This is a snapshot of the program as it existed on October 1, 2018. The most up-to-date version of the program can be found online at theasa.net. Please note that Session Numbers (not page numbers) are shown below.
Cycles of Emergence ... 004
Affect Theory and Race in the Early Americas ... 029
(Trans)Internationalism ... 047
States of Nature in 19th-Century Science ... 054
Merciful Failure, Delightful Disasters, and Practices of Hope ... 079
The Ideological Emergency of the Frontier ... 104
Conspiracy, Confederacy and Revolt: Scenes from Antebellum America ... 134
Emerging Narratives of Enslaved, Incarcerated, and Indentured Youth ... 190
Early American Matters Caucus: Colloquy with Britt Rusert on Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture ... 217
Emergent Haiti: New World Sovereignty and Cultural Exchange ... 241
Race, the State, and Political Imaginaries ... 299
Reconstructing Secularisms ... 325
Black and Indigenous Ephemeralities ... 353
Biopolitical Emergenc(i)es: Toward a New Genealogy of Race, Gender, and Liberal Dispossession ... 382
What about the Human?: Humans, Monsters, Waste ... 005
Legal Entanglements: Land, Rights, and Citizenship ... 014
Crisis across Asian-Americas: Racial Politics, Migration, and Cultural Production in California ... 023
Biopolitics: The Body as Property ... 053
Gendered Sounds: Women Sing Off-Key ... 057
Right Makes Might?: Christianity, Conservatism, and Nationalism ... 058
Interwar Black International ... 059
The Changing Same: Race and the Emergence of Post-World War I American Culture ... 075
Cultural and Ecological Geographies of the Urban ... 082
Black in the Archive ... 167
Monumental Memory ... 177
Legacies of 1968: Emergent Transnationalisms and Recurrent Crises ... 198
Latinx Feminisms ... 263
Wake Work: Recovering the Legacies of Black Radicalism in a Reactionary Moment ... 312
Sound Studies Caucus: Sound Studies and the Long Sixties ... 348
How Does a State Feel?: The Aesthetic Lives of Administrative and Bureaucratic Violence ... 368
Marxism Caucus: The Legacies of 1968 ... 377
Queerness and Race in Atlanta ... 388
Emergent Forms of Speculative Media ... 431
Fostered in Crisis: African American Internationalism under Détente ... 439
Black Feminisms across Many Suns: Futuristic Survival ... 440
Black Activism through the Arts ... 449
Black Appalachia: Garveyism, Youth Protest, and Identity in the 20th Century ... 455
Cycles of Emergence ... 004
Speculative Fiction as a Genre of Emergence ... 016
Criminalization, Surveillance, and the Carceral State ... 019
Displaced / Out of Place Refugees ... 020
The Working Life: Culture, Class, Resilience and the Cards ... 022
On Public Art ... 024
Intersectional Feminist Futures ... 033
Women of Color Resist: Feminist and Queer Strategies ... 056
Right Makes Might?: Christianity, Conservatism, and Nationalism ... 058
Crisis Obscura: Racialized Exceptions and the Biopolitics of American Empire ... 092
Committee on Departments, Programs, and Centers: Breakfast Forum: Subverting the Hustle: Emergence and Transformation within the University Complex ... 130
Student Activism in the Age of Trump, #MeToo, and #BlackLivesMatter: Atlanta Student Activists in Conversation ... 143
Black Feminist Poetics, Narratives, and Humorq ... 155
Committee on Departments, Programs, and Centers: Pedagogies, Emergent Capacities and Sustaining the Magic of American Studies ... 158
Race and Disability Justice ... 163
White Nationalist Roots of Trumpism ... 171
On the Possibilities and Limits of Latinx: Towards an Indigenous Critique ... 182
Black Moods: Reading African American Arts and Culture Now ... 183
Questioning Platform Capitalism ... 194
Black Women and Crisis of Popular Culture in the Contemporary Era ... 210
Humor Studies Caucus: Laughing in the Face of Crisis in the Age of Trump ... 225
Presidential Session: Dictatorship or Democracy?: Thinking though the Global Authoritarian Turn ... 250
Who's the Terrorist?: Survival and Refusal in the Global War ... 252
Neo-Passing: Performing Identity in Post-Jim Crow States of Emergence ... 253
Graduate Education Committee: Perfecting Your Pitch (co-sponsored by the Students' Committee) ... 259
Presidential Address: To Catch a Light-Filled Vision: American Studies and the Activation of Radical Traditions ... 275
On the Uses of Political Theatre ... 285
Queer / Feminist Liberatory Futures ... 306
Wake Work: Recovering the Legacies of Black Radicalism in a Reactionary Moment ... 312
The End of Cheap Food: Power, Precarity, and Human Disposability ... 318
Los Angeles Geographies and Archives ... 332
Program Committee: Arab Voices and the De-centering of America ... 341
Technological Emergence and Political Emergencies at the Intersection of Race, Gender, and Resistance ... 356
Racial Capitalism, Environmental Capitalism, and Survival in the South ... 371
War, Empire, and Anti-Muslim Racism ... 381
Site Resources Committee: F.I.L.A. and Atlanta's Evolution as a Hip Hop City ... 392
Gendering Memory and Archive across the Americas ... 405
States of Emergence: University Capitalism ... 048
Emerging Anti-Fascist Action: Tapping into Traditions and Meeting New Fascism ... 073
International Committee Talkshop I: Transnational Research from Emergency to Emerging Projects ... 076
Critical Ethnic Studies Committee: Academic Labor, Austerity, and Authoritarianism ... 168
Students Committee: Emerging Scholars and Publishing Your First Book ... 178
International Committee Talkshop II: Transnational Teaching from Emergency to Emerging Projects ... 193
Acts of Black Emergence: Interrupting and Re-Imagining the Figure of the State ... 009
Form's Emergent Privacy: "Gayl Jones's" American Studies Project ... 017
On Public Art ... 024
Emerging Visualities, Seeing Emergencies Differently ... 043
Unruly Sensings: State Violence, Be / longing, and Aesthetics in Motion ... 084
The Urgency of Aesthetics: Portrayals of Black Women in a Time of Emergency ... 151
Aesthetic Form and Racial Formation: Reforming a History of Race's Emergence ... 172
The Aesthetics of White Supremacy: Visualizing the Racial Politics of Surveillance and Necropower ... 237
States of Emergence in the Labor of Suffering ... 302
Entanglements of Blackness and Brownness in the Aesthetic Production of the Americas ... 304
Synthetic Forms ... 346
The Aesthetics of Militancy ... 352
Women and Drones in the Perpetual State of Exception ... 367
How Does a State Feel?: The Aesthetic Lives of Administrative and Bureaucratic Violence ... 368
Queer Art of Emergency: Racial Proximity and the Aesthetics of Repair ... 374
Race, Property, and Aesthetics ... 389
Performance Studies Caucus: Peggy Phelan's Unmarked at 25 ... 397
Sans Emergence: Aesthetics of Immersion, Technology-Mediated Corporealities, and Weaponized Landscapes ... 402
Gathering after the End: Queer Minoritarian Aesthetics of Ruins ... 424
Articulating Asian / American Aesthetics of Non-Resilience: Neoliberalism's States of Emergency ... 430
Utopic / Dystopic: Black Feminist Aesthetics ... 456
Poetry from the Future: Un-Forming the Political ... 462
The Poetics of Crisis: Contexts for Liberation ... 003
Affect Theory and Race in the Early Americas ... 029
In the Water: Racial Capitalism and Environmental Justice ... 055
Race and Disability Justice ... 163
Black Moods: Reading African American Arts and Culture Now ... 183
Chests, Nests, and Capsules: Material Culture and its Containers ... 296
(In)Visible Emergences: Decolonial Queer / Trans Theories and Methods as Resistance and Hope ... 345
Utopic / Dystopic: Black Feminist Aesthetics ... 456
What about the Human?: Humans, Monsters, Waste ... 005
Representations of Violence ... 006
Acts of Black Emergence: Interrupting and Re-Imagining the Figure of the State ... 009
Age and the Life Cycle in Black Studies ... 012
Between Emergence and Endurance: Racial Formations and Mutations ... 013
Gentrification and Development: Place, Power, and Desire ... 015
Speculative Fiction as a Genre of Emergence ... 016
Form's Emergent Privacy: "Gayl Jones's" American Studies Project ... 017
On Public Art ... 024
Affect Theory and Race in the Early Americas ... 029
Emergent States of Race, Emergent Racial States: The U.S. Military, Water Law, and Bio-Neglected Citizens ... 031
"Kick, Push": Youth Politics, Empire, and Decolonization ... 032
Fifty Years of Black Rage: Anti-Blackness between Clinic and Culture ... 034
Unsettled Landscapes: Black Sociality as Rupture ... 038
Form and Interface: Architectures of Race, Gender, and Indigeneity ... 039
Du Bois Lately: Emergent Critiques of W. E. B. Du Bois at 150 ... 040
Biopolitics: Race, Medical Punishment, and Memory ... 044
(Trans)Internationalism ... 047
Women of Color Resist: Feminist and Queer Strategies ... 056
Gendered Sounds: Women Sing Off-Key ... 057
Interwar Black International ... 059
Ethical Questions in Teaching Afro-Pessimism ... 065
Inheriting Black Studies ... 067
The Changing Same: Race and the Emergence of Post-World War I American Culture ... 075
Cultural and Ecological Geographies of the Urban ... 082
Soul's Children: Black Music and the Black Liberation Movement, 1970–Present ... 086
New Joints: Imagining the Music Video ... 090
Waiting To Be Heard: The Emergence of the Voices of Victims of America's Racial Terror ... 108
Blackness, Race, and Indigeneity in the Pacific ... 109
Static, Beats, and Chains: Sound Matters in Black (After)Lives ... 111
Ecologies of Black Childhood ... 112
Murderous Feeling: The Form and Content of Retribution and Violence in Black and Indigenous Literature ... 114
Performing under Settler Colonial Crisis: Black and Indigenous Mobilizing on the Stage, Screen, and Streets ... 115
Catastrophes of the Human and Architectures of Emergence ... 123
Conspiracy, Confederacy and Revolt: Scenes from Antebellum America ... 134
Black Futures, Femmes, and Freedom Dreams: Visioning Black Life as Liberatory Praxis ... 139
In the Flesh: Black and Brown Performance in the Age of Emergence ... 146
Between Nothingness and Infinity: Black Joy, Nihilism, and Other Theologies ... 147
The Urgency of Aesthetics: Portrayals of Black Women in a Time of Emergency ... 151
Black Feminist Poetics, Narratives, and Humor ... 155
Contradictory Counter-Discourses: Continuing Complicities and Emerging Solidarities ... 161
Race and Disability Justice ... 163
The Woke South ... 165
Black in the Archive ... 167
Program Committee: Christina Sharpe's In the Wake: On Blackness and Being ... 173
Monumental Memory ... 177
Students Committee: Emerging Scholars and Publishing Your First Book ... 178
Unfit: So-Called Deviant Black Performance in the United States, South Africa, and the Caribbean ... 179
Indigenous, Race-Radical, and Transfeminist Responses to Mass Criminalization and the Transcarceral Continuum ... 180
The Emergence of African States and the Black Transnational Imagination ... 181
Black Moods: Reading African American Arts and Culture Now ... 183
Black | Queer | Diaspora | Sex: Emergent Approaches to Black Queer Sex ... 195
Whiteness of a Different Color: 20 Years Later ... 196
Program Committee: Sarah Haley's No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity ... 201
9-1-1 Emergency: Locating Emergent Racialized Coping Strategies in Popular Culture ... 202
Traveling Blackness in the Americas: Obscured Transnational Flows of Race, Culture, Gender, and Politics in the African Diaspora ... 208
Black Women and Crisis of Popular Culture in the Contemporary Era ... 210
Internationalisms from Below: From World Wars to Cold Wars to Terror Wars ... 215
Early American Matters Caucus: Colloquy with Britt Rusert on Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture ... 217
Their Own Conversation: U.S. Muslim Women's Activism, Women of Color Feminism, and Black American Islam ... 222
Heritage and Tourism: Militarizing Memory ... 231
The Aesthetics of White Supremacy: Visualizing the Racial Politics of Surveillance and Necropower ... 237
Spelman College Tour: Revolutionary and Foundational Site of Emergence (co-sponsored by ASA and NWSA) ... 239
Visual Culture Caucus: Visual Images and Black Subjects in the Wake of Racial Slavery ... 244
When the Heroes Eventually Die: A Critical Listening of Outkast's "Aquemini" on Its 20th Anniversary ... 247
These Knowledges Arrive Recklessly: Lindon Barrett's Conditions of the Present ... 251
Who's the Terrorist?: Survival and Refusal in the Global War ... 252
Neo-Passing: Performing Identity in Post-Jim Crow States of Emergence ... 253
Re-Emergent Erotics: On the Uses of Erotic Islands ... 254
Program Committee: The Salience of Slavery: Scholarship and Teaching on Racial Slavery in a Moment of Crisis ... 255
Black Migration and Black Nativism in the Era of Trump ... 256
The Archive as Time Capsule: World-Making with Octavia E. Butler ... 260
Emergent Narratives of Girlhood: Black Girl Futures ... 262
Photographic Domains / Performative Remains: Violent Reproduction, Racial Aesthetics, and Black Radical Dissent ... 264
Citizenship after Citizenship?: Reclaiming, Recovering, and Reconfiguring the Radical Potential of Citizenship ... 279
Broken Promises: Insecurity in the Muslim African Diaspora ... 280
On the Uses of Political Theatre ... 285
Program Committee: NO! The Rape Documentary in the Age of #Metoo ... 288
Black Queer Internationalists ... 295
Teaching through Terror #Charlottesville ... 300
Entanglements of Blackness and Brownness in the Aesthetic Production of the Americas ... 304
Queer / Feminist Liberatory Futures ... 306
Virtuosity ... 310
Wake Work: Recovering the Legacies of Black Radicalism in a Reactionary Moment ... 312
Racial Terror in the United States: Black Geographies and Popular Culture ... 328
Digital Humanities Caucus: Mapping Sweet Auburn: Geo-Locating Atlanta's Spaces of Black Crisis and Emergence Through Digital Humanities Making ... 334
Queer of Color Politics ... 336
The Emergence of Black Feminist Health Science Studies ... 339
Emerging Geographies of Freedom: The Power of Transnational African American Mobilities ... 344
Sound Studies Caucus: Sound Studies and the Long Sixties ... 348
The Critical Sounds and Colors of Caribbean Cultures ... 349
Black and Indigenous Ephemeralities ... 353
Temporalities of Catastrophe ... 359
Telling the Truth: Poetry, Politics, and Remembering the Life and Legacy of Activist, Public Intellectual, and Beloved Teacher June Jordan ... 369
Racial Capitalism, Environmental Capitalism, and Survival in the South ... 371
To Be Black and Brown All Around: Afro Indigenous / Latinx Coalitions ... 378
War, Empire, and Anti-Muslim Racism ... 381
Biopolitical Emergenc(i)es: Toward a New Genealogy of Race, Gender, and Liberal Dispossession ... 382
The Black Athlete in States of Crisis across Time and Space ... 383
The Anthological Impulse: Pedagogy and Social Justice ... 385
Queerness and Race in Atlanta ... 388
Varieties of Groundings in Black Studies ... 391
Site Resources Committee: F.I.L.A. and Atlanta's Evolution as a Hip Hop City ... 392
Radical Black Dharma Strategies: Black Femmes and Black Queers on Living in the Dark Age ... 394
State of the Nation: Emerging Perspectives on the Nation of Islam ... 408
A Voice and Nothing More?: Writing Sound and the Emergence of African American Racial Politics ... 425
Past the Town / Gown Divide: Toward Migrant Justice of Farmworkers and Students ... 426
Power, Poetry, and Public Health: How Essex Hemphill Taught Us to Resist the State ... 429
In Constant Crisis: Bodies and the Routinization of Emergency ... 435
Sorrow of a City: The (After)Life of the Atlanta Child Murders ... 438
Fostered in Crisis: African American Internationalism under Détente ... 439
Black Feminisms across Many Suns: Futuristic Survival ... 440
This Species of Racialization: Animalization, Anti-Blackness, and Coloniality ... 447
Race, Social Media, and the Digital Humanities ... 448
Black Activism through the Arts ... 449
Tour: South-View Cemetery ... 452
Black Appalachia: Garveyism, Youth Protest, and Identity in the 20th Century ... 455
Utopic / Dystopic: Black Feminist Aesthetics ... 456
Rethinking Alternative Worlds: Emerging in the Here and Now of Emergency ... 463
Emerging Perspectives on Popular Representations of Racism and Slavery ... 464
Rethinking Emergences of Afro-Asian Coalitions ... 466
The Emergence of African States and the Black Transnational Imagination ... 181
Mobility and Deportation in States of Emergency ... 287
The Critical Sounds and Colors of Caribbean Cultures ... 349
In the Water: Racial Capitalism and Environmental Justice ... 055
States of Embodiment: Animality, Racialization, and Environmental Justice ... 080
Animal States: Materiality, Animality, and Desire ... 149
This Species of Racialization: Animalization, Anti-Blackness, and Coloniality ... 447
Latinx Neoliberalism ... 035
Ethnography Caucus: Ethnography Now II: New Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity ... 320
(Re) Emergent Bones: Settler Colonial Spaces and the Accumulation of Human Remains ... 380
The Working Life: Culture, Class, Resilience and the Cards ... 022
Childhood and Youth Studies Caucus: Children's Literature and Emergent Genealogies of Resistance ... 037
Waiting To Be Heard: The Emergence of the Voices of Victims of America's Racial Terror ... 108
Academic and Community Activism Caucus: Beating the Backlash and Organizing in the Face of Emergency ... 224
After Emergence: Latinx and Comparative Racialization, Conflicts, and Coalition ... 236
The Aesthetics of White Supremacy: Visualizing the Racial Politics of Surveillance and Necropower ... 237
Confronting Anti-Blackness as Decolonization Strategy in Immigrant Justice Movements and Imaginaries ... 292
Teaching through Terror #Charlottesville ... 300
Program Committee: Sureños en Nueva Tierra: Desde TLC a Abolición / Southerners On New Ground: From NAFTA to Abolition ... 319
Los Angeles Geographies and Archives ... 332
Creating States of Emergence: Scholar-Artists and the Life-Giving Capacities of the Arts ... 338
Program Committee: Intersectionality at 30: States of Emergence ... 360
My Music: Anti-Colonial Feminist Punk Rock ... 361
Program Committee: 10 Years of Casting Out ... 387
Stomping Movements: Settler Imperial Counterinsurgency and Counterrevolution ... 445
On New Cartographies of Racial Capitalism and Black Radical Tradition ... 063
Arab American Studies Association: The Circulations of Hate, Honor, and Horror in the War on Terror ... 220
Settler Militarism: Order and Precarity ... 427
Who's the Terrorist?: Survival and Refusal in the Global War ... 252
Program Committee: Arab Voices and the De-centering of America ... 341
Death to the Peace Process: Reemergence(ies) of Palestinian Insurgency ... 450
On Public Art ... 024
Racial Capitalism and Natural Resource Extraction ... 045
Monumental Memory ... 177
HIV and AIDS in the States of Emergence: The Ongoing Crisis as a Condition of Possibility ... 311
Ulterior Emergencies: Aesthetics, Labor, and Re-Sighting Policy ... 412
In Constant Crisis: Bodies and the Routinization of Emergency ... 435
Representations of Violence ... 006
Between Emergence and Endurance: Racial Formations and Mutations ... 013
Colonial Interruptions: (Re)mergences, Remains, and Redress in Southeast Asian American Diasporic Politics ... 021
Crisis across Asian-Americas: Racial Politics, Migration, and Cultural Production in California ... 023
Emergent States of Race, Emergent Racial States: The U.S. Military, Water Law, and Bio-Neglected Citizens ... 031
Unsettling Asian / America: U.S. Citizenship and Trans-Pacific Critique ... 071
Abundant Ecologies, Femme Aesthetics, and Emergent Bodies: Performance in the Age of Ruin ... 081
New Dimensions of Filipino-American Organizing: Emergent Radicalisms from the 1970s to the 2010s ... 096
In the Aftermath of Disaster: Transcultural Intimacies across Geopolitics and the Human / Non-Human Divide ... 121
The U.S. War on North Korea ... 132
Race and Disability Justice ... 163
Whiteness of a Different Color: 20 Years Later ... 196
Sight and the Spoils of Empire ... 243
The Forgotten Prisoners of War: Internment during World War II ... 261
Pacific Currents and Visions ... 298
Race, the State, and Political Imaginaries ... 299
Empire and Asian American Studies ... 324
Queer of Color Politics ... 336
The Critical Sounds and Colors of Caribbean Cultures ... 349
Trans-Pacific Studies after the TPP: Political Response and New Coordinates ... 362
To Be Black and Brown All Around: Afro Indigenous / Latinx Coalitions ... 378
Articulating Asian / American Aesthetics of Non-Resilience: Neoliberalism's States of Emergency ... 430
Racial Property: Performing Legal Fictions ... 443
Race, Social Media, and the Digital Humanities ... 448
On Public Art ... 024
Asian-Indigenous Relationalities: Incommensurate Emergencies and Relational Emergences ... 064
Unruly Sensings: State Violence, Be / longing, and Aesthetics in Motion ... 084
Performing Care, Domestic Labor, and Empire ... 085
Imagining Otherwise across the Asias: Queer / Feminist Sites of Emergence ... 106
In the Aftermath of Disaster: Transcultural Intimacies across Geopolitics and the Human / Non-Human Divide ... 121
Race, the State, and Political Imaginaries ... 299
Queer of Color Politics ... 336
Trans-Pacific Studies after the TPP: Political Response and New Coordinates ... 362
Alien Emergences: Multiracial Intimacies and Queer Solidarities in Transnational Encounter ... 400
Critical Stories of Crossings in and through the Americas ... 411
Multi-Directional Migration, Crisis, and Trans-Pacific Imaginaries ... 437
Rethinking Emergences of Afro-Asian Coalitions ... 466
Emergent Haiti: New World Sovereignty and Cultural Exchange ... 241
Environment and Culture Caucus: American Studies in the Plantationocene ... 342
Gendering Memory and Archive across the Americas ... 405
Border Studies:
Crossing Bodies and Borders in LatinX Literature and Art ... 010
Displaced / Out of Place Refugees ... 020
On Public Art ... 024
U.S. / Central Americans in the Era of Trump ... 060
Cultural and Ecological Geographies of the Urban ... 082
Monsters, Spirits, and Replicant Others: Crisis, (Re)creation, and Endurance in Latinx Borderlands ... 110
On the Possibilities and Limits of Latinx: Towards an Indigenous Critique ... 182
Environment and Culture Caucus: Climate Migrants and Refugees across Militarized Borders ... 289
¡Alta a Las Deportaciones! ... 316
To Be Black and Brown All Around: Afro Indigenous / Latinx Coalitions ... 378
Sans Emergence: Aesthetics of Immersion, Technology-Mediated Corporealities, and Weaponized Landscapes ... 402
Latinx Neoliberalism ... 035
Biopolitics: The Body as Property ... 053
The Demonic Grounds of Decolonial Performance ... 131
Presidential Session: U.S. Military Occupations in the Caribbean and Their Aftermaths ... 227
Emergent Haiti: New World Sovereignty and Cultural Exchange ... 241
Re-Emergent Erotics: On the Uses of Erotic Islands ... 254
Latinx Feminisms ... 263
Black Queer Internationalists ... 295
Global Emergencies, Caribbean Responses ... 321
The Critical Sounds and Colors of Caribbean Cultures ... 349
My Music: Anti-Colonial Feminist Punk Rock ... 361
Racial Capitalism, Environmental Capitalism, and Survival in the South ... 371
To Be Black and Brown All Around: Afro Indigenous / Latinx Coalitions ... 378
Gendering Memory and Archive across the Americas ... 405
Criminalization, Surveillance, and the Carceral State ... 019
Latinx Neoliberalism ... 035
Cultural and Ecological Geographies of the Urban ... 082
Performing Care, Domestic Labor, and Empire ... 085
On the Possibilities and Limits of Latinx: Towards an Indigenous Critique ... 182
Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Years ... 206
On the Uses of Political Theatre ... 285
My Music: Anti-Colonial Feminist Punk Rock ... 361
Age and the Life Cycle in Black Studies ... 012
Childhood and Youth Studies Caucus: Children's Literature and Emergent Genealogies of Resistance ... 037
Biopolitics: The Body as Property ... 053
Childhood and Youth Studies Caucus: Emerging in Emergency ... 062
The Child as Queer Emergence ... 087
Ecologies of Black Childhood ... 112
Emerging Narratives of Enslaved, Incarcerated, and Indentured Youth ... 190
Emergent Narratives of Girlhood: Black Girl Futures ... 262
Queer / Feminist Liberatory Futures ... 306
Racial Capitalism, Environmental Capitalism, and Survival in the South ... 371
The Black Athlete in States of Crisis across Time and Space ... 383
Sex, Emergency, and the Emerging Child ... 410
Legal Entanglements: Land, Rights, and Citizenship ... 014
Form and Interface: Architectures of Race, Gender, and Indigeneity ... 039
Unsettling Asian / America: U.S. Citizenship and Trans-Pacific Critique ... 071
The State and I: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Public Space and Public Action ... 093
Archival Justice: Minding the (Human) Gap in Teaching and Research ... 117
Monumental Memory ... 177
Emerging Fields: Locating Iranian Diaspora Studies within American Studies ... 214
Citizenship after Citizenship?: Reclaiming, Recovering, and Reconfiguring the Radical Potential of Citizenship ... 279
Broken Promises: Insecurity in the Muslim African Diaspora ... 280
Mobility and Deportation in States of Emergency ... 287
Pacific Currents and Visions ... 298
Public Space As / In States of Emergence ... 301
Eva Cherniavsky's Neocitizenship: Political Culture after Democracy ... 303
Institutionalizing Emergency: Boarding Schools and the Crises of Colonialism ... 364
War, Empire, and Anti-Muslim Racism ... 381
Past the Town / Gown Divide: Toward Migrant Justice of Farmworkers and Students ... 426
Racial Property: Performing Legal Fictions ... 443
Organizing from the Margins ... 465
The Working Life: Culture, Class, Resilience and the Cards ... 022
Performing Care, Domestic Labor, and Empire ... 085
The Tacky South ... 137
The Emergence of Trump and the Emergency of Trumpism ... 140
Sports Studies Caucus: Rebel Workers and Emergent Forms of Labor, Time, and Value in the World of Sport ... 164
The Emerging Field of Working-Class Studies ... 169
Academic Hierarchy and Academic Irrelevance ... 248
Representations of Violence ... 006
Legal Entanglements: Land, Rights, and Citizenship ... 014
Colonial Interruptions: (Re)mergences, Remains, and Redress in Southeast Asian American Diasporic Politics ... 021
The 500-Year Emergency: Ecological Catastrophe and the American Plantation Imaginary ... 050
Infrastructures of Colonialism in North America ... 089
Crisis Obscura: Racialized Exceptions and the Biopolitics of American Empire ... 092
Conspiracy, Confederacy and Revolt: Scenes from Antebellum America ... 134
Philippine-American Intersections and the Emergence of Trans-Pacific Studies ... 153
War and Peace Studies Caucus: Local Emergencies, Emergent Empires, and Prehistories of the War on Terror ... 159
The Emergence of African States and the Black Transnational Imagination ... 181
War and Peace Studies Caucus: Global Emergencies, U.S. Interventions, and Prehistories of the War on Terror ... 187
Mobility and Deportation in States of Emergency ... 287
Emergent Acts: Colonial Logics and Transnational Performances of Resistance ... 290
Black Queer Internationalists ... 295
Global Emergencies, Caribbean Responses ... 321
Unruly Solidarities and Re-Emergent Internationalisms of the Trans-Pacific World ... 340
Temporalities of Catastrophe ... 359
War, Empire, and Anti-Muslim Racism ... 381
Visualizing Sovereignty: Anti-Colonial Futures Emerging through Indigenous Political and Cultural Praxis ... 407
Stomping Movements: Settler Imperial Counterinsurgency and Counterrevolution ... 445
Death to the Peace Process: Reemergence(ies) of Palestinian Insurgency ... 450
The Working Life: Culture, Class, Resilience and the Cards ... 022
Emergent Broadcasts: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Potential(s) of Television ... 460
Outside the Archive: Feminist and Queer Afro-Asian Formations ... 144
Emergent Acts: Colonial Logics and Transnational Performances of Resistance ... 290
Racial Capitalism, Environmental Capitalism, and Survival in the South ... 371
International Committee Talkshop III: Transnational Publications from Emergency to Emerging Projects ... 373
What about the Human?: Humans, Monsters, Waste ... 005
Ethical Emergency and Posthumanist Emergence ... 074
Black Futures, Femmes, and Freedom Dreams: Visioning Black Life as Liberatory Praxis ... 139
Between Nothingness and Infinity: Black Joy, Nihilism, and Other Theologies ... 147
Black Feminist Poetics, Narratives, and Humor ... 155
Program Committee: Christina Sharpe's In the Wake: On Blackness and Being ... 173
On the Possibilities and Limits of Latinx: Towards an Indigenous Critique ... 182
Critical Disability Studies Caucus: Cripping the Study of Science, Technology, and Medicine (co-sponsored by the Science, Technology and Medicine Caucus) ... 191
Questioning Platform Capitalism ... 194
Critical Disability Studies Caucus: Cripistemologies of Continuous Crisis I: Exploring / Speculating / Imagining Crip Space and Time ... 218
These Knowledges Arrive Recklessly: Lindon Barrett's Conditions of the Present ... 251
Mobility and Deportation in States of Emergency ... 287
Ethnography Caucus: Ethnography Now I: New Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity ... 294
Maps for the Territory: Walks, Words, and Counter-Worlds in Palestine ... 297
Critical Disability Studies Caucus: Cripistemologies of Continuous Crisis II: The Cultural Etiologies / Exacerbations of Crisis States ... 309
Securitized Subjects, Militarized Time(s): The Everyday Life of Violence ... 365
Critical Ethnic Studies Committee: The Visual Culture of Mixed Race Representations ... 366
Material Subcultures: Production and Consumption on the Margins ... 406
Ulterior Emergencies: Aesthetics, Labor, and Re-Sighting Policy ... 412
Unsettled Landscapes: Black Sociality as Rupture ... 038
On New Cartographies of Racial Capitalism and Black Radical Tradition ... 063
Spatiality and Transsexuality in American Studies: Sisterhood, Space, Place, and Belonging ... 072
Performing Care, Domestic Labor, and Empire ... 085
The Woke South ... 165
Heritage and Tourism: Militarizing Memory ... 231
Sea Changes: Migration, Displacement, and States of Emergence, 1838-2000 ... 249
On the Uses of Political Theatre ... 285
Maps for the Territory: Walks, Words, and Counter-Worlds in Palestine ... 297
Racial Terror in the United States: Black Geographies and Popular Culture ... 328
Los Angeles Geographies and Archives ... 332
Decolonial Intimacies: Emergent Coalitional Potentialities across Latinx and Asian / American Studies ... 002
What about the Human?: Humans, Monsters, Waste ... 005
Temporalities of Resistance, Emergence, and Futurity: The Afterlives of Death ... 041
Interwar Black International ... 059
Asian-Indigenous Relationalities: Incommensurate Emergencies and Relational Emergences ... 064
Cultural and Ecological Geographies of the Urban ... 082
Committee on Departments, Programs, and Centers: Breakfast Forum: Subverting the Hustle: Emergence and Transformation within the University Complex ... 130
The Demonic Grounds of Decolonial Performance ... 131
The U.S. War on North Korea ... 132
Internationalism and Palestine ... 141
Trans* and Queer Embodiments of Sanación: Latinx Territories of the Body and the Spiritual ... 148
On the Possibilities and Limits of Latinx: Towards an Indigenous Critique ... 182
From Sky World to Turtle Island and Back: Emergence as Haudenosaunee Strategy ... 242
Knowledge is Sovereignty: De-centering Settler Colonial States of Emergency through Indigenous Resurgence Praxes ... 282
Black Queer Internationalists ... 295
Maps for the Territory: Walks, Words, and Counter-Worlds in Palestine ... 297
Race, the State, and Political Imaginaries ... 299
(In)Visible Emergences: Decolonial Queer / Trans Theories and Methods as Resistance and Hope ... 345
The Critical Sounds and Colors of Caribbean Cultures ... 349
Our Borderline Concepts ... 351
Past the Town / Gown Divide: Toward Migrant Justice of Farmworkers and Students ... 426
Ecologies of Radical Healing and Survival ... 428
This Species of Racialization: Animalization, Anti-Blackness, and Coloniality ... 447
Colonial Interruptions: (Re)mergences, Remains, and Redress in Southeast Asian American Diasporic Politics ... 021
Latinx Neoliberalism ... 035
Interwar Black International ... 059
Archival Justice: Minding the (Human) Gap in Teaching and Research ... 117
Program Committee: Christina Sharpe's In the Wake: On Blackness and Being ... 173
Traveling Blackness in the Americas: Obscured Transnational Flows of Race, Culture, Gender, and Politics in the African Diaspora ... 208
Centering Puerto Rican Bodies and History through the Works of Lin-Manuel Miranda ... 209
Presidential Session: U.S. Military Occupations in the Caribbean and Their Aftermaths ... 227
Sea Changes: Migration, Displacement, and States of Emergence, 1838–2000 ... 249
Black Migration and Black Nativism in the Era of Trump ... 256
Broken Promises: Insecurity in the Muslim African Diaspora ... 280
The Critical Sounds and Colors of Caribbean Cultures ... 349
To Be Black and Brown All Around: Afro Indigenous / Latinx Coalitions ... 378
Death to the Peace Process: Reemergence(ies) of Palestinian Insurgency ... 450
Representing the Diaspora's Emergence / ies ... 459
The Working Life: Culture, Class, Resilience and the Cards ... 022
Black in the Archive ... 167
American Quarterly: American Studies, the Digital Humanities, and a Critically Engaged Digital Practice ... 213
Digital Humanities Caucus: Digital Shorts ... 278
Emergence in the Archive: Cultural Heritage in Theory and Practice ... 281
Conversations in the Feminist Public Humanities: Concepts, Nuts and Bolts, and New Publics ... 326
Digital Humanities Caucus: Mapping Sweet Auburn: Geo-Locating Atlanta's Spaces of Black Crisis and Emergence Through Digital Humanities Making ... 334
Digital Humanities Caucus: Emerging Digital Humanities ... 363
The Revolution Will Be Digitized: Anti-Racist and Feminist Perspectives ... 436
Race, Social Media, and the Digital Humanities ... 448
Mapping Segregated Histories: Digital Research and Visualizations for the Public ... 461
Emergent Vitalities: Resurgence as Emergence in Indigenous Visualities ... 007
The Working Life: Culture, Class, Resilience and the Cards ... 022
Mediating Emergency: Media's Constructions, Infrastructures, and Temporalities of Crisis ... 066
Questioning Platform Capitalism ... 194
Students Committee: No Ban, No Paywall, Open Access for All: The Ethics of Open Access Publishing ... 205
Trans-Cyberian States of Emergency: Race, Gender, and Disability in Digital Trans Studies ... 257
Maps for the Territory: Walks, Words, and Counter-Worlds in Palestine ... 297
Digital Humanities Caucus: Emerging Digital Humanities ... 363
International Committee Talkshop III: Transnational Publications from Emergency to Emerging Projects ... 373
What about the Human?: Humans, Monsters, Waste ... 005
Emergent Forms of Queer Care ... 028
Du Bois Lately: Emergent Critiques of W. E. B. Du Bois at 150 ... 040
Biopolitics: The Body as Property ... 053
Against Work: Disability, Labor, and the Crisis of Human Worth ... 124
Race and Disability Justice ... 163
White Nationalist Roots of Trumpism ... 171
Critical Disability Studies Caucus: Cripping the Study of Science, Technology, and Medicine (co-sponsored by the Science, Technology and Medicine Caucus) ... 191
Critical Disability Studies Caucus: Cripistemologies of Continuous Crisis I: Exploring / Speculating / Imagining Crip Space and Time ... 218
Critical Disability Studies Caucus: Sustaining Disability Studies in Times of Crisis ... 245
Disability Studies: Critical Genealogies and Emerging Futures ... 284
Critical Disability Studies Caucus: Cripistemologies of Continuous Crisis II: The Cultural Etiologies / Exacerbations of Crisis States ... 309
Embracing the Mess, Engaging the Complex: Disability Politics and Anti-Ableist Practices among Poor and Racialized Populations ... 337
Institutionalizing Emergence: On (Re)Producing Institutions of Crisis ... 354
Critical University Studies: Disability, Race, Gender, and Sexuality ... 396
Early American Matters Caucus: (Dis)Ability, Race, the Superhuman, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Slavery ... 398
Medical States of Emergence and Geographies of Care: Civil Rights Movements and Biopolitics in New Mexico, Texas, and Louisiana ... 446
Conspiracy, Confederacy and Revolt: Scenes from Antebellum America ... 134
The Climate of Emergency ... 162
Program Committee: The Salience of Slavery: Scholarship and Teaching on Racial Slavery in a Moment of Crisis ... 255
Inheriting Black Studies ... 067
Freedom Summer Collegiate Symposium ... 078
Cultural and Ecological Geographies of the Urban ... 082
Site Resources Committee: We Were Here before DACA, and We'll Be Here after DACA: Latina / os in Atlanta and
Their Quest for Academic Justice in the 21st-Century ... 103
The Role of Education and Cultural Exchange in Mitigating Crises: Case Studies of Exchanges between the U.S. and China ... 142
Emerging Keywords for Higher Education: Art, Engagement, Inclusion, Safe ... 166
Black in the Archive ... 167
Students Committee: Emerging Scholars and Publishing Y our First Book ... 178
Students Committee: No Ban, No Paywall, Open Access for All: The Ethics of Open Access Publishing ... 205
Graduate Education Committee: Beyond Crisis in Graduate Education ... 221
Spelman College Tour: Revolutionary and Foundational Site of Emergence (co-sponsored by ASA and NWSA) ... 239
Race, the State, and Political Imaginaries ... 299
Telling the Truth: Poetry, Politics, and Remembering the Life and Legacy of Activist, Public Intellectual, and Beloved Teacher June Jordan ... 369
Displaced / Out of Place Refugees ... 020
Comunidades en Resistencia: Indigenous and Latinx Collaboratives in the Face of Environmental Degradation ... 030
Racial Capitalism and Natural Resource Extraction ... 045
Emerging Eco-Subjectivities ... 049
The 500-Year Emergency: Ecological Catastrophe and the American Plantation Imaginary ... 050
In the Water: Racial Capitalism and Environmental Justice ... 055
Interwar Black International ... 059
States of Embodiment: Animality, Racialization, and Environmental Justice ... 080
Structural and Infrastructural Violence: Environmental Justice in a New Frame ... 105
Ecologies of Black Childhood ... 112
Mobilizing Indigenous Economies of Abundance against Climate Change and Late-Liberal, Settler Colonial Exhaustion ... 116
Body Burdens: Trauma, Toxicity, and the (Re)Production of Harm ... 135
The Climate of Emergency ... 162
Program Committee: Environmental Justice and Survivance ... 228
Who's the Terrorist?: Survival and Refusal in the Global War ... 252
Environment and Culture Caucus: Climate Migrants and Refugees across Militarized Borders ... 289
Maps for the Territory: Walks, Words, and Counter-Worlds in Palestine ... 297
Migrant Emergencies, Climate Change, and Narratives of Securitization ... 305
Environment and Culture Caucus: Intersections in Environmental Humanities ... 314
The End of Cheap Food: Power, Precarity, and Human Disposability ... 318
Environment and Culture Caucus: American Studies in the Plantationocene ... 342
Telling the Truth: Poetry, Politics, and Remembering the Life and Legacy of Activist, Public Intellectual, and Beloved Teacher June Jordan ... 369
Racial Capitalism, Environmental Capitalism, and Survival in the South ... 371
Ecologies of Radical Healing and Survival ... 428
Stomping Movements: Settler Imperial Counterinsurgency and Counterrevolution ... 445
Representing the Timescales of Climate Change ... 454
Rethinking Alternative Worlds: Emerging in the Here and Now of Emergency ... 463
Decolonial Intimacies: Emergent Coalitional Potentialities across Latinx and Asian / American Studies ... 002
Representations of Violence ... 006
Legal Entanglements: Land, Rights, and Citizenship ... 014
Domestic Empires: Aftermath, Endurance, and Refuge in the Militarized City ... 018
Criminalization, Surveillance, and the Carceral State ... 019
Displaced / Out of Place Refugees ... 020
On Public Art ... 024
Emerging Eco-Subjectivities ... 049
In the Water: Racial Capitalism and Environmental Justice ... 055
On New Cartographies of Racial Capitalism and Black Radical Tradition ... 063
Ethical Emergency and Posthumanist Emergence ... 074
The Gender of Racial Capitalism: Emerging Masculinities / Femininities in Making and Unmaking Racialized Poverty ... 083
Performing Care, Domestic Labor, and Empire ... 085
An Ordinary State of Carceral Emergency: That's What America Means, a Prison ... 098
Transgressing the Transhemispheric South: Unsettling the Literary Landscape ... 099
Against Work: Disability, Labor, and the Crisis of Human Worth ... 124
Critical Ethnic Studies Committee: Academic Labor, Austerity, and Authoritarianism ... 168
Unfit: So-Called Deviant Black Performance in the United States, South Africa, and the Caribbean ... 179
Speaking through the Cracks When Our Community's Under Attack: Southwest Asian and North African Feminist Ways of Knowing in Crisis, Siege, and Struggle ... 189
The Political Valence of Trans Cinema Now: Communities, Conflicts, and Visual Culture ... 203
Futures in Failed Survival: Punishment, Sovereignty, and Safety ... 207
Internationalisms from Below: From World Wars to Cold Wars to Terror Wars ... 215
Arab American Studies Association: The Circulations of Hate, Honor, and Horror in the War on Terror ... 220
Program Committee: Environmental Justice and Survivance ... 228
Trans of Color Emergences and Futures ... 230
The Forgotten Prisoners of War: Internment during World War II ... 261
Environment and Culture Caucus: Climate Migrants and Refugees across Militarized Borders ... 289
Confronting Anti-Blackness as Decolonization Strategy in Immigrant Justice Movements and Imaginaries ... 292
Pacific Currents and Visions ... 298
Race, the State, and Political Imaginaries ... 299
Queer / Feminist Liberatory Futures ... 306
Arab American Studies Association: What Time Is It?: Queer and Women of Color Relations and Re-memory across U.S. Settler Empire ... 313
¡Alta a Las Deportaciones! ... 316
Ethnography Caucus: Ethnography Now II: New Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity ... 320
Urban Imaginaries: Visual Practices and the (Un)Making of Home ... 327
Los Angeles Geographies and Archives ... 332
Unruly Solidarities and Re-Emergent Internationalisms of the Trans-Pacific World ... 340
The Critical Sounds and Colors of Caribbean Cultures ... 349
Institutionalizing Emergency: Boarding Schools and the Crises of Colonialism ... 364
Marxism Caucus: The Legacies of 1968 ... 377
Tracking Tensions of Race, Space, and Neoliberalism ... 384
Program Committee: 10 Years of Casting Out ... 387
Alien Emergences: Multiracial Intimacies and Queer Solidarities in Transnational Encounter ... 400
Emergent Research and Reading Strategies: The American Studies Now Series ... 409
Ecologies of Radical Healing and Survival ... 428
Performing / Producing Otherwise Worlds: Queer Impossibility as Tactical Emergence ... 441
The Working Life: Culture, Class, Resilience and the Cards ... 022
(Trans)Internationalism ... 047
Gendered Sounds: Women Sing Off-Key ... 057
Right Makes Might?: Christianity, Conservatism, and Nationalism ... 058
Performing Care, Domestic Labor, and Empire ... 085
Program Committee: Everyday Utopias ... 102
Ethnography Caucus: Ethnography Now I: New Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity ... 294
Ethnography Caucus: Ethnography Now II: New Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity ... 320
Ethnography Caucus: Roundtable and Syllabus Swap for Teaching Ethnography ... 358
Representations of Violence ... 006
Negotiating Work and Family in the Age of a Super Woman: Making-it in Academia without Killing Ourselves ... 008
Intersectional Feminist Futures ... 033
Women of Color Resist: Feminist and Queer Strategies ... 056
Gendered Sounds: Women Sing Off-Key ... 057
On New Cartographies of Racial Capitalism and Black Radical Tradition ... 063
Ethical Emergency and Posthumanist Emergence ... 074
Performing Care, Domestic Labor, and Empire ... 085
Feminist Emergencies: Engendering Liberal Dependency through Crisis ... 088
Imagining Otherwise across the Asias: Queer / Feminist Sites of Emergence ... 106
Transnational Feminist Methodologies: Incommensurability, Relationality, and Illegibility ... 113
Sex Negativities: The Discursive and Institutional Life of Sexual Violence ... 122
Sports Studies Caucus: Feminist Fan Emergence and Alternative Worlds of Sporting Identity ... 136
The Role of Education and Cultural Exchange in Mitigating Crises: Case Studies of Exchanges between the U.S. and China ... 142
Outside the Archive: Feminist and Queer Afro-Asian Formations ... 144
The Urgency of Aesthetics: Portrayals of Black Women in a Time of Emergency ... 151
Black Feminist Poetics, Narratives, and Humor ... 155
Black in the Archive ... 167
Traveling Blackness in the Americas: Obscured Transnational Flows of Race, Culture, Gender, and Politics in the African Diaspora ... 208
Transnational Feminisms and the Settler State: Emergent / Insurgent Provocations ... 216
Students Committee: Emerging Scholars and Graduate Students in and beyond Crisis ... 232
Spelman College Tour: Revolutionary and Foundational Site of Emergence (co-sponsored by ASA and NWSA) ... 239
Program Committee: NO! The Rape Documentary in the Age of #Metoo ... 288
Queer / Feminist Liberatory Futures ... 306
Reclaiming Our Time: Re-Centering Intersectional Feminism in Research, Teaching, and Everyday Realities ... 333
The Emergence of Black Feminist Health Science Studies ... 339
My Music: Anti-Colonial Feminist Punk Rock ... 361
The Anthological Impulse: Pedagogy and Social Justice ... 385
Committee on Gender and Sexuality Studies: Teaching Feminism in the American Studies Classroom ... 390
Radical Black Dharma Strategies: Black Femmes and Black Queers on Living in the Dark Age ... 394
Emergent Alliances, Feminist Masculinities ... 395
Black Feminisms across Many Suns: Futuristic Survival ... 440
Utopic / Dystopic: Black Feminist Aesthetics ... 456
States of Reproduction and the Reproductive State ... 458
What about the Human?: Humans, Monsters, Waste ... 005
Emergent Vitalities: Resurgence as Emergence in Indigenous Visualities ... 007
(Trans)Internationalism ... 047
Cultural and Ecological Geographies of the Urban ... 082
Resistance Cinema: Alternative Histories at Hollywood's Margins and Beyond ... 175
9-1-1 Emergency: Locating Emergent Racialized Coping Strategies in Popular Culture ... 202
The Political Valence of Trans Cinema Now: Communities, Conflicts, and Visual Culture ... 203
Black Feminisms across Many Suns: Futuristic Survival ... 440
Representing the Timescales of Climate Change ... 454
The Working Life: Culture, Class, Resilience and the Cards ... 022
Pacific Currents and Visions ... 298
The End of Cheap Food: Power, Precarity, and Human Disposability ... 318
Ecologies of Radical Healing and Survival ... 428
Negotiating Work and Family in the Age of a Super Woman: Making-it in Academia without Killing Ourselves ... 008
Age and the Life Cycle in Black Studies ... 012
Intersectional Feminist Futures ... 033
Biopolitics: Race, Medical Punishment, and Memory ... 044
(Trans)Internationalism ... 047
Gendered Sounds: Women Sing Off-Key ... 057
Right Makes Might?: Christianity, Conservatism, and Nationalism ... 058
Childhood and Youth Studies Caucus: Emerging in Emergency ... 062
The Gender of Racial Capitalism: Emerging Masculinities / Femininities in Making and Unmaking Racialized Poverty ... 083
Performing Care, Domestic Labor, and Empire ... 085
The Child as Queer Emergence ... 087
Waiting To Be Heard: The Emergence of the Voices of Victims of America's Racial Terror ... 108
Transnational Feminist Methodologies: Incommensurability, Relationality, and Illegibility ... 113
Conspiracy, Confederacy and Revolt: Scenes from Antebellum America ... 134
Black Futures, Femmes, and Freedom Dreams: Visioning Black Life as Liberatory Praxis ... 139
White Nationalist Roots of Trumpism ... 171
On the Possibilities and Limits of Latinx: Towards an Indigenous Critique ... 182
Science, Technology, and Medicine Caucus: The Therapeutic Self, Gender, Race, and Well-Being ... 192
Program Committee: Sarah Haley's No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity ... 201
Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Years ... 206
Futures in Failed Survival: Punishment, Sovereignty, and Safety ... 207
Transnational Dissident Subjectivities: Quotidian Practices of Resistance Among Latinx, Chicanx LGBTQS, and Mexican Migrant Women ... 235
Latinx Feminisms ... 263
On the Uses of Political Theatre ... 285
Program Committee: NO! The Rape Documentary in the Age of #Metoo ... 288
¡Alta a Las Deportaciones! ... 316
Labor and the Body: Theorizing the Racialized Production of Gender from Antislavery Campaigns to #MeToo ... 317
Women and Drones in the Perpetual State of Exception ... 367
Performance Studies Caucus: Nao Bustamante's Always Already Emerging Art ... 370
Racial Capitalism, Environmental Capitalism, and Survival in the South ... 371
States of Material Emergence: Object-Based Explorations of Power and Political Expression, 1700-1980 ... 379
Gendering Memory and Archive across the Americas ... 405
Black Feminisms across Many Suns: Futuristic Survival ... 440
Who Is Suspect?: Policing, Racialization, and American Warfare ... 442
Gentrification and Development: Place, Power, and Desire ... 015
Domestic Empires: Aftermath, Endurance, and Refuge in the Militarized City ... 018
Criminalization, Surveillance, and the Carceral State ... 019
Temporalities of Resistance, Emergence, and Futurity: The Afterlives of Death ... 041
Emerging Visualities, Seeing Emergencies Differently ... 043
In the Water: Racial Capitalism and Environmental Justice ... 055
On New Cartographies of Racial Capitalism and Black Radical Tradition ... 063
The Gentrified City as Site of Emergence ... 068
Program Committee: Survival Strategies in the South ... 077
Cultural and Ecological Geographies of the Urban ... 082
The State and I: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Public Space and Public Action ... 093
Transoceanic Militarisms: At the Crossroads of Emergency and Emergence ... 094
Emergent Counter-Topographies, Infrastructures, and Geneologies of Struggle ... 118
Emerging Carceral State Formations: Prison and Jail Expansion in the Rural United States ... 119
Black Feminist Poetics, Narratives, and Humor ... 155
Program Committee: Environmental Justice and Survivance ... 228
Crises of ConFORMity: The Material Dimensions of Race and the Built Environment ... 258
Maps for the Territory: Walks, Words, and Counter-Worlds in Palestine ... 297
Public Space As / In States of Emergence ... 301
Emergent Dimensions in Native American and Indigenous Studies I ... 307
Material Culture Caucus: Cultural Landscapes as Sites for Emergence and Activism ... 322
Los Angeles Geographies and Archives ... 332
Emergent Dimensions in Native American and Indigenous Studies II ... 335
Emerging Geographies of Freedom: The Power of Transnational
African American Mobilities ... 344
The Emergence and State of the Urban Humanities ... 355
Tracking Tensions of Race, Space, and Neoliberalism ... 384
Tour: South-View Cemetery ... 452
Cycles of Emergence ... 004
Crisis across Asian-Americas: Racial Politics, Migration, and Cultural Production in California ... 023
On Public Art ... 024
Temporalities of Resistance, Emergence, and Futurity: The Afterlives of Death ... 041
Biopolitics: Race, Medical Punishment, and Memory ... 044
(Trans)Internationalism ... 047
The 500-Year Emergency: Ecological Catastrophe and the American Plantation Imaginary ... 050
Gendered Sounds: Women Sing Off-Key ... 057
Interwar Black International ... 059
Violent Exchanges between the Police and the Military after World War II ... 070
International Committee Talkshop I: Transnational Research from Emergency to Emerging Projects ... 076
Performing Care, Domestic Labor, and Empire ... 085
The Child as Queer Emergence ... 087
Feminist Emergencies: Engendering Liberal Dependency through Crisis ... 088
Travel Bans and Border Walls: The Weaponization of Foreignness in the State of Racial Emergency ... 095
Queering Intimacies of Empire ... 097
Trans-Pacific Cold War in Movements: Entanglements of Taiwan, Japan, the United States, and China ... 125
Emerging U.S. Colombianidades ... 154
War and Peace Studies Caucus: Local Emergencies, Emergent Empires, and Prehistories of the War on Terror ... 159
Black in the Archive ... 167
Representing America Abroad: Funding Opportunities for American Studies Scholars via the Fulbright Scholar Program ... 170
Monumental Memory ... 177
Speaking through the Cracks When Our Community's Under Attack: Southwest Asian and North African Feminist Ways of Knowing in Crisis, Siege, and Struggle ... 189
International Committee Talkshop II: Transnational Teaching from Emergency to Emerging Projects ... 193
Humanitarianism, Emergency, and the Politics of Religion ... 197
Legacies of 1968: Emergent Transnationalisms and Recurrent Crises ... 198
Permutations and Ongoing Emergences within Transnational American Studies ... 200
Immigrants, Migrants, and Refugees: At the Limit of Asylum in the United States ... 226
Presidential Session: Dictatorship or Democracy?: Thinking though the Global Authoritarian Turn ... 250
Who's the Terrorist?: Survival and Refusal in the Global War ... 252
Latinx Feminisms ... 263
Pacific Currents and Visions ... 298
Environment and Culture Caucus: Intersections in Environmental Humanities ... 314
Emergent Dimensions in Native American and Indigenous Studies II ... 335
Program Committee: Arab Voices and the De-centering of America ... 341
Emerging Geographies of Freedom: The Power of Transnational African American Mobilities ... 344
The Aesthetics of Militancy ... 352
International Committee Talkshop III: Transnational Publications from Emergency to Emerging Projects ... 373
War, Empire, and Anti-Muslim Racism ... 381
Varieties of Groundings in Black Studies ... 391
Critical Stories of Crossings in and through the Americas ... 411
Ecologies of Radical Healing and Survival ... 428
Fostered in Crisis: African American Internationalism under Détente ... 439
Queering Post-Socialism: Alternative Futures beyond Anglo Technologies of Sexuality and Informatics ... 444
Rethinking Emergences of Afro-Asian Coalitions ... 466
Emergent Forms of Queer Care ... 028
Biopolitics: Race, Medical Punishment, and Memory ... 044
Biopolitics: The Body as Property ... 053
Conspiracy, Confederacy and Revolt: Scenes from Antebellum America ... 134
AIDS, Media, and Memory: Legacies and Contestations in the Ongoing Emergency of the AIDS Crisis ... 286
HIV and AIDS in the States of Emergence: The Ongoing Crisis as a Condition of Possibility ... 311
Emerging Minds, Bodies, and Values: The Concussion Crisis in American Youth Football ... 323
The Emergence of Black Feminist Health Science Studies ... 339
Ecologies of Radical Healing and Survival ... 428
Medical States of Emergence and Geographies of Care: Civil Rights Movements and Biopolitics in New Mexico, Texas, and Louisiana ... 446
States of Reproduction and the Reproductive State ... 458
International Committee Talkshop I: Transnational Research from Emergency to Emerging Projects ... 076
Transgressing the Transhemispheric South: Unsettling the Literary Landscape ... 099
Conspiracy, Confederacy and Revolt: Scenes from Antebellum America ... 134
Emerging U.S. Colombianidades ... 154
Representing America Abroad: Funding Opportunities for American Studies Scholars via the Fulbright Scholar Program ... 170
On the Possibilities and Limits of Latinx: Towards an Indigenous Critique ... 182
Permutations and Ongoing Emergences within Transnational American Studies ... 200
Gendering Memory and Archive across the Americas ... 405
Negotiating Work and Family in the Age of a Super Woman: Making-it in Academia without Killing Ourselves ... 008
Gentrification and Development: Place, Power, and Desire ... 015
In the Water: Racial Capitalism and Environmental Justice ... 055
Emerging Anti-Fascist Action: Tapping into Traditions and Meeting New Fascism ... 073
Soul's Children: Black Music and the Black Liberation Movement, 1970–Present ... 086
Emergence and Emergency in Native North America ... 091
U.S. Political Prisoners and the Emergence of Revolutionary Strategies ... 138
Transnational Imaginaries of North Korea: Histories, Politics, and Cultures ... 160
Black in the Archive ... 167
Presidential Session: Visualizing Revolution: Building the Eldridge and Kathleen Cleaver Family Archive ... 174
Resistance Cinema: Alternative Histories at Hollywood's Margins and Beyond ... 175
Synthesizing an Unruly Field: The Routledge History of Queer America ... 176
War and Peace Studies Caucus: Global Emergencies, U.S. Interventions, and Prehistories of the War on Terror ... 187
Public Commemoration and Reckoning with History: Crisis, Social Movements, and Emerging Forms of Historical Memory ... 204
Heritage and Tourism: Militarizing Memory ... 231
Emergence and Emergency in Anti-Prison Movements ... 234
The Forgotten Prisoners of War: Internment during World War II ... 261
Latinx Feminisms ... 263
Chests, Nests, and Capsules: Material Culture and its Containers ... 296
¡Alta a Las Deportaciones! ... 316
Material Culture Caucus: Cultural Landscapes as Sites for Emergence and Activism ... 322
Queer and Unusual Objects: On Trans / Gender Archives ... 401
Tour: South-View Cemetery ... 452
Black Appalachia: Garveyism, Youth Protest, and Identity in the 20th Century ... 455
Mapping Segregated Histories: Digital Research and Visualizations for the Public ... 461
Black Feminist Poetics, Narratives, and Humor ... 155
Humor Studies Caucus: Laughing in the Face of Crisis in the Age of Trump ... 225
Emergent Vitalities: Resurgence as Emergence in Indigenous Visualities ... 007
Between Emergence and Endurance: Racial Formations and Mutations ... 013
Legal Entanglements: Land, Rights, and Citizenship ... 014
Speculative Fiction as a Genre of Emergence ... 016
Comunidades en Resistencia: Indigenous and Latinx Collaboratives in the Face of Environmental Degradation ... 030
"Kick, Push": Youth Politics, Empire, and Decolonization ... 032
Form and Interface: Architectures of Race, Gender, and Indigeneity ... 039
Racial Capitalism and Natural Resource Extraction ... 045
Asian-Indigenous Relationalities: Incommensurate Emergencies and Relational Emergences ... 064
Infrastructures of Colonialism in North America ... 089
Emergence and Emergency in Native North America ... 091
Murderous Feeling: The Form and Content of Retribution and Violence in Black and Indigenous Literature ... 114
Performing under Settler Colonial Crisis: Black and Indigenous Mobilizing on the Stage, Screen, and Streets ... 115
Mobilizing Indigenous Economies of Abundance against Climate Change and Late-Liberal, Settler Colonial Exhaustion ... 116
Critical Ethnic Studies Committee: White Settler States, Emerging Accountability, and Decolonial Provocations ... 133
Indigenous, Race-Radical, and Transfeminist Responses to Mass Criminalization and the Transcarceral Continuum ... 180
On the Possibilities and Limits of Latinx: Towards an Indigenous Critique ... 182
Welcome to the Party: Ongoing Urgency in American Indian Studies ... 188
From Sky World to Turtle Island and Back: Emergence as Haudenosaunee Strategy ... 242
Maps for the Territory: Walks, Words, and Counter-Worlds in Palestine ... 297
Queer / Feminist Liberatory Futures ... 306
Arab American Studies Association: What Time Is It?: Queer and Women of Color Relations and Re-memory across U.S. Settler Empire ... 313
Gendering Memory and Archive across the Americas ... 405
Ecologies of Radical Healing and Survival ... 428
Representing the Timescales of Climate Change ... 454
Cultural and Ecological Geographies of the Urban ... 082
Emerging Keywords for Higher Education: Art, Engagement, Inclusion, Safe ... 166
Crossing Bodies and Borders in LatinX Literature and Art ... 010
Criminalization, Surveillance, and the Carceral State ... 019
Displaced / Out of Place Refugees ... 020
Comunidades en Resistencia: Indigenous and Latinx Collaboratives in the Face of Environmental Degradation ... 030
Emergent States of Race, Emergent Racial States: The U.S. Military, Water Law, and Bio-Neglected Citizens ... 031
Latinx Neoliberalism ... 035
U.S. / Central Americans in the Era of Trump ... 060
On New Cartographies of Racial Capitalism and Black Radical Tradition ... 063
Cultural and Ecological Geographies of the Urban ... 082
Performing Care, Domestic Labor, and Empire ... 085
Site Resources Committee: We Were Here before DACA, and We'll Be Here after DACA: Latina / os in Atlanta and Their Quest for Academic Justice in the 21st-Century ... 103
Monsters, Spirits, and Replicant Others: Crisis, (Re)creation, and Endurance in Latinx Borderlands ... 110
The Demonic Grounds of Decolonial Performance ... 131
In the Flesh: Black and Brown Performance in the Age of Emergence ... 146
Emerging U.S. Colombianidades ... 154
On the Possibilities and Limits of Latinx: Towards an Indigenous Critique ... 182
Centering Puerto Rican Bodies and History through the Works of Lin-Manuel Miranda ... 209
Transnational Dissident Subjectivities: Quotidian Practices of Resistance Among Latinx, Chicanx LGBTQS, and Mexican Migrant Women ... 235
After Emergence: Latinx and Comparative Racialization, Conflicts, and Coalition ... 236
Latinx Feminisms ... 263
Citizenship after Citizenship?: Reclaiming, Recovering, and Reconfiguring the Radical Potential of Citizenship ... 279
Sound Studies Caucus: Emergent Auralities and Subaltern Sounds: Latinx Cultural Production and Performance ... 283
Mobility and Deportation in States of Emergency ... 287
Black Queer Internationalists ... 295
Entanglements of Blackness and Brownness in the Aesthetic Production of the Americas ... 304
¡Alta a Las Deportaciones! ... 316
Los Angeles Geographies and Archives ... 332
My Music: Anti-Colonial Feminist Punk Rock ... 361
Racial Capitalism, Environmental Capitalism, and Survival in the South ... 371
To Be Black and Brown All Around: Afro Indigenous / Latinx Coalitions ... 378
Queerness and Race in Atlanta ... 388
Gendering Memory and Archive across the Americas ... 405
Past the Town / Gown Divide: Toward Migrant Justice of Farmworkers and Students ... 426
Ecologies of Radical Healing and Survival ... 428
Legal Entanglements: Land, Rights, and Citizenship ... 014
Biopolitics: The Body as Property ... 053
Keywords of Emergency ... 069
Transnational Feminisms and the Settler State: Emergent / Insurgent Provocations ... 216
Los Angeles Geographies and Archives ... 332
Program Committee: Intersectionality at 30: States of Emergence ... 360
Biopolitical Emergenc(i)es: Toward a New Genealogy of Race, Gender, and Liberal Dispossession ... 382
Program Committee: 10 Years of Casting Out ... 387
Sex, Emergency, and the Emerging Child ... 410
Past the Town / Gown Divide: Toward Migrant Justice of Farmworkers and Students ... 426
Racial Property: Performing Legal Fictions ... 443
What about the Human?: Humans, Monsters, Waste ... 005
Form's Emergent Privacy: "Gayl Jones's" American Studies Project ... 017
Displaced / Out of Place Refugees ... 020
Childhood and Youth Studies Caucus: Children's Literature and Emergent Genealogies of Resistance ... 037
Class Contingencies ... 042
Interwar Black International ... 059
On New Cartographies of Racial Capitalism and Black Radical Tradition ... 063
Merciful Failure, Delightful Disasters, and Practices of Hope ... 079
Transgressing the Transhemispheric South: Unsettling the Literary Landscape ... 099
The Ideological Emergency of the Frontier ... 104
Murderous Feeling: The Form and Content of Retribution and Violence in Black and Indigenous Literature ... 114
Conspiracy, Confederacy and Revolt: Scenes from Antebellum America ... 134
Philippine-American Intersections and the Emergence of Trans-Pacific Studies ... 153
Black Feminist Poetics, Narratives, and Humor ... 155
Race and Disability Justice ... 163
Black in the Archive ... 167
Black Modernism's Roving Ear: Folklore and Popular Music in the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond ... 199
Black Queer Internationalists ... 295
Maps for the Territory: Walks, Words, and Counter-Worlds in Palestine ... 297
Queer / Feminist Liberatory Futures ... 306
War, Empire, and Anti-Muslim Racism ... 381
Gendering Memory and Archive across the Americas ... 405
Settler Militarism: Order and Precarity ... 427
In Constant Crisis: Bodies and the Routinization of Emergency ... 435
Racial Property: Performing Legal Fictions ... 443
Utopic / Dystopic: Black Feminist Aesthetics ... 456
Poetry from the Future: Un-Forming the Political ... 462
Displaced / Out of Place Refugees ... 020
Du Bois Lately: Emergent Critiques of W. E. B. Du Bois at 150 ... 040
Interwar Black International ... 059
Against Work: Disability, Labor, and the Crisis of Human Worth ... 124
Marxism Caucus: The Legacies of 1968 ... 377
Marxism Caucus: Marxism, the University, and the Legacies of 1968 ... 404
Biopolitics: Race, Medical Punishment, and Memory ... 044
Race and Disability Justice ... 163
Monumental Memory ... 177
Public Commemoration and Reckoning with History: Crisis, Social Movements, and Emerging Forms of Historical Memory ... 204
Heritage and Tourism: Militarizing Memory ... 231
Chests, Nests, and Capsules: Material Culture and its Containers ... 296
Emergent Dimensions in Native American and Indigenous Studies I ... 307
Material Culture Caucus: Cultural Landscapes as Sites for Emergence and Activism ... 322
Material Culture Caucus: Emerging Pedagogies and Material Culture across the Disciplines ... 350
States of Material Emergence: Object-Based Explorations of Power and Political Expression, 1700-1980 ... 379
Material Subcultures: Production and Consumption on the Margins ... 406
What about the Human?: Humans, Monsters, Waste ... 005
The Working Life: Culture, Class, Resilience and the Cards ... 022
On Public Art ... 024
Class Contingencies ... 042
Technological Emergence / Emergency: Screen Media and the Contexts of Carcerality ... 061
Mediating Emergency: Media's Constructions, Infrastructures, and Temporalities of Crisis ... 066
New Joints: Imagining the Music Video ... 090
The State and I: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Public Space and Public Action ... 093
White Nationalist Roots of Trumpism ... 171
9-1-1 Emergency: Locating Emergent Racialized Coping Strategies in Popular Culture ... 202
American Quarterly: American Studies, the Digital Humanities, and a Critically Engaged Digital Practice ... 213
AIDS, Media, and Memory: Legacies and Contestations in the Ongoing Emergency of the AIDS Crisis ... 286
Sound Studies Caucus: Listening to Race: Black and Brown Voice-Overs and Accents on Television and Film ... 308
Emerging Minds, Bodies, and Values: The Concussion Crisis in American Youth Football ... 323
Performance Studies Caucus: Nao Bustamante's Always Already Emerging Art ... 370
Queerness and Race in Atlanta ... 388
Settler Militarism: Order and Precarity ... 427
Emergent Forms of Speculative Media ... 431
Emergent Broadcasts: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Potential(s) of Television ... 460
Internationalism and Palestine ... 141
Speaking through the Cracks When Our Community's Under Attack: Southwest Asian and North African Feminist Ways of Knowing in Crisis, Siege, and Struggle ... 189
Emerging Fields: Locating Iranian Diaspora Studies within American Studies ... 214
Who's the Terrorist?: Survival and Refusal in the Global War ... 252
Maps for the Territory: Walks, Words, and Counter-Worlds in Palestine ... 297
Teaching Palestine: Pedagogical Praxis and the Indivisibility of Justice ... 417
Settler Militarism: Order and Precarity ... 427
Crossing Bodies and Borders in LatinX Literature and Art ... 010
Displaced / Out of Place Refugees ... 020
On Public Art ... 024
No Borders, No Prisons: Emerging from the Settler State Deportation Regime ... 036
U.S. / Central Americans in the Era of Trump ... 060
Performing Care, Domestic Labor, and Empire ... 085
Site Resources Committee: We Were Here before DACA, and We'll Be Here after DACA: Latina / os in Atlanta and Their Quest for Academic Justice in the 21st-Century ... 103
Archival Justice: Minding the (Human) Gap in Teaching and Research ... 117
Monumental Memory ... 177
Black Migration and Black Nativism in the Era of Trump ... 256
Mobility and Deportation in States of Emergency ... 287
Confronting Anti-Blackness as Decolonization Strategy in Immigrant Justice Movements and Imaginaries ... 292
Migrant Emergencies, Climate Change, and Narratives of Securitization ... 305
¡Alta a Las Deportaciones! ... 316
Global Emergencies, Caribbean Responses ... 321
Queerness and Race in Atlanta ... 388
Past the Town / Gown Divide: Toward Migrant Justice of Farmworkers and Students ... 426
Multi-Directional Migration, Crisis, and Trans-Pacific Imaginaries ... 437
Sonic Discipline and Disruption: Soundwaves as Political Action for and against the State ... 011
Displaced / Out of Place Refugees ... 020
Refugee Temporalities: Asynchronies of Vietnam War Violence ... 046
Violent Exchanges between the Police and the Military after World War II ... 070
Transoceanic Militarisms: At the Crossroads of Emergency and Emergence ... 094
Travel Bans and Border Walls: The Weaponization of Foreignness in the State of Racial Emergency ... 095
Militarism and Capitalism: The Work and Wages of Violence ... 120
The U.S. War on North Korea ... 132
War and Peace Studies Caucus: Local Emergencies, Emergent Empires, and Prehistories of the War on Terror ... 159
Transnational Imaginaries of North Korea: Histories, Politics, and Cultures ... 160
War and Peace Studies Caucus: Global Emergencies, U.S. Interventions, and Prehistories of the War on Terror ... 187
Arab American Studies Association: The Circulations of Hate, Honor, and Horror in the War on Terror ... 220
Presidential Session: U.S. Military Occupations in the Caribbean and Their Aftermaths ... 227
Heritage and Tourism: Militarizing Memory ... 231
Who's the Terrorist?: Survival and Refusal in the Global War ... 252
The Forgotten Prisoners of War: Internment during World War II ... 261
Emergent Acts: Colonial Logics and Transnational Performances of Resistance ... 290
Pacific Currents and Visions ... 298
Migrant Emergencies, Climate Change, and Narratives of Securitization ... 305
Empire and Asian American Studies ... 324
Program Committee: Nikhil Pal Singh's Race and America's Long War ... 331
The Aesthetics of Militancy ... 352
Securitized Subjects, Militarized Time(s): The Everyday Life of Violence ... 365
Women and Drones in the Perpetual State of Exception ... 367
War, Empire, and Anti-Muslim Racism ... 381
Varieties of Groundings in Black Studies ... 391
Settler Militarism: Order and Precarity ... 427
Who Is Suspect?: Policing, Racialization, and American Warfare ... 442
Stomping Movements: Settler Imperial Counterinsurgency and Counterrevolution ... 445
Racial Capitalism and Natural Resource Extraction ... 045
Emergence in the Archive: Cultural Heritage in Theory and Practice ... 281
"Kick, Push": Youth Politics, Empire, and Decolonization ... 032
Latinx Neoliberalism ... 035
(Trans)Internationalism ... 047
Gendered Sounds: Women Sing Off-Key ... 057
The Changing Same: Race and the Emergence of Post-World War I American Culture ... 075
Soul's Children: Black Music and the Black Liberation Movement, 1970–Present ... 086
Static, Beats, and Chains: Sound Matters in Black (After)Lives ... 111
Black Modernism's Roving Ear: Folklore and Popular Music in the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond ... 199
The Shape of Things to Come: Songs, Noise, and Spillover ... 223
When the Heroes Eventually Die: A Critical Listening of Outkast's "Aquemini" on Its 20th Anniversary ... 247
My Music: Anti-Colonial Feminist Punk Rock ... 361
Site Resources Committee: F.I.L.A. and Atlanta's Evolution as a Hip Hop City ... 392
Merging Emergencies: Soundings from around the Pacific ... 451
Racial Capitalism and Natural Resource Extraction ... 045
In the Water: Racial Capitalism and Environmental Justice ... 055
Blackness, Race, and Indigeneity in the Pacific ... 109
On the Possibilities and Limits of Latinx: Towards an Indigenous Critique ... 182
Welcome to the Party: Ongoing Urgency in American Indian Studies ... 188
Internationalisms from Below: From World Wars to Cold Wars to Terror Wars ... 215
From Sky World to Turtle Island and Back: Emergence as Haudenosaunee Strategy ... 242
The Forgotten Prisoners of War: Internment during World War II ... 261
Knowledge is Sovereignty: De-centering Settler Colonial States of Emergency through Indigenous Resurgence Praxes ... 282
Emergent Dimensions in Native American and Indigenous Studies I ... 307
Emergent Dimensions in Native American and Indigenous Studies II ... 335
Black and Indigenous Ephemeralities ... 353
Temporalities of Catastrophe ... 359
My Music: Anti-Colonial Feminist Punk Rock ... 361
To Be Black and Brown All Around: Afro Indigenous / Latinx Coalitions ... 378
Gendering Memory and Archive across the Americas ... 405
Ecologies of Radical Healing and Survival ... 428
Racial Property: Performing Legal Fictions ... 443
Racial Capitalism and Natural Resource Extraction ... 045
Heritage and Tourism: Militarizing Memory ... 231
Sea Changes: Migration, Displacement, and States of Emergence, 1838–2000 ... 249
Pacific Currents and Visions ... 298
Representations of Violence ... 006
Blackness, Race, and Indigeneity in the Pacific ... 109
Pacific Currents and Visions ... 298
Gendered Sounds: Women Sing Off-Key ... 057
Unsettling Asian / America: U.S. Citizenship and Trans-Pacific Critique ... 071
Transoceanic Militarisms: At the Crossroads of Emergency and Emergence ... 094
In the Aftermath of Disaster: Transcultural Intimacies across Geopolitics and the Human / Non-Human Divide ... 121
Trans-Pacific Cold War in Movements: Entanglements of Taiwan, Japan, the United States, and China ... 125
Philippine-American Intersections and the Emergence of Trans-Pacific Studies ... 153
Permutations and Ongoing Emergences within Transnational American Studies ... 200
Heritage and Tourism: Militarizing Memory ... 231
Pacific Currents and Visions ... 298
Unruly Solidarities and Re-Emergent Internationalisms of the Trans-Pacific World ... 340
Trans-Pacific Studies after the TPP: Political Response and New Coordinates ... 362
War, Empire, and Anti-Muslim Racism ... 381
Sans Emergence: Aesthetics of Immersion, Technology-Mediated Corporealities, and Weaponized Landscapes ... 402
Multi-Directional Migration, Crisis, and Trans-Pacific Imaginaries ... 437
Merging Emergencies: Soundings from around the Pacific ... 451
Ethical Questions in Teaching Afro-Pessimism ... 065
Unconventional Projects for an Unconventional Era: Creative and Multimedia Work in and beyond the Classroom ... 100
Structural and Infrastructural Violence: Environmental Justice in a New Frame ... 105
Race and Disability Justice ... 163
Critical Ethnic Studies Committee: Academic Labor, Austerity, and Authoritarianism ... 168
International Committee Talkshop II: Transnational Teaching from Emergency to Emerging Projects ... 193
Graduate Education Committee: Beyond Crisis in Graduate Education ... 221
Academic and Community Activism Caucus: Beating the Backlash and Organizing in the Face of Emergency ... 224
American Quarterly Review and Editorial Process ... 240
Critical Disability Studies Caucus: Sustaining Disability Studies in Times of Crisis ... 245
Ethnography Caucus: Ethnography Now I: New Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity ... 294
Teaching through Terror #Charlottesville ... 300
Environment and Culture Caucus: Intersections in Environmental Humanities ... 314
Material Culture Caucus: Emerging Pedagogies and Material Culture across the Disciplines ... 350
Ethnography Caucus: Roundtable and Syllabus Swap for Teaching Ethnography ... 358
The Anthological Impulse: Pedagogy and Social Justice ... 385
Committee on Gender and Sexuality Studies: Teaching Feminism in the American Studies Classroom ... 390
Teaching Palestine: Pedagogical Praxis and the Indivisibility of Justice ... 417
Representations of Violence ... 006
Acts of Black Emergence: Interrupting and Re-Imagining the Figure of the State ... 009
"Kick, Push": Youth Politics, Empire, and Decolonization ... 032
(Trans)Internationalism ... 047
Women of Color Resist: Feminist and Queer Strategies ... 056
Gendered Sounds: Women Sing Off-Key ... 057
Inheriting Black Studies ... 067
Abundant Ecologies, Femme Aesthetics, and Emergent Bodies: Performance in the Age of Ruin ... 081
Unruly Sensings: State Violence, Be / longing, and Aesthetics in Motion ... 084
Remembering the 1980s through Black and Latinx Performance ... 107
In the Flesh: Black and Brown Performance in the Age of Emergence ... 146
Unfit: So-Called Deviant Black Performance in the United States, South Africa, and the Caribbean ... 179
Visual Culture Caucus: Visualizing In / Emergence and Race, Aesthetics, and the Ethics of Obfuscation ... 219
Neo-Passing: Performing Identity in Post-Jim Crow States of Emergence ... 253
Photographic Domains / Performative Remains: Violent Reproduction, Racial Aesthetics, and Black Radical Dissent ... 264
On the Uses of Political Theatre ... 285
Virtuosity ... 310
Creating States of Emergence: Scholar-Artists and the Life-Giving Capacities of the Arts ... 338
Performance Studies Caucus: Nao Bustamante's Always Already Emerging Art ... 370
Performance Studies Caucus: Peggy Phelan's Unmarked at 25 ... 397
Gathering after the End: Queer Minoritarian Aesthetics of Ruins ... 424
A Voice and Nothing More?: Writing Sound and the Emergence of African American Racial Politics ... 425
Performance and Public Scholarship: Poetry, Poetics, Academia, and Activism ... 433
Performing / Producing Otherwise Worlds: Queer Impossibility as Tactical Emergence ... 441
Utopic / Dystopic: Black Feminist Aesthetics ... 456
Gentrification and Development: Place, Power, and Desire ... 015
In the Water: Racial Capitalism and Environmental Justice ... 055
Infrastructures of Colonialism in North America ... 089
The Ideological Emergency of the Frontier ... 104
Subterranean and Tectonic: Strategic Clarifications for the Study of Canadian Carceral Expansion ... 152
Crises of ConFORMity: The Material Dimensions of Race and the Built Environment ... 258
Identity Politics ... 291
Racial Capitalism, Environmental Capitalism, and Survival in the South ... 371
Emergent Contexts of Corporate Power ... 434
Racial Property: Performing Legal Fictions ... 443
The Forgotten Prisoners of War: Internment during World War II ... 261
Race, the State, and Political Imaginaries ... 299
States of Emergence in the Labor of Suffering ... 302
Eva Cherniavsky's Neocitizenship: Political Culture after Democracy ... 303
Our Borderline Concepts ... 351
Creative Resistance: Visual Cultures as Political Cultures ... 375
Performance Studies Caucus: Peggy Phelan's Unmarked at 25 ... 397
Utopic / Dystopic: Black Feminist Aesthetics ... 456
Right Makes Might?: Christianity, Conservatism, and Nationalism ... 058
The Emergence of Trump and the Emergency of Trumpism ... 140
Transnational Imaginaries of North Korea: Histories, Politics, and Cultures ... 160
White Nationalist Roots of Trumpism ... 171
Immigrants, Migrants, and Refugees: At the Limit of Asylum in the United States ... 226
Secrecy, Transparency, and Power: Visual Methodologies for States of Emergency ... 233
Presidential Session: Dictatorship or Democracy?: Thinking though the Global Authoritarian Turn ... 250
How Does a State Feel?: The Aesthetic Lives of Administrative and Bureaucratic Violence ... 368
Emergent Contexts of Corporate Power ... 434
"Kick, Push": Youth Politics, Empire, and Decolonization ... 032
Childhood and Youth Studies Caucus: Emerging in Emergency ... 062
Cultural and Ecological Geographies of the Urban ... 082
New Joints: Imagining the Music Video ... 090
Static, Beats, and Chains: Sound Matters in Black (After)Lives ... 111
Sports Studies Caucus: Feminist Fan Emergence and Alternative Worlds of Sporting Identity ... 136
The Tacky South ... 137
White Nationalist Roots of Trumpism ... 171
Centering Puerto Rican Bodies and History through the Works of Lin-Manuel Miranda ... 209
Black Women and Crisis of Popular Culture in the Contemporary Era ... 210
Humor Studies Caucus: Laughing in the Face of Crisis in the Age of Trump ... 225
When the Heroes Eventually Die: A Critical Listening of Outkast's "Aquemini" on Its 20th Anniversary ... 247
The Archive as Time Capsule: World-Making with Octavia E. Butler ... 260
Emergent Narratives of Girlhood: Black Girl Futures ... 262
Racial Terror in the United States: Black Geographies and Popular Culture ... 328
My Music: Anti-Colonial Feminist Punk Rock ... 361
Emergent Broadcasts: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Potential(s) of Television ... 460
Emerging Perspectives on Popular Representations of Racism and Slavery ... 464
What about the Human?: Humans, Monsters, Waste ... 005
Right Makes Might?: Christianity, Conservatism, and Nationalism ... 058
Knowledge is Sovereignty: De-centering Settler Colonial States of Emergency through Indigenous Resurgence Praxes ... 282
Black Queer Internationalists ... 295
Maps for the Territory: Walks, Words, and Counter-Worlds in Palestine ... 297
Empire and Asian American Studies ... 324
To Be Black and Brown All Around: Afro Indigenous / Latinx Coalitions ... 378
Emergent Tourist Landscapes: Visual and Print Culture at the Origins of American Tourism ... 145
Performance and Public Scholarship: Poetry, Poetics, Academia, and Activism ... 433
Sonic Discipline and Disruption: Soundwaves as Political Action for and against the State ... 011
Criminalization, Surveillance, and the Carceral State ... 019
No Borders, No Prisons: Emerging from the Settler State Deportation Regime ... 036
Biopolitics: Race, Medical Punishment, and Memory ... 044
Technological Emergence / Emergency: Screen Media and the Contexts of Carcerality ... 061
On New Cartographies of Racial Capitalism and Black Radical Tradition ... 063
Keywords of Emergency ... 069
An Ordinary State of Carceral Emergency: That's What America Means, a Prison ... 098
Emerging Carceral State Formations: Prison and Jail Expansion in the Rural United States ... 119
U.S. Political Prisoners and the Emergence of Revolutionary Strategies ... 138
Subterranean and Tectonic: Strategic Clarifications for the Study of Canadian Carceral Expansion ... 152
Indigenous, Race-Radical, and Transfeminist Responses to Mass Criminalization and the Transcarceral Continuum ... 180
Futures in Failed Survival: Punishment, Sovereignty, and Safety ... 207
Emergence and Emergency in Anti-Prison Movements ... 234
Critical Prison Studies Caucus: Resisting Protection in a Carceral Landscape ... 246
The Forgotten Prisoners of War: Internment during World War II ... 261
Whose Emergency and What Crisis?: Activist Responses to the Bipartisan Justice Reinvestment Initiative on Prison Sentencing Reform ... 293
Race, the State, and Political Imaginaries ... 299
Critical Prison Studies Teach-In: An Organizer's Toolkit for Opening the University to Post-Incarcerated People ... 347
Racial Capitalism, Environmental Capitalism, and Survival in the South ... 371
Critical Resistance South at Fifteen: The 21st-Century Landscape of Abolition in the U.S. South and Beyond I ... 376
Critical Resistance South at Fifteen: The 21st-Century Landscape of Abolition in the U.S. South and Beyond II ... 403
State of the Nation: Emerging Perspectives on the Nation of Islam ... 408
Policing, Emergency, and Emergence ... 457
Monumental Memory ... 177
From Archives to Emergencies: Temporalities of Emergence and Historical Scholarship ... 229
Heritage and Tourism: Militarizing Memory ... 231
Biopolitics: Race, Medical Punishment, and Memory ... 044
Program Committee: Everyday Utopias ... 102
American Quarterly: American Studies, the Digital Humanities, and a Critically Engaged Digital Practice ... 213
From Archives to Emergencies: Temporalities of Emergence and Historical Scholarship ... 229
The Archive as Time Capsule: World-Making with Octavia E. Butler ... 260
Conversations in the Feminist Public Humanities: Concepts, Nuts and Bolts, and New Publics ... 326
Digital Humanities Caucus: Mapping Sweet Auburn: Geo-Locating Atlanta's Spaces of Black Crisis and Emergence Through Digital Humanities Making ... 334
Digital Humanities Caucus: Emerging Digital Humanities ... 363
Emergent Research and Reading Strategies: The American Studies Now Series ... 409
Performance and Public Scholarship: Poetry, Poetics, Academia, and Activism ... 433
Criminalization, Surveillance, and the Carceral State ... 019
The Working Life: Culture, Class, Resilience and the Cards ... 022
Cultural and Spatial Frameworks of Belonging in the Emergence of Liberal, LGBTQ-Friendly, Settler Colonialism ... 027
Emergent Forms of Queer Care ... 028
No Borders, No Prisons: Emerging from the Settler State Deportation Regime ... 036
Racial Capitalism and Natural Resource Extraction ... 045
Refugee Temporalities: Asynchronies of Vietnam War Violence ... 046
(Trans)Internationalism ... 047
Biopolitics: The Body as Property ... 053
Women of Color Resist: Feminist and Queer Strategies ... 056
Spatiality and Transsexuality in American Studies: Sisterhood, Space, Place, and Belonging ... 072
Abundant Ecologies, Femme Aesthetics, and Emergent Bodies: Performance in the Age of Ruin ... 081
Performing Care, Domestic Labor, and Empire ... 085
Queering Intimacies of Empire ... 097
Imagining Otherwise across the Asias: Queer / Feminist Sites of Emergence ... 106
Sex Negativities: The Discursive and Institutional Life of Sexual Violence ... 122
Catastrophes of the Human and Architectures of Emergence ... 123
Outside the Archive: Feminist and Queer Afro-Asian Formations ... 144
The Woke South ... 165
Aesthetic Form and Racial Formation: Reforming a History of Race's Emergence ... 172
Synthesizing an Unruly Field: The Routledge History of Queer America ... 176
Black | Queer | Diaspora | Sex: Emergent Approaches to Black Queer Sex ... 195
Trans of Color Emergences and Futures ... 230
Academic Hierarchy and Academic Irrelevance ... 248
Who's the Terrorist?: Survival and Refusal in the Global War ... 252
Re-Emergent Erotics: On the Uses of Erotic Islands ... 254
Latinx Feminisms ... 263
Sound Studies Caucus: Emergent Auralities and Subaltern Sounds: Latinx Cultural Production and Performance ... 283
Identity Politics ... 291
Black Queer Internationalists ... 295
Race, the State, and Political Imaginaries ... 299
Queer / Feminist Liberatory Futures ... 306
Labor and the Body: Theorizing the Racialized Production of Gender from Antislavery Campaigns to #MeToo ... 317
Los Angeles Geographies and Archives ... 332
Queer of Color Politics ... 336
(In)Visible Emergences: Decolonial Queer / Trans Theories and Methods as Resistance and Hope ... 345
My Music: Anti-Colonial Feminist Punk Rock ... 361
Queer Art of Emergency: Racial Proximity and the Aesthetics of Repair ... 374
Queerness and Race in Atlanta ... 388
Radical Black Dharma Strategies: Black Femmes and Black Queers on Living in the Dark Age ... 394
Emergent Alliances, Feminist Masculinities ... 395
Alien Emergences: Multiracial Intimacies and Queer Solidarities in Transnational Encounter ... 400
Queer and Unusual Objects: On Trans / Gender Archives ... 401
Gathering after the End: Queer Minoritarian Aesthetics of Ruins ... 424
Power, Poetry, and Public Health: How Essex Hemphill Taught Us to Resist the State ... 429
Performing / Producing Otherwise Worlds: Queer Impossibility as Tactical Emergence ... 441
Racial Property: Performing Legal Fictions ... 443
Queering Post-Socialism: Alternative Futures beyond Anglo Technologies of Sexuality and Informatics ... 444
Utopic / Dystopic: Black Feminist Aesthetics ... 456
Representing the Diaspora's Emergence / ies ... 459
What about the Human?: Humans, Monsters, Waste ... 005
Representations of Violence ... 006
Gentrification and Development: Place, Power, and Desire ... 015
Criminalization, Surveillance, and the Carceral State ... 019
On Public Art ... 024
"Kick, Push": Youth Politics, Empire, and Decolonization ... 032
Latinx Neoliberalism ... 035
Unsettled Landscapes: Black Sociality as Rupture ... 038
Biopolitics: Race, Medical Punishment, and Memory ... 044
Racial Capitalism and Natural Resource Extraction ... 045
Refugee Temporalities: Asynchronies of Vietnam War Violence ... 046
Critical Regionalisms and States of Emergence ... 052
Biopolitics: The Body as Property ... 053
States of Nature in 19th-Century Science ... 054
In the Water: Racial Capitalism and Environmental Justice ... 055
Women of Color Resist: Feminist and Queer Strategies ... 056
Right Makes Might?: Christianity, Conservatism, and Nationalism ... 058
Technological Emergence / Emergency: Screen Media and the Contexts of Carcerality ... 061
On New Cartographies of Racial Capitalism and Black Radical Tradition ... 063
Ethical Questions in Teaching Afro-Pessimism ... 065
The Gentrified City as Site of Emergence ... 068
Violent Exchanges between the Police and the Military after World War II ... 070
States of Embodiment: Animality, Racialization, and Environmental Justice ... 080
Feminist Emergencies: Engendering Liberal Dependency through Crisis ... 088
Travel Bans and Border Walls: The Weaponization of Foreignness in the State of Racial Emergency ... 095
Queering Intimacies of Empire ... 097
Program Committee: Everyday Utopias ... 102
Remembering the 1980s through Black and Latinx Performance ... 107
Critical Ethnic Studies Committee: White Settler States, Emerging Accountability, and Decolonial Provocations ... 133
Conspiracy, Confederacy and Revolt: Scenes from Antebellum America ... 134
The Emergence of Trump and the Emergency of Trumpism ... 140
Emergent Tourist Landscapes: Visual and Print Culture at the Origins of American Tourism ... 145
Race and Disability Justice ... 163
White Nationalist Roots of Trumpism ... 171
Aesthetic Form and Racial Formation: Reforming a History of Race's Emergence ... 172
Resistance Cinema: Alternative Histories at Hollywood's Margins and Beyond ... 175
Science, Technology, and Medicine Caucus: The Therapeutic Self, Gender, Race, and Well-Being ... 192
Whiteness of a Different Color: 20 Years Later ... 196
Humanitarianism, Emergency, and the Politics of Religion ... 197
Black Modernism's Roving Ear: Folklore and Popular Music in the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond ... 199
Emerging Fields: Locating Iranian Diaspora Studies within American Studies ... 214
Visual Culture Caucus: Visualizing In / Emergence and Race, Aesthetics, and the Ethics of Obfuscation ... 219
Immigrants, Migrants, and Refugees: At the Limit of Asylum in the United States ... 226
Students Committee: Emerging Scholars and Graduate Students in and beyond Crisis ... 232
After Emergence: Latinx and Comparative Racialization, Conflicts, and Coalition ... 236
Crises of ConFORMity: The Material Dimensions of Race and the Built Environment ... 258
Emergence in the Archive: Cultural Heritage in Theory and Practice ... 281
Identity Politics ... 291
States of Emergence in the Labor of Suffering ... 302
Sound Studies Caucus: Listening to Race: Black and Brown Voice-Overs and Accents on Television and Film ... 308
HIV and AIDS in the States of Emergence: The Ongoing Crisis as a Condition of Possibility ... 311
Labor and the Body: Theorizing the Racialized Production of Gender from Antislavery Campaigns to #MeToo ... 317
Reconstructing Secularisms ... 325
Reclaiming Our Time: Re-Centering Intersectional Feminism in Research, Teaching, and Everyday Realities ... 333
Queer of Color Politics ... 336
Embracing the Mess, Engaging the Complex: Disability Politics and Anti-Ableist Practices among Poor and Racialized Populations ... 337
Creating States of Emergence: Scholar-Artists and the Life-Giving Capacities of the Arts ... 338
Synthetic Forms ... 346
Critical Prison Studies Teach-In: An Organizer's Toolkit for Opening the University to Post-Incarcerated People ... 347
Institutionalizing Emergence: On (Re)Producing Institutions of Crisis ... 354
Technological Emergence and Political Emergencies at the Intersection of Race, Gender, and Resistance ... 356
Program Committee: Intersectionality at 30: States of Emergence ... 360
My Music: Anti-Colonial Feminist Punk Rock ... 361
Critical Ethnic Studies Committee: The Visual Culture of Mixed Race Representations ... 366
Queer Art of Emergency: Racial Proximity and the Aesthetics of Repair ... 374
Creative Resistance: Visual Cultures as Political Cultures ... 375
States of Material Emergence: Object-Based Explorations of Power and Political Expression, 1700–1980 ... 379
(Re) Emergent Bones: Settler Colonial Spaces and the Accumulation of Human Remains ... 380
War, Empire, and Anti-Muslim Racism ... 381
Tracking Tensions of Race, Space, and Neoliberalism ... 384
Queerness and Race in Atlanta ... 388
Critical University Studies: Disability, Race, Gender, and Sexuality ... 396
Early American Matters Caucus: (Dis)Ability, Race, the Superhuman, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Slavery ... 398
The Revolution Will Be Digitized: Anti-Racist and Feminist Perspectives ... 436
Who Is Suspect?: Policing, Racialization, and American Warfare ... 442
Utopic / Dystopic: Black Feminist Aesthetics ... 456
Policing, Emergency, and Emergence ... 457
Mapping Segregated Histories: Digital Research and Visualizations for the Public ... 461
Poetry from the Future: Un-Forming the Political ... 462
The Poetics of Crisis: Contexts for Liberation ... 003
Legal Entanglements: Land, Rights, and Citizenship ... 014
Gentrification and Development: Place, Power, and Desire ... 015
Times of Crisis, Places of Utopia: The Technoscientific Making of United States Futures ... 025
Latinx Neoliberalism ... 035
Racial Capitalism and Natural Resource Extraction ... 045
In the Water: Racial Capitalism and Environmental Justice ... 055
Interwar Black International ... 059
On New Cartographies of Racial Capitalism and Black Radical Tradition ... 063
Keywords of Emergency ... 069
The Gender of Racial Capitalism: Emerging Masculinities / Femininities in Making and Unmaking Racialized Poverty ... 083
Performing Care, Domestic Labor, and Empire ... 085
Crisis Obscura: Racialized Exceptions and the Biopolitics of American Empire ... 092
Transnational Feminist Methodologies: Incommensurability, Relationality, and Illegibility ... 113
Emergent Counter-Topographies, Infrastructures, and Geneologies of Struggle ... 118
Emerging Carceral State Formations: Prison and Jail Expansion in the Rural United States ... 119
Militarism and Capitalism: The Work and Wages of Violence ... 120
Body Burdens: Trauma, Toxicity, and the (Re)Production of Harm ... 135
Sports Studies Caucus: Rebel Workers and Emergent Forms of Labor, Time, and Value in the World of Sport ... 164
Program Committee: Sarah Haley's No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity ... 201
Critical Prison Studies Caucus: Resisting Protection in a Carceral Landscape ... 246
Whose Emergency and What Crisis?: Activist Responses to the Bipartisan Justice Reinvestment Initiative on Prison Sentencing Reform ... 293
Race, the State, and Political Imaginaries ... 299
¡Alta a Las Deportaciones! ... 316
Program Committee: Nikhil Pal Singh's Race and America's Long War ... 331
Queer of Color Politics ... 336
Environment and Culture Caucus: American Studies in the Plantationocene ... 342
Racial Capitalism, Environmental Capitalism, and Survival in the South ... 371
Critical Resistance South at Fifteen: The 21st-Century Landscape of Abolition in the U.S. South and Beyond I ... 376
Race, Property, and Aesthetics ... 389
Critical Resistance South at Fifteen: The 21st-Century Landscape of Abolition in the U.S. South and Beyond II ... 403
Black Feminisms across Many Suns: Futuristic Survival ... 440
Stomping Movements: Settler Imperial Counterinsurgency and Counterrevolution ... 445
Organizing from the Margins ... 465
Gentrification and Development: Place, Power, and Desire ... 015
Critical Regionalisms and States of Emergence ... 052
The Tacky South ... 137
Whose Emergency and What Crisis?: Activist Responses to the Bipartisan Justice Reinvestment Initiative on Prison Sentencing Reform ... 293
Right Makes Might?: Christianity, Conservatism, and Nationalism ... 058
Monsters, Spirits, and Replicant Others: Crisis, (Re)creation, and Endurance in Latinx Borderlands ... 110
Between Nothingness and Infinity: Black Joy, Nihilism, and Other Theologies ... 147
Trans* and Queer Embodiments of Sanación: Latinx Territories of the Body and the Spiritual ... 148
Humanitarianism, Emergency, and the Politics of Religion ... 197
Their Own Conversation: U.S. Muslim Women's Activism, Women of Color Feminism, and Black American Islam ... 222
Black Queer Internationalists ... 295
Reconstructing Secularisms ... 325
Queer of Color Politics ... 336
Racial Capitalism, Environmental Capitalism, and Survival in the South ... 371
War, Empire, and Anti-Muslim Racism ... 381
State of the Nation: Emerging Perspectives on the Nation of Islam ... 408
The Working Life: Culture, Class, Resilience and the Cards ... 022
Times of Crisis, Places of Utopia: The Technoscientific Making of United States Futures ... 025
Biopolitics: Race, Medical Punishment, and Memory ... 044
Emerging Eco-Subjectivities ... 049
Biopolitics: The Body as Property ... 053
States of Nature in 19th-Century Science ... 054
Mediating Emergency: Media's Constructions, Infrastructures, and Temporalities of Crisis ... 066
Merciful Failure, Delightful Disasters, and Practices of Hope ... 079
Critical Disability Studies Caucus: Cripping the Study of Science, Technology, and Medicine (co-sponsored by the Science, Technology and Medicine Caucus) ... 191
Science, Technology, and Medicine Caucus: The Therapeutic Self, Gender, Race, and Well-Being ... 192
Early American Matters Caucus: Colloquy with Britt Rusert on Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture ... 217
Trans-Cyberian States of Emergency: Race, Gender, and Disability in Digital Trans Studies ... 257
Synthetic Forms ... 346
Technological Emergence and Political Emergencies at the Intersection of Race, Gender, and Resistance ... 356
Emergent Forms of Speculative Media ... 431
Queering Post-Socialism: Alternative Futures beyond Anglo Technologies of Sexuality and Informatics ... 444
Decolonial Intimacies: Emergent Coalitional Potentialities across Latinx and Asian / American Studies ... 002
Representations of Violence ... 006
Legal Entanglements: Land, Rights, and Citizenship ... 014
Displaced / Out of Place Refugees ... 020
Times of Crisis, Places of Utopia: The Technoscientific Making of United States Futures ... 025
Cultural and Spatial Frameworks of Belonging in the Emergence of Liberal, LGBTQ-Friendly, Settler Colonialism ... 027
Latinx Neoliberalism ... 035
Racial Capitalism and Natural Resource Extraction ... 045
Critical Regionalisms and States of Emergence ... 052
Emergence and Emergency in Native North America ... 091
An Ordinary State of Carceral Emergency: That's What America Means, a Prison ... 098
Performing under Settler Colonial Crisis: Black and Indigenous Mobilizing on the Stage, Screen, and Streets ... 115
Mobilizing Indigenous Economies of Abundance against Climate Change and Late-Liberal, Settler Colonial Exhaustion ... 116
Catastrophes of the Human and Architectures of Emergence ... 123
Critical Ethnic Studies Committee: White Settler States, Emerging Accountability, and Decolonial Provocations ... 133
Internationalism and Palestine ... 141
Subterranean and Tectonic: Strategic Clarifications for the Study of Canadian Carceral Expansion ... 152
Contradictory Counter-Discourses: Continuing Complicities and Emerging Solidarities ... 161
On the Possibilities and Limits of Latinx: Towards an Indigenous Critique ... 182
Welcome to the Party: Ongoing Urgency in American Indian Studies ... 188
Transnational Feminisms and the Settler State: Emergent / Insurgent Provocations ... 216
Heritage and Tourism: Militarizing Memory ... 231
Sight and the Spoils of Empire ... 243
The Forgotten Prisoners of War: Internment during World War II ... 261
Maps for the Territory: Walks, Words, and Counter-Worlds in Palestine ... 297
Program Committee: Nikhil Pal Singh's Race and America's Long War ... 331
Our Borderline Concepts ... 351
Institutionalizing Emergence: On (Re)Producing Institutions of Crisis ... 354
Institutionalizing Emergency: Boarding Schools and the Crises of Colonialism ... 364
(Re) Emergent Bones: Settler Colonial Spaces and the Accumulation of Human Remains ... 380
Race, Property, and Aesthetics ... 389
Visualizing Sovereignty: Anti-Colonial Futures Emerging through Indigenous Political and Cultural Praxis ... 407
Past the Town / Gown Divide: Toward Migrant Justice of Farmworkers and Students ... 426
Settler Militarism: Order and Precarity ... 427
Stomping Movements: Settler Imperial Counterinsurgency and Counterrevolution ... 445
Rethinking Alternative Worlds: Emerging in the Here and Now of Emergency ... 463
Latinx Feminisms ... 263
The Poetics of Crisis: Contexts for Liberation ... 003
Gentrification and Development: Place, Power, and Desire ... 015
Fifty Years of Black Rage: Anti-Blackness between Clinic and Culture ... 034
Biopolitics: Race, Medical Punishment, and Memory ... 044
(Trans)Internationalism ... 047
Biopolitics: The Body as Property ... 053
Women of Color Resist: Feminist and Queer Strategies ... 056
Right Makes Might?: Christianity, Conservatism, and Nationalism ... 058
Sex Negativities: The Discursive and Institutional Life of Sexual Violence ... 122
Black | Queer | Diaspora | Sex: Emergent Approaches to Black Queer Sex ... 195
Transnational Dissident Subjectivities: Quotidian Practices of Resistance Among Latinx, Chicanx LGBTQS, and Mexican Migrant Women ... 235
These Knowledges Arrive Recklessly: Lindon Barrett's Conditions of the Present ... 251
The Forgotten Prisoners of War: Internment during World War II ... 261
Latinx Feminisms ... 263
AIDS, Media, and Memory: Legacies and Contestations in the Ongoing Emergency of the AIDS Crisis ... 286
Program Committee: Sureños en Nueva Tierra: Desde TLC a Abolición / Southerners On New Ground: From NAFTA to Abolition ... 319
Racial Capitalism, Environmental Capitalism, and Survival in the South ... 371
Committee on Gender and Sexuality Studies: Teaching Feminism in the American Studies Classroom ... 390
Sex, Emergency, and the Emerging Child ... 410
Fifty Years of Black Rage: Anti-Blackness between Clinic and Culture ... 034
Biopolitics: Race, Medical Punishment, and Memory ... 044
Conspiracy, Confederacy and Revolt: Scenes from Antebellum America ... 134
Emerging Narratives of Enslaved, Incarcerated, and Indentured Youth ... 190
Visual Culture Caucus: Visual Images and Black Subjects in the Wake of Racial Slavery ... 244
Program Committee: The Salience of Slavery: Scholarship and Teaching on Racial Slavery in a Moment of Crisis ... 255
To Be Black and Brown All Around: Afro Indigenous / Latinx Coalitions ... 378
Early American Matters Caucus: (Dis)Ability, Race, the Superhuman, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Slavery ... 398
Emerging Perspectives on Popular Representations of Racism and Slavery ... 464
States of Emergence: University Capitalism ... 048
Emerging Anti-Fascist Action: Tapping into Traditions and Meeting New Fascism ... 073
Program Committee: Survival Strategies in the South ... 077
New Dimensions of Filipino-American Organizing: Emergent Radicalisms from the 1970s to the 2010s ... 096
Emergent Counter-Topographies, Infrastructures, and Geneologies of Struggle ... 118
Trans-Pacific Cold War in Movements: Entanglements of Taiwan, Japan, the United States, and China ... 125
U.S. Political Prisoners and the Emergence of Revolutionary Strategies ... 138
Student Activism in the Age of Trump, #MeToo, and #BlackLivesMatter: Atlanta Student Activists in Conversation ... 143
Contradictory Counter-Discourses: Continuing Complicities and Emerging Solidarities ... 161
Presidential Session: Visualizing Revolution: Building the Eldridge and Kathleen Cleaver Family Archive ... 174
Monumental Memory ... 177
Legacies of 1968: Emergent Transnationalisms and Recurrent Crises ... 198
Public Commemoration and Reckoning with History: Crisis, Social Movements, and Emerging Forms of Historical Memory ... 204
Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Years ... 206
Academic and Community Activism Caucus: Beating the Backlash and Organizing in the Face of Emergency ... 224
Emergence and Emergency in Anti-Prison Movements ... 234
Critical Prison Studies Caucus: Resisting Protection in a Carceral Landscape ... 246
Who's the Terrorist?: Survival and Refusal in the Global War ... 252
On the Uses of Political Theatre ... 285
Mobility and Deportation in States of Emergency ... 287
Maps for the Territory: Walks, Words, and Counter-Worlds in Palestine ... 297
Public Space As / In States of Emergence ... 301
Eva Cherniavsky's Neocitizenship: Political Culture after Democracy ... 303
Conversations in the Feminist Public Humanities: Concepts, Nuts and Bolts, and New Publics ... 326
Embracing the Mess, Engaging the Complex: Disability Politics and Anti-Ableist Practices among Poor and Racialized Populations ... 337
Marxism Caucus: Marxism, the University, and the Legacies of 1968 ... 404
Material Subcultures: Production and Consumption on the Margins ... 406
Emergent Research and Reading Strategies: The American Studies Now Series ... 409
Past the Town / Gown Divide: Toward Migrant Justice of Farmworkers and Students ... 426
Ecologies of Radical Healing and Survival ... 428
Stomping Movements: Settler Imperial Counterinsurgency and Counterrevolution ... 445
Sonic Discipline and Disruption: Soundwaves as Political Action for and against the State ... 011
Gendered Sounds: Women Sing Off-Key ... 057
Remembering the 1980s through Black and Latinx Performance ... 107
Monumental Memory ... 177
The Shape of Things to Come: Songs, Noise, and Spillover ... 223
Latinx Feminisms ... 263
Sound Studies Caucus: Emergent Auralities and Subaltern Sounds: Latinx Cultural Production and Performance ... 283
Sound Studies Caucus: Listening to Race: Black and Brown Voice-Overs and Accents on Television and Film ... 308
Sound Studies Caucus: Sound Studies and the Long Sixties ... 348
The Critical Sounds and Colors of Caribbean Cultures ... 349
My Music: Anti-Colonial Feminist Punk Rock ... 361
A Voice and Nothing More?: Writing Sound and the Emergence of African American Racial Politics ... 425
Merging Emergencies: Soundings from around the Pacific ... 451
"Kick, Push": Youth Politics, Empire, and Decolonization ... 032
Sports Studies Caucus: Feminist Fan Emergence and Alternative Worlds of Sporting Identity ... 136
Sports Studies Caucus: Rebel Workers and Emergent Forms of Labor, Time, and Value in the World of Sport ... 164
Emerging Minds, Bodies, and Values: The Concussion Crisis in American Youth Football ... 323
The Black Athlete in States of Crisis across Time and Space ... 383
Criminalization, Surveillance, and the Carceral State ... 019
Interwar Black International ... 059
Secrecy, Transparency, and Power: Visual Methodologies for States of Emergency ... 233
Ulterior Emergencies: Aesthetics, Labor, and Re-Sighting Policy ... 412
Black Feminisms across Many Suns: Futuristic Survival ... 440
Policing, Emergency, and Emergence ... 457
Cultural and Spatial Frameworks of Belonging in the Emergence of Liberal, LGBTQ-Friendly, Settler Colonialism ... 027
(Trans)Internationalism ... 047
Spatiality and Transsexuality in American Studies: Sisterhood, Space, Place, and Belonging ... 072
Trans* and Queer Embodiments of Sanación: Latinx Territories of the Body and the Spiritual ... 148
Synthesizing an Unruly Field: The Routledge History of Queer America ... 176
The Political Valence of Trans Cinema Now: Communities, Conflicts, and Visual Culture ... 203
Trans of Color Emergences and Futures ... 230
Students Committee: Emerging Scholars and Graduate Students in and beyond Crisis ... 232
Trans-Cyberian States of Emergency: Race, Gender, and Disability in Digital Trans Studies ... 257
Queer of Color Politics ... 336
Emergent Alliances, Feminist Masculinities ... 395
Queer and Unusual Objects: On Trans / Gender Archives ... 401
Displaced / Out of Place Refugees ... 020
Body Burdens: Trauma, Toxicity, and the (Re)Production of Harm ... 135
Monumental Memory ... 177
Critical Disability Studies Caucus: Cripistemologies of Continuous Crisis I: Exploring / Speculating / Imagining Crip Space and Time ... 218
Critical Disability Studies Caucus: Cripistemologies of Continuous Crisis II: The Cultural Etiologies / Exacerbations of Crisis States ... 309
Ecologies of Radical Healing and Survival ... 428
Articulating Asian / American Aesthetics of Non-Resilience: Neoliberalism's States of Emergency ... 430
Black Feminisms across Many Suns: Futuristic Survival ... 440
States of Emergence: University Capitalism ... 048
Committee on Departments, Programs, and Centers: Breakfast Forum: Subverting the Hustle: Emergence and Transformation within the University Complex ... 130
Student Activism in the Age of Trump, #MeToo, and #BlackLivesMatter: Atlanta Student Activists in Conversation ... 143
Committee on Departments, Programs, and Centers: Pedagogies, Emergent Capacities and Sustaining the Magic of American Studies ... 158
Emerging Keywords for Higher Education: Art, Engagement, Inclusion, Safe ... 166
Graduate Education Committee: Beyond Crisis in Graduate Education ... 221
From Archives to Emergencies: Temporalities of Emergence and Historical Scholarship ... 229
Academic Hierarchy and Academic Irrelevance ... 248
Who's the Terrorist?: Survival and Refusal in the Global War ... 252
Critical Prison Studies Teach-In: An Organizer's Toolkit for Opening the University to Post-Incarcerated People ... 347
Critical University Studies: Disability, Race, Gender, and Sexuality ... 396
Marxism Caucus: Marxism, the University, and the Legacies of 1968 ... 404
Past the Town / Gown Divide: Toward Migrant Justice of Farmworkers and Students ... 426
Gentrification and Development: Place, Power, and Desire ... 015
Domestic Empires: Aftermath, Endurance, and Refuge in the Militarized City ... 018
"Kick, Push": Youth Politics, Empire, and Decolonization ... 032
The Gentrified City as Site of Emergence ... 068
Cultural and Ecological Geographies of the Urban ... 082
The Shape of Things to Come: Songs, Noise, and Spillover ... 223
Urban Imaginaries: Visual Practices and the (Un)Making of Home ... 327
Los Angeles Geographies and Archives ... 332
Queer of Color Politics ... 336
The Emergence and State of the Urban Humanities ... 355
Queerness and Race in Atlanta ... 388
Critical Stories of Crossings in and through the Americas ... 411
Sorrow of a City: The (After)Life of the Atlanta Child Murders ... 438
Representations of Violence ... 006
The Working Life: Culture, Class, Resilience and the Cards ... 022
On Public Art ... 024
"Kick, Push": Youth Politics, Empire, and Decolonization ... 032
Latinx Neoliberalism ... 035
Emerging Visualities, Seeing Emergencies Differently ... 043
Biopolitics: Race, Medical Punishment, and Memory ... 044
Women of Color Resist: Feminist and Queer Strategies ... 056
Emergent Tourist Landscapes: Visual and Print Culture at the Origins of American Tourism ... 145
Presidential Session: Visualizing Revolution: Building the Eldridge and Kathleen Cleaver Family Archive ... 174
Monumental Memory ... 177
Visual Culture Caucus: Visualizing In / Emergence and Race, Aesthetics, and the Ethics of Obfuscation ... 219
Secrecy, Transparency, and Power: Visual Methodologies for States of Emergency ... 233
Sight and the Spoils of Empire ... 243
Visual Culture Caucus: Visual Images and Black Subjects in the Wake of Racial Slavery ... 244
Who's the Terrorist?: Survival and Refusal in the Global War ... 252
Photographic Domains / Performative Remains: Violent Reproduction, Racial Aesthetics, and Black Radical Dissent ... 264
Urban Imaginaries: Visual Practices and the (Un)Making of Home ... 327
Los Angeles Geographies and Archives ... 332
Queer of Color Politics ... 336
Critical Ethnic Studies Committee: The Visual Culture of Mixed Race Representations ... 366
Creative Resistance: Visual Cultures as Political Cultures ... 375
Visualizing Sovereignty: Anti-Colonial Futures Emerging through Indigenous Political and Cultural Praxis ... 407
Settler Militarism: Order and Precarity ... 427
Black Activism through the Arts ... 449
Representing the Diaspora's Emergence / ies ... 459
What about the Human?: Humans, Monsters, Waste ... 005
Performing Care, Domestic Labor, and Empire ... 085
Black Feminist Poetics, Narratives, and Humor ... 155
Race and Disability Justice ... 163
Black in the Archive ... 167
Their Own Conversation: U.S. Muslim Women's Activism, Women of Color Feminism, and Black American Islam ... 222
The Forgotten Prisoners of War: Internment during World War II ... 261
On the Uses of Political Theatre ... 285
Arab American Studies Association: What Time Is It?: Queer and Women of Color Relations and Re-memory across U.S. Settler Empire ... 313
Reclaiming Our Time: Re-Centering Intersectional Feminism in Research, Teaching, and Everyday Realities ... 333
The Critical Sounds and Colors of Caribbean Cultures ... 349
My Music: Anti-Colonial Feminist Punk Rock ... 361
Racial Capitalism, Environmental Capitalism, and Survival in the South ... 371
The Revolution Will Be Digitized: Anti-Racist and Feminist Perspectives ... 436
States of Reproduction and the Reproductive State ... 458
The Working Life: Culture, Class, Resilience and the Cards ... 022
"Kick, Push": Youth Politics, Empire, and Decolonization ... 032
Class Contingencies ... 042
The Emerging Field of Working-Class Studies ... 169
Mobility and Deportation in States of Emergency ... 287
Program Committee: Sureños en Nueva Tierra: Desde TLC a Abolición / Southerners On New Ground: From NAFTA to Abolition ... 319
Medical States of Emergence and Geographies of Care: Civil Rights Movements and Biopolitics in New Mexico, Texas, and Louisiana ... 446
Organizing from the Margins ... 465