46th National Council for Black Studies Virtual Conference Program Book

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VIRTUAL - Februar y 24 -26, 2022 "Our Sisters Spoke Up: Women, Gender and Sexuality in Africana Studies"

Panel Proposals in Honor of Dr. Bertha Maxwell Roddey, Co-founder and First President of the National Council for Black Studies

Table of Contents President Welcome Letter........................................................................................................................................... 4 Vice-President, Conference Chair Welcome Letter ............................................................................................ 6 NCBS Organizational Overview ................................................................................................................................ 8 NCBS Organizational Activities ................................................................................................................................. 9 NCBS Leadership ......................................................................................................................................................... 11 Past Presidents .............................................................................................................................................................. 12 NCBS Lifetime Members ........................................................................................................................................... 14 Dr. Tsehloane C. Keto Fellows ................................................................................................................................. 17 Ankh Maat Wedjau Honor Society Inductees.................................................................................................... 17 Institutional Members ................................................................................................................................................ 18 Conference Schedule .................................................................................................................................................. 20 Thursday, February 24 ...................................................................................................................................... 21 Friday, February 25 ............................................................................................................................................ 25 Saturday, February 26 ...................................................................................................................................... 28

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A Message From NCBS President Dr. Amilcar Shabazz Welcome to Our 46h Annual Conference!

As the end of my term as president of the National Council for Black Studies (NCBS) draws near I want to express what a profound honor it has been to serve in this leadership role for the world’s premier organization of Africana Studies for students, faculty members, retirees and independent scholars. I look forward to continuing my service on the NCBS Board of Directors, serving on its Executive Committee as Immediate Past President, for the next two years. The NCBS is not another group related to my professional life, it is an extension of my family. Thus. I would like to make this letter more of a chat with the fam.

First of all, this year’s theme speaks to the family experience that I and many others in the African heritage community know well: Women have been at the center of it all. I was raised by my mother and grandmother. I lost my father last year and will forever love him, but it was the women in my home, school and community life that were my leaders and the foundation that nurtured and guided me. As an undergraduate student at the University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Sandy Darity and Dr. John Warfield were my most important academic mentors and role models, but it was from community leaders, Dorothy Turner and Velma Roberts, that I learned the necessity and lessons of continuous struggle. Over the years of my activism in the NCBS, the role of women in Africana Studies has always impressed me as a story that is not shared and understood well enough. Thus, the theme of this years annual meeting was conceived and together with Vice President Alphonso Simpson and the conference committee we have put together a virtual annual meeting that we hope inspires deeper reflection on the role of women — past, present and future — in our transformative discipline, the transdisciplinary of African/Black Studies.

Secondly, let me highlight a few of our sessions so intrinsically related to our theme: “Our Sisters Spoke Up: Women Gender and Sexuality in Africana Studies.” First of all, don’t miss our opening session Black Studies and Black Sexuality Studies: Toward a Shared Generative Discourse and Productive Practice featuring presentations by Valerie Grim of Indiana University, NCBS Past President James Stewart, and Maulana Karenga of California State University-Long Beach. Next there is our plenary session, Our Sisters Speak! Honoring & Building on the Legacy of Dr. Bertha Maxwell Roddey, Co-founder and First President of the National Council for Black Studies. This special roundtable features Leslie Alexander, Past President of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora & NCBS Board Member, of Arizona State University; Georgene Bess Montgomery, NCBS Past President, of Clark Atlanta University; Valerie Grim, NCBS Board Member, of Indiana University; and Shirley N. Weber, NCBS Past President and California Secretary of State.

There is also the roundtable Making the Call: Dr. Bertha Maxwell-Roddey, UNC Charlotte, and the Early Formation of NCBS that the biographer of our first president, Sonya Ramsey of the University of North Carolina Charlotte has organized colleagues that will whet our appetites for her forthcoming book.

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We also have a professional development offering from Dr. Irma McClaurin of a Public Writing Workshop: From Academic Scholar to Citizen Scholar/Journalist/Public Writer as well as a dynamic session on Africana Womanism keynoted by the paradigm’s creator, Dr. Clenora Hudson-Weems of the University of Missouri, joined by an array of scholars.

Finally, I wish to give honor, praise and thanks to all the presenters in this year’s virtual conference.

Let me also express our appreciation to all of you that have renewed your membership, paid the registration fee, and attend the sessions. You are the heart of the Africana Studies project and what keeps the NCBS going. The global pandemic has hit us hard. We have buried loved ones, been in and out of hospitals and quarantine, we have endured social distancing protocols trying to keep ourselves and others healthy and alive. With your help and support We look forward to meeting in person in 2023, in Gainesville, Florida. For details, come to our National Business meeting and become an active member of our committee—membership, international, media & advocacy, student, etc. Let’s build back better and make the NCBS stronger together!

Amilcar Shabazz, NCBS President 2018-2022

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A Message From NCBS Vice President Dr. Alphonso Simpson “God of our weary years, god of our silent tears, though who has brought us thus far on the way. Thou who has by thy might led us into the light keep us forever in the path we pray. Lest our feet, stray from the places our God where we met thee, Lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world we forget the. Shadowed beneath thy hand, may we forever stand TRUE TO OUR GOD AND TRUE TO OUR NATIVE LAND.” James Weldon Johnson “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” Greetings NCBS Family,

Have you ever stopped and wondered “How did we end up here?”

Who would have ever thought that we would actually one day have to gather so distantly but maintain our closeness through a virtual realm? Life as we know it has been altered for a moment in some aspects and permanently in others. But, regardless of the uncertainty we’ve all faced over the past year, nevertheless, we are here and with an unfettered reality of the future as we march on into 2022!

So often it seems that life is only made up of things to stress and worry about. But life has delivered for us many joyous things too. We are coming together yet again in our “togetherness” to celebrate and rejoice in the midst of this most spectacular virtual conference! I don’t know about you, but this year’s conference has been the current that has brought me in to dry ground amidst floating out in what felt like some real deep and dark uncharted waters. Some of us are floating in on broken pieces but through the efforts of NCBS and the conference planning committee, we are all making it in to dry ground for the next few days and I believe that is worth celebration and rejoicing over!

I know that our time here together in this virtual space is going to afford us the opportunity to grow mentally, emotionally, epistemologically and yes, even spiritually. Even though we aren’t walking and talking side-by-side, we will all still have multiple opportunities to expand and grow because of the positive energies that we have put into this conference. Family, I believe that having us to meet in this format is God's way of fine-tuning us just a little more so that we could become more compassionate, more caring, more humble, more loving, and better aware of each other’s life stories, dreams, and aspirations. After all, our conference theme this year not only highlights the voices of our sisters, but it centers their humanity and their experiences as strong, courageous, resilient Black women – which is something so regularly overlooked and taken for granted in the world around us.

As Vice-President and Conference Chair, it is my desire, that each of you carry from this virtual conference experience, a very profound message spoken best from our sister/poet laureate Gwendolyn Brooks who said very movingly that “Black is our ultimate reality” And, regardless of the nomenclatures of the discipline we all ascribe to, (Africana Studies, Black Studies, Pan-African Studies) we have to stand on the original idea that the primary focus of what it is that we do is our people. Moreover, in the words of our dear brother Dr. Maulana Karenga “if we lose that primary reference, we in fact undermine the whole idea of the origins of the discipline of black studies which began in struggle.”

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So, with that principle in mind, let us not forget to remember that today is a good day! This season is a good season! This year, as pivotal as it may be for numerous reasons is a good year! The fact that you are reading this today signals that your journey into your best days has already begun!

Continue to press toward the mark for the prize of your higher calling, and please ENJOY THE 2022 NCBS CONFERENCE. Asante Sana for all that you do to make NCBS better!

In struggle and in progress, Alphonso Simpson, Jr., Ph.D. Vice-President, NCBS 2022 Conference Chair

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The National Council for Black Studies (NCBS) was established in 1976 by African American scholars who recognized the need to formalize the study of the African World experience, as well as expand and strengthen academic units and community programs devoted to this endeavor. NCBS was formed out of the substantial need for a national stabilizing force in the developing discipline of Africana/Black Studies. Since the late 1960’s, higher education has been profoundly impacted by the emergence of Africana/Black Studies. Its impact on the broader educational establishment is due to the holistic and multidisciplinary approach taken by Africana Studies. Growing fundamentally out of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's, Africana/Black Studies has become the intellectual extension of that movement. The National Council for Black Studies is committed to academic excellence and social responsibility.

NCBS seeks to:

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Facilitate through consultation and other services, the recruitment of Black Scholars for all levels of teaching and research in universities and colleges;

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Assist in the creation and implementation of multicultural education programs and materials for K-12 schools and higher education institutions;

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Promote scholarly African-centered research on all aspects of the African World experience;

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Increase and improve informational resources on Pan-African life and culture to be made available to the general public;

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Provide professional advice to policymakers in education, government and community development;

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Maintain international linkages among Africana Studies scholars;

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Work for the empowerment of people of African descent.

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ACTIVITIES INCLUDE: •

Annual Conference NCBS sponsors an annual conference which provides a forum for the dissemination of scholarship and a venue for mentoring students who wish to pursue a career in Africana Studies.

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International Journal of African Studies (IJAS) NCBS publishes an annual peer reviewed journal dedicated to scholarship and research about people of African descent.

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Terry Kershaw Student Essay Contest NCBS sponsors a student (undergraduate and graduate) essay contest for original work that focuses on any aspect of the Africana experience. Winners (1st, 2nd, 3rd) receive a cash prize and a plaque at the student luncheon held during the annual conference.

The essay contest is named in honor of Dr. Terry Kershaw of the University of Cincinnati and former editor of the International Journal of Africana Studies.

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C. Tsehloane Keto Student Leadership Development and Mentorship Program Participants in the program will be exposed to a variety of settings where they will have the opportunity to observe, participate, examine and exercise leadership skills in a national organization. The program is named in honor of South African-born Dr. C. Tsehloane, a dedicated, committed African-centered scholar and educator who was a powerful force in the fight for liberation and empowerment for all people of African descent.

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NCBS Civic & Community Education and Engagement Grants Program Under this program, grants are awarded to support projects in which Africana Studies knowledge and skills are made available to local communities. Funding for the program is provided by National Black Federation of Charities (NBFC) and NCBS.

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Executive Board Amilcar Shabazz

Alphonso Simpson

University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA

University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Oshkosh, WI

President

Alfred Young, Emeritus

Vice President

Treasurer Emeritus

Georgia Southern University Statesboro, GA

Kevin Brooks

Georgene Bess Montgomery

Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan

Clark Atlanta University Atlanta, GA

Secretary

Immediate Past President

Board Members Leslie Alexander University of Oregon Eugene, OR

Julian E. Kunnie University of Arizona Tucson, AZ

Kevin Brooks Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan

Thekima Mayasa San Diego Community College San Diego, CA

Jeanette Davidson University of Oklahoma Norman, OK

Serie McDougal San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA

Bertis English Alabama State University Montgomery, AL

Karin L. Stanford California State University, Northridge Northridge, CA

Jonathan Fenderson Washington University St. Louis, MO

James (Jim) B. Stewart, Emeritus Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA

Alicia Fontnette Clark Atlanta University Atlanta, GA

Michael Tillotson University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA

Valerie Grim Indiana University Bloomington, IN

Dorothy Tsuruta San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA

Ricky L. Jones University of Louisville Louisville, KY

Akinyele Umoja Georgia State University Atlanta, GA

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1976-1978 Bertha Maxwell-Roddey University of North Carolina at Charlotte

1992-1994 Charles Henry University of California, Berkeley

1978-1980 William King University of Colorado

1994-1998 William (Bill) A. Little California State University, Dominguez Hills

1980-1982 William E. Nelson, Jr. The Ohio State University

1998-2002 James B. Stewart Pennsylvania State University

1982-1984 Carlene Young San Jose State University

2002-2006 Shirley N. Weber San Diego State University

1984-1988 Delores P. Aldridge Emory University

2006-2010 Charles E. Jones Georgia State University

1988-1992 Selase (Wayne) Williams California State University, Dominguez Hills

2010-2014 Sundiata Cha-Jua University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

2014-2018 Georgene Bess-Montgomery Clark Atlanta University

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Looking for a past issue of the International Journal of Africana Studies?

The following issues can be purchased on the NCBS website.

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The following individuals have contributed $1500 in lump or 3-payments to NCBS

Christopher Cameron

University of North Carolina Charlotte

Etienne Fields

University of Illinois

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David Canton

University of Florida

Claudrena Harold

University of Virginia

Johnathan Fenderson

Washington State University St. Louis

Serie McDougal III

California State University Los Angeles

Tiyi Morris

The Ohio State University

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The following individuals have contributed $1500 in lump or 3-payments to NCBS

Melina Abdullah, California State UniversityLos Angeles

Michael Loudon, Eastern Illinois University

Tomarra Adams, University of Louisville

Hugh Page, University of Notre Dame

Delores Aldridge, Emory University Leslie Alexander, University of Oregon Molefi Kete Asante, Temple University Sundiata Cha-Jua, University of Illinois Alan Colon, Dillard University Sylvia Cyrus, Association for the Study of African American Life and History Jualynne Dodson, Michigan State University

Adele Newson-Horst, Missouri State University June Patton, Governors State University Venetria Patton, Purdue University Patricia Reid-Merritt, Richard Stockton College Walter C. Rucker, Emory University Amilcar Shabazz, University of Massachusetts Amherst Ronald Stephens, Purdue University

Tonya Driver, Texas A&M University

James Stewart, Emeritus Pennsylvania State University

V.P. Franklin, University of California

Dorothy Tsuruta, San Francisco State University

Ebony Gibson, Georgia Gwinnett College

Alicestyne Turley, Berea College

Gerald Horne, University of Houston Sureshi M. Jayawardene, San Diego State University Maulana Karenga, California State UniversityLong Beach Anthony Lemelle, University of WisconsinMilwaukee

James Turner, Cornell University Shirley Weber, San Diego State University Willie Wright, Rutgers University Itibari Zulu, Journal of Pan African Studies

Thank you for your support of NCBS!

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Dr. Tsehloane C. Keto

2020 - 2022 Keto Fellows

Taylor Duckett

W. Denae Powell

Arzelia Williams

Brea Stevenson

Indiana University

University of Louisville

University of Missouri

Clark Atlanta University

ANKH MAAT WEDJAU Honor Society Congratulations to the 2021-2022 Inductees Phoebe Bennett State University of New York, College at Oneonta Nicolette Gramlick Stockton University Kevin Johnson Texas A&M University Trae Manzili University at Albany Dom Pollard Valdosta State University Promoting Academic Excellence and Social Responsibility

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Graduate Programs

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“Our Sisters Spoke Up: Women Gender and Sexuality in Africana Studies” Panel Proposals in Honor of Dr. Bertha Maxwell Roddey, Co-founder and First President of the National Council for Black Studies

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11:00a—12:30p EST Solo Session

“Black Studies and Black Sexuality Studies: Toward a Shared Generative Discourse and Productive Practice” PRESENTERS

Dr. Valerie Grim - Indiana University “From the Margins to the Middle: Ways An Inclusion of Sexuality in Black Studies Enhance Our Study of African Descended People.”

Dr. James Stewart - Penn State University “Black Queer Studies and the evolving Black /Africana Studies Project.”

Dr. Maulana Karenga - California State University - Long Beach “Black Studies and Black Sexuality Studies in Creative Tension: Issues of Foundation Disciplinary Commitments and Open-Textured Expansiveness”

Chair: Dr. Maulana Karenga 1:00p—2:30p EST 2 concurrent sessions Session 1

“Womanism and Issues of Identity, Inclusion and Self-Determination” PRESENTERS

Dr. Dorothy Tsuruta - SanFrancisco State University Womanism: Imbuing the Brilliance of the Past in the Present

Dr. Maulana Karenga - California State University - Long Beach A Critical Source of Kawaida Womanism: Ida B. Wells’ Womanly Woman in the World Dr. Kevin Brooks - Michigan State University Womanism, Community Wellbeing, and the Reclamation of Black Girls and Women Chair: Dr. Serie McDougal - University of California Los Angeles

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Session 2

“Power and Pain: The Black Superwoman and Mental Health” PRESENTERS

Marita Golden - Author and Literary Consultant Black Superwoman: Power and Pain Dr. Venise Berry - University of Iowa "Television and Representation: How Prime-Time Black Female Characters Shape Issues of Mental Health Among Real African American Women Viewers" Dr. Deborah Whaley - University of Iowa Chemo Chronicles: Why Pink Ribbons Make Me Angry Dr. Cathay Jackson - Norfolk State University The Power of Representation: Black Women, Stereotypes, and Other Depressing Images in Film Dr. Sharon Honore - University of the Virgin Islands Less Stress, more Joy: Focusing on Positivity and Gratefulness as a Black Superwoman Chair: Dr. Venise Berry - University of Iowa

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3:00p—4:30p EST

Board Plenary

Our Sisters Speak!

A Special Plenary Roundtable on the Past, Present and Future of Women in the Making of Africana Studies, Honoring & Building on the Legacy of Dr. Bertha Maxwell Roddey, Co-founder and First President of the National Council for Black Studies, as Our Discipline Grows to Face New Challenges and Opportunities

Dr. Leslie Alexander ASWAD Past President & NCBS Board Member - Arizona State University Dr. Georgene Bess Montgomery NCBS Past President - Clark Atlanta University Dr. Valerie Grim NCBS Board Member - Indiana University Dr. Shirley N. Weber NCBS Past President - California Secretary of State Chair: Dr. Amilcar Shabazz - NCBS President / University of Massachusetts

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5:00p—6:30p EST

3 concurrent sessions Session 1 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

“Speaking Truth to Power: Black Women’s Responses to Violence and Harm Within Movements for Black Liberation” PRESENTERS Dr. Jasmin A. Young - University of California Riverside Dr. Josh C. Schuschke - John Hopkins University Thandi Chimurenga - Independent Researcher & Author CHAIR: Dr. Jasmin A Young - University of California Riverside Session 2 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

Without Remorse:The Universality of Violence Against Black Women PRESENTERS Dr. Sheryl Felecia Means - University of New Mexico Lyrric M.R. Jackson, MFA - Spelman College

CHAIR: Dr. Daija S. Foster - Napa State Hospital Session 3 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

Racism, Sexism & Appropriation: An Emmett Till Continuum PRESENTERS Dr. Atty. Alvin O. Chambliss, Jr. - Lead Counsel, Ayers v. Fordice Case Dr. A. J. Stovall - Rust College Dr. James B. Stewart - NCBS Past President - Penn State (retired) Dr. Aubrey Bruce - Senior Sports Columnist, New Pittsburgh Courier FEATURED SPEAKER Dr. Clenora Hudson-Weems - University of Missouri RESPONDENTS Judge Joe Brown - CBS 15-Year Syndicated TV Court Show Dr. Alveda King - Niece of Dr. M. L. King, Jr. - Director, Civil Rights for the Unborn CHAIR: Dr. Amilcar Shabazz - NCBS President / University of Massachusetts 24

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7:00p—8:00p

National Business Meeting

11:00a –12:30p EST 2 concurrent sessions Session 1 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

Good Morning Gorgeous: Theorizing as a Healing Tool for Africana Women PRESENTERS Sonja Andrews, PhD Student, Clark Atlanta University NaTasha Robinson, PhD Student, Clark Atlanta University Toni Johnson, PhD Student, Clark Atlanta University Donielle Pace, PhD Student, Clark Atlanta University Brea Stevenson, PhD Student Clark Atlanta University CHAIR: Dr. Georgene Bess-Montgomery Session 2 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

The Legacy of Anna Julia Cooper and the Resiliency of Jim Crow into the Twenty-First Century PRESENTERS Dr. Michael D. Royster - Prairie View A&M Mr. Darryl Johnson - Prairie View A&M Ms. Quinesha Bentley - Prairie View A&M Ms. Tamaralyn Grant - Prairie View A&M CHAIR: Dr. Michael D. Royster

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1:00a –2:30p EST

Terry Kershaw Student Essay Awards Presentation Pack your lunch and support our future as winners of the Terry Kershaw Student Essay contest each present a 5 minute synopsis of their award winning essays.

Brea Stevenson

La’Risa Black

Quinesha Bentley

Clark Atlanta University “Intersectional Terror: The Transformative Use of Haunting, Ghosts, and Horror in The Color Purple “

Clark Atlanta University “Sankofa as a Liberatory Practice: An Exploration of the Significance/Power of Memory in Eve’s“

Prairie View A&M University “De Jure and De Facto: The Compromise of Minority Education”

Graduate 1st Place

Graduate 3rd Place

Advisors

Advisor Dr. Danille Taylor

Advisor Dr. Danille Taylor

Daniel Reischer

Lauren Johnson

Beatrice Obialisi

SUNY Cortland

California State University, LA

California State University, LA “The Impacts of Environmental Hindrances on Black Males’ Success in Higher Education “

“The Rise of Right-Wing Radio in the United States “

Undergraduate 1st Place Advisor Dr. Michael Tillotson Ph.D.

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Graduate 2nd Place

“Objectified, Repressed, and

Neglected: America’s Contribution to Black Women’s Sexuality Undergraduate 2nd Place Advisor Dr. Serie McDougal

Undergraduate 3rd Place Advisor Dr. Serie McDougal

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5:00p –4:30p EST Solo Session ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

Making the Call: Dr. Bertha Maxwell-Roddey, UNC Charlotte, and the Early Formation of NCBS PRESENTERS Dr. Beverly Ford - University of North Carolina Charlotte (Retired) Dr. David Sanders - University of North Carolina Charlotte (Retired) Dr. Rev. Herman Thomas - University of North Carolina Charlotte (Retired) Dr. Gregory Davis - University of North Carolina Charlotte (Retired) CHAIR: Dr. Sonya Ramsey - University of North Carolina Charlotte

7:00p –9:30p EST

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11:00a—12:30p EST Professional Seminar

Public Writing Workshop: From Academic Scholar to Citizen Scholar/Journalist/Public Writer PRESENTER Dr. Irma McClaurin In academia, scholarly writing is the coin of the realm. Often, however, we only reach a small audience of like-minded academic peers. Public writing is an opportunity to reach broader audiences. This workshop will focus on what it takes to make the shift from academic scholar to public writer, the benefits of doing so, and how it impacts you as a scholar in the academy. Participants will have a chance to ask questions about how to get started, print and digital publishing outlets, and the impact of public writing on your academic career. We will also consider the benefits to the Black community when Black scholars write for the public.

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IRMA MCCLAURIN, PHD/MFA WRITER| SPEAKER| EDITOR “And when I write, ‘I write to save my life’ and transform the world.” “When I speak, I aim to Inspire.”

A passionate champion of social justice, Dr. Irma McClaurin writes and speaks about issues that will change and transform our world. An activist anthropologist, trained as a biocultural social scientist, she is interested in the impact of biology on culture and culture on biology and health, and was recently honored by the American Anthropological Association with the national 2021 “Engaged Anthropology” Award. McClaurin is the recipient of the first National Women’s Studies Association’s award for for her “Vision and Commitment” in 2017, and also an award-winning poet and writer whose edited book, Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis and Poetics” was selected as an “Outstanding Academic Title”

by Choice Magazine in 2002. Her ethnography, Women of Belize: Gender and Change in Central America (1996), was also nominated for the J.E. Staley Prize in Anthropology in 1999. She is a public and translational science writer with over 100+ columns, over 10,000 tweets, and has delivered lectures, keynotes, and workshops on topics of science, health disparities, global health issues, sexual harassment, educational equity, cultural heritage preservation, racism, and more. A freelance columnist and the Culture and Education Editor for Insight News, a Black Minneapolis newspaper, she has created numerous series: “iHEAL, JustSpeak, ScienceSpeak, and ArtSpeak.” For her OpEd “A Black Mother Weeps for America: STOP KILLING OUR BLACK SONS,” in 2015, the Black Press of America named her “Best Columnist in the Nati.on” McClaurin was Editor of Transforming Anthropology: Journal of the Association of Black Anthropologists (19972004) and is on its Advisory Board. Past editorial board membership includes the American Anthropologist, Feminist Studies, and Fire!!!: the Multi-Media Journal of Black Studies.

She is the founder of the Irma McClaurin Black Feminist Archive at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, which is dedicated to making Black women “Visible and Heard.”

McClaurin is currently a Fulbright Specialist and former American Association for the Advancement of Science Policy Fellow. McClaurin seeks to reach broad audiences and has written for Ms. Magazine (https://bit.ly/IrmaMsMag ) and Raleigh’s Indyweek(https://bit.ly/Indyweek).

A versatile professional writer, McClaurin writes Expert Declarations for immigration asylum & implicit bias cases; she is a member of SCONC (Science Communicators of North Carolina), Triangle Association of Freelancers (TAF) and the National Writers Union (NWU). An alumna of the OpEd Project, she serves as a Mentor-Editor, helping new public writers find their voice. For the last decade, McClaurin has worked with Ms. Magazine on the Committee of Scholars and helped design and implement their public writing workshops for feminist scholars to translate their scholarship and reach broader and diverse public audiences. Her degrees include the MFA in English and the MA and PhD in Anthropology, all from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her BA degree is in American Studies from Grinnell College.

“…I approach writing — as lifesaving, transformational, and a form of activism — and I believe fundamentally that “she who holds the pen wields the power.” https://bit.ly/writingispower

Recognitions: 2022 Black Feminist Archive featured on “The Black Presence at UMass.”

2021 Engaged Anthropology Award, American Anthropological Association 2018 “A UMass Woman Philanthropist to Watch.” UMass Amherst Alumni 2017 Special Award for Vision and Commitment, National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) 2016 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient, University of Massachusetts Amherst 2015 Winner of the First Place, Emory O. Jackson National Column Writing Award and named Best in the Nation Columnist by the Black Press of America, given by the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA)

Digital Footprint: http://irmamcclaurin.com/ Contact: info@irmamcclaurin.com https://community.chronicle.com/people/18157irma-mcclaurin/profile linkedin.com/in/irmamcclaurin Twitter: @mcclaurintweets Irma McClaurin YouTube Channel Reviews “Black Feminist Anthropology [2001] makes a provocative and important contribution to contemporary Black feminism. For the authors in this book, the premise that scholarship and social justice agendas must inform one another fosters a new anthropology that promises to stimulate new questions for us all.” Patricia Hill Collins, author of Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice.

In Women of Belize [1996], McClaurin “provides a vivid and evocative portrait of the dynamics of gender and of the evolution of women’s consciousness in this small but very complex multiethnic society.” Daphne Patai, author of Brazilian Women Speak.

2/20/2022

2:00p—3:30p EST

3 concurrent sessions Session 1 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

Black Women, Relationships, and Purpose PRESENTERS Dr. Rondee Gaines - New York City College of Technology Cameo King - Michigan State University Aaliyah Buell - Michigan State University CHAIR: Dr. Kevin Brooks - Michigan State University Session 2 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

Title IX at 50: Examining Equity for Black Girls and Women in Sport PRESENTERS Dr. Courtney Flowers - Texas Sourthern University Dr. Jasmine Hamilton - Prairie View A&M University Dr. Jacqueline McDowell - George Mason University Dr. Akilah Carter-Francique - San José State University Dr. Joyce Olushola-Ogunrinde - University of Houston Dr. F. Michelle Richardson - Coppin State University CHAIR: Dr. Akilah Carter-Francique - San José State University

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4:00p—5:30p EST

3 concurrent sessions Session 1

See Me!: The Invisibility of Black Women in Intersectional Spaces (Graduate Student Panel) PRESENTERS Samantha Horton - Indiana University Bloomington “Black Catholic Women Religious Womanist Theology” Alexus Hunt - Indiana University Bloomington “Black Women Entrepreneurs and the Makeup Industry” Monica Long - University of Louisiana Lafayette “Sexual Liberation in Toni Morrison’s Sula and Tina McElroy Ansa’s The Hand I Fan With” Nya Anthony - Indiana University Bloomington “Disaster, Black Feminism, and Speculative Life: On Black Women and Ethical Considerations of the Human” Taylor D. Duckett - Indiana University Bloomington “The Black Queer Body as a Site of Contested Space” CHAIR: Dr. Alicia Fontnette - Clark Atlanta University Session 2

Class Interruptions: Status, Black Women, and Literature ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION PRESENTERS Dr. Andrea N. Williams - Ohio State University Dr. Kameelah L. Martin - College of Charleston Dr. Isis Semaj-Hall - University of the West Indes, Mona Campus Dr. Robin Brooks - University of Pittsburgh CHAIR: Dr. Kameelah L. Martin - College of Charleston

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Session 3

We Are So Much More: Black Women and Girls Shattering the Trick Mirror in Popular Culture, Reality Television, and Literature ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION PRESENTERS Professor Maya Singleton - California State University Professor Melanie Shaw - California State University Dr. Raquel Kennon - California State University Ms. Shamora Drummond - University of California Los Angeles CHAIR: Dr. Raquel Kennon - California State University

4:00p—5:30p EST

Ankh Matt Wedjau Honor Society Ceremony

By Dr. Maulana Karenga, Department Chair and Advisor, Africana Studies California State University Long Beach

Conference Closing NCBS President, Amilcar Shabazz

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47th Annual National Council for Black Studies Conference

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MAKEDATHE QUEEN OF SHEBA

An African Fantasy Picture Book about Leadership, Courage, and Fem ale Emp owerment. www.ConsciousCulturePublishing.com This African Fantasy Epic is beautifully written and illustrated for both grade school children as well as fans of afrocentric anime, comics, and graphic novels. If you like historical fiction with a powerful black female hero, then you will love this ancient tale of courage and redemption. Buy Makeda the Queen of Sheba today to experience her incredible journey from young princess to legendary African Queen.

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Virtual Book Exhibit We’re pleased to present discounted books from 14 of our publishers. Please scroll to the end of the virtual book exhibit for a copy of our order form containing all of the titles, plus sale books and T-shirts.

You may also order directly online from the publishers by clicking the hyperlink on their page and using the discount code.

Our Publishers Bloomsbury Publishing University of Calgary Press Fortress Press Harvard University Press University of Nebraska Press—Journals Polity Press/John Wiley & Sons Simon & Schuster

Boydell & Brewer Duke University Press Getty Publications University of Minnesota Press Penguin Random House Princeton University Press University of Texas Press—Journals

6300 West Port Bay Road, Suite 101, Wolcott, NY 14590 Phone: 800-782-0077 Email: information@scholarschoice.com

Bertha Maxwell-Roddey* A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership S O N YA Y. R A M S E Y

Paper $35.00 $28.00

Rooted Jazz Dance Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century L I N D S AY G UA R I N O, C A R LO S R . A . J O N E S , A N D W E N DY O L I V E R , E D S .

Hardcover $38.00 $28.00

The Citizenship Education Program and Black Women’s Political Culture DEANNA M. GILLESPIE

Hardcover $90.00 $40.00

Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era J O N AT H A N A . N OYA L A S

Hardcover $85.00 $35.00

People Power History, Organizing, and Larry Goodwyn’s Democratic Vision in the Twenty-First Century

now in paper Pauulu’s Diaspora Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice Q U I TO J. S WA N

Paper $28.00 $20.00 O P E N A CC E S S E D I T I O N F U N D E D B Y T H E N AT I O N A L E N D O W M E N T F O R T H E H U M A N I T I E S AVA I L A B L E H E R E

NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement* B R I A N C . O D O M A N D S T E P H E N P. WA R I N G , E D S .

Paper $26.95 $20.00

Robert R. Church Jr. and the African American Political Struggle* D A R I U S J. YO U N G

Paper $24.95 $18.00

The Public Health Nurses of Jim Crow Florida CHRISTINE ARDALAN

Black Well-Being* Health and Selfhood in Antebellum Black Literature A N D R E A S TO N E

Paper $28.00 $20.00

Hell Without Fires Slavery, Christianity, and the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative YO L A N D A P I E R C E

Paper $24.95 $18.00

Precarious Passages* The Diasporic Imagination in Contemporary Black Anglophone Fiction T U I R E VA L K E A K A R I

Paper $29.95 $22.00

A Struggle for Heritage* Archaeology and Civil Rights in a Long Island Community C H R I S TO P H E R N . M AT T H E W S

Paper $29.95 $22.00

Paper $24.95 $18.00

new book series

W E S L E Y C . H O G A N A N D PAU L ORTIZ, EDS.

Race, Place, and Memory* Deep Currents in Wilmington, North Carolina

Government and Politics in the South

Paper $35.00 $28.00

MARGARET M. MULROONEY

Paper $29.95 $22.00

E D I T E D B Y S H A R O N D. W R I G H T AU S T I N , U N I V E R S I T Y O F F LO R I D A ; A N D A N G E L A K . L E W I S - M A D D OX , U N I V E R S I T Y O F A L A B A M A AT B I R M I N G H A M

*Publication of these books made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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