REGISTRATION
9:00am-5:00pm
Saturday, March 22, 2008
8:00am - 9:15pm
Concurrent Sessions (A-H)
Session A STUDENT ROUNDTABLE: 40 YEARS LATER: A LOOK AT
Peachtree STUDENT ACTIVISM ADDRESSING THE ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH 21ST CENTURY JIM CROW
Chair: Thekima Mayasa, San Diego Mesa College
Jamal Walker, San Diego Mesa College
Nicole Hardin, San Diego Mesa College
Linda Habeebulah, San Diego Mesa College
Brittani Frost, San Diego Mesa College
Session B PANEL: AFRICAN AMERICAN RHETORICAL ANALYSES
Roswell Chair: Cynthia King, Furman University
Dissolving the Dixie Distinction: Malcolm X and James Baldwin in
Speeches and Essays
McKinley Melton, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Rhetoric and a Body Impolitic: Self-Definition and Mary McLeod
Bethune's Discursive Safe Space
Rhondee Gaines, Georgia State University
Contentious Consciousness-Raising: Sentience and Sapience in the Rhetoric
Cynthia King, Furman University
Session C PANEL: GENDER AND QUEER STUDIES
Buckhead Chair: Shawnrece Campbell, Stetson University
Where Black Meets Queer: Reproductive Futurity, Shame and the Politics
of Black Respectability
Kenneth Oliver, Emory University
Through the Lens of Renée Cox: Rewriting Personal, Religious, and Art
Histories to Situate Black Female Identity in American Culture
Elizabeth Hamilton, University of Wyoming
African-American Women in the Life of Frederick Douglas
Tekia Ali Johnson, Johnson C. Smith University
John A. Wunder, Johnson C. Smith University
Session D PANEL: RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN WORLD
Atlanta C Chair: Adisa Alkebulan, San Diego State University
Colonial Mentality in Africa
Nkuzi Nnam, Dominican University
Black Christians and the Dilemma of Faith vs. Race
Pamela Wilson, Journalist and author
Afrocentricity and the Black Church
Adam Clark, Xavier University
Session E PANEL: MODERN AFRICAN POLITICS AND PUBLIC POLICY
Atlanta D Chair: Saba Jallow, Georgia Southern University
Africa and the Challenge of Western Technology
Bruce Cosby, Erie College
Not the Way God Created My Parts: A Sudanese Woman Speaks of Female Genitals
Lisa Bratton, University of Maryland
Child Soldiers in Africa
Saba Jallow, Georgia Southern University
Cathy Skidmore-Hess, Georgia Southern University
Producing the "Future": Africa and Western Temporal Imperatives
P.S. Polanah, Virginia Tech
Session F STUDENT PANEL: ISSUES AND TRENDS IN AFRICANA
Norcross STUDIES
(LL) Chair: Tom Spencer-Walters, California State University, Northridge
A Qualitative Analysis?: African American Female College Students and
Their Educational Ambitions
Michelle Hartzoq, California State University, Northridge
The Path to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions
Marissa Desiree Bell, California State University, Northridge
Pimped by the System
Yonas Ambaw, California State University, Northridge
The Political Insurgency of the Hip Hop Generations, 2008
Moya Smith, California State University, Northridge
Session G STUDENT PANEL: UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH IN
Marietta AFRICANA STUDIES
(LL) Chair: Leslie James, DePauw University
The Jena 6: Revisiting the Racial Injustices in the Legal System
Courtney Smith, DePauw University
The Emergence of the Solomon Dynasty in 13th Century Ethiopia
Aerion Brown, California State University, Dominguez Hills
Beyond the Jezebel: A Critical Comparative Examination of the Construction of Black Female Sexuality in Several Selected Spike Lee Movies
Christina Bush, Ohio State University
An Autoethnographic Exploration of How My Learning Experiences
Shaped My Liberatory Teaching Practices
Bonnie L. Reddick, San Diego State University
Session H GRADUATE STUDENT PANEL: AFRICANA STUDIES
Atlanta SCHOLARSHIP II
A &B Chair: Terry Kershaw, Virginia Tech University
America's African Dictator: The C.I.A. Involvement in the Congo and the
Republic of Zaire
David Walton, Eastern Michigan University
The Legacy of the Annual Black Studies Conference at Olive Harvey
Community College: Reflections on Three Decades of Scholarship and
Activism
Terrance L. Thomas, Northern Illinois University
Who is Patricia Roberts Harris?: A Story from the Cracks of Legal
History
Zenobia Harris, Northwestern University, School of Law
Saturday, March 22, 2008
9:30am - 10:45am
Concurrent Session (A-I)
Session A PANEL: BLACK MASCULINITY AND POLITICAL EXPRESSION
Peachtree Chair: Roderick Watts, Georgia State University
Rebuilding Tani (African Power) by Examining the Millions More
Movement
Richard Cooper, Widener University
I'm a Bad Man: African American Vernacular Culture and The Making of
Muhammad Ali
Shawn Williams, Georgia Perimeter College
Are You Man Enough: Exploring the Cultural Representation of the
Racially Mixed Race Black/White Man
Aaron Allen, University of California, Los Angeles
Session B ROUNDTABLE: BRANCHES OF SAME TREE: THE ARTS IN
Norcross WEST AFRICA AND AMONG AFRICAN AMERICANS
Chair: Grace Hampton, Pennsylvania State University
Segun Oyewo, Obafemi Awolowo University (Ile Ife, Nigeria)
Nadhir Muntaka, Lockhaven University of Pennsylvania
Grace Hampton, Pennsylvania State University
Session C ROUNDTABLE: RESISTING HEGEMONY: CREATING
Lenox INNOVATIVE PEDAGOGIES
Chair: R. Dianne Bartlow, California State University, Northridge
R. Dianne Bartlow, California State University, Northridge
Florence Kyomugisha, California State University, Northridge
Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis, Miami University of Ohio
Session D PANEL: CLASSICAL AFRICAN CIVILIZATION
Atlanta Chair: Troy Allen, Southern University and Louisiana State University
A & B
Interrogating Neferti's Prophecy for Contemporary Application
Molefi Kete Asante, Temple University
Maatian Discourse and Human Rights: Ancient Egyptian Textual Sources
Maulana Karenga, California State University, Long Beach
Women and Power in Ancient Egypt: The Parallel Position of the Divine
Wife of Amen and Pharaoh
Tiamoyo Karenga, Kawaida Institute of Pan-African Studies
The Ancient Egyptian Aesthetic Defined by Color
Khonsura A. Wilson, California State University, Long Beach
Session E GRADUATE STUDENT ROUNDTABLE: OPPRESSIONS,
Roswell POLITICS AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF RACE
Chair: Marc Prou, University of Massachusetts at Boston
Politics of Difference and Black Solidarity
Colette Houston, Michigan State University
Social Construction as Harm
Samuel Williams, Michigan State University
Conservative Conceptions of Race
Ronald Warren, Michigan State University
From the Mammy to the Matriarch
Latoya Brackett, Michigan State University
Session F PANEL: INSTITUTIONALIZED RACISM AND THE LAW
Buckhead Chair: William H. Dorsey, Atlanta Metropolitan College
Educational and Workplace Bias
Shelia Smith, Ball State University
Taxation without Representation: No Bid Contracts and
Minority Vendor Participation
Mark Whitaker, Hampton University
Ingrid Whitaker, Old Dominion University
Under Law: African-American History/African-American Present
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
(CUNY)
Session G ROUNDTABLE: WOMANIST VERVE: FRAMING OUR
Atlanta C ACTIVISM, PEDAGOGY AND THEORY
Chair: Dorothy Tsuruta, San Francisco State University
Dorothy Tsuruta, San Francisco State University
Dawn-Elissa Fischer, San Francisco State University
Retta Morris, INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
Jay Woodson, National Hip-Hop Political Convention
Stephany Spaulding, Northeastern Illinois University
Session H GRADUATE STUDENT PANEL: Blacker Than You!
Atlanta D Chair, Ricky L. Jones, University of Louisville
What does this have to do with me? Examining Africa American Males in
The Educational System
Adrienne Duke, University of Louisville
African American Male: Racial and Social Constructs of Identity
Development
Jonathan Johnson, University of Louisville
Identity Formation Through the Medium of Hip Hop
Mikal Forbush, University of Louisville
Session I PANEL: CURRICULUM TRENDS IN AFRICANA STUDIES
Marietta AND WOMEN'S STUDIES
(LL) Chair: Makungu Akinyela, Georgia State University
Application Versus Abstraction for Black Studies: Temple University as a
Case Study
Darwin Fishman, Temple University
An Examination of Critical Issues in Theorizing Women's Studies without Feminism
Valethia Watkins, City Colleges of Chicago (Olive-Harvey College)
From the "Freak Factory" to "Polka-Dot Studies" to "Black Studies": The Struggle to Inaugurate the Nation's First Black Studies Department at San Francisco State
Ibram Rogers, Temple University
Saturday, March 22, 2008
11:00am - 12:15pm
Concurrent Sessions (A-I)
Session A PANEL: FOUNDATIONS OF AFRICANA STUDIES: DU BOIS,
Peachtree WOODSON AND CRUSE
Chair: Al Colon, Dillard University
W.E.B. Du Bois: Architect of Africana Studies, Reconstructor of Black
Radical Political Theory, and Promoter of Black Revolutionary Praxis
Reiland Rabaka, University of Colorado at Boulder
The Mis-Education of the Negro and Africana Studies: Reviewing the
Discipline in the Legacy of a Timeless Work
M. Keith Claybrook, California State University, Dominguez Hills
Revisionist History, Crusian Dialectics, and the Mission of Black Studies
Clovis Semmes, Eastern Michigan University
Session B PANEL: HEALTH CARE AND WELFARE POLICY IN THE
Lenox BLACK COMMUNITY
Chair: Melodie Toby, Kean University
Ukufa KwaBantu: Understanding the African Worldview in The Healing
of Post Enslavement Systematic Trauma
Kevin Washington, San Francisco State University
Perspectives on Race and Class Discrimination in Health Care
Melodie Toby, Kean University
Arthur Pressley, Kean University
Race, Migration, Welfare and Work: Katrina's Victims and Welfare and
Work across the States
Ingrid Whitaker, Old Dominion University
Mark Whitaker, Hampton University
Session C PANEL: EDUCATION THEORY AND THE BLACK
Roswell COMMUNITY
Chair: Jonathan Gayles, Georgia State University
African (Black) Community Activism and Culture: Source of African
American Scholarship
Oba T'Shaka, San Francisco 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 Educational Philosophy of Elijah Muhammad
Abul Pitre, Southern University
The Rising Trend of Resegregation of U.S. K-12 Public Schools:
Implications for Closing the Achievement Gap
Ogo Okoye-Johnson, California State University, Northridge
Session D PANEL: POLITICS OF BLACKNESS IN BRAZIL, BOLIVIA AND
Norcross COLONIAL HAWAII
(LL) Chair: Ollie Johnson, Wayne State University
Black Political Struggle in the Brazilian National Congress, 1983-2007
Ollie Johnson, Wayne State University
Where Blackness Resides: Afro-Bolivians and the Racializing and Spatializing of the Africana World
Sara Busdiecker, Texas A&M University
Blacks in 19th Century Hawaii
Kathryn Waddell Takara, University of Hawaii
Session E PANEL: TRANSFORMING BLACK STUDIES
Atlanta Chair: Abdul Alkalimat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A & B
The Criticality of Africana Studies
Marcia Sutherland, State University of New York at Albany
Black Identity in Pushkin: Key to New Thinking in Black and Russian
Studies
Esmeralda Thornhill, Dalhousie University, Canada
From Black Power to Black Studies: A Critical Discussion
Fabio Rojas, Indiana University, Bloomington
Session F PANEL: NOT YET UHURU: THE FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
Buckhead POLICY OF THE AFRICAN WORLD IN 21ST CENTURY
Chair: Serie McDougal, San Francisco State University
The Projection for a New American Century: America's Attempt to Maintain Hegemony Over Africa's Resources
Benjamin Woods, Cornell University
Using Literature and History to Analyze the Unifying and Liberating
Implications of Decolonizing African Resources on Human Development
Remy Johnson, Fort Valley State University
The Growth of China and the Challenge to Afrocentric Foreign Policy
Serie McDougal, San Francisco State University
Contemporary Ideological Threats to the Internal Security of African Americans
Michael Tillotson, Temple University
Session G PANEL: NCBS COMMUNITY OUTREACH: RECIPIENTS OF
Atlanta C THE NATIONAL BLACK UNITED FEDERATION OF CHARITIES' COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT GRANT
Chair: William T. Merrit, National Black United Fund
The Water Brought Us: Gullah History & Culture
Jacquelyn Benton, Metropolitan State College of Denver
Builders of a New Generation Rites of Passage Program
Kevin Brooks, Purdue University
Infusion of Africana Studies in the K-12 Curriculum
Shirley N. Weber, San Diego State University
Black Studies/ Public School Initiative in Philadelphia, P.A.
Molefi Asante, Temple University
Session H PANEL: CREATING SCHOLARSHIP AND CREATING
Marietta SCHOLARS: DR. ALTON HORNSBY, JR.A PROFESSIONAL
(LL) RETROPECTIVE OF A LIFE OF LETTERS AND SERVICE
Chair: Jeffery O. G. Ogbar, University of Connecticut
Alton Hornsby, Jr., The Morehouse Department of History and the
Mission of a College
Ayize S. Sabater, Mentors of Minorities in Education
Alton Hornsby, Teacher, Scholar and Leader
David A. Canton, Connecticut College
Alton Hornsby: Accountable Intellectual Development
Ricky L. Jones, University of Louisville
Alton Hornsby, a Life of Dedication to Scholarship and Humanity
Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar, University of Connecticut
Commentator: Ann B. Kemet, Kemet and Hunt PLLC Attorneys at Law
Session I PANEL: CULTURAL LEGACIES: THE AFRICAN CONTINUUM
Atlanta D IN THE ORAL TRADITION, LITERATURE AND POPULAR CULTURE
Chair: Shirley A.J. Hanshaw, Mississippi State University
Mules and Men and Messiahs: African Continuity in African American
Oral Literature
Teresa N. Washington, Grambling State University
True Liberation: Fighting the Good Fight of Faith in Selected Novels of
Cleage and Baldwin
RaShell Smith-Spears, Jackson State University
Provoke Me: Language and Critical Thought on the Small Screen
Tikenya S. Foster-Singletary, Clark Atlanta University
Hair Enough for Five: Rootwork and Hoodoo in Toni Morrison's Beloved
Ousseynou Traore, William Patterson University
Lunch on Your Own
12:15pm-1:20pm
Saturday, March 22, 2008
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Concurrent Sessions (A-I)
Session A GRADUATE STUDENT PANEL: COMMUNITY-CENTERED
Peachtree EDUCATION AND BLACK LIBERATION
Chair: William H. Dorsey, Atlanta Metropolitan College
Antecedents to Detroit's African Centered Education Movement 1960-
1974
Kefentse Chike, Michigan State University
Amerikka's Declared War on Black People 1927-2007
Muhammad Abdullah, Al Hajj Muhammad Abdullah
Research Institute
Nation Building and Christiansburg Institute: The Present Day Relevance
of Learning a Trade
Efua Akoma, Virginia Tech
Session B PANEL: FUNK MUSIC AND BLACK URBAN COMMUNITIES:
Norcross RICK JAMES (BUFFALO), OHIO PLAYERS (DAYTON) AND
(LL) GRAHAM CENTRAL STATION (THE BAY AREA)
Chair, Scot Brown, University of California, Los Angeles
Ghetto Superstar: An Analysis of Rick James' "Street Songs" Album
Tony Best, Independent Scholar and Journalist
The Land of Funk: Dayton, OH -From the Ohio Players to Roger
Troutman
Scot Brown, University of California, Los Angeles
A ChoLet State of Mind: Bay Area Funk from a Woman's Perspective
Patrice ChoLet Banks, Lead Singer/Percussionist, Graham Central
Station
Session C PANEL: THE STATE OF THE BLACK YOUTH: YOUTH
Marietta ACTIVISM AND COMMUNITY CHANGE
(LL) Chair: A.A. Akom, San Francisco State University
Activism for the Hip-Hop Generation: New Forms of Civic Participation
Across the Diaspora
Dawn Elissa Fischer, San Francisco State University
Prophets of the Hood: Creating a Community of Black Youth as Public
Intellectuals
A.A. Akom, San Francisco State University
Black Youth Rising: Understanding Civic Participation, Socialization
Among African American Youth
Shawn Ginwright, San Francisco State University
Session D PANEL: CULTURE IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
Lenox Chair: Curtis Stevens, Grossmont College
The Houses of Buxton/A Legacy of African Influences in Architecture
Power Point Presentation
Patricia L. Neely, St. Clair College, Canada
Of Blues Narratives and Conjure Magic: A Symbiotic Dialectic
Kameelah Martin Samuel, Georgia State University
Scooter the Alabama Jack Rabbit: Aesthetic Imagination as Bullshit Meter
Kern Jackson, University of South Alabama
Terry Callier, Black Music Genre Marketing, and the Pursuit of an Afro-
Spiritual Aesthetic
W.S. Tkweme, University of Louisville
Session E ROUNDTABLE: SCHOLARSHIP AND MENTORSHIP OF
Atlanta DELORES ALDRIDGE IN THE FIELD OF AFRICANA STUDIES
A & B Chair: Alton Hornsby, Morehouse College
James Turner, Cornell University
James Stewart, Pennsylvania State University
Makungu Akinyela, Georgia State University
Molefi Asante, Temple University
Laverne Gyant, Northern Illinois University
Sylvia Turner, Emory University
Session F PANEL: ON RICH SOIL: GHANA LOOKS TO THE NEXT FIFTY
Atlanta C YEARS OF ECONOMIC, POLITICAL AND CULTURAL PROGRESS
Chair: Gracie Lawson-Borders, University of Wyoming
Expanding Ghana's Economic Horizon on the International Stage
Gracie Lawson-Borders, University of Wyoming
Memoirs of Ghana
Kerry Hodges, University of Wyoming
Media Lens: Chronicling the Culture an African Nation
Yaw Akoto and Dahleen Glanton, Chicago Tribune
Ghana's Political Realities as a Nation Grows
Louis Wright, Howard University
Session G PANEL: DYNAMICS OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN FAMILY
Atlanta D Chair: Lynda Dickson, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
This Stony Road We Trod: An Antebellum History of an
African American Family
Loretta Burwell Gilead, Georgia Perimeter College-Decatur Campus
You are Not the Father
Sharon Squires, California State University, Dominguez Hill
Cultural Influences on Role Transition for African-American Middle-Aged
Daughter When Mama Dies
Sharon Hines Smith, Richard Stockton College
Single Parents as Part of the Black Middle Class: Does
Does Gender Make a Difference?
Lynda Dickson, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Kris Marsh, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Session H PANEL: THEMES AND AFRIKAN WORLDVIEW
Roswell FRAMEWORKS
Chair: Mario H. Beatty, Chicago State University
A Genealogical Review of the Worldview Framework in Africana Studies
Related Theory & Research
Karanja Keita Carroll, State University of New York at New Paltz
The Problematic of the African Worldview in Asantean Afrocentric
Sekhmet Em Khet Maat, University of
Nebraska?Omaha
The Ethiopian Millennium and African Conception of Time
Ayele Bekerie, Cornell University
Interpreting the Origin and Meaning of Negative Egyptian Epithet:
Wretched Kush
Mario H. Beatty, Chicago State University
Session I GRADUATE STUDENT PANEL, UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE:
Buckhead LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION! PERFORMING RACE AND GENDER IN POPULAR CULTURE
Chair: Ricky L. Jones, University of Louisville
The Power of Ideology in Presidential Campaigns
Erica Williams, University of Louisville
Full-Time Objects and Part-Time Lovers
Whitney Torkwase Obuya Boyd, University of Louisville
"I'm Doing Pretty Hood in My Pink Polo!" Kanye West?An Alternative
Representation of Black Masculinity
Cameron Khalfani Obuya Herman, University of Louisville
Saturday, March 22, 2008
3:00pm - 4:15pm
Concurrent Sessions (A-H)
Session A PANEL: Language and Literature
Peachtree Chair: Yvonne Williams, DePauw University
Chalkboard, Whiteboard, Blackboard & Smart Board: The Need for more
computers in English Composition Classroom
Zretta Lewis, Richard J. Daley College
Dancing Across the Diaspora: Katherine Dunham's Foundational
Contributions to the Establishment of Black Studies in the Academy
Aimee Glocke , Temple University
The Emperor's New Clothes
Audrey Tolliver, Chicago State University
Session B GRADUATE STUDENT PANEL: BLACK RADICALISM
Lenox Chair: Charles E. Jones, Georgia State University
Black Student Radicalism: The Student Organization for Black Unity
(SOBU) and the Emergence of Malcolm X Liberation University (MXLU)
Richard Benson, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign
The Black Radical Tradition in the 20th Century: The Makings of a Black
Intelligentsia
Jasmin Young, Columbia University
Revolution Has No Gender: The Women of the Black Panther Party
Kenya C. Ramsey, Temple University
Session C PANEL: CRIMINALIZATION OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY
Roswell Chair: Nandi Crosby, California State University, Chico
The Jena 6 Issue?
Hayward "Woody" Farrar, Virginia Tech
Love on the Lock Down: Death Row Prisoners Search for Love
Nandi Crosby, California State University, Chico
Hurt Me Soul: How Police Brutality Contributes to Black Violence
Marilyn Lovett, Columbia, South Carolina
Typology of Black Female Offenders
La Tanya Skiffer, California State University, Dominguez Hill
Session D GRADUATE STUDENT PANEL: A CROSS-CULTURAL
Buckhead APPROACH TO THE RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION OF MINORITY GRADUATE STUDENTS
Chair: Doris Derby, Georgia State University
Tutoring Program
Diana Mwai, Georgia State University
GRE PREP PROGRAM
Momodou Sabally, Georgia State University
Minority Graduate Student Alliance
Michael Wyatt, Georgia State University
Session E PANEL: THE MEDIA AND RACIALIZED IDENTITY
Atlanta C Chair: Cecil Gray, Morgan State University
What Difference Does the Difference Make? The Intellectual Relationship
of Horace Kallen and Alain Locke
David Weinfield, New York University
Media Influences on Perceptions of Multiracialism
Ashley Winston, Xavier University of Louisiana
Racism in American Media: Portrayals of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
Lindsay Summer, Ohio State University
Drawing on the Past: Cartoon Images of Barack Obama
Ashley Khlaif, Michigan State University
Session F PANEL: MUSIC, DANCE, AND AFRICAN CULTURAL
Atlanta D RETENTION
Chair: Valethia Watkins, Olive-Harvey College
Proverbial Cultural Retentions within the Compositions of John Coltrane
Anyabwile Love, Temple University
A Circular Lineage: The Bakongo Cosmogram and the Ring shout of the
enslaved Africans of the Georgian & South Carolinian Sea Islands
Gabriel Peoples, Cornell University
Dancing to Belong, Dancing to Exclude: Kweh-kweh Ritual Dance and
the Embodiment of Afro-Guyanese Identities
Gillian Richards-Greaves, Indiana University, Bloomington
African American Vernacular English and its Effects on Standard
Language Acquisition of African American Youth
Bonnie Williams, Ohio State University
Session G ROUNDTABLE: EMPOWERING OUR YOUNG MEN: THE ROLE
Marietta OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES IN MANHOOD
(LL) DEVELOPMENT
Chair: Adonijah Bakari, Middle Tennessee State University
William Crenshaw, Brother to Brother
Bruce Bryant, Brother to Brother
Adonijah Bakari, Middle Tennessee State University
Session H PANEL: SCOPE OF AFRICANA STUDIES
Norcross Chair: Ronald Bailey, Savannah State University
(LL)
Information Technology on Black Studies: Critical Reflection on the
Listserve
Abdul Alkalimat, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The Impact of Place on the Racial Socialization of African American
Children
Erin Winkler, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Seeing through the Hegemony: A Discussion of 18th Dynasty Novels and
European Universalism
Nzingha Gaffin, Cheyney University
Session I ROUNDTABLE: "MOVING AND GROOVING": THE CULTURAL Atlanta LEGACY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN
A & B Chair: Deborah Atwater, Pennsylvania State University
Deborah Atwater, Pennsylvania State University
Valeria Harwell, Pennsylvania State University
Laverne Gyant, Northern Illinois University
Saturday, March 22, 2008
4:30pm - 5:45pm
Concurrent Sessions (A-H)
Session A PANEL: SHARING SPACE: BLACK STUDIES AND BLACK
Peachtree CULTURAL CENTERS
Chair: Tim Lake, Wabash College
Revising the Narrative of Black Culture Centers and Black Studies
Tim Lake, Wabash College
Researching Indiana's Black Past
Shayne Dube, Wabash College
Telling their Stories
Daniel King, Wabash College
Session B GRADUATE STUDENT PANEL: LITERATURE, ART AND
Lenox EDUCATION: A CROSS-DISCIPLINARY DISCUSSION
Chair: Ogo Okoye-Johnson, California State University, Northridge
What Role Does Edwidge Danticat's Krik? Krak! Play in Post-Colonial
Haiti
Ashley Johnson, Georgia Southern University
Examining the Performative Narrative of Identity Struggles in Artist Loren Holland's Work
Kiana Cornish, Columbia University
Establishing Africa in the Poetry of Langston Hughes
Marilyn Thomas, Kansas State University
Session C ROUNDTABLE: RACE, GENDER, SEXUALITY: LITERATURE &
Roswell SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACHES
Chair: Walter Rucker, Ohio State University
Cue Laughter?: A Reading of Ernest R. Dickerson's Good Fences
Kara Barnes, Ohio State University
Mama Knows: Mothering Among Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
Salandra Bowman, Ohio State University
The Structural Advantages Achieved Through Whiteness: A Comparison between Black and White Women in Management
Antwanisha Alameen, Ohio State University
Racial Theft: White Surgical Appropriations of Blackness
Chauncey Beaty, Ohio State University
Session D PANEL: PAN-AFRICAN IDEOLOGIES AND PEDAGOGY
Buckhead Chair: Barbara Wheeler, Kean College
Sankofa: Is There Room in a Public School Classroom for Adinkra
Symbolism? Should There Be?
Tiffany Pogue, Florida International University
A Return to the Source? An Evaluation of the Cultural Content of the
Social Studies Curriculum in Belize
Kayla Dorsey, Cornell University
Labeling African American Students for Special Education
Services: Challenges and Consequences
Jamillah Sanders, California State University
Education for the Global African Future: Exploring Pan-African Ideology
and Philosophy of Education
Jessica Durand, Florida International University
Session E PANEL: ADDRESSING THE PARADIGMATIC CRISIS IN
Atlanta C BLACK STUDIES: REFLECTIONS ON THE BANKSONIAN PROBLEMATIC
Chair: Tommy Curry, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Reflections on Comparative Research Methodology a Decade Later
Daudi Azibo, Grambling State University
The Limitation of European Phenomenology
James Haile, University of Memphis
Encountering the Un-Encountered: Justifying the Culturo-logic
Alternative in "Knowledge Formation" in the Paradigmatic Crisis of
Black Studies
Tommy Curry, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Session F PANEL: AFRICAN HISTORY
Atlanta D Chair: Akwasi Osei, Delaware State University
Once Upon A Time: There Was a Black Super Hero: Revisiting Classical
Greek Representations of Ethiopian Kingship & Black Masculinity
Salim Faraji, California State University, Dominguez Hills
The Last King of Scotland's Heart of Darkness 50 Years after African
Independence
Ricardo Guthrie, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Slave Forts and Castles as Frontiers of Economic, Cultural and
Racial Encounter between Europe and Africa, 1482-1960
Edmund Abaka, University of Miami
Session G WORKSHOP: FROM DISSERTATION TO BOOK:
Norcross SCHOLARSHIP IN THE ACADEMY
(LL) Chair: Georgene Bess, Clark Atlanta University
Paula Marie Seniors, Virginia Tech
Saturday, March 22, 2008
6:00pm - 7:15pm
Atlanta CLOSING PLENARY
A & B ROUNDTABLE: SAN FRANCISCO STATE?MEMBERS OF THE BLACK STUDENT UNION REFLECT ON THE SAN FRANCISCO STATE STUDENT STRIKE AND THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF A DISCIPLINE
Chair: Ibram Rogers, Temple University
Benny Stewart, Marin City California Community Land Cooperation
Coltrane Chimurenga, Black Liberation Struggle of New York
Danny Glover, Actor and Activist
Sharron Treskunoff, Sacramento Office of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
James Garrett, East Bay Center of International Trade Development and Peralta Community Colleges (Berkeley, California)
Saturday, March 22, 2008
8:00pm - 12:00am
Georgia Ballroom
NCBS AWARDS BANQUET
Entertainment: Mausiki Scales and Common Collective
