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 Friday, March 21, 2008

REGISTRATION

9:00am-5:00pm

 

Friday, March 21, 2008

8:00am - 9:15am

Concurrent Sessions (A-I)

 

Session A        PANEL: NON-AFRICAN RELIGIONS AND THEIR IMPACT ON

Peachtree       AFRICAN AMERICANS

                        Chair: Serie McDougal, San Francisco State University

 

                        Name Brand Nationalism: Functionality, Determination and Memory

                        Malachi Crawford, University of Missouri

 

                        The X-Factor

                        Paul Easterling, Rice University

 

                        The Impact of the Religious Right on African Americans

                        Michael Tillotson, Temple University

 

 

Session B        STUDENT PANEL: CONSTRUCTIONS OF SLAVERY IN

Lenox             HISTORY

                        Chair: David A. Canton, Connecticut College

 

                        The Cover of the Swamp: Escape, Refuge, and Survival in Eastern North

                        Carolina

Marcus Nevius, North Carolina Central University

 

The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Review of the Literature

                        Brittany O'Neal, Michigan State University

 

                        Co-existing in Two Worlds: Marie Theresa Coin Slave and Mistress at the

                        Melrose Plantation

                        Carol Bennett, Indiana University

 

 

Session C        STUDENT PANEL: HISTORY AND IDENTITY IN FICTION

Roswell           Chair: Shirley A. J. Hanshaw, Mississippi State University

 

                        Southern Childhood as Portrayed by Richard Wright in Black Boy

LaKeisha L. Caples, Chicago State University

 

Telling the Truth by Lying: The Burden of Truth in Conrad's Heart of

Darkness and Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Kennedy Waliaula, Ohio State University

 

"I Put a Spell on You:" Voodoo and Female Agency in 19th-Century

African American Literature

Shalanda Faulk, Ohio State University

 

 

Session D        GRADUATE STUDENT PANEL:  DIALOGUES AND

Buckhead       EXCHANGES IN THE DIASPORA

                        Chair: Ronald J. Stephens, Metropolitan State College of Denver

 

                        Fifty Thousand Years of African Migration to Asia

Maryam Sharron Muhammad, Howard University

 

The Formation of Black Identity: Caribbean-American and African-

American Social and Cultural Interactions

                        Tyesha Maddox, Cornell University

 

                        Downplayed and Romanticized: Critical Examination of the Role of

Twentieth Century Philanthropy in Institutional Segregation

Tamara Butler, Ohio State University

 

Firing God: Examining Black Doubt as a Liberation Discourse

                        Andre Key, Temple University

 

 

Session E        GRADUATE STUDENT PANEL: PUBLIC POLICY

Marietta         Chair: Jonathan Fenderson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

(LL)

"Don't Worry, I'm Safe": The Socio-sexual Culture of HIV/AIDS in Philadelphia

Nashay Pendleton, Temple University

Monica Rhodes, Temple University

 

                        Technology, Morality and Responsibility: An Afrocentric Perspective

                        Mshujaa Komoyo, California State University, Long Beach

 

                        "Yam Right": Tracing the Sickle Cell Epidemic in the Black Atlantic

from 1940 to 1980

Kevin Jenkins, North Carolina Central University

 

Session F        PANEL: BLACK URBAN REGIMES, ISSUES, AND PUBLIC

Atlanta C       POLICY

                        Chair: Mwalimu Abdul Nanji, Cornell University

 

                        Speaking to the Spirit of the Games: Using Popular Culture as a Counter-

Narrative for Atlanta's Black Working Class and Poor

Maurice Hobson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Jazz Fest in Context: A History of the New Orleans Image with Respect to

Emergent Modern Tourism and the Development of a World-Class Festival

Michael Hall, Cornell University

 

Big Bank Take Little Bank: Exploring the Effects of Gentrification on the

Residents in the Kirkwood Community

Mshairi A. Uwezo Siyanda, Georgia State University

 

 

Session G        GRADUATE STUDENT PANEL: GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP IN

Atlanta           AFRICANA STUDIES

A & B             Chair: Paula Marie Seniors, Virginia Tech

 

Teaching and Learning in Malawi and the Construction of National Identity

Jen Wyse, Virginia Tech

 

Cries in the Salt Mine: Examining Racist Institutional Practices at the

                        McGuire Veterans Affairs Hospital

                        Shawn Braxton, Virginia Tech

 

                        Scholar Activism and Black Community Leadership

                        Jahi Johnson, Virginia Tech

 

                        Black Liberation Theology?Its History and Its Importance

                        Weldon McWilliams, IV, Temple University

 

Session H        GRADUATE STUDENT PANEL: PERSPECTIVES AND

Atlanta D       DIRECTIONS OF AFRICANA STUDIES

                        Chair: Jaqueline Wade, Middle Tennessee State University

 

                        A Psychohistorical View of Malcolm X: From Malcolm Little to El-

                        Hajj Malik El-Shabazz

                        Nedra Francis, Prairie View A&M University

 

                        The Hopelessness of Racism in the Unites States

                        Jati Baeza, Cornell University

 

                        Stereotypical Anthropomorphic Depictions of Black Characters in

                        Animated Feature-Length and Short Films

                        Melissa Crum, Ohio State University

 

                        Dis-identification with Education Among African American Students

                        Brannon Gray, Bethune-Cookman University

 

Session I         GRADUATE STUDENT PANEL: RESEARCH IN AFRICANA

(LL)                STUDIES: LITERATURE AND WOMEN'S ACTIVISM

                        Chair: Adele Newson-Horst, Missouri State University

 

                        From Anna Julia Cooper to Six-PAC: Black Women Activists of the Pan-

                        African Congresses

                        La TaSha Levy, Northwestern University

 

                        Ida B. Wells and the Anti-Lynching Campaign: 1892-1900

                        Keshia Sexton, California State, Dominguez Hills

 

                        Between the Colored Girl and the Rainbow: Resisting Silence by

                        Destroying Oppressive Images of Black Women through Art

                        Alexandria Barabin, Center for Progressive Leadership

 

                        African American Historicism as Literary Convention in Bebe Moore

                        Campbell's What You Owe Me and 72-Hour Hold

                        Raena Harwell (Osizwe Eyi di yiye), Temple University

 

Friday, March 21, 2008

9:30am -10: 45am

Concurrent Sessions (A-I)

 

Session A        PANEL: WOMEN AND THE AESTHETICS OF BEAUTY

Peachtree       Chair: Jacqueline Bryant, Chicago State University

 

                        A Critical Interpretative Analysis of Cultural Identity and Cultural

Dominance: Communicating Black Female Beauty

                        Cynthia Robinson-Moore, University of Nebraska-Omaha

 

                        Is My Uniform to Kinky? Hair Assimilation and the African American

                        Woman

                        Elizabeth Johnson, SUNY Dutchess Community College

 

                        The Hazards of "School Daze": Black Women Face Old Ghosts in a New

                        Millennium

                        Tekla Ali Johnson, Johnson C. Smith University

 

 

Session B        PANEL: FROM EGYPT TO HAITI TO HERE:  EXHUMING

Lenox             JOSEPH ANTENOR FIRMIN AND THE AFRICAN MESSAGE OF HUMAN EQUALITY

                        Chair: Layli Phillips, Georgia State University

 

                        The Humanistic "Regenerative" Model in The Equality of the Human

                        Races: Firmin's Messages to "Whites"

                        Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Rhode Island College

 

                        Firman as a Pioneer of Nubian Studies

                        Richard Lobban, Rhode Island College

 

                        The Importance of a New Firmanism for Haiti Today

                        Jacques-Raphael Georges, University of New Hampshire

                       

                        Antenor Firmin's Post Mortem Response to President Sarkozy

                        Ghislaine Geloin, Rhode Island College

                       

                        Let the Circle Be Unbroken: An Exploration of Antenor Firmin and the

                        Spiritual Component of Human Solidarity

                        Baruti KMT, Radical Scholar

 

                        Lee D. Baker, Discussant, Duke University

 

 

Session C        PANEL: THEATER, FILM, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF

Roswell           RACIAL IMAGES

                        Chair: Jonathan Gayles, Georgia State University

 

                        The Duality of Performance: Agency and Subjugation in Black

                        Performance

Katrina Thompson, Roanoke College

 

The Ritual of Black Death in United States Film

Venita Kelley, Kelley Communications and Consulting

 

                        Rooting for Apollo: The Rocky Series as White Supremacist Iconography

                        Jonathan Gayles, Georgia State University

 

Bridging the Gap Between Community Theatre and Behavior Service to Address Black Women in Crisis

Shirlene Holmes, Georgia State University

Quinn Gentry, Georgia State University

 

 

Session D        PANEL: RACIAL IDENTITY AND THE BLACK WORLD

Buckhead       Chair: Roderick Watts, Georgia State University

 

"One Ever Feels His Two-ness": A Critical Perusal of Blackness in America?What It Is and.What It Ain't

Alphonso Simpson, Jr., Western Illinois University

 

Sociopolitical Development in African American Youth and Young Adults: The Role of Identity and Social Analysis

Roderick J. Watts, Georgia State University

 

The Roles of Ethnic Identity, and Anti-White Attitudes, and Academic Self-Concept in African American Student Achievement

Kevin Cokley, University of Texas at Austin

                       

 

Session E        PANEL: RECONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES: EMERGING

Atlanta C       THEMES IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY/ BIOGRAPHY

                        Chair: Pero G. Dagbovie, Michigan State University

 

                        Post-Civil Rights Black Autobiography: Resistance, Consciousness, and

Intellectualism

Bayyinah S. Jeffries, Michigan State University

 

                        Madame Queen of Policy: Madame Stephanie St. Clair and African

American Women's Participation in Harlem's Informal Economy, 1923-

1928

LaShawn D. Harris, Georgia Southern University

 

Understanding Reconstruction in Southern Maryland Through Biographical Sketches of Black Women

                        Sharita Jacobs, Gettysburg College

 

 

Session F        PANEL: DIALECTICS OF A DISCIPLINE: RECONSTRUCTING

Atlanta D       AND REDIRECTING PAST CONVERSATIONS FOR (THE NEW GENERATION OF) BLACK STUDIES (SCHOLARS)

                        Chair: Kaila A. Story, University of Louisville

 

                        All the "Africans" are Men, All the "Sistas" are "American", but Some of

Us Resist: Re-visioning African Feminism(s) as a Black Studies Research

Methodology

Yaba A. Blay, Lehigh University

 

                        There's No Place Like "Home": Mining the Theoretical Terrain of Black

Women's Studies, Black Queer Studies and Black Studies

Kaila A. Story, University of Louisville

 

                        From Welfare Queens to Baby's Daddies: Black Family Studies and the

Need for Reconceptualizing Current Public Policy Debates

Danielle W. Wallace, Temple University

 

 

Session G        PANEL: HISTORICAL PROTEST AND BIOGRAPHY

Norcross         Chair: Stephen Middleton, Mississippi State University

(LL)

 Robert Heberton Terrell and "The Fight to Win the Prize"

Stephen Middleton, Mississippi State University

 

                        "Until You Get Real Power, We Don't Have to Talk to You": Leaders,

 Freedom Fighters and the Liberator Magazine

                        Christopher M. Tinson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

 

                        An Alabama Anomaly: Black-White Educational Initiatives and Unionism

in Perry County during First Reconstruction, 1865-1874

Bertis English, Alabama State University

 

Session H        PANEL: AFROCENTRIC DISCOURSE AND EDUCATION

Marietta         Chair: Patricia Reid-Merritt, Richard Stockton College

(LL)

The Spread of Afrocentricity Among the People

Patricia Reid-Merritt, Richard Stockton College

 

Social Work, Social Justice: Maatian Ethics and the Afrocentric Paradigm

Martell Teasley, Florida State University

Jerome Scheile, Morgan State University

 

An Evaluation of West Coast Freedom School's Influence on the Psychosocial and Intellectual Development of African-American Children in a Low-Income Urban Community

Sharon Bethea, Northeastern Illinois University

 

The Belly of the Beast?Decolonizing and Recontextualizing African American Foodways

William Berry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

 

Session I         PANEL: CLASSICAL AFRICAN CONCEPTION OF CULTURAL

Atlanta           IDENTITY:  CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE "SELF" FROM THE

A & B             KEMETIC, AKAN, IBO AND YORUBA CIVILIZATIONS

                        Chair: Troy Allen, Southern University

 

                        The Kemetic Conception of Cultural Identity

                        Maulana Karenga, California State University

 

                        The Akan Conception of Cultural Identity

                        Molefi Asante, Temple University

 

                        The Yoruba Conception of Cultural Identity

                        Kolade Wynn, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

           

                        The Igbo Conception of Cultural Identity

                        John Okpara, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

 

 

Friday, March 21, 2008

Atlanta                                          11:00am - 12:30pm

A & B                                                      PLENARY SESSION

 

BUILDING BLACK STUDIES: CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THE SAN FRANCISCO STATE STUDENT STRIKE, THE BLACK SCHOLAR, AND THE ASSOCIATION OF BLACK PSYCHOLOGISTS

Convener: Dorothy Tsuruta, Chair, Department of Africana Studies

San Francisco State University

                       

Bernard Stringer was a member of the Black Student Union during the San Francisco State student strike which led to the founding of the nation's first Black Studies department.  He is a retired financial analyst who currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia.  Stringer is presently Project Coordinator of the Black Student Union Founders Institute.

 

Joe White is currently a licensed psychologist in Southern California.  He is a former faculty member of San Francisco State University and the co-author (with Robert Chrisman) of the initial curriculum of the Department of Black Studies at San Francisco State University.  Mr. White is also the co-founder of the Association of Black Psychologists.

 

Robert Chrisman is the editor-in-chief and publisher of The Black Scholar.  He is a former member of the English faculty at San Francisco State University and the co-author (with Joe White) of the initial curriculum of the Department of Black Studies at San Francisco State University.  Mr. Chrisman is also the co-founder of The Black Scholar.

 

Interviewers:

 

Sundiata Cha-Jua, Vice-President of NCBS and Director

                        of the African American Studies and Research Program at University of

                        Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

 

                        Helen A. Neville, Professor of African American Studies and Psychology

                        at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.  She is a member of the

                        Association of Black Psychologists and serves on the editorial board of the

                        Journal of Black Psychology. She is also the associate editor of the

                        Counseling Psychologist.

 

STUDENT ESSAY AWARDS LUNCHEON

Georgia Ballroom

12:30pm - 2:00pm

 

 

Friday, March 21, 2008

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Concurrent Sessions (A-I)

 

Session A        PANEL: BLACK POLITICS AND POLITICAL CULTURE

Peachtree       Chair: Charles E. Jones, Georgia State University

 

                        A Responsibility to Life

                        Corey Walker, Brown University

 

The Role of Race, Class, and Culture in Forming the Political

Identity Amongst African Americans

M. Keith Claybrook, California State University, Dominguez Hills

 

Colin L. Powell and the Iraq War: Bureaucratic Actor or Foreign Policy Dissenter?

Michael L. Clemons, Old Dominion University      

 

Support for Reparations in an HBCU Sample as a Function of Psychological Africanity (Racial Identity)

Daudi Ajani ya Azibo, Grambling State University

 

Session B        PANEL: THE STATE OF BLACK EDUCATION: DISCUSSING

Lenox             AND OPPRESSION IN LOUISIANA SCHOOLS

                        Chair: Abdul Pitre, Southern University

 

                        The Experiences of African American Males in Special Education

                        Esrom Pitre, Metropolitan State University, Denver

 

                        Policy Issues/Zero Tolerance

                        Ruth Ray, Louisiana State University-Shreveport

 

                        History of Black Education: Case Studies

Roderick Jenkins, Louisiana State University

 

Challenge of Implementing an Afro-centered Approach

                        Ricardo Malbrew, Southern University

 

 

Session C        PANEL: CHALLENGING THE HISTORIOGRAPHY AND

Roswell           PERIODIZATION OF BLACK ACTIVISM

                        Chair: Derrick P. Alridge, University of Georgia

 

                        We Want Freedom Too: Black Student Activism at the High School Level

during the 1960's

Dwayne Wright, Cleveland State University

 

Taking the Lead: Black Students in the Long Civil Rights Movement at

Harvard and Radcliffe during the 1960s

                        Afrah Richmond, New York University

 

                        Utilizing Black Power Ideology in a Post-Black Era: Black Students Stage

a 100 Day Sit-In at Cleveland State University in 1990

Antanetta King, Cleveland State University

 

 

Session D        GRADUATE STUDENT PANEL: "BLACK FIRE" HISTORY,

Buckhead       HEGEMONY, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A ?HOOD MOTIF'

                        Chair: Ricky L. Jones, University of Louisville

 

                        Women Activists in the Civil Rights Movement: Geographies of

                        Mentorship

                        Jardana Peacock, University of Louisville

 

                        "Power to the People!" Hegemony, Resistance and the Deconstruction of

                        Dominant Social Structures

                        Maggie Desgranges, University of Louisville

 

                        Right before Our Eyes: Watching Race as Space and the Hood Motif in

                        Urban High School Genre Film

                        Lamar Johnson, University of Louisville

 

 

Session E        GRADUATE STUDENT PANEL: RESEARCH IN AFRICANA

Atlanta C       STUDIES

                        Chair: Mwalimu Abdul Nanji, Cornell University

 

                        The Assertion of Humanity: David Walker's and Martin Delany's

                        Ethnological Responses to Ideological and Scientific Racism

                        Heru Setepenra Heq-m-Ta, Cornell University

 

                        Jesse Jackson: Paradigm for Presidency

                        Luqman Abdullah, Cornell University

 

                        Talkin Bout Talkin: Black in America

Jessica Young, Cornell University

 

Session F        PANEL: SOCIAL POLICY AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN

Atlanta D       COMMUNITY

                        Chair: Perry A. Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

 

                        Race and Rez Politics: A Personal Look at Contemporary Black-Indian

                        Relations

                        Ron Daniels, California State University, Northridge

 

                        The Foundations of Modern Africana Social Policy in the U.S.: The Free

                        African Society and the Making of African America

                        Thaddeus Mathis, Temple University

 

                        "3 Months to Hurry, 9 Months to Worry": Resort Life for African

                        Americans in Atlantic City, NJ (1850-1940)

                        Richlyn Goddard, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

 

                        Cultural Production in the Depression/World War II Era

Perry A. Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

 

Session G        PANEL: THE WORLD ACCORDING TO HIP-HOP

Norcross         Chair: Karin L. Stanford, California State University, Northridge

(LL)

                        Kill the Bad Rap

                        Garfield Bright, California State University, Northridge

 

                        Free Huey: A Panther Runs Free in the Boondocks

                        Estella L. Owoimaha, California State University, Northridge

 

                        Yo, God, Let's Rap About It.

                        Bileko A. Wissa, California State University, Northridge

 

                        Hula-Hoops and Hos: The Incorporation of Hip Hop in Urban Children's

                        Programming

                        James B. Golden, California State University, Northridge

 

 

Session H        PANEL: FORTY YEARS FROM SAN FRANCISCO STATE:

Marietta         FORWARD-LOOKING PARADIGMS FOR BLACK STUDIES AT

(LL)                MAJORITY-WHITE LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES

                        Chair: Marsha Robinson, Otterbein College

 

                        The Role of African American Studies and Liberal Arts Education:

 "Liberating" American Democracy in the 21st Century

Derrick Hudson, Metropolitan State College of Denver

 

Baobab or Lotus Blossom Black Studies? Using Linda James Myers'

Inclusive Definition of Black on the Liberal Arts Campus

                        Marsha Robinson, Otterbein College

 

                        Beyond Margins and Centers: Emphasizing the Rich, White Male in

                        African-American and Africana Studies

                        Walter Greason, Ursinus College

 

 

Session I         PANEL: AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERARY CANON

Atlanta           Chair: Alma Vinyard, Clark Atlanta University

A & B

Come Git to ?Dis-Ebonics It Ain't No Slang: A Non-Linguist's Perspective on Language in the Classroom

Pamela D. Reed, Virginia State University

 

You Gotta Laugh for Cryin': Satire and Humor in late 20th Century African-American Literature

Regina Barnett, Indiana University, Bloomington

 

African Principles and Values in the Village: Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye"

Charles Toombs, San Diego State University

 

Diasporic Consciousness from a Performing Arts Perspective

Peter Ukpokodu, University of Kansas

 

 

Friday, March 21, 2008

4:00pm - 5:15pm

Concurrent Sessions (A-I)

 

Session A        ROUNDTABLE: TRANSCENDING RACISM AND SEXISM: A

Peachtree       POSITIVE APPROACH TO HEALING RACISM

                        Chair: Starla Lewis, San Diego Mesa College

                       

Starla Lewis, San Diego Mesa College

                        Thekima Mayasa, San Diego Mesa College

                        Sherehe Hollins, San Diego Mesa College

 

 

Session B        PANEL: FROM THE PULPIT TO THE CORNER TO THE STAGE: BLACK MASCULINITY, THUG-POLICY, AND THE GENDERING OF PERFORMANCE

                        Chair: Terry Kershaw, Virginia Tech

 

                        Lazarus, Get Up!: Contextualizing a Black Men's Theology within the

                        Tradition of African American Religious History

                        Zachery Williams, University of Akron

 

                        Why We Thugs: Incarceration Policy and the Crisis of Black Masculinity

                        Seneca Vaught, Niagara University

 

                        Ghanaian Women's Roles in the Hip-Life Music Industry

Tara Jabbar-Gyambrah, State University of New York at Buffalo

 

 

Session C        PANEL: PROTEST AND COLLEGE SPORTS

                        Chair: Stephen Middleton, Mississippi State University

 

                        Apolitical Gladiators: The Decline of Black Athletic Protest

                        Samori Camara, University of Texas at Austin

 

                        "He is Built for Chasing Greatness": Tommie Smith, San Jose State, and

                        the Making of a Student Activist

                        Jamal Ratchford, Purdue University

 

                        Going Hard with Four Fouls: Representations of Racism and Sexism in

College Athletics

Kevin Brooks, Purdue University

 

 

Session D        PANEL: PORTRAYAL OF BLACK WOMEN IN LITERATURE AND TELEVISION

                        Chair: Carol Marsh-Lockett, Georgia State University

 

The Sista with an Attitude: The Portrayal of Black Women on Reality

Television

Donnetrice Allison, Richard Stockton College

 

"Ain't No Whores Here, Only Goddesses": Examining Spirituality in Toni

Morrison's "Paradise" and Jean Toomer's "Cane"

Shawnrece Campbell, Stetson University

 

The Voice and Voiceless Performance of Women in Ray

Cindy Milligan, Georgia State University

 

 

Session E        GRADUATE STUDENT PANEL: "TRIUMPH AND

Atlanta C       TRIBULATION": THE IMPACT OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL MOVEMENTS ON THE BLACK WORLD

Chair: Pero G. Dagbovie, Michigan State University

 

"Hustler Musik": Analyzing the Significance of African American

Language and Activist Practices in Rap Music

Amaris White, Michigan State University

 

Saving a Dying Breed: The Young Black Male in Detroit and Those Who

Attempt to Save Them

Daniel Davis, Michigan State University

 

The Rastafari Movement: From Local to Global

Darcia Grant, Michigan State University

 

"Beyond the Margins": Black Feminism and Female Activism

Tracy Robison, Michigan State University

 

 

Session F        ROUNDTABLE: RETURN TO THE SOURCE?RESTORING

Atlanta D       FAMILY, REBUILDING COMMUNITY, RENEWING THE

                        STRUGGLE

                        Chair: Jemadari Kamara, University of Massachusetts

 

Ron Daniels, Institute of the Black World

Tony Menelik, University of Massachusetts

William H. Dorsey, Atlanta Community College

 

 

Session G        GRADUATE STUDENT PANEL:  NEW APPROACHES TO

Norcross         LYNCHING SCHOLARSHIP

(LL)                Chair: Sundiata Cha-Jua, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

           

                        Stranger Fruit: The 1914 Lynching of Rosa Richardson

                        Maria DeLongoria, Medgar Evers College-CUNY

 

                        African American Grassroots Resistance to Lynching on the Mississippi

                        and Arkansas Delta

                        Karlos Hill, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

                        More Than a Snapshot: Black Omahans, White Supremacy, and the

                        Lynching of Will Brown

                        Ashley Howard, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

 

                        "The Same Rights and Privileges as Any American Citizen": Ida B. Wells

                        and the International Crisis of American Lynching

                        Sarah L. Silkey, University of Virginia

 

 

Session H        PANEL: RACE, RESISTANCE, AND MEMORY: PERSPECTIVES

Atlanta           ON ATLANTIC WORLD SLAVERY

A & B             Chair: Walter Rucker, Ohio State University

 

Conjuring Participation through Performance: A Comparative Study of

Gorée

Ashley Bowden, Ohio State University

 

African Enslavement in the Americas: A Critical Analysis of Eric Williams' Thesis

Dawn Miles, Ohio State University

 

"Cursed Be Canaan, the Lowest of Slave Shall He Be to His Brother": An Analysis of the Role of Christianity in Slave Revolts in American South

Karen Ngonya, Ohio State University

 

Session I         PANEL: NEW DEVELOPMENT IN TEACHING AFRICANA

Marietta         STUDIES

(LL)                Chair: Christel Temple, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

 

                        Coding Literature of the Black Experience: Suzan-Lori Parks' 365 DAYS/365 PLAYS

                        Christel Temple, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

 

                        Ptah and the Heart of the Matter: Africa's Contribution to the Concept of the Heart

                        Zizwe Poe, Lincoln University

 

                        Africana Studies and the United States' Disposition toward Immigration

                        Morikawa Suzuko, Chicago State University

 

                        Innovation Technology Practices in the Discipline of Africana Studies

                        Adisa Alkebulan, San Diego State University

 

 

 

Lenox                                     Book Signing/ New Authors

 

Peachtree                   Film Presentation: Columbia 1968-2008

5:30pm-6:30pm

This is a documentary film (20 minutes) on the student role in the University setting and society at large, featuring the 1968 student takeover of Hamilton Hall at Columbia University and the 2008 student hunger strike rally over curriculum diversity and Harlem expansion issues 40 years later.

Kamau Suttles?Producer and Director                   Sherry Suttles?Executive Producer

Konstat Elevation Entertainment

 

Atlanta A & B                                Business Meeting

6:30-7:30pm

 

 

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