The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) is proud to announce a triumphant return to an in-person conference with its 107th Annual Meeting in Montgomery, Alabama, from September 29th to October 1st. The conference will feature a rich program of scholarly sessions, professional workshops, historical tours, film festival, the Author’s Book Signing series, and many other events that illuminate the importance of what some historians and health care professionals call the social and economic determinants of health and wellness. ASALH’s annual theme for 2022, “Black Health and Wellness” has never been more timely, nor more deserving of study.
107TH ANNUAL MEETING AND CONFERENCE
Dear Conference Participants:
Welcome to the 107th Annual Meeting and Conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Our national conference, which is co-hosted by Alabama State University, focuses on the theme of Black Health and Wellness. This is a theme that is very appropriate in light of the COVID-19 pandemic that our country has experienced for the past two years. The pandemic has had a devastating impact on the health and wellness of African Americans who suffered from its effects more than other Americans. The pandemic also prevented ASALH from having inperson conferences for the past two years. So, we are here in Montgomery to declare that: We Are Back!
Although this year’s conference is in-person, ASALH is also making some sessions available to members and the public virtually. Therefore, just like last year’s conference through ASALH TV individuals can tune into some of the key sessions of the conference from anywhere in the world. This is the first time that ASALH has presented a hybrid conference and we are doing it because, in spite of the continuing existence of COVID-19 and its variances, we want as many people as possible to enjoy the great sessions of the ASALH conference that feature cutting edge scholarship, a film festival, keynote addresses by historic figures in African American history, and the participation of community leaders in Montgomery, Alabama.
There are some special highlights of this year’s conference that will engage participants. For example, we have three outstanding luncheon speakers. Bryan Stevenston of the Equal Justice Initiative will speak at Thursday’s Social Justice Luncheon. Jarvis Givens of Harvard University and author of the book, Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching, will speak at Friday’s Carter G. Woodson Luncheon. Robert G. Stanton, the first African American Superintendent of the National Park Service, will speak at Saturday’s John W. Blassingame Luncheon. Thursday’s Plenary Session will set the tone for the conference. It will feature Fred Gray, who served as Dr. Martin King’s attorney; Orville Vernon Burton and Armand Derfner, the authors of Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court ; Nicole Hilary Green of Davidson College; Robert L. Harris, Jr. of Cornell University; and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham of Harvard University and my immediate predecessor as president of ASALH. This Plenary Session and the luncheon are just a sample of the exciting sessions, tours films and plenaries that will make this conference one of ASALH’s best ever.
Finally, I would be remiss if I did not thank all of the people who helped to plan, organize and make this a successful conference. I especially want to thank ASALH’s Academic Program, Marketing, National Conference Oversight and Development, and ASALH TV committees. The ASALH staff, our staff and faculty contacts at Alabama State University, and the members of the Montgomery community also deserve special “thank yous” for their assistance in bringing this conference together.
W. Marvin Dulaney ASALH National PresidentPhi Upsilon Lambda and Beta Upsilon Chapters of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
Welcome the 107th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study ofAfrican American Life and History to Montgomery, Alabama
107TH ANNUAL MEETING AND CONFERENCE
Dear Conference Participants,
The Academic Program Committee would like to welcome you to the I 07th Annual Meeting and Conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History! We are proud to gather here in Montgomery, Alabama under the 2022 Black History Theme, “Black Health and Wellness,” which focuses on the myriad of opportunities and barriers – past and present – to the physical, emotional and mental well-being of Black communities. From the earliest encounters between Black people brought to America and western researchers and health practitioners, African Americans have fought against medical experimentation, destructive theories like eugenics, shoddy medical treatment and systemic inequities in their quest to be healthy and well.
Our first in-person conference following the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, reminds us of the impact that health inequity has on communities of color. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, data consistently show that people of color have experienced disproportionate rates of illness and death due to COVID-19, with three times premature excess deaths per 100,000 people in the US in 2020 than the rate among White or Asian people. The higher rates of illness and death among people of color reflect increased risk of exposure to the virus due to living, working, and transportation situations, increased risk of experiencing serious illness if infected due to higher rates of underlying health conditions, and increased barriers to testing and treatment due to existing disparities in access to health care.
In addition to considerations of the medical community and the physical body, the theme Black Health and Wellness lends itself to the exploration of the intersections of education, the arts, activism, politics and culture on health and wellness. As such, we have assembled panels, papers and plenary sessions that fully investigate the legacy of the quest for Black wellness, including investigations of racial violence, the struggle for civil rights and trauma that negatively impact the emotional and mental health of Black people. And we will celebrate the extraordinary resilience of Black people that continues to move our communities forward.
As we mark our 107th Conference in Montgomery, we reflect on the city’s history as the cradle of the American Civil Rights Movement and on its current legacy as home to one of the most poignant memorials, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. We are grateful to be in this place to explore the many facets of Black health and wellness with you. The Academic Program Committee leadership extends its deepest gratitude to our National President, the Vice Presidents and members of the Executive Council, the Executive Director, and all the committee chairs and heads whose hard work has made this conference possible. It is a pleasure to continue the legacy of our founder, Carter G. Woodson, as we continue to further historical research to preserve the history and culture of African Americans.
Sincerely, Arwin D. Smallwood, Co-Chair Academic Program Committee
Darius Young, Co-Chair Academic Program Committee
Lionel Kimble, Co-Chair Academic Program Committee
Gregory Mixon, Vice-Chair Academic Program Committee
“Health is a human right. Not a privilege to be purchased.”
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Recognizing the impact of community leaders
Ify Nwabukwu, Raymond Jetson and Hope Harley have enriched their communities by providing breast cancer awareness resources, building neighborhoods from within by mobilizing access to resources and educating children with history lessons beyond school books.
One person’s efforts can truly make an impact. But when our efforts drive change for the greater good, we all thrive together.
To learn more about these community leaders and their impact, visit aarp.org/blackcommunity
Ify Nwabukwu Raymond Jetson Hope HarleyEstablished on September 9, 1915 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson, we are the Founders of Black History Month and carry forth the work of our founder, the Father of Black History.
We continue his legacy of speaking a fundamental truth to the world–that Africans and peoples of African descent are makers of history and coworkers in what W. E. B. Du Bois called, “The Kingdom of Culture.” ASALH’s mission is to create and disseminate knowledge about Black History, to be, in short, the nexus between the Ivory Tower and the global public. We labor in the service of Blacks and all humanity.
ASALH is the world’s oldest learned society devoted to the research, education, culture, and history of people of African descent. Dr. Carter G. Woodson is the recognized “Father” of Black history. From its inception, ASALH has remained the paramount organization dedicated to promoting scholarship involving the life and history of African Americans.
OUR VISION
The vision of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History is to be the premier Black Heritage learned society with a strong network of national and international branches and partners whose diverse and inclusive membership will continue the Woodson legacy.
OUR MISSION
The mission of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH®) is to promote, research, preserve, interpret and disseminate information about Black life, history and culture to the global community.
STRUCTURE
The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH®) is head-quartered in Washington, D.C., 301 Rhode Island Ave, NW in Washington, DC. The Association operates as local, state, and international branches promoting greater knowledge of African American history through a program of education, research, and publishing.
ASALH FORMER PRESIDENTS
1916-1917, George Cleveland Hall 1917-1920, Robert E. Park 1921-1930, John R. Hawkins 1931-1936, John Hope 1936-1951, Mary McLeod Bethune 1952-1964, Charles Harris Wesley 1965-1966, Lorenzo J. Greene 1966-1967, J. Reuben Sheeler 1968-1970, J. Rupert Picott 1971-1973, Andrew Brimmer 1974-1976, Edgar Toppin 1977-1980, Charles Walker Thomas 1981-1982, Earl E. Thorpe 1983-1984, Samuel L. Banks 1984-1985, Jeanette Cascone (acting)
1986-1988, William Harris 1989-1990, Andrew Brimmer 1991-1993, Robert Harris, Jr. 1993-1995, Janette Hoston Harris 1995-1997, Bettye J. Gardner 1997-1999, Edward Beasley 1999-2001, Samuel DuBois Cook, Sr. 2001-2003, Gloria Harper Dickinson 2004-2006, Sheila Y. Flemming 2007-2009, John E. Fleming 2010-2012, James B. Stewart 2013-2015, Daryl Michael Scott 2016-2021, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham Current, W. Marvin Dulaney
Alabama
DEPARTMENT
The Museum of Alabama is located inside the Alabama Department of Archives & History in downtown Montgomery, across the street from the State Capitol. Open Monday through Saturday from 8:30 to 4:30 • Admission is Always
CONFERENCE
The ASALH Annual Conference is an occasion to explore the history and culture of people of African descent. Our conference brings together more than one thousand people, including educators, students, community builders, business professionals, and others who share an abiding interest in learning about the contribution of African Americans to this nation and the world.
For over a century, our conference has featured a rich program, which now includes scholarly sessions, professional workshops, plenaries, a Film Festival, and other presentations that analyze and illuminate a critical theme in the Black experience. Our 2021 virtual conference will offer attendees sessions featuring ASALH members who are prominent figures in Black cultural studies, as well as students from many disciplines.
Sessions will be on the theme and many aspects of Black life, history, and culture.
ABOUT THE THEME
The theme for 2022 focuses on the importance of Black Health and Wellness. This theme acknowledges the legacy of not only Black scholars and medical practitioners in Western medicine, but also other ways of knowing (e.g., birthworkers, doulas, midwives, naturopaths, herbalists, etc.) throughout the African Diaspora. The 2022 theme considers activities, rituals and initiatives that Black communities have done to be well.
In the still overhanging shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, Black people should and do use data and other information-sharing modalities to document, decry, and agitate against the interconnected, intersecting inequalities intentionally baked into systems and structures in the U.S. for no other reason than to curtail, circumscribe, and destroy Black well-being in all forms and Black lives. Moreover, Black communities must look to the past to provide the light for our future, by embracing the rituals, traditions and healing modalities of our ancestors. These ways of knowing require a decolonization of thought and practice.
MEMBERSHIP
ALL ASALH MEMBERS ENJOY:
• Discounted conference registration
• FREE online posting of jobs and events
• Ability to participate in the Authors’ Book Signing
• Ability to present papers at the Annual Conference
• Digital copies of the JAAH, BHB, and Fire!!!
• One vote in the Executive Council Elections and more
• ASALH branch members receive free print copies of the JAAH during the membership year
For more information on member benefits and to become a member, visit www.asalh.org/join and click on JOIN.
The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (EIN: 53-0219640) is a tax-exempt 501 (c)(3) organization. Contributions to ASALH are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
The Harper Councill Trenholm Sr. Branch of ASALH
Welcomes to Montgomery Attendees of the 107th Annual Meeting
Bertis English, President
Octavius Jackson, Vice President
Destiny Williams, Secretary
Steve Murray, Treasurer
Howard Robinson, Historian
Image Courtesy of Alabama State University Archives, Harper Councill Trenholm CollectionEXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEMBERS
Mr. Jeffrey A. Banks
Ms. Denise Rolark Barnes
Prof. Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
Dr. Sundiata K. Cha-Jua
Ms. Zende L. Clark
Dr. Natanya P. Duncan
Dr. Jarvis R. Givens
Dr. Anton D. House
Dr. Eric Jackson
Dr. Randal M. Jelks
Ms. Gladys W. Mack
Mr. Omar Eaton-Martinez
Mr. Moses Massenburg
Dr. Lopez D. Matthews, Jr. Dr. Zebulon V. Miletsky
Dr. Gregory Mixon
Ms. Camesha Scruggs
Rev. Anita Shepherd
Dr. Arwin D. Smallwood
Dr. Gladys Gary Vaughn
Dr. David Walton
Dr. Tara White
T h e A s s o c i a t i o n f o r t h e S t u d y o f A f r i c a n A m e r i c a n L i f e a n d H i
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Historical Trauma Black Resistance
ASALH STAFF
Sylvia Y. Cyrus Executive Director
Crystal R. Boswell Operations Manager
Shafantae Desinord Project Manager
Cherry Ashu Database Administrator
CONSULTANTS
7 Pointe, Black History Month Festival
Terrance Friday, Technology Specialist
Ryan Heathcock, Videographer
Gaynelle Jackson, Conference Planner
Rory Gruler, Spot Design
Kirsten Haakonsen, Kit Hawk Design
FIRE!!! THE MULTIMEDIA JOURNAL OF BLACK STUDIES
Marilyn M. Thomas-Houston Editor
BLACK HISTORY BULLETIN
La Vonne Neal Co-Editor
Alicia Moore Co-Editor
EDITORIAL BOARD
David Campos, University of the Incarnate Word
Charles Dukes, Florida Atlantic University
Joseph E. Flynn, Northern Illinois University
Geneva Gay, University of Washington
Satasha Green-Stephen, Minnesota State
Jason Kahleed Hayes, Education Strategist
JOURNAL OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
Formerly the Journal of Negro History
Founded by Carter G. Woodson, January 1, 1916
Editor
Pero G. Dagbovie, Michigan State University
EDITORIAL BOARD
Leslie Alexander, Arizona State University
Shawn L. Alexander, University of Kansas
Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Rutgers University
Davarian L. Baldwin, Trinity College
Mia Bay, University of Pennsylvania
Keisha N. Blain, Brown University
Stephanie Y. Evans, Georgia State University
Tiffany M. Gill, Rutgers University
Thavolia Glymph, Duke University
Cheryl D. Hicks, University of Delaware
David H. Jackson Jr., North Carolina Central University
Martha S. Jones, Johns Hopkins University
Kenya King, Project Manager
Kay Phillips, NPS Project Manager
Michael J. Schwartz, Halodezign, LLC
Delani Weaver, Web Content Specialist
Adrienne Weisent-Jones, Graphic Designer
Pamela Lamar-Dukes, Florida Atlantic University
Paul LaRue, (RET.) Washington High School, Ohio
Kim Pearson, The College of New Jersey
Katherine Scott Sturdevant, Pikes Peak Community College
Angela M. Ward, Urban Public School Equity Leader
Gwendolyn Webb-Hasan, Texas A&M University
Associate Editors
Derrick P. Alridge, University of Virginia, Charlottesville Daina Ramey Berry, University of Texas at Austin
Managing Editor and Book Review Editor
LaShawn D. Harris, Michigan State University
Ibram X. Kendi, Boston University
Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Harvard University
Kevin Mumford, University of Illinois
Celia E. Naylor, Barnard College, Columbia University
Russell Rickford, Cornell University
Stephanie J. Shaw, The Ohio State University
Nikki M. Taylor, Howard University
Ula Y. Taylor, University of California, Berkeley
Social Media Director
Maria Hammack, University of Pennsylvania
Editorial Assistant
Ajamu Dillahunt-Holloway, Michigan State University
ursday, September 29, 5:30-7:00 pm
Join the JAAH editorial team for a meet-and-greet and wine reception at the University of Chicago Press booth.
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Editor: Pero G. Dagbovie | www.journals.uchicago.edu/jaah
Founded in 1916 as e Journal of Negro History by Dr. Carter G. Woodson, e Journal of African American History (JAAH) is the leading scholarly publication in the eld of African American history.
e JAAH publishes original scholarly articles and book reviews on all aspects of the African American experience and it embraces ASALH’s mission of promoting, researching, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating “information about Black life, history, and culture to the global community.”
Subscriptions are a bene t of membership in the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
Learn more about our history, social science, humanities, art, and science journals at www.journals.uchicago.edu.
American Political ought
American Journal of Sociology
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research
are honored to publishWinterthur Portfolio Social Service Review
CONFERENCE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE
Sylvia Cyrus
Jeff Banks
Zebulon Miletsky
Gladys Gary Vaughn Anita Shepherd
Camesha Scruggs
Aaisha Haykal
Karen Adamopoulos David G. Wilkins
Hazel Gillis
Leontyne Middleton
Jacqueline Hubbard Rosahn C. Whitehorn
ACADEMIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Arwin Smallwood, Co-Chair
Darius Young, Co-Chair
Lionel Kimble, Co-Chair Gregory Mixon, Vice-Chair
Daphne Cooper
Aaron LeVar Bell
Adreonna Bennett
Charles Johnson Derrick White Justin Rudder
Kimberly Cheek
Aaisha Haykal, Chair
Tara White
Ida Jones John Ashley
Zebulon Miletsky
Zebulon V. Miletsky
Jelani Favors Rosahn Whitehorn
Michael Blum
Daryl Anthony Carter
Derrick Lanois
Theo M. Moore
Moses Massenburg David C. Dennard Cecily McDaniel Derrick P. Alridge Jina DuVernay
Howard Robinson
Jessica Klanderud
Jameta Barlow
LaShawn Harris Derrick White Steve Murray
Dan Chandler
Thura Mack Maurice Hobson W. Marvin Dulaney Sylvia Y. Cyrus
PROGRAM PLANNING COMMITTEE
Charles Ferrell Rosahn C. Whitehorn Lopez Matthews Tony Holland
Jameta Barlow
DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
Gladys Gary Vaughn Shondra Allen Kimberly Mosely
W. Marvin Dulaney, Chair
Karen Adamopoulos
Jeff Banks
Charlene Farrington
Hazel Gillis
Aaisha Haykal
Valerie Holt
Jacqueline Hubbard
Gladys Mack Lopez Matthews
MARKETING/PR COMMITTEE
Leontyne Middleton
Gladys Gary Vaughn
Zebulon Vance Miletsky David Wilkins
Zebulon Miletsky, Chair
Rosahn C. Whitehorn, Vice Chair
Brenda Aghahowa
Aaisha Haykal
Louis C. Hicks Kenya King
Janet Sims-Wood Terry Spicer
David J. Trowbridge Mesha Williams
ALABAMA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
— Keisha N. Blain, author of Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America
— Kirkus
“Exceptionally brilliant, well-researched, and powerful account of how Black and Brown freedom fighters mobilized across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans to challenge racism, colonialism, and white supremacy...”
“Jones reminds readers that... it was at Black schools that the most state violence was exercised. A well-researched and -written addition to the history of the tumultuous 1960s.”
“Featuring appearances by future mayors of Newark and Atlanta and pioneers of hip hop, this study holds important lessons for today.”
— Gerald Horne, author of Fire this Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s
“A resounding, deftly reported manifesto centering the work of transformative Black women seeking one another in a culture that refuses to see us and center us.”
— Janet Mock, New York Times bestselling author of Redefining Realness and Surpassing Certainty
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2022 CDT
7:00 am - 4:30 pm CDT AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE BUS TOUR OF SELMA
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm CDT
ASALH EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEETING
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2022 CDT
7:00 am - 11:45 am CDT TOUR OF MONTGOMERY
8:30 am - 9:40 am CDT
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
10:00 am - 11:40 pm CDT SOCIAL JUSTICE @ ASALH: HOW DO WE GET HEALTHY?
10:00 am - 11:40 am CDT
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
12:00 pm - 9:00 pm CDT EXHIBITS OPEN
12:00 pm - 1:45 pm CDT
HOWARD/MELLON SOCIAL JUSTICE CONSORTIUM LUNCHEON SOCIAL JUSTICE AT ASALH WITH BRYAN STEVENSON
2:05 pm - 3:40 pm CDT SOCIAL JUSTICE @ ASALH: FIRST AID TO FREE US
2:05 pm - 3:40 pm CDT
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
2:15 pm - 4:00 pm CDT FILM FESTIVAL: HIDDEN IN FULL VIEW
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm CDT
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm CDT
6:00 pm - 9:15 pm CDT
PLENARY SESSION: JUSTICE DEFERRED: RACE AND THE SUPREME COURT
JAAH EDITOR MEET-AND-GREET AND WINE RECEPTION
VIRTUAL AUTHOR’S BOOK TALK EVENT
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm CDT FILM FESTIVAL: BELLY OF THE BEAST
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm CDT IN-PERSON AUTHOR’S BOOK SIGNING
8:15 pm - 10:00 pm CDT
FILM FESTIVAL: BLACK FEMINIST
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA | THE 2022 BLACK HISTORY THEME: BLACK HEALTH AND WELLNESS
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2022 CDT
8:00 am - 6:30 pm CDT
8:30 am - 10:00 am CDT
8:30 am - 9:40 pm CDT
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2021 EST
EXHIBITS OPEN FILM FESTIVAL: FANNIE LOU HAMER’S AMERICA
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
10:00 am - 11:30 am CDT H I N E - H O R N E B O O K R O U N D T A B L E : B E T T E R L I V I N G B Y T H E I R O W N B O O T S T R A P S
10:00 am - 11:40 am CDT
10:00 am - 11:40 am CDT
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2021 EST
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
FELIX ARMFIELD SERIES: CAREER PATHWAYS OUTSIDE OF ACADEMIA
10:15 am - 11:45 am CDT FILM FESTIVAL: THE SIX TRIPLE EIGHT
12:00 pm - 1:45 pm CDT
12:00 pm - 1:45 pm CDT
FELIX ARMFIELD SERIES: LEARNING LUNCH: “AND WHO ARE YOU? WHAT DO YOU DO?”
FRIDAY WOODSON LUNCHEON
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDT FILM FESTIVAL: A CRIME ON THE BAYOU
2:05 pm - 3:40 pm CDT
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
2:05 pm - 3:40 pm CDT
2:05 pm - 3:40 pm CDT
KEY SESSION: A CONVERSATION ON THE ROLE, LEGACY, AND FUTURE OF HBCUS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
HINE-HORNE BOOK ROUNDTABLE: AMERICA, GODDAM
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2021 EST
2:05 pm - 3:40 pm CDT K E Y S E S S I O N : R E M E M B E R I N G T H E R O O T S O F F U N K
2:05 pm - 3:40 pm CDT
2:05 pm - 3:40 pm CDT
2:15 pm - 4:00 pm CDT
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm CDT
FELIX ARMFIELD SERIES: DISSERTATION PITCH LIGHTENING ROUND
KEY SESSION: I FEAR FOR MY LIFE
FILM FESTIVAL: STORMING CAESARS PALACE
PLENARY SESSION: THE ALABAMA BLACK BELT NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm CDT VIRTUAL AUTHOR’S BOOK TALK EVENT
SCHEDULE OF
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2022 CDT
8:00 am - 5:00 pm CDT
8:30 am - 9:40 pm CDT
10:00 am - 11:40 am CDT
10:00 am - 11:40 am CDT
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
EXHIBITS OPEN HINE-HORNE BOOK ROUNDTABLE: BLACK PATIENCE: PERFORMANCE, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND THE UNFINISHED PROJECT OF EMANCIPATION BY JULIUS FLEMING
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
10:00 am - 12:00 pm CDT SOCIAL JUSTICE @ ASALH: HOW TO LEAD SOCIAL JUSTICE
10:15 am - 11:45 am CDT FILM FESTIVAL: STATELESS
12:00 pm - 1:45 pm CDT J O H N B L A S S I N G A M E L U N C H E O N
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm CDT
2:00 pm - 3:40 pm CDT
2:05 pm - 3:40 pm CDT
2:05 pm - 3:40 pm CDT
FILM FESTIVAL: BARBARA LEE
PRESIDENTIAL SESSION: EXPLORING VARIOUS ASPECTS OF BLACK HEALTH AND WELLNESS
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
KEY SESSION: THE CRAFT OF WRITING BLACK WOMEN’S BIOGRAPHY
2:05 pm - 3:40 pm CDT
2:15 pm - 4:00 pm CDT
KEY SESSION: HOW BLACK PRACTITIONERS REWRITE, RE-NARRATE AND REIMAGINE HEALTH EQUITY
FILM FESTIVAL: SWEET HOME ALABAMA & AFRIKAN BY WAY OF AMERICAN
4:00 to 6:00pm CDT PLENARY SESSION: THE HISTORY OF BLACK WOMEN AND HEALTH
7:30 to 10:30pm CDT ASALH ANNUAL AWARDS BANQUET
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2022 CDT
7:00 am - 4:30 pm CDT AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE BUS TOUR OF TUSKEGEE
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA | THE 2022 BLACK HISTORY THEME: BLACK HEALTH AND WELLNESS
It’s Our Movement Now
Black Women’s Politics and the 1977 National Women’s Conference
LAURA L. LOVETT, RACHEL JESSICA DANIEL, AND KELLY N. GILES, EDS. Paper $35.00 $28.00
Maximum Vantage New Selected Columns
BILL MAXWELL Paper $28.00 $22.00
To Tell a Black Story of Miami
TATIANA D. MCINNIS Paper $30.00 $24.00 Available in November
Bertha Maxwell-Roddey
A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership
SONYA Y. RAMSEY Paper $35.00 $28.00
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The Denmark Vesey Affair A Documentary History
DOUGLAS R. EGERTON AND ROBERT L. PAQUETTE, EDS. Paper $55.00 $45.00
Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era
JONATHAN A. NOYALAS Paper $26.95 $20.00
Precarious Passages
The Diasporic Imagination in Contemporary Black Anglophone Fiction
TUIRE VALKEAKARI Paper $29.95 $22.00
Sacraments of Memory Catholicism and Slavery in Contemporary African American Literature
ERIN MICHAEL SALIUS Paper $26.95 $20.00
NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement
BRIAN C. ODOM AND STEPHEN P. WARING, EDS. Paper $26.95 $20.00
New Directions in the Study of African American Recolonization
BEVERLY C. TOMEK AND MATTHEW J. HETRICK, EDS. Paper $30.00 $22.00
Robert R. Church Jr. and the African American Political Struggle
DARIUS J. YOUNG Paper $24.95 $18.00
Race, Place, and Memory Deep Currents in Wilmington, North Carolina
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Black Well-Being Health and Selfhood in Antebellum Black Literature
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Center for Black Digital Research
Established in 2019–20 under the codirectorship of Gabrielle Foreman and Shirley Moody-Turner, the center is a public-facing unit committed to bringing the histories of early Black political organizing to digital life through innovative scholarship and collaborative community partnerships.
African Studies Global Virtual Forum
Midcareer Faculty Advancement Program/Faculty Writing Program
Two initiatives designed to make it easier for mid-career faculty especially humanities and social sciences faculty from underrepresented populations to achieve full professor status.
Parents and Children Together (PACT)
A college outreach initiative promoting the health and well-being of children, youth, and families from diverse backgrounds (mostly in the greater Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area) through culturally sensitive and communityengaged research projects.
Launched by Sinfree Makoni, professor and director of the African Studies program, worldwide participants engage in online conversations that hope to decenter hegemonic epistemologies and decolonize the Western canon to facilitate other ways/waves of knowing
Women, Gender, and Families of Color
Published by the University of Illinois Press, the journal was founded in 2007 as Effective this academic year, the journal will be housed at Penn State in the College of the Liberal Arts, where it will be co-edited by founding editor Jennifer Hamer, professor of African American studies and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies.
Black Women,
Gender, and Families.
Recent Co-sponsored Conferences
“W.E.B. Du Bois and the Ancient Mediterranean” (March 19–21, 2021)
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“An elegant and expansive history” (New York Times) of African American women’s pursuit of political power—and how it transformed AmericaDr. Ralph J. Bryson Alabama State University Professor & Chair
During a 2020 interview for the Kappa Alpha Psi® Journal, Professor Bryson recalled a few major achievements, changes, and signs of progress he had experienced since Alabama State College for Negroes President Harper Councill Trenholm Sr. recruited him in 1953 to become a faculty member at the college, which today is Alabama State University. According to Bryson, he “was afforded significant preparation for the English literary profession by joining and remaining active in several local, state, and national organizations .” The Association for the Study of Negro later African American Life and History was a foremost organization, and Trenholm was a principal figure in its advancement. Among other acts, he served as vice president in 1957, the previous occasion the Association convened in Montgomery. Congratulations for returning, after sixty-five years, to the city where Bryson spent fifty-nine years promoting the goals and executing the mission of the Association. The Luminary Award is a fitting tribute to his “outstanding work and contributions.”
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Established in 1993, the Carter Godwin Woodson Scholars Medallion is presented to a scholar whose career is distinguished through at least a decade of research, writing, and activism in the field of African American life and history.
This award was established in tribute to Dr Mary McLeod Bethune because of her dynamic leadership and her years of contributing to education, women ’ s history, and African-American life and culture Dr Bethune served as the first woman president of ASALH from 1936 to 1951 and is one of the most outstanding women role models in our history
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In partnership with Farmers Insurance, the ASALH Living Legacy Awards honor African American women and men across the country engaged in extraordinary work to improve communities, institutions, organizations and family life
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A Freedom Scholar seeks to empower and inspire. A Freedom Scholar provides a direct benefit to African-American communities locally or nationally. ASALH has initiated the Freedom Scholar award to honor early scholars of any discipline who can demonstrate that their field of study is having a direct positive impact on the life of African-Americans.
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The annual Branch of the Year Award is given to an ASALH branch whose dedication to the vision of Dr Woodson's desire to educate the entire community on the rich life and history of African American/Africana people is demonstrated in monthly programming, community outreach, and collaborative efforts The Branch of the Year executes that function with intentional and conscious efforts to promote ASALH and the national programs such as the Black History Festival, National Founders Day and Woodson Birthday celebration Through the spirit of ubuntu in the tradition of African people and in living memory of Dr Woodson
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The President’s Service Award is presented to an individual who has made exceptional contributions to the African American community, locally and nationally. The President of ASALH selects an individual whose record of community service exemplifies one of the most important objectives of ASALH: selfless service to the African American community.
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V.P. Franklin Legacy Journal of African American History Award recognizes the outstanding and dedicated work and scholarship of Dr. V. P. Franklin (the JAAH editor and long-term ASALH member). Under his editorship, the JAAH was recognized as the premier academic journal in African American, African, and Diaspora Studies Either the author/s of an article and/or ASALH members and nonmembers can nominate JAAH published articles for the biennial award The first award will be presented in 2020
The Dorothy Porter Wesley Award was established in 2018 by the Information Professionals of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) to honor and document the outstanding work of Information Professionals; Bibliophiles, Librarians, Archivists, Curators and Collectors. Many of our Information Professionals have also played a major role in supporting the work of ASALH, by serving in leadership roles and as members.
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Dr Maryam (Mar-ree-yum) Aziz (Uh-Zeez), they/them/theirs pronouns, is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies in the Department of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington Aziz received a Ph D in American Culture from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in African American Studies from Columbia University Their first book asks how folks who practiced unarmed self-defense and martial arts contributed to Black Power organizing and shifting ideas about liberation, abolition, and gender norms. It also traces how the learning of martial arts was facilitated by U.S. militarism during the Cold War. Aziz’s work was showcased in the 2017-2018 exhibit, “Black Power!,” at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, for which Aziz was a contributing writer and a curator for the sections on popular culture and blaxploitation film. Currently, they lead the Schomburg Mellon Humanities SummerInstitute for undergraduates. As a scholar activist, Aziz regularly teaches radically inclusive self-defense classes in person and virtually. They have written for the “Made by History” section at the Washington Post. Further insight into their work can be seen in publications such as “Teen Vogue” and “Mic” or heard in Podcasts such as “Burn It All Down ”
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Kevin Quin is a doctoral candidate in Africana Studies at Cornell University with a graduate minor in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Studies He specializes in 20th century African American history, postwar social movements, and gender and sexuality studies. His dissertation, Queer Visions of Black Power: Race, Sexuality, and the Black Movement for Sexual Revolution in the Post-Civil Rights Era examines how Black gender and sexual nonconforming activist-intellectuals shaped postwar African American political culture through their engagement with a range of black power philosophies.
Kevin has been a recipient of the Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives LGBTQ Research Fellowship, The HistoryMakers Academic Research Fellowship, and the Mellon Urbanism Fellowship for Collaborative Studies in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities His essays and reviews have been published in the Journal of African American History, Women’s Studies, The American Historian, and Black Perspectives Kevin currently serves as the graduate student representative for the Organization of American Historian’s Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Historians and Histories and as the website editor for the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History (CLGBTH), an affiliated society of the American Historical Association
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Frazine K. Taylor is a native of Wallsboro, Alabama, and a member of the Mt. Canaan Missionary Baptist Church where she is also the church’s secretary and librarian. She is a graduate of Southern Normal High School, Brewton, AL. She holds a B.S. in Business Commerce from Knoxville College in Knoxville, Tennessee and a received her Master in Library Science in Library Services from Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA in 1984 She is a former Peace Corps Volunteer, who lived in the Fiji Islands for several years, and she has traveled extensively in the South Pacific She worked in the Peace Corps Headquarters in Washington, DC from 1970-1976, where she was in charge of sending peace corps volunteers to overseas posts In 1985, while working as Assistant Cataloguer at the Tuskegee University Library, she was chosen to work as an intern at the National Agricultural Library in Beltsville, MD Mrs Taylor is the former Co-Head of Reference for the Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH) and is an expert on Alabama records She works part-time at Alabama State University (ASU) as an Archivist Taylor is the President of the Elmore County Association of Black Heritage, Chair of the Black Heritage Council of the Alabama Historical Commission and the President of the Alabama Historical Association She serves on the boards of the Patrons for the Study of Civil Rights and African-American Culture at ASU, the Alabama Cemetery Preservation Alliance, the Alabama Governor’s Mansion Authority and the past President of the Friends of the Alabama Archives.
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James D. Anderson is the former dean of the College of Education, the Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor of Education, and affiliate professor of History, African American Studies, and Law at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His scholarship focuses broadly on the history of U S education, with a subfield on the history of African American education Anderson’s seminal book, The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935, won the American Educational Research Association (AERA) outstanding book award in 1990 From 2006 to 2016, Anderson served as senior editor of the History of Education Quarterly Additionally, in 2012, Anderson was selected as a Fellow for Outstanding Research by the AERA In 2016, he was awarded AERA’s Palmer O Johnson Award for best article and a Presidential Citation in 2020, its highest award He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education In 2013, he was selected a Center for Advanced Study Professor of Education for the campus Anderson was also elected to the National Academy of Education in 2008 In 2021, Anderson was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest honor societies in the nation He became a Board of Trustees member at Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and inducted into the Stillman College Educator Hall of Fame in 2020.
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Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr., is a father, a grandfather, a great grandfather, a widower, a cancer survivor, a civil rights activist, a Black historian, a military veteran, and the award-winning author of three books. Hurst is a native of Jacksonville, Florida, and a 1960 high school graduate of segregated Northwestern Junior-Senior High School in Jacksonville. He was the sixteen-year-old President of the Jacksonville Youth Council NAACP and was one of the leaders of the 1960 sit-in demonstrations, which resulted in the infamous Ax Handle Saturday Hurst served two four-year terms on the Jacksonville City Council He is a member of ASALH through the James Weldon Johnson Branch in Jacksonville Hurst is a Silver Life Member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and is involved with many Boards and Agencies in the Jacksonville Community In addition, Hurst is a veteran of the United States Air Force Hurst is the recipient of numerous awards and honors Hurst’s late wife Ann passed on September 5, 2016, three months before their Fiftieth Anniversary on December 10, 2016. Hurst is the father of two sons, Rodney II (Vandlyn) and Todd.
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Dr James B Stewart (Jim), a long-standing supporter of ASALH, has served on the ASALH Advisory Board, the Executive Council and a past National President He is also a past member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of African American History He is a founder of the Dr Edna McKenzie branch in Pittsburgh and the immediate past president of the Manasota Branch He is also active with the Florida Coalition of ASALH branches Jim is a Professor Emeritus at Penn State University He authored, co-authored, and edited 16 books and published over 150 articles in professional journals including The Journal of African American History. Currently, Jim is a Senior Fellow at the Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy at the New School (NYC) and the inaugural Director of the Black Economic Research Center for the 21st Century. He served as President of The National Economic Association and the National Council for Black Studies. He is the recipient of numerous awards. Jim is married to Dr. Caryl Sheffield and the couple resides in Sarasota, Florida They have four daughters and eight grandchildren and continue their passion of collecting art of the African diaspora
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of New York. Since her retirement from professional service, Madge has focused her time and talent toward the betterment of African Americans. Due to her outstanding service as a Harlem Community Activist for over 40 years, Madge Allen was honored on February 14, 2021 by the New York State Senator, Brian A. Benjamin, with a Proclamation for her exemplary service to her Community, and State Ms Allen’s community participation has included being a leading member of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History for fourteen (14) years. She was involved in reactivating the Manhattan Branch and served as its President for four (4) years. Since 1960, Madge Harris Allen has been an active member of Convent Avenue Baptist Church where she continues to teach Sunday School and serves on the African American Experience Forum Madge Harris is among the ladies of distinction that founded the Montgomery, Alabama Chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho. She is a mother of three daughters and a son, and has seven grandchildren, and three great grandchildren.
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A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Dr. Ralph Bryson served two years with the U.S. Army in the European Theater of Operations in World War II. After his tour of duty, Dr. Bryson attended and graduated from the University of Cincinnati and then earned a doctorate degree from Ohio State University. Near the completion of his doctorate in philosophy, Dr. Bryson met Harper Councill Trenholm in Chicago while the latter was recruiting for Alabama State College. Mr. Trenholm asked Dr. Bryson to teach at ASU for the summer of 1953. After the summer semester, Mr. Trenholm offered Dr. Bryson a full-time teaching position at ASC. When Dr, Bryson began his teaching career at ASC, he also became an eyewitness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. He was a member of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. took the pulpit. He witnessed the famous Montgomery Bus Boycott and at its end, he rode the busses in the front seats with his friend Thelma Glass and his colleague Jo Ann Robinson. He was close friends with Ralph Abernathy, who was pole march of the Montgomery Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity. In 1962, Dr. Bryson earned the rank of professor at ASU, and he has served in many capacities at the institution. Since 1953 Bryson has served as adviser to ASU's undergraduate chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity and holds a life membership in the fraternity.
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Edna Greene Medford, Ph D , is Professor of History Emerita and former Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs at Howard University Her research has focused on American slavery, the Civil War, Emancipation and Reconstruction Over the last 35 years, she has shared her scholarship through publications as well as providing commentary for historical documentaries, participating in media interviews, and presenting invited talks here and abroad She is the author of Lincoln and Emancipation (in its second printing), co-author of The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views, and editor of the history report for New York’s African Burial Ground Project. She has also authored numerous refereed articles and book chapters that have appeared in both national and international publications. She is currently co-authoring a book-length study of a midwestern Black family’s remarkable journey in the generational pursuit of freedom and equality in America.
Dr. Medford is the recipient of several honors and awards, among them the 2009 special bicentennial “Order of Lincoln,” from the state of Illinois; the College of Liberal Arts Alumni Achievement Award from the University of Illinois at Urbana (2013), the Lincoln Diploma of Honor from Lincoln Memorial University (2014); and the Howard University Distinguished Faculty Award (2021)
Quintard Taylor is an historian of African American Western History, African, Afro-Brazilian, comparative ethnic history, website founder, and editor. Elected 50th President of the Western History Association in 2011. Taylor, in 2017, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Pacific Northwest Historians’ Guild. He has over 47 years in higher education in Washington, Oregon, California, and Nigeria, including 20 years, 1998-2018, as the Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American History, the oldest endowed chair at the University of Washington, Seattle. He retired in 2018 as Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor Emeritus.
Taylor’s first book, The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle’s Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era was published in 1994. In 2020 the University of Washington Press recognized this work as the 10th most influential books it published in the past century. His second book, In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the America West, 15281990 (1998), was a Pulitzer Prize nominee in History. In 2010 he co-authored an autobiography with the late university administrator and career army officer, Dr. Sam: Soldier, Educator, Advocate, Friend, An Autobiography, Taylor edited Race and Culture in the West Series and published over 50 journal articles
Milton C. Davis was born in Tuskegee, Alabama and graduated from Tuskegee University. He earned a Juris Doctorate from the University of Iowa College of Law During his collegiate years, Davis earned distinction by being named an American Political Science Foundation Graduate Fellow; a Ford Foundation Graduate Fellow; a Herbert Lehman Foundation International Scholar and a Distinguished Air Force ROTC Graduate Davis served as one of the first African American Assistant Attorney Generals of the State of Alabama and received nationwide acclaim for his role in securing the full pardon based on innocence from the State of Alabama for Clarence Norris, the last of the "Scottsboro Boys " Davis served on the Board of Directors of the Central Alabama Community Foundation which oversees the investment and distribution of over 60 million dollars to charities and nonprofit entities Davis the Vice President and serves on the Board of Directors of the Lionel Richie Foundation, Inc
Davis served four years as the 29th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, the first African American Collegiate Fraternity. While he was General President Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity was granted the exclusive right to construct the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC. He practices law in Tuskegee, Alabama.
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P a p e r s : T h e r e w i l l b e l i m i t e d s l o t s f o r p a p e r s e s s i o n s a t t h e A S A L H a n n u a l m e e t i n g P a p e r s w i l l O N L Y b e a c c e p t e d b y n o n - a c a d e m i c s , u n d e r g r a d u a t e , a n d g r a d u a t e s t u d e n t s o n t h e 2 0 2 3 A n n u a l B l a c k H i s t o r y T h e m e : B l a c k R e s i s t a n c e F o r t h o s e w h o d o n o t f i t i n t o t h e s e c a t e g o r i e s t h e A c a d e m i c P r o g r a m C o m m i t t e e e n c o u r a g e s y o u t o u s e t h e G o o g l e s p r e a d s h e e t , w h i c h i s a n i n f o r m a l t o o l t o c o n n e c t i n d i v i d u a l s w h o a r e s e e k i n g i d e a s a n d / o r c o l l a b o r a t i o n T h e s p r e a d s h e e t i s n o t m o n i t o r e d b y A S A L H o r t h e A c a d e m i c P r o g r a m C o m m i t t e e a n d i s n o t p a r t o f t h e o f f i c i a l s u b m i s s i o n p r o c e s s
P a n e l s , W o r k s h o p s , R o u n d t a b l e s , M e d i a , a n d W o o d s o n P o p - U p s : P r o p o s a l s t h a t i n c o r p o r a t e t h e a n n u a l t h e m e a r e p r e f e r r e d , b u t s u b m i s s i o n s c a n b e o n a v a r i e t y o f t e m p o r a l , g e o g r a p h i c a l , t h e m a t i c , a n d t o p i c a l a r e a s i n B l a c k h i s t o r y , l i f e a n d c u l t u r e P r o p o s a l s w i l l b e a c c e p t e d b y a l l a f f i l i a t i o n s a n d a c a d e m i c s t a t u s . F o r i n d i v i d u a l s w h o a r e i n t e r e s t e d i n c o l l a b o r a t i n g o n a p a n e l , w o r k s h o p , r o u n d t a b l e p l e a s e u s e t h e G o o g l e s p r e a d s h e e t , w h i c h i s a n i n f o r m a l t o o l t o c o n n e c t i n d i v i d u a l s w h o a r e s e e k i n g i d e a s a n d / o r c o l l a b o r a t i o n T h e s p r e a d s h e e t i s n o t m o n i t o r e d b y A S A L H o r t h e A c a d e m i c P r o g r a m C o m m i t t e e a n d i s n o t p a r t o f t h e o f f i c i a l s u b m i s s i o n p r o c e s s
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T h e s u b m i s s i o n d e a d l i n e s f o r p r o p o s a l s a r e a s f o l l o w s : E a r l y B i r d S u b m i s s i o n s w i l l b e a c c e p t e d v i a A l l A c a d e m i c u n t i l M a r c h 1 8 , 2 0 2 3 a t 1 1 : 5 9 p m ( E S T ) C o n d i t i o n a l a c c e p t a n c e r e s p o n s e s t o E a r l y B i r d s u b m i s s i o n s w i l l b e s e n t o u t b y A p r i l 2 1 , 2 0 2 3 a t 1 1 : 5 9 p m ( E S T ) A f t e r t h i s d a t e , t h e c o m m i t t e e w i l l a c c e p t a l l s u b m i s s i o n s u n t i l t h e d e a d l i n e o f A p r i l 3 0 , 2 0 2 3 a t 1 1 : 5 9 p m ( E S T ) R e g u l a r c o n d i t i o n a l a c c e p t a n c e s s u b m i s s i o n s w i l l b e r e s p o n d e d t o b y J u n e 9 , 2 0 2 3 a t 1 1 : 5 9 p m ( E S T ) Y o u w i l l n o t b e c o n s i d e r e d o f f i c i a l u n t i l a l l s e s s i o n p a r t i c i p a n t s h a v e j o i n e d t h e A s s o c i a t i o n a n d r e g i s t e r e d f o r t h e c o n f e r e n c e
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African American Intellectual History
This series offers a global and interdisciplinary approach to the study of black intellectual traditions and illuminates patterns of black thought across historical periods, geographical regions, and black communities. Featuring new, activist, and innovative scholarship as well as more established approaches, African American Intellectual History provides a strong foundation for diverse, diasporic, and expansive scholarship.
Amherst & Boston www.umasspress.com 1-800-621-2736
VIRTUAL EXHIBITING:
The virtual exhibit booth is a self-selected, 2 hour virtual presentation during the 108th Annual Meeting and Virtual Conference. Presented alongside ASALH academic sessions, exhibitors can promote products, services, and programs to the attention of the ASALH attendees. A replay of the 2 hour virtual exhibit booth will be available on-demand on ASALH TV, the Association’s premier YouTube channel through October 31, 2023
Author MUST be a member of ASALH. A completed Request Form (with additional pages if necessary) Paid membership fee and paid additional processing fee of $60 are non-refundable A signed copy of the book intended for sale at the Author's Book Signing Event All steps must be completed in order for your application to be processed Upload (asalh.org/bookshelf) the cover of your book and your photo to be included in
on the website, social media, and ASALH TV (Our Youtube Channel).
AUTHOR INFORMATION WILL BE PRINTED EXACTLY AS PROVIDED
Authors or their representatives are responsible for procuring, shipping and selling books for the event. ASALH is not responsible for any business transactions related to the sales of the books ASALH reserves the right to reject books that are contrary to its scholarly mission and tradition No books will be returned Registration includes one-half of an eight-foot table Registration does not include conference fees Additional instructions will be sent to the email address provided above. I also agree to the use of my image and/or likeness by ASALH to promote the Author Signing Event I, (please print) , agree to the terms as outline in this form S i g n a t u r e D a t e