087. Business Meeting of the Crossroads Advisory Board Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 201
7:30 AM - 9:30 AM
088. Business Meeting of the Editors of International Journals Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 202
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
089. Nineteenth-Century Latinidades: Latina/o History and Literature Beyond/Before the Nation-State Oakland Marriott City Center CS 1
CHAIR:
Mary Pat Brady, Cornell University
PAPERS:
Barbara O. Reyes, University of New Mexico Of Indias, Mestizas, and Españolas: Conflict, Contestation, and Cooperation in Early California
Rodrigo Lazo, University of California, Irvine A Filadelfia Affair
Raúl Coronado, University of Chicago To Heal the Social Body: the Rhetoric of Modernity and the Emergence of 19th Century Latina/o Print Culture
Nancy Raquel Mirabal, San Francisco State University A World in Balance: Hemispheric Black Connections Between Nineteenth-Century New York and Cuba
COMMENT:
Mary Pat Brady, Cornell University
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
090. Roundtable Discussion: Intimate but Indirect: Examining the Relationship between Music and Politics Oakland Marriott City Center AJ Toppers
CHAIR:
Barry Shank, The Ohio State University
PAPERS:
Alice Echols, University of Southern California Political Disco ?
Penny Marie Von Eschen, University of Michigan Soul Call: Black Artists on the World Stage
Jannika Bock, University of Hamburg On Chaos, Cacophony, and Cage
Barry Shank, The Ohio State University Silence and Freedom
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
091. Roundtable Discussion: American Studies and the Cultural Politics of the Middle East Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 207
CHAIR:
Evelyn Azeeza Alsultany, University of Michigan
PRESENTERS:
Nadine Naber, University of Michigan Thomas Abowd, Wayne State University Salah D. Hassan, Michigan State University Steven Salaita, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
COMMENT:
Ella Shohat, New York University
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
092. "Asians and Americas: International Politics and Domestic Racialized Practices" Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett C
CHAIR:
Madeline Hsu, San Francisco State University
PAPERS:
Erika Lee, University of Minnesota Asian Indian Exclusion in the Americas: A Case Study of Inter-American and Transnational American Studies
Anna Pegler-Gordon, Michigan State University Limning the Dividing Line: Photographing Chinese and Mexicans on the U.S.-Mexican Border, 1907-1917
John Hayakawa Török, University of California, Berkeley Chinese American or "Chinatown" Politics as Borderland: The Global in the Translocal
Robin Li, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Modern Love: the Awkward Symbiosis of American and Chinese Nationalism Before World War II
Richard S. Kim, University of California, Davis Korean Immigrant Nationalism and Transnational State-making: Diasporas, Nation-states, and Ethnic Identities
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
093. ¿Good Neighbors? Cultures of U.S-Latin American Transnationalism in the Mid-Twentieth Century Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett F
CHAIR:
Catherine Benamou, University of Michigan
PAPERS:
Catha Paquette, California State University, Long Beach The Diplomatic "Arts" of the OIAA in U.S.-Mexican Relations
Gisela Cramer, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Beauty in the Service of Public Diplomacy
Pennee Bender, Graduate Center, City University of New York Hollywood Meets South American and Stages a Show
COMMENT:
Catherine Benamou, University of Michigan
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
094. Abolitionist Places Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 206
CHAIR:
Ian Frederick Finseth, University of Michigan, Dearborn
PAPERS:
Maurice Jackson, Georgetown University Philadelphia as Center of the Fight Against Slavery
Jacqueline Bacon, Independent Scholar Africa and Haiti as Abolitionist Places in _Freedom's Journal_, 1827-1829
Martha Schoolman, Miami University Violent Places: Travel, Reform and Revolution in William Wells Brown's _Three Years in Europe_
Jared Winston Hickman, Harvard University Prometheus in Black and White: The Caucasus in the Antislavery Imagination
COMMENT:
Ian Frederick Finseth, University of Michigan, Dearborn
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
095. More than the Collective Self: Constructing identity and Building Group Experience Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett AB
CHAIR:
Alan Trachtenberg, Yale University
PAPERS:
Catalina Buliubasich, Universidad Nacional de Salta, M. Clara Núñez-Regueiro, Wazhazhi Cultural Center, Hector E. Rodriguez, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Marta R. Tartusi, Centro de Estudios Filosoficos de Salta Constructing National Identities in the United States and Argentina: a Comparative Look
Patty Rooney, St. Louis Community College, Meramec The Politics of Collective Memory and Identity Construction in the American World War II Memorial
Elizabeth Ruth Schroeder, Saint Louis University Radicals in Exile and Radicals with Roots: A Transnational and Gendered Articulation of America's Race Problem
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
096. At the Interstices of Identity: Transnational Asian-American, African, and Latin(a) American Popular Cultural Production and Performance Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 204
CHAIR:
Maria Elena Cepeda, Williams College
PAPERS:
Dolores Ines Casillas, University of Michigan Chino-Latinos: The "Asian" within Spanish-Language Media
Maria Elena Cepeda, Williams College "Musical Imagi-Nations: Nuestro Himno and the Boundaries of the Transnational"
Macarena Gomez-Barris, University of Southern California Resurfacing the Andean: Cecilia Vicuna and Susana Baca's Cultural Memory
Nhi Lieu, University of Texas, Austin Naughty Beauty Queens and Bad Cultural Subjects: Post-Feminism and Commodification in Diasporic Vietnamese Beauty Pageants
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
097. Blackness Visible: Urban Space, Race, and Economic Justice Oakland Marriott City Center CS 4
CHAIR:
Jeanne Scheper, University of Houston
PAPERS:
H. L. T. Quan, Arizona State University Whiteness Visible: Community Development and the Problematics of De-Racialized Urban Space
Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, San Francisco State University The Border Crossed Us: Race, Culture, and Development in South Africa
Harry Asa Akoh, Georgia State University The Veteran, the Indigent and the Immigrant at Grady Hospital in Atlanta: Poverty in American Health Care
COMMENT:
Jeanne Scheper, University of Houston
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
098. Race and Comparison Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 208
CHAIR:
Zita Nunes, University of Maryland, College Park
PAPERS:
Natalie Melas, Cornell University Race and Proportion in the Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean Imaginary
Viranjini Munasinghe, Cornell University Ethnic entanglements and the symbolics of nationhood: Chinese and East Indians in the Americas
Shelley Wong, Cornell University Comparative Temporalities and the Time of the Racial Stranger
COMMENT:
Abdul JanMohamed, University of California, Berkeley
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
099. Historicizing the Transnational: Comparing Racial Formations Across Borders Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 203
CHAIR:
Victor Greene, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
PAPERS:
Nitasha Tamar Sharma, Northwestern University Remaining Relevant: Advocating Transnational, Multisited, and Comparative Ethnography in American Studies
Angela Naomi Paik, Yale University Inside/Outside: The State of Exception and Stateless Persons in Guantanamo Bay
Janice Naoko Tanemura, University of California, Berkeley Race, Class and Nation Revisited: The Afro-Asian Critique of Trans/National Democracy
Amy Lee, University of California, Berkeley Transpacific Culture and the Politics of Form: Postmodernism, Environmentalism and Coalitional Politics
COMMENT:
Alexandro Jose Gradilla, California State University, Fullerton
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
100. Listening to the Black Atlantic Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 210/211
CHAIR:
Alfred Hornung, Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz
PAPERS:
Paul Anderson, University of Michigan "Never Let Me Go: Exile and Home in Stanley Turrentine and Nina Simone"
Ulrich Adelt, University of Iowa Germany Gets the Blues: Negotiations of "Race" and Nation in the "American Folk Blues Festival"
Andrea Mays, University of New Mexico Transcending Nation, Transcending Race: Celia Cruz's Performance of Black Internationalism
Shanesha Renée Frances Brooks, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Tradition Versus Innovation: The Transnational Appeal of Spirituality and Religiosity in Hip-Hop Music and Culture
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
101. Extraterritoriality, Extranationality Oakland Marriott City Center California
CHAIR:
Yogita Goyal, University of California, Los Angeles
PAPERS:
Christina Mesa, Stanford University "Unbecoming" to Become American: William Wells Brown, Paris, and Clotelle
Hsuan Hsu, Yale University Extralegal Expansionism: "The Man Without a Country" in 1807, 1863, and 1898
Angela Naimou, Cornell University Love in the Time of Capital: States of Labor in Francisco Goldman's The Ordinary Seaman
Charles T. Lee, University of Southern California Tactical Citizenship: Domestic Nannies, Sweatshop Seamstresses, and Undocumented Citizenship in the Third Space of Mimicry
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
102. The Emergence of Afro-Asian Racial Imaginaries Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 205
CHAIR:
Celine Parrenas Shimizu, University of California, Santa Barbara
PAPERS:
Nico Slate, Harvard University Race, Caste, and Nation: Indian Nationalists and the American Negro, 1893-1947
Yuka Tsuchiya, Ehime University Trans-Pacific Discourse of Race: The Journal of Race Development and U.S.-Japan Fraternity, 1911-1920
Crystal Anderson, University of Kansas Orientalism and the Harlem Renaissance
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
103. Breakfast: Borders, Law and Immigration-Students Committee Sponsored Oakland Marriott City Center CS 2/3
CHAIR:
Liza Burbank, Brown University
PRESENTERS:
Mae Ngai, Columbia University George Sanchez, University of Southern California
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
104. Emerson's Insane Angels: Douglas Anderson's Philosophy Americana Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett GH
CHAIR:
Thomas Alexander, Southern Illinois University
PRESENTERS:
Douglas Anderson, Southern Illinois University Victor Kestenbaum, Boston University Crispin Sartwell, Dickinson College
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
105. San Francisco Bay Trail Tour Around Oakland Embarcadero. Walking tour (wheelchair accessible)-SRC/K12 sponsored San Francisco Bay Trail Tour San Francisco Bay Trail Tour
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
106. Tour of the Port of Oakland and West Oakland-SRC/K12 sponsored The Port of Oakland and West Oakland The Port of Oakland and West Oakland
108. Breakfast: Pedagogy in the US and Abroad-Students' Committee Sponsored Oakland Marriott City Center CS 2/3
CHAIR:
Matthias Opperman, Georgetown University
PRESENTERS:
Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Stanford University D. Anthony Tyeeme Clark, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
109. Roundtable Discussion: Transnational Commodity Culture Oakland Marriott City Center AJ Toppers
CHAIR:
Elspeth Brown, University of Toronto
PRESENTERS:
Lawrence Glickman, University of South Carolina "Boycotts"
Marlis Schweitzer, University of Pennsylvania "Performance"
Mona Domosh, Dartmouth College "Space"
Elspeth Brown, University of Toronto "Sex"
William R. Scott, University of California, Berkeley "Style"
Nan Enstad, University of Wisconsin "Toxicity"
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
110. Garbo, Groucho and Drescher: Gender, Ethnicity and Popular Culture in Transnational Perspective Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 210/211
CHAIR:
Tony E. Michels, University of Wisconsin, Madison
PAPERS:
Lois Banner, University of Southern California The International Creation of Greta Garbo
Tom Zakim, University of California, Berkeley You Are Your Mother's Son: Film, Gender, and Ethnicity in Assimilationist identity During the 1930s
Jill Fields, California State University, Fresno "Bodies of Difference from Salome to The Nanny"
COMMENT:
Lucy Fischer, University of Pittsburgh
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
111. Consuming Visions: The Politics of Consumption in Modern America Oakland Marriott City Center CS 4
CHAIR:
Daniel Scroop, Liverpool University
PAPERS:
Bradley Queen, Boston University Conservatism and the Logic of American Consumer Democracy, 1938-1976
Henrik Bodker, The Aarhus School of Business Advertising at the "frontier": James Webb Young and the politics of consumption
Emily Satterwhite, Virginia Tech University Consuming region, constructing identity: the consumer politics of Appalachian fiction
Roopali Mukherjee, Queens College, City University of New York The Barbershop films and the ghetto fabulous aesthetic: the "post-soul" politics of black consumption:
COMMENT:
Stephanie Dyer, Sonoma State University
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
112. Identity and the Nation-State: Race, Mixed-Race, and the U.S. Census Oakland Marriott City Center California
CHAIR:
Margo Anderson, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
PAPERS:
Heidi Ardizzone, University of Notre Dame Counting the Nation's Blood: Mixed-Race Census Categories in the Age of Segregation
Ralina L Joseph, University of Washington Celebrating "Check All That Apply"?: Neoconservatives and Mixed-Race Self-Identification on the 2000 Census
Jungmiwha Bullock, University of Southern California The "Multiracial" Vote?: On Predicting Future Socio-Political Behavior
COMMENT:
Margo Anderson, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
113. Celebrity and the Politics/Praxis of Racial Cross-Dressing Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 204
CHAIR:
Jolie Alexandra Sheffer, Bowling Green State University
PAPERS:
Eric Lott, University of Virginia "'You Make Me Feel So Young': Sinatra & Basie & Amos & Andy"
Danielle C. Heard, Cornell University Black Comic/Black Critic: Chappelle's Whiteface Send-up and the Critical Pedagogy
of the Post-Soul
Hamilton Carroll, University College, Dublin Detroit Confidential: Eminem, 8 Mile and the Celebrity Subject
COMMENT:
Jolie Alexandra Sheffer, Bowling Green State University
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
114. Afro/Asian Art and Activism in the 1960s and Post-60s Era Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett C
CHAIR:
Bill Mullen, Purdue University
PAPERS:
Diane Fujino, University of California, Santa Barbara Asian Panthers?: Race and Nationalism in Afro-Asian Political Activism in the 1960s
Cheryl Higashida, University of Colorado, Boulder "Some of Us Are Brave": Challenging Sexism and Homophobia in Afro/Asian Publishing and Writing
Lisa Yun, State University of New York, Binghamton Lessons Before Solidarity: African/Asian Struggle in Nineteenth Century Cuba
Yuri Kochiyama, Political Activist African-Asian Solidarity: Past, Present and Future
COMMENT:
Bill Mullen, Purdue University
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
115. Dynamics of Mobility: Toward Trans-Oceanic American Studies Oakland Marriott City Center CS 1
CHAIR:
Shingo Nagaoka, Shimane University
PAPERS:
Benita Heiskanen, University College Dublin The Ocean Between US: Trans-Atlantic American Studies
Richard Hardack, Independent Scholar TransPacific Paranoias: Melville, Pynchon, Wedde, and The New World Ocean
Patrick O'Brien, Hokkai Gakuen University White Like Me: Crossing Borders in the Pacific
Charles Waugh, Utah State University American Studies in Vietnam: A New Field and New Directions
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
116. Interplays: Postcolonial Reflections on White Feminist Innocence and Accountability Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett GH
CHAIR:
Kimberlee Perez, Arizona State University
PAPERS:
Cricket Keating, The Ohio State University The Weight of the Invisible Knapsack: Racial Bargains and White Privilege
Ann Russo, De Paul University U.S. Feminism, Gender Violence, and the Politics of Empire
Aimee Carrillo Rowe, University of Iowa Mobil/izing a Subject of Belonging: Toward a Transnational Politics of Relation
Sheena Malhotra, California State University, Northridge Regression in Translation: The Journey of Indian Women back from White Femininity
COMMENT:
Kimberlee Perez, Arizona State University
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
117. Empire of Freedom?: American Internationalism and the Discourses of Liberation and Civilization, 1890-1925. Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 203
CHAIR:
Delores McBroome, Humboldt State University
PAPERS:
Greg Robinson, UQÀM Cosmopolitan Issei Writers and the "Japanese Question," 1906-1925
Mark Emory Elliott, Wagner College Humanitarianism and the Origin of American Imperialism: The Legacy of Southern Reconstruction and the Imperialist Debate of 1898
Elena Tajima Creef, Wellesley College Ainu in America: The Photographic Representation of "Mysterious Little Japanese Primitives" at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair
COMMENT:
Delores McBroome, Humboldt State University
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
118. Mexicali, Managua, Mexico, and the Mission: situating ethnic transnationalism in everyday Americas culture Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett AB
CHAIR:
Virginia Garrard, University of Texas, Austin
PAPERS:
Cary Cordova, Dickinson College The Mission in Nicaragua: San Francisco Art, Poetry and Transnational Action
Mee-Ae Kim, Albertson College of Idaho Claiming the Desert: Mexico, the United States, and Chinese Immigrants in Mexicali, Baja California
John Mckiernan-Gonzalez, University of Texas, Austin El Nino Fidencio and the new visibility of chronic disease and childhood illness in Texas and Nuevo Leon, 1920-1940
Marjorie Sanchez-Walker, California State University, Stanislaus The Wider Cristero Rebellion, Mexican immigrants, the Catholic Church and transnational ethnic politics.
COMMENT:
Baron L Pineda, Oberlin College
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
119. Empire, Globalization, and its Discontents: Filipinos and the Making of "The American Dream" Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 207
CHAIR:
Rick Bonus, University of Washington
PAPERS:
Augusto Espiritu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Empire without Imperialism: The Philippine-American War and American Culture
Allan Isaac, Wesleyan University The Ideals of Americanism: Filipino Soldiers, American Citizenship, and The War on Terror
Rick Baldoz, University of Hawaii, Manoa "The Third Oriental Invasion" : Filipino Immigration as Race Problem in the Early Twentieth Century American West
Anna Guevarra, Arizona State University, West Campus Chasing and race(ing) the "American Dream": Filipino nurses, class, and America's nurse shortage
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
120. "Vietnamese American Writers" - SRC Sponsored Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 208
PAPERS:
Christina Solano, San Francisco State University Chair
Andrew Lam Perfume Dream
Lan Tran Lone Stars
Truong Tran Dust and Conscience
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
121. Social Movements, Community Organizing, and the Production of Oppositional Politics Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 206
CHAIR:
Saba Waheed, DataCenter
PAPERS:
Darren Ranco, Dartmouth College Penobscot Indian Environmental Articulations: It's about Diplomacy, not Identity Politics
Wendy Cheng, University of Southern California Lazy Natives and Model Minorities: Orientalism, Black Marxism, and Figurings of Asianness under 'Racial Capitalism'
Laura Liu, The New School Where is Grassroots Knowledge and Theory? Locating Community Organizing
Linta Varghese, Vassar College Interrogating the Foundations of Class at a South Asian Women's Workers' Center
COMMENT:
Saba Waheed, DataCenter Rose Braz, Critical Resistance
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
122. Prison and the National Body Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett F
CHAIR:
Mary Helen Washington, University of Maryland, College Park
PAPERS:
Carisa Worden, New York University Violence of the Body and Reform of the Soul: Prisons as the Emblem of America
Dennis Ray Childs, University of California, Los Angeles "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet: Beloved, the American Chain Gang, and the Middle Passage Re-Mix
Garen Murray "Getting a Nut" on the "Joy of the Lord": Conversion and Represention of Condemned Women
Markha G. Valenta, Free University, Amsterdam Prison Encounters, or, The Logic of Penal Democracy
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
123. Native American Sovereignty and Reterritorialization Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 202
CHAIR:
Sonia Saldivar-Hull, University of Texas, San Antonio
PAPERS:
Jonathan Elmer, Indiana University John Neal, John Dunn Hunter, and the Red and White Republic of Fredonia
Beth H Piatote, Stanford University Difficult Subjects: Reimagining Domestic Relations in the Work of E. Pauline Johnson
Sean Teuton, University of Wisconsin, Madison Native Land, Native Nation: Authenticating Homelands in the Indian Territory
Mishuana Goeman, Dartmouth College The Gendered Dynamics of Colonial Spatial Restructuring and Native Spatial Decolonization
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
124. Reinscribing National Narrative Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 205
CHAIR:
Paola Bacchetta, University of California, Berkeley
PAPERS:
January Lim, University of Alberta Beautiful People in Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters: Designing Identities
Mark Maslan, University of California, Santa Barbara Telling to Live the Tale: Ronald Reagan, Edmund Morris, and Postmodern Nationalism
Shannon Christine Mattern, The New School Font of a Nation: Graphic Identities and Nationalism in the U.S. and Qatar
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
125. Business Meeting of the Keeping and Creating American Communities Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 201
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
126. Board Meeting of the Encyclopedia of American Studies Oakland Marriott City Center Boardroom 417
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
127. This session has
been cancelled -- Junior Faculty and Grad Student Breakfast I:
"Affirmative Action"-Students Committee Sponsored Oakland Marriott City Center CS 2/3
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
128. Hot Dish: In Honor of Karal Ann Marling's Work in Visual and Material Culture Studies Oakland Museum of California (SRC7) Oakland Museum of California
CHAIR:
Erika Doss, University of Colorado, Boulder
PAPERS:
Colleen Sheehy, University of Minnesota The Erotics of Karal Ann Marling
Simon J. Bronner, The Pennsylvania State University,
Harrisburg Objects of Desire: Karal Ann Marling's Fetishes
Derham Groves, University of Melbourne Televisionary
COMMENT:
John Wetenhall, Ringling Museum of Art
Karal Ann Marling, University of Minnesota
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
129. _Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song_ and Racy, Transnational Moves Oakland Marriott City Center AJ Toppers
CHAIR:
Paula Massood, Brooklyn College
PRESENTERS:
Thomas Cripps, Morgan State University Linda Williams, University of California, Berkeley Evan Heimlich, Kobe University
PAPERS:
Thomas Cripps, Morgan State University Sweetback for the Ages
Linda Williams, University of California, Berkeley Blaxploitation: Sweet Backs and Glimpsed Fronts
Evan Heimlich, Kobe University The Expatriate, M.V.P., and Divi-Nation
COMMENT:
Cecil Morris Brown, University of California, Santa Barbara
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
130. Roundtable Discussion: Developing Leadership: Local and Transnational Grassroots Women's Organizations. SRC Sponsored Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 203
CHAIR:
Norma Smith, The Edge of Each Other's Battles Project
PAPERS:
Elizabeth Youhn, Tradeswomen, Inc. Tradeswomen, Inc.: Building Support for Women in the Building Trades
Young Shin, Asian Immigrant Women Advocates Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA): Leadership Development for Labor Rights and Immigrant Rights
Maura Riordan, WORLD Women Organized to Respond to Life-threatening Diseases: HIV+ Women Educating and Organizing Each Other
Juana Flores, Mujeres Unidas y Activas Mujeres Unidas y Activas: Personal Transformation and Community Power
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
131. Crossing Borders and Bodies: Racial Mixing and the Imagined Nation Oakland Marriott City Center CS 4
CHAIR:
Camilla Fojas, DePaul University
PAPERS:
Greg Carter, University of Texas, Austin New Faces of America: Morphing All These Immigrants into One
Mary Beltrán, University of Wisconsin, Madison Mixed Race in Latinowood: Latino/a Stardom and National Identity in the Era of Dark Angels
LeiLani Nishime, Sonoma State University Hapas and Hawaii: Claiming Multiracial and (Trans)National Identities
Shilpa Davé, Brandeis University "No Life Without Wife": Inter-racial pairings, Transnationalism, and Arranged Marriage in South Asian America
COMMENT:
Kieu Linh Valverde, University of California, Davis
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
132. Roundtable Discussion: Perspectives from the Cracks: Transdisciplinarity + Transnationalism=Transformation? Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 201
CHAIR:
AnaLouise Keating, Texas Woman's University
PRESENTERS:
Mita Banerjee, Universität Siegen, FB 3 Suzanne Bost, Southern Methodist University Renae Bredin, California State University, Fullerton Katja Sarkowsky, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Frankfurt University Juniper Ellis, Loyola College
COMMENT:
AnaLouise Keating, Texas Woman's University
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
133. Expanding the Boundaries of Race and Performance in American Studies Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett C
CHAIR:
Shane Vogel, Indiana University
PAPERS:
Nicole Renee Hodges Persley, University of Southern California "Actin' Black: Danny Hoch and the Improvisation of Hip-Hop Identities"
E Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University "Camp Revival: Queering Masculinity in the Black Church"
Karen Shimakawa, New York University "On Walking and Stumbling: Inhabiting the 'Chinese American' Body"
David Román, University of Southern California " A Streetcar Named Deseo"
COMMENT:
Shane Vogel, Indiana University
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
134. Visualizing History: A Responsibility to Images Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 202
CHAIR:
Waldo E. Martin, Jr., University of California, Berkeley
PAPERS:
Angela Kathleen Dietz, Saint Louis University Image (I) Nation: The Photographic Subjectivity of the American Wage Worker
Benjamin Cawthra, Washington University Photography and the Cultural Performance of Jazz: Miles Davis's Early Columbia Album Covers
Kathryn Kane, DePaul University Rubrics of Visibility and Ideologies of Racial, Sexual, and National Identity
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
135. Consumer Citizenship and the Making of National and Transnational Values Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 204
CHAIR:
Herman Gray, University of California, Santa Cruz
PAPERS:
Marita Sturken, New York University Loving the Brand: Global Branding and National Identity
Sarah Banet-Weiser, University of Southern California Empowering Markets: Youth Culture and Brand Identities
Cynthia Chris, College of Staten Island, City University of New York Selling the Family: Cable Television and the Decency Debates
COMMENT:
Herman Gray, University of California, Santa Cruz
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
136. Recasting Cinema in the Americas: Bilingualism, Borrowings, and Hauntings Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett F
CHAIR:
Jeffrey Middents, American University
PAPERS:
Laura Isabel Serna, Harvard University La Venganza de Pancho Villa: Alternative Cinema /Alternative Audiences on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Joshua L. Miller, University of Michigan The World "Afuera": Projections of Language Fusion
David Wood, King's College London Multilingual Indigenism: Producing, disseminating and marketing militant cinema
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
137. "Reconfiguring Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic: 'What is Africa to Me?'" Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 205
CHAIR:
John Jackson, Duke University
PAPERS:
Dagmawi Woubshet, Harvard University " 'Ethiopia shall stretch forth her hand unto God': Discoveries in New World Africanity"
Sarah Lewis, New York University Picking Up a Dropped Stitch: Re-conceptualizing African Textiles and Photography
Regine Jean-Charles, Harvard University Remembering Rwanda: Fest'Africa's Ecrire par devoir de mémoire...African Writers and Global Engagement
Salamishah Tillet, Harvard University "'Of Ghosts and Guests': Ama Ata Aidoo and the Politics of Sankofa"
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
138. Performing Both and Between--Theorizing Bodies on the Hyphen Oakland Marriott City Center California
CHAIR:
Kimberly Wallace-Sanders, Emory University
PAPERS:
Maxine Craig, California State University, East Bay Walking Like a Queen: Learning to be Miss Bronze
Elizabeth Wheeler, University of Oregon Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Disability Studies and the Visibility of Whiteness
Francesca Royster, DePaul University "Feeling Like a Woman, Looking Like a Man, Sounding Like a No-No:" Grace Jones's Eccentric Sexuality"
COMMENT:
Kimberly Wallace-Sanders, Emory University
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
139. Roundtable Discussion: Performing Diaspora: Gendered and Sexual Transgressions, Transformations and Transactions Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett GH
CHAIR:
Linda Carty, Syracuse University
PAPERS:
Mattie Richardson, University of California, Santa Barbara Going to Make the Man: Queer Gender Performance and Racial Impersonation
Marlon M Bailey, University of California, Berkeley 'They Want Us Sick:' Displacement, Diaspora, Ballroom Culture and HIV/AIDS Intervention
Roshanak Kheshti, University of California, Berkeley Oto-Erotic: Gender Performance in World Beat Music
Mireille Miller-Young, University of California, Santa Barbara Hip Hop Honeys + Da Hustlaz: The Black Sexual Subject in the New Hip Hop Pornography
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
140. Adopted Communities: Constructing Transnational Families Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 207
CHAIR:
Christine Gailey, University of California, Riverside
PAPERS:
Jane Yamashiro, University of Hawaii, Manoa/The University of Tokyo Becoming "Japanese American," "half (mixed race)," and "from Hawai-i" in Japan: Identity Developments of Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Japan
Melody Graulich, Utah State University Beyond Being In-Between: Adopting Transnationality
Kelly A. Condit, Stony Brook University Familial Legacies: Rethinking Transnational Asian Adoption in the 21st Century
COMMENT:
Christine Gailey, University of California, Riverside
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
141. Navigating the World Post 9/11 Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett AB
CHAIR:
Michael Moreno, University of California, Riverside
PAPERS:
Cynthia Gayle Franklin, University of Hawaii The Post 9/11 Assault on Academic Freedom and the Power of Personal Narrative
Scott Boehm, University of California, San Diego The Post 9/11 Politics of Display: Patriotic Spectacles of U.S. "Freedom"
Matthew Young Heimburger, University of Utah No More Innocents Abroad: An Interdisciplinary, Cultural Examination of the Post-911 World of American Travelers
Susan Lurie, Rice University The Inside and Outside of National Protection: Katrina Meets 9/11
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
142. The Biopolitics of Globalization: Docile Bodies I Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 208
CHAIR:
Anita Mannur, Denison University
PAPERS:
Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel, University of California, Santa Cruz "Colombia Women: Beauty and Pliable Citizenship"
Kate Holbrook, Boston University Dining Through Exile: Communal Meals in an Alternative Homeland
Margit Knowlton Stange, Independent scholar Human Trafficking: the Newly Defined Global Phenomenon
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
143. (De)Regulating the Imperial Imaginary Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 206
CHAIR:
Nicholas Sammond, University of Toronto
PAPERS:
Marja Roholl, Erasmus University Rotterdam Representations of America in US cultural diplomacy in the Netherlands, 1944-1965.
Daniel Horowitz, Smith College Importing Ideas to Explain Popular Culture, America's Leading Export
Charlie Stevens, Miami University Reflections on Empire
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
144. ASA-JAAS Roundtable: The American Studies Association-Japanese Association for American Studies Project: Critiques and Accomplishments Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 210/211
PRESENTERS:
Gail Nomura, University of Washington Masako Notoji, University of Tokyo Naoki Onishi, International Christian University Vicki Ruiz, University of California, Irvine Stephen Sumida, University of Washington Natsuki Aruga, Saitama University Fumiko Fujita, Tsuda College
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
145. Talkshop II: Alternative Affiliations: Beyond Citizenship, the Nation, and Inter-national American Studies Oakland Marriott City Center CS 1
PRESENTERS:
Mary Chapman, University of British Columbia Isabel Duran, University of Madrid Neil Foley, University of Texas, Austin Xiao-huang Yin, Occidental College
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
146. Roundtable Discussion: Developing American Studies Globally: The Fulbright Experience Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 206
CHAIR:
Anne Clift Boris, Council for International Exchange of Scholars
PRESENTERS:
Eileen Lundy, University of Texas, Austin Edward J. Lundy, Austin Community College (retired) Peter Rutkoff, Kenyon College Hortense Simmons, California State University, Sacramento Mart Allen Stewart, Western Washington University
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
147. Roundtable Discussion: "Which Way Is Redemption?" Remembering Lorenzo Thomas, 1944-2005 Oakland Marriott City Center CS 4
CHAIR:
James Smethurst, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
PRESENTERS:
Barry Hamilton Maxwell, Cornell University Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Pennsylvania State University Ishmael Reed, Independent scholar Jerry Washington Ward, Jr., Dillard University
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
148. Roundtable Discussion: Globalization in the Classroom: Addressing Student Resistance to the "Anti-American" Text Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett F
CHAIR:
Kathryn S. Koo, Saint Mary's College
PAPERS:
Jennifer Trainor, Santa Clara University Resistance Theory and Classroom Dynamics: What Research Tells Us About Students' Responses to Critical Pedagogies
Susan H. Graham, University of Minnesota Students in the Military and the "Anti-American" Narrative: Strategies for Teaching the History of Warfare
Michael Borgstrom, San Diego State University Globalization and the Sexual Assault on America
Scott M. Schonfeldt-Aultman, Saint Mary The Mediated "Anti-American" Text: Speculations on When It Works and When It Doesn't
COMMENT:
Molly Metherd, Saint Mary's College
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
149. Feminism, Progressivism, and Transnationalism Oakland Marriott City Center California
CHAIR:
Lisa Materson, University of California, Davis
PAPERS:
Mary Chapman, University of British Columbia "Catching Up with China": Sui Sin Far and the discourses of the American and Chinese suffrage movements in the 1910s
Jean M Lutes, Villanova University The American Girl Reporter Abroad and James's Superabundance Problem
Sarah Wilson, University of Toronto Domestic Cosmopolitanism, or, the Modern Cordelia
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
150. Trans-Alternative: Germs, Sweetbacks, Butchlalis & Screen Tests Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 202
CHAIR:
José Muñoz, New York University
PAPERS:
Jonathan Flatley, Wayne Like: Collecting and Collectivity in the Work of Andy Warhol
José Muñoz, New York University Punk Rock Feelings
Tavia Nyongo, New York University Tunes from Anti-colonial Blackness: Sweetback, Revolution, Cinema
Karen Tongson, University of Southern California Take Me Out Tonight: The Butchlalis de Panochtitlan Reclaim 'Lesser Los Angeles'
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
151. Academic Job Interviews in American Studies: A Demonstration Workshop
- Students' Committee Sponsored Oakland Marriott City Center CS 2/3
CHAIR:
Hillary Jenks, University of Southern California
PRESENTERS:
Jennifer Devere Brody, Northwestern University Tricia Rose, University of California, Santa Cruz Henry Yu, University of California, Los Angeles/University of British Columbia Matthew Frye Jacobson, Yale University Michan Connor, University of Southern California
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
152. Diversity on Display: Liberalism and the Uses of Multiculturalism in the 1970s Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 203
CHAIR:
Beth Bailey, Temple University
PAPERS:
Leslie M. Paris, University of British Columbia "Free to Be … You and Me": Activist Ideals and 1970s Childhood
Natasha Zaretsky, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale An American Mosaic: Diversity Nationalism during the Bicentennial of 1976
Karen Jane Ferguson, Simon Fraser University Domesticating Development: The Ford Foundation and Establishment Multiculturalism, 1965-1975
COMMENT:
Beth Bailey, Temple University
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
153. Academic Crossroads: Debating Transnationalism's Second Phase Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 207
CHAIR:
Anders Karl Olsson, Mid-Sweden University
PAPERS:
Frank Kelleter, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Who Puts the "Trans" in Trans-National?
Laura Bieger, Free University, Berlin "Living in Translated Worlds" - A Pragmatist Approach to Transnationalism
Jeffrey Hole, University of Pittsburgh Heretical Speculation of Transnational Doxa: A Genealogy of the Transnational Perspective
Johannes Voelz, Free University, Berlin Crossing the Line, Going Public: Why Transnational American Studies Needs Public Intellectuals
COMMENT:
Anders Karl Olsson, Mid-Sweden University
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
154. Performance: Visualizing Citizenship: Images of Workers and the Struggle for Social Identity Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett GH
CHAIR:
Joshua Brown, Graduate Center, City University of New York
PAPERS:
Deirdre Murphy, Culinary Institute of America "What is for us the wrong end of the season": Chinese immigrants and national time"
Larry Peterson, Graduate Center, City University of New York Model Industrial Citizens or Free American Workers? Pullman, Labor, and the
Lability of Photographic Meaning
Helen Langa, American University Immigrant Artists, Laboring Workers, and National Identities: Changing Visual Paradigms in 1930s New York
Jeannette Gabriel, Graduate Center, City University of New York From Skid Row to Scotts Run: Controlling Images of the Unemployed in New Deal Photography
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
155. Comparative Sound Cultures: Spaces of Music, Politics, and Representations in the Metropolis Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 204
CHAIR:
To Be Announced
PAPERS:
Shelton Waldrep, University of Southern Maine Song as Text as Other: David Bowie's Historical Moments
Kerim Yasar, Columbia University Transpacific Soundscapes: John Cage, Japan, and the Birth of an Idea
Csaba Toth, Carlow University Lolli-Pop Utopias: Gender Performance and Club Culture in New York City, Budapest, and Tokyo
COMMENT:
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
156. Waao, wabaskinameskata! The Border Crossed Us! Transnational American Studies and the Indian-Nation Perspective Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 210/211
CHAIR:
Cornel D. Pewewardy, Comanche Nation College
PAPERS:
D. Anthony Tyeeme Clark, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign "Kidakottitowa: Decolonial Anti-Oppression, the Indian-'Nation' Perspective, and Social Justice for Indigenous Peoples"
Malea Powell, Michigan State University "Teaching Indigenous Nations Amidst Transnationalizing Currents"
Jeffrey Philip Shepherd, University of Texas, El Paso "In the Classroom and on the Border: Teaching Postcolonialism and American Indians Studies on the U.S.-Mexico Border"
COMMENT:
Cornel D. Pewewardy, Comanche Nation College
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
157. Latina/o Studies in a Transatlantic Context: Fiction, Film, Performance, Memoir Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett AB
CHAIR:
Ana Anton Pacheco, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
PAPERS:
Tiffany Lopez, University of California, Riverside Suturing Barcelona to East LA: International Peformances of Josefina Lopez' Real Women Have Curves
Carmen Mendez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Intersecting Trauma and Identity: The Politics of Selfhood and Dislocation in Latina Writing
Juan Gonzalez Etxeberria, Universidad de Madrid Hegemonic Masculinity in Chicano Cinema: From the Politics of Essentialism to the Poetics of Realism
Tanya Gonzalez, Kansas State University Las Otras: Reading the Latina/o Gothic in Literature, Film and Popular Culture
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
158. The Double Inscription of African-American Bodies Across Ideological Borders: I Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett C
CHAIR:
To be announced.
PAPERS:
Margarita Marinova, Christopher Newport University Russian "America" at the End of an Era: Late 19th c. Visits and Vistas
Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, University of Heidelberg Contextualizing Performance: African Americans in Post-WW II German Newsreels, "Deutsche Wochenschau"
Steven Lee, Stanford University Cold War Multiculturalism: Revisiting Langston Hughes' "Moscow Movie"
Karen Salt, Purdue University The Performance of Blackness in the Russian National Imagination
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
159. The Military-Industrial-Detention Complex Oakland Marriott City Center AJ Toppers
CHAIR:
Avital H. Bloch, University of Colima
PAPERS:
Stacy Takacs, Oklahoma State University TV Terror and the War on Terror
Paula Ioanide, University of California, Santa Cruz Spectating Suffering, (Not) Registering Violation: Cultural Fantasies and Pleasure in Viewing the Abu Ghraib Photographs
Robert Henn, University of Illinois Mary McCarthy's Totalitarian Campus and the Rise of the Postmodern
Carmen Rosally Lugo-Lugo, Washington State University, Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo, Washington State University Disciplining the Public: Enemy Combatants, Same-Sex Marriage, and a New Kind
of U.S. Containment. This paper will be read by Avital H. Bloch,
University
of
Colima .
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
160. The Biopolitics of Globalization: Docile Bodies II Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 208
CHAIR:
Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State University
PAPERS:
Luis Velarde, University of North Texas Transnational Icon. How To Be American, Mexican, Lesbian, And Nun
John Streamas, Washington State University The Genocidal Continuum: Toward a Theory of Effacement
Christina Hanhardt, Hampshire College Safe Bet: Sex and Risk in Transnational Exchange
Ralph Rodriguez, Brown University "'Settling Into Your Skin': What Eric Garcia's Dinosaurs Teach Us About Race"
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
161. Transnational Latino Formations Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 205
CHAIR:
Marta Sanchez, Arizona State University
PAPERS:
Stephen Knadler, Spelman College "Re-mapping the Afro-Latin Creole: The Trans-American South in National Fantasies of Reconstruction"
Jennifer Stoever, University of Southern California "I Wouldn't Change Puerto Rico by 4,000 New Yorks": Tony Schwartz Records the Postwar Metropolis (1946-1958)
Catrin Gersdorf, Free University, Berlin Translation, Exile, and Cuban-American Fiction: Achy Obejas’ Days of Awe
Ramon E. Soto-Crespo, State University of New York, Buffalo The Mainland Passage: Trans-Americanism in Contemporary Puerto Rican Writing.
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
162. Business Meeting of the Women's Committee Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 201
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
163. Discussing Race and Success in America. Oakland Marriott City Center CS 1
CHAIR:
Phyllis Palmer, George Washington University
PAPERS:
Paul Gardullo, George Washington University "A Prayer to the Almighty Dead": Collective memory, progress and defeat in the work of W.E.B. Du Bois
Francoise Nicole Hamlin, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Calculating Success: The Civil Rights Movement in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Kimberly DaCosta, Harvard University The Problems and Possibilities of Multiracial Identification.
COMMENT:
Phyllis Palmer, George Washington University
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
164. Roundtable Discussion: China on Our Minds: Andrew Ross' Fast Boat to China: Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 201
CHAIR:
Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara
PAPERS:
Daniel Bender, University of Toronto "Labor at the Gates: Chinese Labor and the Histories of Race Substitution."
Amitava Kumar, Vassar College "If China is as big as your classroom"
Aihwa Ong, University of California, Berkeley "Re-Engineering Chinese Personality: the Globalization of Business Management."
Richard P. Appelbaum, University of California, Santa Barbara "Giant Factories, Militant Labor: The Rise of Fordism in China?"
Stephanie Luce, University of Massachusetts, Boston "The Impact of Corporate Global Restructuring on Workers in China and the US"
COMMENT:
Andrew Ross, New York University
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
164A. Sounds and Movements in Latina/o American
Culture Oakland Marriott City Center OCC CS 4
CHAIR:
Deborah R. Vargas, University of California, Irvine
PAPERS:
Antonia Garcia-Orozco, California State University,
Northridge Lucha Villa’s Eroticization of the Estilo Bravío
and the Canción
Ranchera
Silvia Pellarolo, California State University, Northridge
Early Women Tango Singers: The Glitch in the Heteronormativity of a National
Cultural Production
Cindy Garcia, Occidental College/University of California,
Los Angeles
Gendered Circulations: Latina-ness on Los Angeles Salsa Dance Floors
Sergio De La Mora, University of California, Davis
Por un amor: Lucha Reyes and Queer Mexican Cultural Nationalism
COMMENT:
Alicia Arrizon, University of California, Riverside
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
165. "Neither Here nor There: (Re)presenting and (Re)constructing Transnational Identity in Contemporary American Art. Sponsored by the Visual Culture/Art History Caucus Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett GH
CHAIR:
Lorraine Morales Cox, Union College
PAPERS:
Siona Benjamin, Independent artist "Finding Home"
Jean Ulrick Désert, Independent artist "Negerhosen2000 & The Burka Project"
Jerry Philogene, New York University "What is 'Trans' in Transnational American Art"
COMMENT:
Jennifer Gonzalez, University of California, Santa Cruz
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
166. Wars and Consequences: South Korea, Viet Nam, the United States Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 205
CHAIR:
Viet Thanh Nguyen, University of Southern California
PAPERS:
Tae Yang Kwak, Harvard University The Legacies of Korean Participation in the Vietnam War: The Rise of Formal Dictatorship
Viet Thanh Nguyen, University of Southern California Ghostly Stories, Haunted memories: South Korea and Viet Nam
Ramsay Liem, Boston College Representing Memories and Legacies of the Korean War through a Multidisciplinary, Multimedia Collaboration
Yong Soon Min, University of California, Irvine Double Vision
Viet Le, University of Southern California Pop Tarts: Intersections of Historical Trauma, Contemporary Pop, and Art in Korea, Vietnam, and America
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
167. One Wound for Another: Una Herida Por Otra: Testimonios de Latin@s in the U.S. through Cyberspace Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 208
CHAIR:
Claire Joysmith, CISAN - UNAM
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
168. Native Americas: Race, Culture, and Transnationalism in the Borderlands Oakland Marriott City Center California
CHAIR:
Jack D. Forbes, University of California, Davis
PAPERS:
Robert Perez, University of California, Riverside Towards a Transnational Indio-Centric Methodology
Anthony Macias, University of California, Riverside Second Cousins: Mexicans and Mexican Americans, 1940s-1950s
Tharon Paul Weighill, Independent Scholar Aboriginal Embodied Memory: Figural Realism and Transnationalism in Baja and Alta California
Milo Alvarez, University of California, Los Angeles Conversations Between Movements: The Question of Indigeneity Within the Context of Red Power and Brown Power
COMMENT:
Jack D. Forbes, University of California, Davis
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
169. Rape and its Representations in American Culture Oakland Marriott City Center CS 4
CHAIR:
Eve Sweetser, University of California, Berkeley
PAPERS:
Estelle Freedman, Stanford University Race, Rape, and Gender in the American Press, 1870-1900
Lisa Lindquist Dorr, University of Alabama Walking Home and Mad Money: Chivalry, Sexual Danger, and Dating in the Twentieth Century South
Lillian Robinson, Concordia University
Mixed Company: American Mythologies of Interracial Rape
COMMENT:
Eve Sweetser, University of California, Berkeley
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
170. Roundtable Discussion: Improvisation, Transculturalism, and Social Change: Asian American Creative Music and the San Francisco Bay Area Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett F
CHAIR:
Michael Dessen, University of California, Irvine
PRESENTERS:
Jason L Robinson, University of California, Irvine Deborah Wong, University of California, Riverside Donna Lee Kwon, Rhodes College John Carlos Perea, University of California, Berkeley George Yoshida, Independent Artist Mark Izu, Artist
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
171. Interethnic Alliances and Resistance in 20th Century America Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 210/211
CHAIR:
Natalia Molina, University of California, San Diego
PAPERS:
Felipe Hinojosa, University of Houston Quiet Riots: Mennonites, Black and Latin@ Identity, and the Politics of Interethnic Alliances
Jimmy Charles Patino, University of California, San Diego Black-Brown Resistance in Youth Culture: From the Jazz to the Hip-Hop Generation
Rudy Guevarra, Jr., University of California, Santa Barbara Transpacific Unionism: Filipinos, Mexicans, and Interethnic Labor Organizing in Hawai'i and California, 1920-1942
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
172. Radically Queer: Reconsidering Homosexuality and the Left in Twentieth Century American Culture Oakland Marriott City Center AJ Toppers
CHAIR:
Judith Smith, University of Massachusetts, Boston
PAPERS:
Bettina Aptheker, University of California, Santa Cruz "Don't Ask, Don't Tell": Keeping the Communist Party Straight, 1940s - 1970s
Aaron Lecklider, Boston University Comintern Meets Homintern: Queers on the Left and the Artistic Temperament, 1929-1945
Alan M. Wald, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Queerness, Communism, and the Cold War in Cleveland; The Diegesis of Resistance in Jo Sinclair's The Changelings
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
173. Race, Radicalism and Sexual Politics Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett AB
CHAIR:
Lisa Sun-hee Park, University of California, San Diego
PAPERS:
Susan Stryker, Independent Scholar and Filmmaker From Screaming Queens to Lavendar Panthers: Transgender Radicalism in San Francisco, 1966-1973
May C. Fu, Colorado State University "Asian Women Were Not Supposed to Be Like That!": How Anti-Imperialism Inspired Sansei Women's Organizing
Dionne Espinosa, California State University, Los Angeles "'I'm Not Your Soldadera!': The Sexual Politics of Chicano Power in the 60s & 70s"
Jane Rhodes, Macalester College "-We Shall Have Our Manhood': The Black Panthers and the Struggle over Masculinity"
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
174. "Two Nations Under God: Representing the American Civil War in Text and Image" Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 206
CHAIR:
Elizabeth Young, Mount Holyoke College
PAPERS:
Faith Barrett, Lawrence University "'We are here at our country's call, boys': National and Masculine Identities in Soldiers' Poetry"
Alice Fahs, University of California, Irvine "Domesticity, Violence, and Nationhood: Women's Stories of the Civil War, 1861-1865"
Eliza C Richards, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "Lining Up the Dead: Poetry, Photography, and Antietam"
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
175. The Double Inscription of African-American Bodies Across Ideological Borders: II Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett C
CHAIR:
Alexander G. Weheliye, Northwestern University
PAPERS:
Sarah Hirsch, University of California, Santa Babarbara Harlem in Marseilles: Transnational "Race-Nationhood" in Claude McKay's Banjo
Daniel Won-gu Kim, University of Colorado, Boulder Sunrise Out of Africa: Recovering the Radicalism of Langston Hughes' African (Re)Turn 1954-1960
John Charles, North Carolina State University The Politics of Sympathy and Exile: African American Mid-Century Expatriation and the Emergence of the Postwar Black Subject
John Bloom, Shippensburg University Crashing the Olympic Cocktail Party: Racial Protest and Howard Cosell's Rise to Fame
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
176. Literature as Social Document: Reading Race and Empire Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 207
CHAIR:
Jill Anderson, University of Texas, Austin
PAPERS:
Nicole Waligora-Davis, Cornell University The Forensics of Lynching: Law & Science at the Turn of the 20th Century
Gretchen Murphy, University of Texas, Austin Winnifred Eaton's Racial Reconstructions on the Field of Empire
Kathryne Lindberg, Wayne State University Listening Diasporally: Claude McKay's Ditch "Carmen" as a Critique of Opera and its Listeners
Elizabeth Abele, Nassau Community College Tourist Fiction: Commonwealth Authors Salman Rushdie and DBC Pierre Write American Violence
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
177. Business Meeting of the Visual Culture/Art History Caucus Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 203
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
178. Celebration of Authors Oakland Marriott City Center East Hall
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
179. Writing Alternative US Political Histories Oakland Marriott City Center CS 2/3
CHAIR:
Avery Gordon, University of California, Santa Barbara
PAPERS:
David Roediger, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Race, Whiteness and Misery: Hidden Histories
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, University of Southern California Abandonment
Rebecca Solnit, Independent scholar In Praise of Shadows and Margins
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
180. Business Meeting of the Religion and American Culture Caucus Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 202
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
181. Reception of the Material Culture, Visual Culture, and Art History Caucuses Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 204
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
182. Reception of the Students' Committee Reception of the Students' Committee Reception of the Students' Commitee
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM
183. Roundtable Discussion: Publishing as a Class Act Oakland Marriott City Center CS 4
CHAIR:
Janet Zandy, Rochester Instiute of Technology
PRESENTERS:
LeAnn Fields, University of Michigan Press John Crawford, West End Press Micah Kleit, Temple University Press Leslie Mitchner, Rutgers University Press
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
184. Business Meeting of Working Class Studies Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 201
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
185. Business Meeting of the K16 Collaboration Committee Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 210/211
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
186. Reception of the Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at Austin Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 203
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
186B. Lillian Robinson Memorial Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 207
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
187. Reception of the Mid-America ASA Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 206
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
188. Reception of the Chesapeake American Studies Association and the University of Maryland Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 205
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
189. ASA Awards Ceremony Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett AB
Presiding: Vicki L. Ruiz, University of California, Irvine, and President-Elect
of the American Studies Association
Presentation of the Bode-Pearson Prize for outstanding contributions to American
Studies, the Mary C. Turpie Prize for outstanding teaching, advising, and program
development in American Studies, the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for
the best book in American Studies, the Lora Romero Publication Prize for the
best-published first book in American Studies, the Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize
for the best dissertation in American Studies, the Constance Rourke Prize for
the best article in American Quarterly, Wise-Susman Prize for the best student
paper to be presented at the annual meeting, and the Yasuo Sakakibara Prize
for the best paper presented by an international scholar at the meeting.
8:30 PM - 9:30 PM
190. ASA Presidential Address Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett AB
Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside Diversity in the United States and Abroad: What Does it Mean When American
Studies is Transnational? The address will touch on a broad range of contemporary issues including
the wars in the Middle East, the crisis of colleges and universities and the
humanities and arts in the United States, but the core of the paper will be
on the emergence of the internationalization of the field of American Studies
over the last twenty-five years. Bringing together a number of arguments for
why this shift has occurred, the presentation will focus upon the ways that
the transformation of the canons of literary and historical texts has acknowledged
the nation's cultural diversity by facilitating the emergence of new fields
of study that include the African, Latin American, and Asian diasporas and especially
the role of the Caribbean in the development of American social and political
thought, the arts, and literature.
9:30 PM - 11:55 PM
191. ASA President's Reception Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett C