REGISTRATION
9:00am-5:00pm
OPENING SESSION
10:30am-11:15am
Atlanta GREETINGS:
A & B Charles E. Jones, Georgia State University
President, National Council for Black Studies
Chair, Department of African-American Studies
Marcellus C. Barksdale, Morehouse College
Chair, Local Arrangement Committee
Director, African American Studies Program
LIBATION
Students of the Kilombo Pan-African Institute
PRESENTATION OF FLAG
Students of the Kilombo Pan-African Institute
KUMBUKA CEREMONY
Shirley Weber, San Diego State University
Maulana Karenga, California State University, Long Beach
Thursday, March 20, 2008
11:30am -12:45pm
Concurrent Sessions (A-C)
Section A PANEL: ICONS OF INJUSTICE: PERSISTENT STEREOTYPES
Peachtree OF BLACK FEMALE BODIES
Chair: Venetria Patton, Purdue University
Robbing Eleanor Eldridge, Rhode Island Entrepreneur 1831-1840
Jocelyn Moody, University of Texas San Antonio
Stereotyping and Role Loss among Black Women in the Crack Cocaine Culture
Tanya Telfair Sharpe, Center for Disease Control
Hyper Sexualized, Black Females Bodies: Dangerous Play in Music Videos
C.S'thembile West, Western Illinois University
Section B PANEL: RACE, PLACE AND SPACE
Roswell Chair: Alfred Young, Georgia Southern University
Ecology, Africana Studies and the Land Question: Old/New Directions in the Era of Climate Change
Kwasi Densu, Clark Atlanta University
Why Study the U.S. South? The Nexus of Race and Place in Social Science Research on Black Folk
Jerome Morris, University of Georgia
The Philadelphian African American: A History of Black Philadelphia, 1965-2000
David A. Canton, Connecticut College
Session C PANEL: SOUTHERN FREEDOM MOVEMENTS AND ARMED
Atlanta B RESISTANCE
Chair: Akinyele Umoja, Georgia State University
Time Won't Allow Us to Wait: A Comparative Analysis of the Black Protest Tradition in Three Mississippi Cities, 1965-1975
Kayin Shabazz, Clark Atlanta University
Negroes with Guns in 1950s Monroe, North Carolina
Ronald J. Stephens, Metropolitan State College of Denver
Negroes with Guns in 1950s Mississippi
Akinyele Umoja, Georgia State University
Commentator: Willie "Mukasa" Ricks, Activist
Thursday, March 20, 2008
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Concurrent Sessions (A-E)
Session A STUDENT PANEL: BLACK ARTS AND LIBERATION
Peachtree POLITICS
Chair: Perry A. Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Breaking the Silence: The Real Civil Rights Movement of Albany and SW Georgia
Daaiyah Salaam, Albany State University/ Albany Civil Rights Institute
Prefacing Blackness: The Black Aesthetic Anthology and the Movement of Black Arts
Jonathan Fenderson, University of Massachusetts
The Soul of a People Found in Their Art
Jimmy Kirby, Jr., Temple University
Section B PANEL: BY SAYING SOMETHING, WE'RE DOING
Norcross SOMETHING: VOICE IN THE CULTURAL DISCOURSE OF
(LL) CHARLES W. CHESNUTT
Chair: Mary Zeigler, Georgia State University
Routing Racial Duality: Chesnutt's Reply to His Mixed Heritage
Kaniqua Robinson Georgia State University
Exposing Color Line in the Language of the African American Community: Chesnutt's Saying Something about Intra-Racial Prejudice
LaTonya Grady, Georgia State University
Can We Do Something By Saying Something? A Contrastive Study of Motivational Discourse in Chesnutt's Uncle Julius and Harris's Uncle Remus
Natasha Tyson, Medix College
Chesnutt's Use of Conjuring as an Intellectual Weapon in the Post Slavery Rebellion of African Americans: A Post- Colonial Perspective
Tony Graddick, Georgia State University
Section C PANEL: REPRESENTATIONS OF BLACK WOMEN
Roswell Chair: Dorothy Tsuruta, San Francisco State University
From Racial Uplift to Hip Hop: a Comparative Analysis of African American Women in Social Movements
Daleah Goodwin, University of Georgia
A Beautiful Existence: Black Women and Their Encounters in the Realm of ?Otherness'
Dawn Hazelton, University of Georgia
Didn't Cha Know: The Message of Hip-Hop and Its Impact on Black Female Collegiate Athletes
Akilah Carter University of Georgia
Session D PANEL: PICKING UP THE FRUIT FROM TREES PLANTED BY
Lenox JAMES BALDWIN: DIVERSE APPROACHES TO BALDWIN IN CURRICULUM
Chair: Georgenne Bess, Clark Atlanta University
French Cinematic Representation of James Baldwin's If Beale Street
Could Talk Skewing the African Diaspora
Rosa Bobia, Kennesaw State University
Seeing and Reading the World: James Baldwin in the General Education
Class
Wandra Hunley, Spelman College
James Baldwin in My Classroom: Texts for Examining and Celebrating
Diversity in the Curriculum
Army Lester, Kennesaw State University
Ardith Peters, Kennesaw State University
Session E ROUNDTABLE: TAKING BACK OUR CHILDREN'S MINDS:
Buckhead EXPANDING THE DISCIPLINE OF BLACK STUDIES
Chair: Thekima Mayasa, San Diego Mesa College
Thekima Mayasa, San Diego Mesa College
Starla Lewis, San Diego Mesa College
Sherehe Hollis, San Diego Mesa College
Thursday, March 20, 2008
3:30pm - 4:45pm
Concurrent Sessions (A-H)
Session A PANEL: PEDAGOGY, HIGHER EDUCATION AND AFRICANA
Peachtree STUDIES
Chair: James B. Stewart, Pennsylvania State University
Slavery: A Confusing Paradox for Students
Constance Chapman, Clark Atlanta University
Linda Tomlinson, Clark Atlanta University
African Names: Cultural Pedagogy and the Black Race
W. Emeka Obiozor, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Examining Student Evaluations of Black Faculty in a College of Education: What are the Trends?
Bettye Smith, University of Georgia
Session B PANEL: CHALLENGING RACISM IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
Lenox Chair: Michelle Reid, Georgia State University
We Are One: Apartheid and Jim Crow
Jocelyn Poole, Georgia Southern University
Victim Particularly: Theorizing Black Transnational Activism Since Durban
Mark Alleyne, Georgia State University
Jim Crow Meets John Bull: St. Clair Drake and the Pan African Community in Great Britain
Andrew Rosa, Oklahoma State University
Session C STUDENT PANEL: SHIFTING THE PARADIGM: BLACK
Roswell STUDIES AT AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE
Chair: Kijua Sanders-McMurty, Agnes Scott College
What's In a Name? An Exploration of Confirmation in the College Admission Process
Brittney Little, Agnes Scott College
The Psychological Well- Being of African-American: The Effects of Colorism on Implicit Self-Esteem
Leah Davis Agnes Scott College
Tupac Shakur: Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde?
Sydney Rucker, Agnes Scott College
Intellectual History: The Atlanta University Studies and W.E.B. DuBois
Grace Nix, Agnes Scott College
Section D GRADUATE STUDENT PANEL: QUESTIONING TABOO: SEX,
Buckhead SEXUALITY AND SEXUAL ACTS
Chair: Ricky L. Jones, University of Louisville
Black, Butch and Lesbian? Oh My! Interrogating the intersection of sexuality and gender in the lives of Black Butch Lesbians
Elise Delacruz, University of Louisville
Bolekaja: An African Centered Critique of European Constructions of Sexuality through the Assessment of Particular Theologians
Natashia Lindsey, University of Louisville
Bisexual Revolution: June Jordan, Black Feminism and the Overthrow of the Sexual Binary
Sarah Watkins, University of Louisville
Section E PANEL: SOVEREIGNTY, NATIONALISM, AND THE GLOBAL
Atlanta C AFRICAN PROJECT
Chair: Akwasi Osei, Delaware State University
Africology and Sovereignty: Exploring the Implications of the Afrocentric Paradigm
Ahati Toure, Delaware State University
National Identity, Social History, and National Integration of Nigeria
Salau Abdul, Delaware State University
Exposi on the Academic Relevance of Sovereignty from African-American Perspective
Ezrah Aharone, Center for Sovereignty Advancement (CSA)
Section F STUDENT PANEL: SPIRITUALITY IN THE WORKS OF TONI
Atlanta B MORRISON
Chair: Shawnrece Campbell, Stetson University
Ancient Assets: Re-rooting/Routing the Ancestor in Toni Morrison's Sula and Song of Solomon
Shauna Morgan Kirlew, Georgia State University
Beloved: Re-membering Yoruba Water Goddesses
Lydia Magras, Chicago State University
Section G PANEL: BLACK FREEDOM MOVEMENTS AND BLACK
Marietta WOMEN
(LL) Chair: Deborah Atwater, Pennsylvania State University
Ramona Africa: A Defiant Warrior
Jaqueline Lynch, Benedict College
Mary McCloud and Ella Baker: Unsilenced Other Voices
Cheryl Hardison-Dayton, Bethune-Cookman College
Jessie Redmmon Fauset: Transnational Feminist
Claire Garcia, Colorado College
From the NAACP to the Monroe Defense Committee: African-American Women's Activism
Paula Marie Seniors, Virginia Tech
Section H PANEL: NEW SCHOLARSHIP ON THE DISCIPLINE OF
Norcross AFRICANA STUDIES
(LL) Chair: James Turner, Cornell University
A Review of Noliwe Rooks's White Money/Black Power: The Surprising History of African American Studies and the Crisis of Higher Education
Alan Colon, Dillard University
A Review of Cecil Brown's Dude, Where's My Black Studies Department?: The Disappearance of Black Americans from U.S. Universities
Sundiata Cha-Jua, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
A Review of Fabio Rojas' From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline
Charles E. Jones, Georgia State University
Thursday, March 20, 2008
5:00pm - 6:15pm
Concurrent Sessions (A-H)
Session A STUDENT PANEL: HIP HOP AND THE MODERN CIVIL
Peachtree RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Chair: Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar, University of Connecticut, Storrs
The Role of Social Movements and Interest Groups in the African American Community: A Comparative Analysis of the Modern Day Civil Rights and Hip Hop Movements
Sean Bethune, Georgia Southern University
Don't Judge A Book By It's Cover: An Ethnography About Writing More, Limited Access Rap Music and Race
Bettina Love, Georgia Tech University
The Commercialization and Consumerization of Hip Hop: The Connection Between the Illegal Drug Sub Economy and Rap Music
Thairu Obuya, Georgia State University
A New Pan-Africanist Paradigm: Utilizing Hip-Hop Culture as a Weapon Against Imperialist Domination
Troy Nkrumah, National Hip Hop Political Convention
Session B ROUNDTABLE: MISEDUCATION OF AFRICAN CHILDREN
Lenox Chair: Paul Easterling, Rice University
Tommy Curry, Southern Illinois University
Serie McDougal, San Francisco State University
Michael Tillotson, Temple University
Section C PANEL: POWERFUL MEDIA: HOW DIFFERENT FORMS OF
Roswell MEDIA IMPACT SPECIFIC AUDIENCES WITHIN THE AFRICA-AMERICAN COMMUNITY?
Chair: Bertis English, Alabama State University
What's in a Song? Hip Hop Linguistics and its Effects on Collegiate African American Political Awareness
Rachel Laws, Michigan State University
Blaxploitation or Exploitation: The Portrayal of Black in Film since 1971
LaToya Brackett, Michigan State University
Sexism and Leadership: Women in the Black Panther Party
Tenisha Howard, Michigan State University
African American Female Perceptions on the Black World as Witnessed in Essence Magazine
Tracy Robison, Michigan State University
Section D ROUNDTABLE: VOICES FROM PAST NCBS PRESIDENTS
Atlanta Chair: Ronald J. Stephens, Metropolitan State College of Denver
A & B
Bertha Maxwell, University of South Carolina
Delores Aldridge, Emory University
James Stewart, The Pennsylvania State University
William King, University of Colorado-Boulder
Shirley Weber, San Diego State University
Section E PANEL: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN RESOURCES FOR
Buckhead AFRICANA DIASPORA STUDIES
Chair: Akilah S. Nosakhere, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History
Surveying Black Newspaper in the Age of Digitzation: The Role of the Africana Subject Specialist in Advocating of Electronic Resources
Eric Kofi Acree, Cornell University
Apres Negritude: A Survey of Francophone African and Caribbean Resources Beyond the Negritude Movement
Eleanor L. Hunter, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History
New Frontiers of Study for Africana Subject Specialist following 9/11
Mustafa Abdelwahid, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History
Session F PANEL: HOLDIN' ON TO WHAT WE'VE GOT: LANGUAGE,
Atlanta C ATTITUDES AND CULTURAL IDENTITY WITHIN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
Chair: Mary B. Zeigler, Georgia State University
"Show Some Respect": The Roots of AAVE in the Gullah Culture
Crystal Hills, Georgia State University
"Don't Bite the Hand that Feeds You": Exploring African American
Resistance
Tiffany Jones, Georgia State University
"Get with the Game": A Look at AAVE and the Fight to Belong
Crystal McDowell, Georgia State University
"Just Let Me Be Me": Rastafarian Dread Talk as Resistance to Societal
Oppression
Carol Johnson, Georgia State University
Session G PANEL: AFRICA AND AFRICAN DIASPORA: CROSS
Marietta CURRENTS OF AFRICAN INTERACTIONS AND
(LL) RELATIONSHIPS
Chair: Munashe Furusa, California State University, Dominquez Hills
Molefi Asante: Locating with Speaking Subject and Deconstructing
Europe's Hegemonic Intellectual Construct
Munashe Furusa, California State University, Dominquez Hills
The African Communal Philosophy as Impetus for Agency Africana Communities
Uche Ugwueze, California State University, Dominquez Hills
Identity and the Changing Roles of Africana Women
LaRese Hubbard, California State University, Long Beach
Section H ROUNDTABLE: THE SANKOFA EXPERIENCE: AN INTER
Norcross DISCIPLINARY OVERVIEW OF STUDY ABROAD IN GHANA
(LL) Chair: Shirley Weber, San Diego State University
Cheryl, D. Dozier, University of Georgia
Bettye P. Smith, University of Georgia
Tony B. Lowe, University of Georgia
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