Race and Place IV: Borderlands and Boundaries
March 10-12, 2005
Schedule of Events and Panels

Registration Form (Download .pdf file)

All events take place at the Alabama Institute for Manufacturing Excellence on the UA Campus
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Thursday, March 10, 2005
Registration for Early Arrivals (Afternoon)
Film Screening: “The Language You Cry In,” and, “February One,” 5 p.m.

All conference participants are welcome to attend the Second Annual Rose Gladney Lecture by activist Anne Braden at 7:30 p.m. in Room 110, Alabama Institute for Manufacturing Excellence. A reception will follow the lecture.

Friday, March 11, 2005
Registration (8:00-8:50)
Panel 1 (9:00-10:30): Alabama Divided
“A New Deal for African American Farmers: The Flint River Farms and Prairie Farms Experience,” Tasha M. Hargrove and Robert Zabawa, Tuskegee University
“Nat King Cole in Birmingham, 1956: Segregation, Representation, and the Politics of Aural Intimacy,” Eric D. Johnson, University of Iowa
“Reconstructed Resistance: A New Paradigm for Civil Rights Literature,” John Lyles, Auburn University

Panel 2 (10:45-12:15): Between Slavery and Freedom
“Community Formation and Slave Resistance: A Case Study from the Southeastern Borderlands,” Nathaniel Millett, College of Mount Saint Vincent
“Freedom and Citizenship in Territorial Florida,” Philip M. Smith, Texas A&M University
“Crossing Freedom’s Fault Line: Law, Borders, Identity, and the Underground Railroad,” Scott Hancock, Gettysburg College

12:30-1:30 Lunch break

Panel 3 (1:45-3:15): Socializing Boundaries through Schooling
“Black English and Kenneth Clark during the Black Power Movement,” Damon Freeman, University of Alabama
“Negotiating the Spatiality of Race All the Way Down,” Catherine Veninga, University of Washington

Panel 4 (3:30-5:00): The Power of Seeing
“Crafting the Public Self: Power Dressing on the White Earth Indian Reservation, 1880-1920,” Marcia G. Anderson, Minnesota Historical Society
“The Other Frontier: Conceptualizations of the Frontier by Natives in the Cariboo, 1862-1871,” Chris Herbert, Simon Fraser University
“Blurring the Boundaries of Race During ‘Okie’ Migration: White-Washing the Poor,” D. Marie Ralstin-Lewis, University of Oregon

Film: “Le Silence De La Foret,” and “Black Is, Black Ain’t,” 5:30 p.m.

7:00 Dinner at the home of Lisa Lindquist Dorr (directions will be available at the registration table)

Saturday, March 12, 2005
Panel 5 (9:00-10:30): Inscribing and Describing Nationality
“Concepts of National Borders and Issues of Permeability: Survival and Directionality—Questions for Practitioners and Policy Makers,” Martha Carey, Emory University
“Colonial Boundaries in Contemporary Africa: The Bakassi Peninsular in Nigeria-Cameroon Border Relations,” Geoffrey Nwaka, Abia State University

Panel 6 (10:45-12:15):
“Life Beyond the Periphery: The Banlieue in French Imagination,” Nadeen M. Thomas, City University of New York
“Title TBA,” Josephine Nhongo-Simbanegavi, University of Alabama

12:30-1:30 Luncheon for conference participants, Smith Hall, Second Floor Atrium

Film: “Si Gueriki,” 3:30 p.m.