial Discrimination, 1953-1963. Tony Gass, The Ohio State University The Role of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the Anti-Apartheid Movement. Nicole Jackson, The Ohio State University Black Power and Grassroots Organizing: A Re-examination of the Atlanta Project. Jason Perkins, Ohio State University
Commentator: The Audience, ASALH
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10:00 am to 11:45 am
Panel Session
Meeting Room H
HOME SCHOOLING AND INDEPENDENT EDUCATION AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE MISEDUCATION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDREN. Chair: Baruti Kopano, Morgan State University Participants: Countering the Miseducation of Negroes /African Americans: Home Schooling and African-Centered Schools as Solutions? Baruti Kopano, Morgan State University Home School and the Socialization of Middle School Children: Parental Perceptions. Ingrid Naughton, Independent Scholar A Practical Experience of an Independent Home School Educator: Finishing the Course with Excellence. Denise B. Harley, Redemption Ministries, Inc.
Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 087.
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Panel Session Meeting Room K1
RETHINKING AFRICAN AMERICAN POLITICAL AND CULTURAL RADICALISM IN THE EARLY COLD WAR. Chair: Stacy Morgan, University of Alabama Participants: Harold Cruse and the Chicago Scene: Misreading Lorraine Hansberry in THE CRISIS OF THE NEGRO INTELLECTUAL. John H. Bracey, University of Massachusetts Amherst 
Vicki Garvin: Revolutionary Leader, Organizer and Mentor. Dayo Gore, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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“Black Lazarus Risen from the White Man’s Grave”: Melvin Tolson’s LIBRETTO FOR THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA and the Rise of a Bandung World. James Smethurst, University of Massachusetts Amherst Multiculturalism on the Left: Paul Robeson’s 1950s Newspaper FREEDOM. Mary Helen Washington, University of Maryland College Park
Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 088.
10:00 am to 11:50 am
Panel Session Meeting Room K2
THE ROAD TO A POST-RACIAL (POST-RACIST) SOCIETY: BEYOND UTOPIC FANTASY, TOWARD CONSTRUCTIVE ENGAGEMENT. Chair: Shawn Lamar Williams, Georgia Perimeter College Participants: Jeffrey Ogbar, University of Connecticut Ramona Houston, Houston International Fanon Wilkins, Doshisha University Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 089.
11:30 am to 1:00 pm Film Meeting Room I (Film Festival)
BROTHER OUTSIDER: THE LIFE OF BAYARD RUSTIN (83 MIN.). Filmmaker: Nancy Kates, Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin 090.
12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Luncheon Ballroom I
FRIDAY LUNCHEON: CARTER G. WOODSON LUNCHEON. Introduction of Speaker: Horace Huntley, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute/University of Alabama at Birmingham Speaker: Odessa Woolfolk, Founding President and Chair Emerita of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Invocation: Al Shackelford, Minister of St. Paul United Methodist Church Mistress of Ceremony: Sheila Smoot, Jefferson County Commissioner Benediction: Al Shackelford, Minister of St. Paul United Methodist Church 091.
12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Panel Session Meeting Room A
NO! SEXUAL ASSAULT IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY. Chair: Linda Marie Perkins, Claremont Graduate University Commentators: Johnetta Richards, San Francisco State University Aishah Shahidah Simmons, AfroLez Productions Commentator: The Audience, ASALH
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12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Paper Session Meeting Room B
CULTURAL DEFINITION AND RE-DEFINITION IN BLACK HISTORY. Chair: Valerie Hill-Jackson, Texas A&M University
Participants: The Black Brahmins of Harvard: W.E.B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, and Alain L. Locke on Multiculturalism, 1890-1940. Donald Earl Collins, University of Maryland University College York,the Black Slave of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Evolution of a Multicultural Hero. Darrell Millner, Portland State University Meet The Negro: Revisiting Karl Downs’ Revolutionary Introductions to America’s Talented Tenth. Valerie Hill-Jackson, Texas A&M University Kelly Miller and Black Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Jim Crow. Sylvie Coulibaly, Kenyon College Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 093.
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Paper Session Meeting Room C
“FOR THE ADOPTION OF NEGRO HISTORY”: TEACHING AND LEARNING AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY. Chair: Shirley Ahera White, Clark Atlanta University Participants: “Survival of the Fittest?”: How History Courses Can Debate this Idea Through Dr. King’s Leadership. Sue Kozel, Ocean, Mercer and Brookdale County Colleges & Kean University “To Appeal. . .for the Adoption of Negro History:” Negro History Week as Unofficial Education Policy in Public Schools, 1926-1966. Keith Mayes, University of Minnesota Bringing two together: Black History in a Spanish Classroom. G. Mercedes Kae Naber, Toledo Public Schools Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 094.
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Panel Session Meeting Room E
THE BLACK PRESS AND THE BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLE, 1930S TO 1950S. Chair: Baiyina Muhammad, North Carolina Central University Participants: Multiculturalism in Charles H. Thompson’s Editorial Thought, 1933 to 1950. Louis Ray, Fairleigh Dickinson University “’The Truth Unbridled’: Louis Austin, The Carolina Times, and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1945-1954”. Jerry Gershenhorn, North Carolina Central University Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 095.
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Panel Session
Meeting Room F
THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SCHOOL-CLOSING CRISIS IN NORFOLK, VIRGINIA. Chair: Michael Martin, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Participants: “Dispelling the Official Story: The School Closures in Norfolk, Virginia Revisited.” Charles H. Ford, Norfolk State University “The All-American City and the Last Throes of Tokenism, 1959-1971”. Jeff Littlejohn, Sam Houston State University Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 096.
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Panel Session Meeting Room G
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THE AGITATOR’S DAUGHTER. Chair: Devin Fergus, Vanderbilt University Participants: David Chappell, University of Oklahoma Bryan Fair, University of Alabama Law Pamela Bridgewater, American University Washington College of Law Commentator: Sheryll Cashin, Georgetown University Law Center 097.
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm Film Meeting Room I (Film Festival)
BLACKS AND JEWS (85 MIN.). Filmmaker: Alan Snitow, Blacks & Jews 098.
1:35 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Meeting Room C
LOOK BACK AND WONDER: THE GENESIS OF AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST. Chair: Amilcar Shabazz, University of Massachusetts Amherst Participants: Stephanie Y. Evans, University of Florida Shawn Leigh Alexander, University of Kansas Dawn-Elissa Fischer, San Francisco State University Commentator: Ernest Allen, University of Massachusetts 099.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Paper Session Auditorium
AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP AND SELF-DEFINITION. Chair: Darlene Spitzer-Antezana, Prince George’s Community College Participants: Rhetoric and a Body Impolitc: Self-Definition and Mary McLeod Bethune’s Discursive Safe Space. Rondee Gaines, Georgia State University Making a Life, Not Making a Living: The Servant Leadership of Ella Baker. Lea E. Williams, North Carolina A&T State University “I am not a ceremonial symbol, I am an activist”: Examing the activism of Coretta Scott King. Kijua Sanders-McMurtry, Agnes Scott College The Legacy of Lucy Parsons: Returning an Iconoclast to the Fold. Michelle Diane Wright, Three Sistahs Press, LLC Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 100.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Paper Session Ballroom III
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE FREEDOM STRUGGLE IN NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA. Chair: Andrew Billingsley, University of South Carolina Participants: “Lurking about the Neighbourhood:” Escape, Refuge, and Survival in Eastern North Carolina, 1780-1840. Marcus Peyton Nevius, North Carolina Central University Performing Freedom: Enslaved Women Runaways in Antebellum Charleston. Amani Marshall, University of Delaware Political Democracy in South Carolina: 1868- 1895. Andrew Billingsley, University of South Carolina
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2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Paper Session Ballroom IV
BLACK RELIGION: VARIATIONS ON THEOLOGY IN THE DIASPORA. Chair: Darryl Nettles, Augusta State University Participants: Ritual to The Black Dwart God: The Saisiyats of Taiwan. Judy Purnell, Independent Scholar “Influencing the World: Black Secular Freethinkers in the Twentieth Century”. Brittany L O’Neal, Michigan State University Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 102.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Ballroom IX
“RACIAL IDEOLOGY AND ELECTORAL POLITICS SINCE THE 1960S”. Chair: Cheryl Lynn Greenberg, Trinity College Participants: Leah M Wright, Princeton University Lily Geismer, University of Michigan 103.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Panel Session Meeting Room A
BELLY OF THE BASIN (A SISTERS’ EYE ON MEDIA PRODUCTION) DIRECTED BY ROXANA WALKER-CANTON AND TINA MORTON. Chairs: Roxana Walker-Canton, Fairfield University Tina Morton, Howard University 104.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Panel Session
Meeting Room B
DEPICTIONS OF HISTORY, MEMORY, AND IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY SPACES. Chair: Walter C. Rucker, The Ohio State University Participants: Conjuring Participation through Performance: A Case Study of Elmina and Colonial Williamsburg. Ashley C. Bowden, The Ohio State University “Y’all Boi Look Ya”: A Critical Analysis of the Contemporary Commercialization of Gullah and Geechee Culture. Tamara T. Butler, The Ohio State University The Creation of Black Character Formulas: Stereotypical Anthropomorphic Depictions and the Maintenance of Whiteness. Melissa R. Crum, The Ohio State University 105.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Meeting Room E
BLACK TO THE FUTURE: AFROFUTRISM IN FILM, FUNK AND LITERATURE. Chair: Keith Mayes, University of Minnesota Participants: Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction film. Adilifu Nama, California State University Northridge Furious Focus Forward: AfroFuturism and Women of Color. Lisbeth Gant-Britton, UCLA “’More Bounce the Ounce’”: Roger Troutman and Sonic Funk Futurism.” Scot Brown, University of California at Los Angeles
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2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Meeting Room F
IS RACE “TOTALIZING?”: READING RACE AND GENDER INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF NEW WORLD SLAVE SOCIETIES. Chair: John W Grant, University of Arizona Authors: Kristen Clark, University of Arizona Sherika Jones, University of Arizona Todd Comi, University of Arizona Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 107.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Meeting Room G
A CONVERSATION ON RACE: FROM MARTIN LUTHER KING TO BARACK OBAMA. Chair: James SoRelle, Baylor University Participants: Ricky Hill, Mississippi Valley State University Manning Marable, Columbia University Diane Pinderhughes, University of Notre Dame Ronald Walters, University of Maryland College Park 108.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Meeting Room H
AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE AGE OF LINCOLN: A BOOK SESSION ON ORVILLE VERNON BURTON’S THE AGE OF LINCOLN. Chair: Gregory L. Mixon, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Participant: Orville Vernon Burton, NCSA-University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Commentators: Robert Harris, Cornell University Abel Alphonso Bartley, Clemson University Monroe Henry Little, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Thavolia Glymph, Duke University Amrita Myers, Indiana University-Bloomington 109.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Panel Session
Meeting Room K1
WAR, PEACE, AND THE SHAPE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN POLITICAL CULTURE. Participants: Black Workers and Labor Politics: A Case Study on Black Chicago 1930-1950. Paul Young, Utica college “The Greatest Negro Victory Since the Civil War”: Fair Employment Policy and World War II. Lionel Kimble, Jr., Chicago State University African Americans and the Changing Views on Islam and Iraq. Kimberley L. Phillips, College of William and Mary 110.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Panel Session
RACE AND IDENTITY IN A MULTICULTURAL AMERICA.
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Chair: Alfred Young, Georgia Southern University Participants: Identity Transformations in Revolutionary Era America. Stephanie Wright, University of West Georgia Race and Redemption in Writings on the African American Experience. Stacy Boyd, University of West Georgia Reconstructing Early Twentieth Century African American Communities Using Newspapers. Timothy Nathan Pinnick, Finding and Using African American Newspapers “King’s Radical Vision of Community.” Robert Birt, Bowie State University Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 111.
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm Film Meeting Room I (Film Festival)
TULIA, TEXAS (56:40 MIN). Filmmaker: Cassandra Herrman, Tulia, Texas 112.
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm Plenary Session BALLROOM
PLENARY: THE BLACK POWER MOVEMENT REVISITED. Speaker: Peniel E. Joseph, Brandeis University Moderator: V.P. Franklin, University of California Riverside Greetings: John E. Fleming, ASALH National President James B. Stewart, Pennsylvania State University Presenter of Award: Thomas Battle, Moorland Spingarn Research Center Recipient of Award: James Turner, Cornell University Respondent: Yohuru Williams, Fairfield University Rhonda Y. Williams, Case Western University Commentator: Farah Jasmine Griffin, Columbia University 113.
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm Paper Session Meeting Room A
“NO PLACE FOR ME”: PERSPECTIVES ON THE BLUES. Chair: Saïs Telmeth Kamalidiin, Howard University / Washington, D.C. Participants: “’Blues Singers’ Queen Dead’ The Death of Bessie Smith as an Illustration of Structural Violence.” Yulonda Eadie Sano, The Ohio State University “No Place for Me:” Fredi Washington and the Confines of Racial Casting during Hollywood’s Golden Era. Audrey Thomas-McCluskey, Indiana University Creating Cultural Heroes: Duke Ellington and the Economics of Racial Uplift. Nicholas L. Gaffney, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 114.
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm Paper Session Meeting Room B
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DIASPORIC THEMES AND APPROACHES: BLACK NATIONALISM AND INTERNATIONALISM. Chair: Maha Marouan, University of Alabama Participants: Liberia: Study of Liberian Culture and its Relationship to American Culture. Darryl Nettles, Augusta State University Race, Education, Nationalism, and the Founding of Liberia (1810-1910). Greg Wiggan, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Shadows of Garvey: Garveyites in New York City and the British Caribbean 1930-1945. Daniel Alan Dalrymple, Michigan State University The Truth is an Offense: Black Power and the Struggle for Independence in Bermuda, 1969-1977. Quito Swan, Howard University Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 115.
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm Paper Session
Meeting Room C
LANGUAGE, LIFE, AND ART IN THE BLACK DIASPORA. Chair: Debra Newman Ham, Morgan State University Participants: “Exploring the Gullah culture.” Sharon C. Murray, De Gullah Enna Pry Disaporan Vocies of the African Past. Maurice Jackson, Georgetown University Rethinking the “I” in Oui: Black Francophones Struggle to Construct an International Black Community. Marcus Anthony Allen, Morgan State University; Debra Newman Ham, Morgan State University The Re-shaping of Anti-Haitianism during the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century in the Dominican Republic. Christina Violeta Jones, Howard University Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 116.
6:30 pm to 8:00 pm Panel Session Ballroom IV
THE FORD FOUNDATION MARGARET WALKER DIGITIZATION HBCU PARTNERSHIP FOR BLACK STUDIES RESEARCH RESOURCES. Chair: Rico Chapman, Jackson State University Participants: Maryemma Graham, University of Kansas Alferdteen B. Harrison, Jackson State University Angela Stewart, Jackson State University Edna Patrina Harris, Jackson State University Tommy Holton, Dillard University Michael Nelson, Jackson State University Elizabeth Gail McClenney, Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center 117.
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm Panel Session
Meeting Room I (Film Festival)
THE INTOLERABLE BURDEN:INCARCERATION V. EDUCATION (FILM AND PANEL). Chair: Constance Curry, Emory University Participants: Benetta Standly, ACLU of Ga. Curtis Austin, University of Southern Mississippi
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6:30 pm to 8:30 pm Special Session Reception Area
BIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE RECEPTION AND TOUR. Sponsors: LaVonda Patton, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Angela Fisher Hall, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Presiding: Lawrence Pijeaux, Jr., Birmingham Civil Rights Institute 119. 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm Special Session Meeting Room H INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND BLACK STUDIES. Participants: Abdul Alkalimat, University of Illinois Ronald W Bailey, Savannah State University 120.
10:00 pm to 11:55 pm
Special Session BALLROOM
POETRY SLAM. Sponsor: Birmingham Public Library, Birmingham City
Presiding: Kiamsha Youth Empowerment Organization, Prince George’s County Maryland
Entertainment: Shaheed Entertainment, Poet
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8:00 am to 2:00 pm Special Session 3rd Floor Back Lobby Area
STAFF OFFICE. 122.
8:00 am to 2:00 pm Registration On-Site Registration Room D
ASALH REGISTRATION. 123.
8:30 am to 9:50 am Paper Session Auditorium
BLACK WORK: FACTORY LABOR, ORGANIZING, AND SOCIAL WORK FROM MOTOR CITY TO CAPETOWN. Chair: Valeria Harvell, Penn State University, Abington College Participants: Black Professional Social Work Development in Detroit, Michigan. Linda A. Causey, Youngstown State University Neither Colour, Nor Nationality: IWW interracial organizing in South Africa and the United States. Peter Cole, Western Illinois University; Lucien Van Der Walt, University of Witswatersrand The Ford Motor Company and Black Detroit. LaToya Tinean Brackett, Michigan State University Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 124.
8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session BALLROOM
IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES: THE PARADOXICAL HISTORY OF A MULTICULTURAL AMERICA. Chair: Leslie M. Harris, Emory University Participants: What the Advertisements Reveal: Fugitive Slave Women in 18th Century New York. Felicia Y. Thomas, Rutgers University “The Abridgement of Hope”: Ideas about Race, Freedom, and Extermination in Antebellum Virginia. Kay Wright Lewis, Rutgers University
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A Study of Contradictions: Daniel Patrick Moynihan and his Case for National Action. Marsha E. Barrett, Rutgers University Commentator: Leslie M. Harris, Emory University 125.
8:30 am to 9:50 am Paper Session Meeting Room A
BLASSINGAME PRIZE WINNERS. Sponsor: Henry Louis Gates, Harvard University Faculty Advisor: Nathaniel Norment, Temple University Participant: “Don’t Worry, I’m Safe” - An Ethnographic Examination of Sex, Condom Use and the culture of HIV/AIDS Among Urban African Americans. Nashay M Pendleton, Temple University 126.
8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Meeting Room B
A GATHERING PLACE FOR FREEDOM. Chair: Beverly A. Morgan-Welch, Museum of African American History Participants: Lois A. Brown, Mount Holyoke College Chandra Harrington, Museum of African American History L’Merchie Frazier, Museum of African American History 127.
8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Meeting Room C
ORIGINS OF MULTICULTURALISM: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CARTER G. WOODSON’S WORKS ON EDUCATIONAL DIVERSITY. Speakers: Arglenda J. Friday, San Jose State University Keith Jemison, Independent Scholar 128.
8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Meeting Room E
PATHOLOGICAL ANTI SOCIAL THINKING IN MULTI-CULTURAL CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY. Chair: Ronald A. Jones, The American Society of Ancient African American Studies Authors: Frederick Isadore Scott, International Scientific Communications, Inc. Earnest A. Jackson, The American Society of Ancient African American Studies Andrew Lautin, cortexmirabile@yahoo.com Andrew Jackson, Sr., Independent Scholar
Commentator: The Audience, ASALH
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8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Meeting Room F
PUSHING AND LIFTING: DOCUMENTING THE ELECTRONIC EXPERIENCES OF EARLY CHILDHOOD PROFESSIONALS. Chair: Pamela Wanga, Southern University at New Orleans Speaker: Mattie Spears, Southern University at New Orleans
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8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Meeting Room G
NO DEED BUT MEMORY: USING LIBRARY E-REPOSITORIES TO PROMOTE AND DISSEMINATE KNOWLEDGE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE. Participants: Contributions in Black Studies - Context and Origins. Isabel R Espinal, University of Massachusetts The Promise and Pitfalls of e-Publishing for Afro American Studies. Amilcar Shabazz, University of Massachusetts Amherst The Technical Aspects of Disseminating African American Scholarship via Institutional Repositories. Steven Folsom, University of Massachusetts 131.
8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Meeting Room H
BROKE BLACK NATION: RACIALLY RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS, SUB-PRIME MARKETS, AND HOUSING SEGREGATION AND PUBLIC SCHOOL RE-SEGREGATION. Chair: Sheryll Cashin, Georgetown University Law Center Participants: Discriminating Deeds: Housing Segregation and Racially Restrictive Covenants, 1917-1950. Louis Lee Woods II, Middle Tennessee State University Quarantined Consumers: The Ghetto Tax and Deregulation, 1974-1980. Devin Fergus, Vanderbilt University Resident(ial) Evil: How Housing Segregation and the “Suburban Veto” have Thwarted Meaningful School Desegregation and Education Reform in the North. Terah Venzant Chambers, Texas A&M University Commentator: Christopher J. Bonastia, Lehman College-CUNY 132.
8:30 am to 9:30 am
Film Meeting Room I (Film Festival)
BRICK BY BRICK...A CIVIL RIGHTS STORY (53:00 MIN). Filmmaker: Bill Kavanagh, Brick by Brick...A Civil Rights Story 133.
8:30 am to 9:50 am Panel Session Meeting Room K1
IDENTITY AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF AFRICANA MOTHERING. Chair: Deidre Hill Butler, Union College Participants: Godmothering in the African Diaspora, Ifa Style. Sheila Marie Cecilia Aird, Empire State College Factors Influencing Life Satisfaction among African American Grandmothers Raising Grandchildren. Dorothy Smith-Ruiz, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Reenvisioning Black Women’s Sexuality. Rashida L Harrison, Michigan State University Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 134.
8:30 am to 9:50 am Paper Session Meeting Room K2
BEFORE BUSING: THE ORIGINS OF BOSTON’S CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. Chair: Bill Strickland, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Participants: Black Firefighters and Affirmative Action in Boston, 1972 to the present. David Goldberg, Wayne State University Containment and Resistance in Inkster, MI: Hegemonic Space and Black Agency in Ford’s Suburban Ghetto. Jackson Christopher Bartlett, Wayne State University Elma Lewis and Black Community Organizing in Boston, 1950-1990. Daniel McClure, Grand Valley State University Interracial Marriage and the Origins of the Boston NAACP, 1912-1927. Zebulon Miletsky, University of Nebraska at Omaha
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Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 135.
9:00 am to 12:00 pm
Special Session Ballroom III
TEACHERS WORKSHOP - TRAIN THE TRAINER - PART II. Sponsor: Wachovia Bank, Wachovia Presiding: La Vonne Neal, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Presenters: Regina Lewis, Pikes Peak Community College Alicia Moore, Southwestern University Gwen Webb-Johnson, Texas A&M University Richard Schramm, National Humanities Center Sabrina Williams, National Education Association 136.
9:00 am to 7:00 pm Special Session Exhibit Area J
EXHIBIT HALL. 137.
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Panel Session Auditorium
CONVERSATIONS WITH GRADUATE STUDENTS AND JUNIOR FACULTY IN THE HISTORICAL PROFESSION. Speakers: Darlene Clark Hine, Northwestern University John H. Bracey, University of Massachusetts Amherst Participants: Felix Armfield, Buffalo State College V.P. Franklin, University of California Riverside June O. Patton, Governors State University 138.
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Panel Session BALLROOM
CIVIL RIGHTS EDUCATION IN ACTION: FOUR PERSPECTIVES. Chair: David C. Dennard, East Carolina University Participants: Brenda Hyde, Southern Echo Greg McCoy, Sunflower County Freedom Project Jeff Kolnick, Southwest State University Oleta Fitzgerald, Children’s Defense Fund 139.
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Panel Session Meeting Room A
“LYNCHING AND CAMPUS REBELLIONS: SOME HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES.” Chair: Lisha Penn, National Archives and Records Administration Participants: “When Gender Didn’t Matter: The Lynching of African American Women in the United States, 1886-1946.” Trichita Chestnut, National Archives and Records Administration “Historically Black Colleges Ignite: A Look at FBI Records Concerning Rebellions on the Campuses of Jackson State University and Southern University A&M, 1970-1972.” Cynara K. Robinson, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
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Commentator: Lisha Penn, National Archives and Records Administration 140.
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Panel Session Meeting Room B
THE ARTS AND THE MISEDUCATION OF THE NEGRO: DANCE AS AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL. Chair: Katrina Hazzard-Donald, Rutgers University Participants: Line Dancing: Africa’s Forgotten Contribution to American “Country” Subculture. Katrina Hazzard-Donald, Rutgers University Joe Nash: 20th Century Archivist of the Black Tradition in American Concert Dance. Melanie White Dixon, Ohio State University Watch It, Learn It, Do It! Television and the Appropriation of African American Dance. Tamara Brown, Bowie State University Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 141.
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Panel Session Meeting Room C
WOMEN, SEXUALITY, AND AGENCY IN SLAVERY AND FREEDOM. Chair: Walter C. Rucker, The Ohio State University Participants: “Black Female Agency and Sexual Exploitation: Quadroon Balls and Plaçage Relationships”. Noël Mellick Voltz, The Ohio State University “Commerce of Female Souls: An Assessment of Sexual and Racial Attitudes in New Orleans, Louisiana”. Robert Anthony Bennett, III, The Ohio State University “Rachel Pringle: From Enslavement to Bajan Entrepreneur.” Dawn Miles, The Ohio State University “I’m Just like a Nigga, a Special Kind of Man”: Women and the Possessive Investment in Black Masculinity in Daniel Peddles The Aggressives.” Christina Bush, The Ohio State University Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 142.
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Panel Session Meeting Room E
“A REEXAMINATION OF W.E.B. DU BOIS’ INTELLECTUAL LEGACY FROM THE 1930S TO THE 1960S”. Chair: Shawn Leigh Alexander, University of Kansas Participants: “’A Negro Nation within a Nation’: The W. E. B. Du Bois Controversy of 1934-35”. Shawn Leigh Alexander, University of Kansas “Race, Class, and Reconciliation: Examining the Influence of W.E.B. Du Bois and Eugene V. Debs on A. Philip Randolph’s Labor Organizing in the 1920s and 1930s”. Cornelius Bynum, Purdue University “Political Perils of Publishing Du Bois’s Autobiography and Encyclopedia Africana, 1959-1960: Conceptual and Political Antecedents of Black Studies in the University.”. Larry Lee Rowley, University of Michigan Commentator: Derrick P. Alridge, University of Georgia 143.
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Panel Session Meeting Room F
“THE GREAT CRY OF OUR PEOPLE IS:” FREEDOM IN THE LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY SOUTH. Chair: Bobby J. Donaldson, University of South Carolina Participants: “The great cry of our people is land”: Black settlement and community development on Ossabaw Island, Georgia, 1865-1900. Allison G. Dorsey, Swarthmore College “Take Your Place among the Soldiers of Your Country, A Man among Men”:. Marcus Cox, The Citadel “We called it ‘The Band of Brothers’: Black Militia Formation and the Johnson County Insurrection of 1875”. Gregory L. Mixon,
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University of North Carolina at Charlotte Re-presenting the Violence of Racialization for the Public Spheres. Kidada E. Williams, Wayne State University Commentator: Bobby J. Donaldson, University of South Carolina 144.
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Panel Session Meeting Room G
ALEX HALEY’S ROOTS AND MULTICULTURALISM--A PANEL. Chair: Simone Renee Barrett, Morgan State University - Reginald F. Lewis Museum Speakers: Dianne Swann-Wright, Dianne Swann-Wright, Frederick Douglass--Isaac Myers Maritime Park Debra Newman Ham, Morgan State University 145.
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Special Session
Meeting Room H
SONGS OF FREEDOM AND FAITH FROM SLAVERY TO THE L960’S. Chair: Charlotte Mills, University of Northern Colorado Participants: Charlotte Mills, University of Northern Colorado Diane Bolden-Taylor, University of Northern Colorado Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 146.
10:00 am to 11:15 am
Film Meeting Room I (Film Festival)
FAUBOURG TREMé: THE UNTOLD STORY OF BLACK NEW ORLEANS (67 MIN.). Filmmaker: Dawn Logsdon, Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans 147.
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Panel Session Meeting Room K1
PROTEST AND POLITICS IN BIRMINGHAM AND THE BLACK BELT IN THE “POST-CIVIL RIGHTS ERA.” Chair: Jelani Favors, Morgan State University Participants: Robert W. Widell, Jr., University of Rhode Island Hasan Kwame Jeffries, The Ohio State University G. Derek Musgrove, University of the District of Columbia Susan Ashmore, Oxford College of Emory University Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 148.
10:00 am to 11:45 am
Panel Session Meeting Room K2
THE ROOTS OF MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION AND THE STATE OF BLACK EDUCATION IN LOUISIANA. Chair: Abul Pitre, Southern University Participant: Abul Pitre, Southern University Participants: African American Males In Special Education: The Need for Critical Multicultural Education. Esrom Pitre, Louisiana State University Shreveport
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The Challenge of Teaching Black History in Public Schools. Ricardo Malbrew, Southern University The Struggle for Black History: Toward A Critical Black Pedagogy In Education. Abul Pitre, Southern University 149.
12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Panel Session Ballroom I
TEACHERS LUNCHEON: AMERICAN IDENTITY AND MULTICULTURALISM IN THE NEW MILLENIUM. Chair: Karen Y. Jackson-Weaver, Princeton University Participants: Cornel West, Princeton University Eddie Glaude, Princeton University Valerie Smith, Princeton University Albert Raboteau, Princeton University Invocation and Benediction, Bishop Calvin Woods, Birmingham Chapter, Southern Christian Leadership Conference Emcee, Sherri Jackson, WAIT-TV CBS42 150.
12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Luncheon
Ballroom IV
ABWH LUNCHEON. Mistress of Ceremony: Elizabeth Clark-Lewis, Howard University 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
151.
Film Meeting Room I (Film Festival)
REVOLUTION ‘67 (90 MIN.). Filmmaker: Marylou Tibaldo & Jerome Bongiorno, Revolution ‘67 152.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Paper Session
Auditorium
IN THE DIASPORA BEYOND: STUDIES OF BLACKNESS IN EUROPE AND ASIA. Chair: Brenda Plummer, University of Wisconsin-Madison Participants: Black American Press and France after 1917: A Taste of Equality and Recognition for Afro Americans. Evelyn Muriel Lockett, University of Montreal&University of Paris I Sorbonne Peace Was the Glue: Europe and African American Freedom. Brenda Plummer, University of Wisconsin-Madison Debating the Interracial Intimacies between African American GIs and Japanese Women in the Trans-Pacific Black Communities, 1950-1952. Yasuhiro Okada, Michigan State University New African American Images in Japanese Popular Culture. Yuya Kiuchi, Michigan State University Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 153.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Special Session BALLROOM
ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS. Sponsors: Lillie Edwards, Drew University Paul Edwards, EJ Enterprises
Presenters: Felix Armfield, Buffalo State College V.P. Franklin, University of California Riverside
Participants: “Large Ideas Which Never Got Down to Earth or Finance”: W.E. B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson & the Encyclopedia Africana, 1909-1963. Jonathan Fenderson, University of Massachusetts Amherst Containment and Resistance in Inkster, MI: Hegemonic Space and Black Agency in Ford’s Suburban Ghetto. Jackson Christopher Bartlett, Wayne State University
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Commentators: June O. Patton, Governors State University Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH, Executive Director Lillie Edwards, Drew University Faculty Advisors: David Goldberg, Wayne State University John H. Bracey, University of Massachusetts Amherst 154.
2:00 pm to 3:45 pm Special Session Ballroom III
TEACHERS WORKSHOP PART II CONTINUED. Sponsor: Georgette Dixon, Wachovia Presiding: La Vonne Neal, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Presenter: Sabrina Williams, National Education Association Participants: Alicia Moore, Southwestern University Gwen Webb-Johnson, Texas A&M University Regina Lewis, Pikes Peak Community College 155.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Paper Session Meeting Room A
FRAMERS OF THE BLACK PAST: MAJOR FIGURES IN AFRICAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY. Chair: Derrick P. Alridge, University of Georgia Participants: John Hope Franklin’s From Slavery to Freedom: 60 Years of Making African American History. Brian Purnell, Fordham University The Cosmopolitanism of Kenneth Clark. Damon Freeman, University of Pennsylvania The Crisis of Harold Cruse and Adolph Reed: Insight on the American Letter’s Tradition. Glen Harris, University of North Carolina at Wilmington Upon Rediscovering George Washington Williams. Jean Carne, Van McCoy Legacy Branch From These Humble Beginnings: The Alabama Roots of William Henry Hastie, Jr., American Attorney, Civil Servant, and Human-rights Activist. Bertis English, Alabama State University
Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 156.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Paper Session Meeting Room B
JIM CROW AND CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS: PARKS, MUSEUMS, AND THEATERS AS POLITICIZED PUBLIC SPACE. Chair: Keith L Magee, Museum of African American History Participants: Black Entertainment Culture and Chicago’s Great Tivoli Theater in the Civil Rights Era. Clovis E Semmes, Eastern Michigan University Place and Land as Historical Text: Miami’s Historic Virginia Key Beach Park. Gene Sinclair Tinnie, City of Miami Virginia Key Beach Park Trust The Price of Jim Crow at Public Museums and Historic Sites. Dorothy Spruill Redford, NC Dept. Cultural Resources Commentator: The Audience, ASALH
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2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session
Meeting Room C
ARE SLAVE STORIES MINIMIZED OR EXAGGERATED? THE PUBLIC HISTORIAN’S STRUGGLE IN SHARING THIS AMERICAN STORY. Chair: Annette Palmer, Morgan State University Participants: Yolanda Ann Bean, Morgan State University Lauren Crisler, Howard University Wanda Tenise Williams, Morgan State University Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 158.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session
Meeting Room E
OUTSIDER WITHIN: FAYE HARRISON’S REWORKING OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE GLOBAL AGE. Chair: Stephanie Y. Evans, University of Florida Participants: Introducing the panelists of Outsider Within. Stephanie Y. Evans, University of Florida Faye Harrison: Charting New Interdisciplinary Directions in the Global Age. Lee D. Baker, Duke University Harrison: Blurring Boundaries to Lead a More Holistic Life. Marilyn M Thomas-Houston, University of Florida / For My People Productions Roots and Routes: St. Clair Drake and Faye V. Harrison on the Place of Anthropology in Africana Studies. Andrew Juan Rosa, Oklahoma State Faye V. Harrison Responds. Faye V. Harrison, University of Florida
Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 159.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session
Meeting Room F
“WHERE, BY THE WAY, IS THIS TRAIN GOING?”: THE ANATOMY AND RENAISSANCE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION. Participants: Defining Direction, Building Coalitions: Directing African American Studies at the University of Alabama. DoVeanna Sherie Fulton, University of Alabama African American Folk Art in Alabama and African American Studies. Stacy Morgan, University of Alabama Engaging the Special Collections Library and African American Studies at the University of Alabama. Jessica Lacher-Feldman, University of Alabama Combining Student Affairs with African American Studies to Understand and Educate Students. Lowell K. Davis, University of Alabama Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 160.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm
Panel Session Meeting Room G
BROTHER PRESIDENT? :THE BARACK OBAMA PHENOMENON. Chair: Elwood David Watson, East Tennessee State University Commentators: Daryl Anthony Carter, University of Memphis Elwood David Watson, East Tennessee State University Dwayne Mack, Berea College 161.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Meeting Room H
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RACE AND COSMOPOLITANISM IN PAN-AFRICAN HISTORY, LITERATURE, AND POPULAR CULTURE. Chair: Lillian Ashcraft-Eason, Bowling Green State University Participants: Sankofian Diasporic Connections of Hip-Hop and Hip-Life Music. Tara A Jabbaar-Gyambrah, Niagara University The Pan-African Aesthetic in Reggae Music. Amoaba Gooden, Kent State University Massa’s Metamorphosis: A Historical Analysis of Culture and Policies of the 18th Century Slave Trade and the 20th Century Prison Industrial Complex. Seneca Vaught, Niagara University Race, Nationalism, and Cosmopolitanism in Selected Writings of Aimé Césaire. Babacar M’Baye, Kent State University Commentator: The Audience, ASALH 162.
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm Film Meeting Room I (Film Festival)
TRACES OF THE TRADE (87.5 MIN.). Filmmaker: Katrina Browne, Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North 163.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Meeting Room K1
MUSIC, MOVEMENT, AND REFLECTIONS ON A LIFE IN STRUGGLE WITH HOLLIS WATKINS. Chair: James B. Stewart, Pennsylvania State University Participant: Hollis Watkins, Southern Echo 164.
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Panel Session Meeting Room K2
REFLECTIONS ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT FROM FOUR DEEP SOUTH STATES. Chair: Leslie Burl McLemore, Jackson State University Participants: Cleveland Sellers, University of South Carolina Robert Mants, USDA Dorie A. Ladner, Human Rights Activist Charles Melvin Sherrod, Albany State University 165.
4:00 pm to 5:45 pm Plenary Session BALLROOM
PLENARY: A ROUND TABLE ON CARTER G. WOODSON’S APPEAL. Moderator: Daryl Scott, Howard University Panelists: Elsa Barkley Brown, University of Maryland at College Park Francille Wilson, University of Southern California William M King, University of Colorado at Boulder Pero Dagbovie, Michigan State University Presenter of the Carter G. Woodson Scholar Medallions: Thomas Battle, Moorland Spingarn Research Center Recipients of Medallion: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Harvard University Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, Morgan State University
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7:30 pm to 11:00 pm
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92ND ANNUAL ASALH BANQUET. Master of Ceremonies: Steve Crocker, FOX 6 Introduction of Speaker: Francille Wilson, University of Southern California Guest Speaker: Ronald Walters, University of Maryland College Park Closing Remarks: Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director Occasion: Daryl Scott, Howard University Invocation: Lofton Higgs, Minister of the Church of the Reconciler Greetings: John E. Fleming, ASALH National President Richard T. Adams, ASALH Vice President for Membership Lawrence Pijeaux, Jr., Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Benediction: Lofton Higgs, Minister of the Church of the Reconciler
Sunday, October 5, 2008 167.
9:00 am to 10:30 am
Brunch Meeting
ECUMENICAL BREAKFAST. Presiding: Jeh Jeh Pruitt, FOX 6 Guest Speaker: Wilton Bunch, Professor of Ethics, Samford University Session created by: Patricia Gosha Frazier, Sardis Missionary Baptist Church/Birmingham ASALH Closing Remarks: Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director Invocation: Rev. Kurt Clark, Sardis Missionary Baptist Church
Entertainment: Evelyn Williams, Poet Bernard Williams, Miles College
Benediction: Rev. Kurt Clark, Sardis Missionary Baptist Church
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