Race and Place III: The Civil Rights Movement
11-13 March 2004
Schedule of Events and Panels

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All events take place at the Alabama Institute for Manufacturing Excellence on the UA Campus
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Thursday, March 11, 2004

Afternoon: Registration

4:00 Movie Screening, Room 110: Freedom on My Mind (California Newsreel, 1994, 110 min.)

7:00 p.m. Keynote Address, Room 110: "Civil Rights Anniversaries: Brown, Freedom Summer, and the Legacy of the Movement," John Dittmer, DePauw University

Friday, March 12, 2004

9:00 -– 10:45 a.m. SESSION I:

Panel 1—Race and Cultural Production, Room 110
“Tourism Narratives of New Orleans History,” Lynnell Thomas, Emory University
“Now That It’s Fashionable: African-American Television Characters, 1963-1975,”
Randall Clark, North Georgia College and State University
“My People’s Places: Literary Visions of African-American Environmental Stuggles,”
Kimberly N. Ruffin, Bates College
Moderator: James Hall, New College, University of Alabama

Panel 2—Race, the Law, and Civil Rights, Room 111
“Race and Reapportionment in Mississippi,” Chris Danielson, University of Mississippi
“From Desegregation to Integration: The History of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Historic
Green v. New Kent County School Board, Virginia Decision (1968),”
Brian Daugherity, College of William and Mary
“Hands Off or Heavy Hands?: Race and U.S. Prisons After World War II,”
Kimberly Gilmore, New York University
Moderator: Alfred L. Brophy, University of Alabama

11:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. SESSION II:

Panel 3—African American Public Intellectuals and Civil Rights, Room 110
"Ready for Revolution: A Critical Analysis of Stokely Carmichael's Autobiography,"
Hasan Kwame Jeffries, The Ohio State University
“W. Alphaeus Hunton: A Pan-Africanist in the American Labor Movement,”
Chris Lutz, Georgia State University
Moderator: Damon Freeman, University of Alabama

Panel 4—Identity and Activism, Room 111
“The Crisis: Reconsidering Place and the Color Line in a Publication of the Movement,”
Maria Sablan, St. Louis University
“'In the first place, Walter White is white:' W.E.B. DuBois, Mixed Race Americans, and
the Politics of 'Mulatto',” Mark Andrew Huddle, St. Bonaventure University
Sympathy for the Rodent: Segregation, Interior Lives, and Protest Literature,"
Rolland Murray, The Ohio State University
Moderator:Greg Dorr, University of Alabama

Panel 5— Race, Immigration, and the Latino Experience, Room 112
“A ‘Class Apart’: The Politics of Mexican American Citizenship, 1930-1971,”
Lisa Y. Ramos, Columbia University
“Place and Identity: The Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City,”
Silke Hensel, University of Cologne
Moderator: Hayley Froysland, University of Southern Mississippi

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. LUNCH BREAK

2:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. SESSION III

Panel 6—Transnational Tales of Resistance, Room 110
“Black Transnational Civil Rights: Tlahualilo, Mexico and the Case of Tuscaloosa in 1895,”
John McKiernan-Gonzalez, University of Texas/University of South Florida
“From Bellows to Birmingham: Race, Place and Mutiny in Company E, 1320th General
Services Regiment, Hawai’i, 1944,” Allison J. Gough, Hawaii Pacific University
Moderator:Natalie Ring, Tulane University

Panel 7—Racial Theory, Racial Memory, Room 111
“Neither Red, nor White, nor Black: Writing Against Race in the Historiography of the Early Americas,” James Taylor Carson, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
“Our Ancestors’ Avarice: Remembering Indian Removal in Mid-Twentieth Century Georgia,”
Andrew Denson
“The Civil War and Civil Rights: Manassas and Gettysburg, 1961-63,”
Christopher Bates, University of California, Los Angeles
“'Mississippi in Their Heads': On Historians’ Use and Abuse of the Civil Rights Movement,”
Peter A. Kuryla, Vanderbilt University
Moderator: Bobby Wilson, University of Alabama

Panel 8—Alabama After King’s Dream, Room 112
“'Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around': African American Women’s Involvement
in the Neighborhood Organized Workers and the Civil Rights Movement in
Mobile, Alabama, 1968-1969,” Delene Case, University of South Alabama
“'Against the Peace and Dignity of the State of Alabama': The Sixteenth Street Baptist
Church Bombing Trial and the Remaking of Birmingham, 1977,”
Willoughby Anderson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“The Post-Civil Rights Era?: Black Activism in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963- 1979,”
Robert W. Widell, Jr., Emory University
Moderator: Rolland Murray, The Ohio State University

4:30 Movie Screening, Room 110: Race - The Power of an Illusion. Episode 1: The Difference Between Us (California Newsreel, 2003, 56 min.)

4:30 Movie Screening, Room 111: Standing on My Sisters' Shoulders (A Women Make Movies Release, 61 min.)

6:30 DINNER AT THE DORRS’ HOUSE. (Directions to the Dorr household.) Directions will also available at the registration desk.

Saturday, March 13, 2003

9:00 – 10:45 a.m. SESSION IV

Panel 9—Civil Rights Ideologies, Room 110
“White over Black: Robert J. Breckinridge’s Antislavery Thought, 1830-1860,”
Luke E. Harlow, Wheaton College
“The Meanings of Brotherhood in the Civil Rights-Era South,”
Ted Ownby, University of Mississippi
“The Religious Legitimation of American Indian Movement Politics,”
Thomas Brown, Lamar University
Moderator:George Rable, University of Alabama

Panel 10—Varieties of Resistance, Room 111
“The Persistence of Black Voting in Rural Jim Crow Georgia, Hancock County, 1890- 1960,”
Mark Schultz, Lewis University
“The Pastors Who Did Not March: Southern White Fundamentalists and the Civil Rights Movement,” Daniel K. Williams, Brown University
“Conservative Ambiguities and Social Order: James Bales and the Civil Rights Movement,”
Barclay T. Key, University of Florida
Moderator: Micki McElya, University of Alabama

11:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. SESSION V

Panel 11—The Racial Frontier, Room 110
“Bridging the Red Sea: St. Louis African-American Community Relief Efforts and the
Exodusters of 1879,” Bryan M. Jack, St. Louis University
“Lynching and Racial Violence in Kansas, 1890-1905,”
Brent Campney, Emory University
“'All Men Up': Black Towns, Black Politics, and Black Progressivism in Oklahoma, 1907-1915,”
Melissa N. Stuckey, Yale University
Moderator: Josh Rothman, University of Alabama

Panel 12— Negotiating the Urban Environment, Room 111
“Race and Place in Storyville, New Orleans, 1897-1917,”
Alecia P. Long, Louisiana State Museum
"'Atlanta is Just a Crackertown': The Bitter Struggle over Urban Renewal during the Civil Rights Era," Ivy Holliman, University of Georgia
“Trouble in Our Good City”: The Louisville Open Housing Movement”
Yulonda Eadie Sano, The Ohio State University
“'No Paradise of Tolerance:' Race, Housing, and the 1967 Kentucky Derby,”
Sarah Hardin, University of Kentucky
Moderator: Amilcar Shabazz, University of Alabama

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Luncheon at the Presidential Pavilion
Keynote Address: "'Dust on Their Boots and Dirt Under Their Nails': Ella Baker and the Radical Grassroots Tradition," Barbara Ransby

2:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. SESSION VI

Panel 13—Institutions and Civil Rights, Room 110
“'Offering Inferior Service to Negro Patients': Unequal Healthcare in Birmingham, Alabama,”
Tim L. Pennycuff, University of Alabama, Birmingham
“Uncivil Rights: Understanding the Paradox of Desegregating Black-Owned Businesses,”
Douglas Bristol, Jr., University of Southern Mississippi
“Marching Backwards: Race and The Citadel in Reagan’s America,”
Alexander S. Macaulay, Jr., Georgia College and State University
Moderator:Lisa Lindquist Dorr, University of Alabama

Panel 14—Middle Class Activism, Room 111
“Luther P. Jackson and the Political Awakening of African American Teachers,”
Michael Dennis, Acadia University, Nova Scotia
“The Fellowship of the Concerned: Southern Church Women’s Strategies for Civil Rights,”
Edith Holbrook Riehm, Georgia State University
“Through Different Eyes: Northern and Southern Jews View the African American Civil
Rights Movement in the South,” Charles Ferris, University of Memphis
Moderator:David Beito, University of Alabama

4:30 Movie Screening, Room 110: Race - The Power of an Illusion. Episode 2: The Story We Tell
(California Newsreel, 2003, 56 min.)

4:30 Movie Screening, Room 111: Strange Fruit (California Newsreel, 2002, 57 min.)

7:30 Movie Screening, Room 110: Race - The Power of an Illusion. Episode 3: The House We Live In (California Newsreel, 2003, 56 min.)

7:30, Movie Screening, Room 111: Freedom on My Mind (California Newsreel, 1994, 110 min.)

Race and Place in the Americas
Conference Program
March 7-9, 2003
Bidgood Hall
The University of Alabama

Friday, 1:00-3:00 pm

Law Science and the Construction of Race
Session #1 Room 117

The Origins of Tri-Racial Jim Crow in North Carolina
Thomas Brown and Leah C. Sims, Lamar University

The Logic of Segregation: The Mississippi “Chinese” in “Black” and “White”
Susanna Michele Lee, University of Virginia

The Science of Race in the post-World War II Era
Michelle Brattain, Georgia State University
Chair, Paul Ortiz, University of California, Santa Cruz

Order and Insurrection in Eighteenth-Century Discourses of Race
Session #2 Room 119

“Extravagant Pretentions” and the “Venom of Democracy”: Vincent Oge and Free Colored Equality in Philadelphia, 1789-1792
James Alexander Dun, Princeton University

From Goddess of Love to Unloved Wife: Naming Slaves and Redeeming Masters in Eighteenth-Century New England
Richard A. Bailey, University of Kentucy

Contagion: Racial Ordering in Georgia in the Revolutionary Era, 1790-1804
Watson Jennison, University of Virginia
Chair, TBA

Friday, 3:15-5:15 pm

"Constructing Identities in the Caribbean"
Session #3 Room 117

Ethnicities and Ecologies: The Making of Race and Place in Colonial British Honduras
Melissa A. Johnson, Southwestern University

“Cleaning up the Streets”: Race/Color, Class, Gender and Public Space in Kingston, JamaicaWinnifred Brown-Glaude, Princeton University
Chair, Rosanne Adderley, Tulane University

Manifesting Race in Region, City and Psyche
Session #4 Room 119

A Black City of Quality Need not be an Oxymoron: Challenging “Race” Space and Disabling Labels
Jim Chaffers, University of Michigan

Racializing the Region: The U.S. South, American Empire, and the 'Race Problem'"
Natalie J. Ring, Tulane University

Passing: A Comparative Study of the Theme in the Mexican-American and African-American Literary Traditions
Gema Ortega, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Chair, TBA

Dinner Reception, Home of Greg and Lisa Dorr, 7:00 pm

Saturday, 9:00-11:00 am

Confronting the System
Session #5 Room 117

Using the System: Politics in Post-War America
A New Era in the Political Life of the Nation: Black Movement towards the Democratic Party, 1942-1952
Christopher E. Manning, Loyola University

Staying in Place: African-American Resistance to Out-Migration in the Rural South after 1865
Greta de Jong, University of Nevada at Reno

Soul City: Black Power, Utopia, and the African-American Dream
Christopher Strain, Florida Atlantic University

Public Policy and Communal Well-Being in the Twentieth Century
Session #6 Room 119

Broken Promises: The Urban Environment and African-American Migrants in Chicago, 1915-1950
Sylvia E. Washington, Northwestern University

Welfare Politics and the Changing Discourse of Race, 1935-1980
Premilla Nadasen, Queens College CUNY

Race Migration, Disease: HIV/AIDS in Belle Glade, Florida
Meredith Raimondo, California State, Fullerton
Chair, TBA

Luncheon for Conference Participants, Ferguson Center 11:15-1:00

Saturday, 1:15 – 3:15 pm

Racialized Places in the United States West, 1849-2002
Session #7 Room 117

Plantations in Paradise: The Spatial Cast Systems of Viti and Citriculture in Southern California, 1890-1930
Anthea Hartig, La Sierra University

Race, Work, and Place: Mexican Identites in Los Angeles, 1890-1941
Luis Arroyo, California State, Long Beach

Struggles in Wilderness: Newcomers, Old-Timers, Natice and Immigrants in a California Mountain Playground, 1849-2002
Margo McBane, California State, Monterey Bay, Suzanna Guerra
Chair, Claudia Rivers, University of Texas at El Paso

Shifting Status
Session #8 Room 119

Asserting Agency: African Americans in the Civil War and New South
Confiscation and Emancipation during the U.S. Civil War
Daniel W. Hamilton, Harvard University

“Who’s Going to Talk for You?”: Female Resistance to Sexual Assault in the New South
Keira V. Williams, University of Georgia
Chair, TBA

Saturday, 3:30-5:30

Shaping Identity and Building Democracy in Modern Latin America
Session #9 Room 117

The Race and Place in Guatemala: The Emergence of the Pan Maya Movement
Elena Cirkovic, University of Toronto

"Race, Labor, Migration and Gender Dynamics in the Guatemala Atlantic World, 1884-1914"
Frederick Opie
Chair, Hayley Froysland, University of Southern Mississippi

Race, Space, and Identity in the United States
Session #10 Room 119

Physical Space and the Construction of Racial Identity at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Jill Miller, Armstrong Atlantic State University

“It’s All on the Wall”
Sam Hitchmough,Canterbury Christ Church University College

Racial Imaginings and the Construction of National Identity during America’s Centennial
Jeff Kosiorek, University of Southern California
Chair, TBA

Dinner TBA

2002 Race and Place
Conference Program
The University of Alabama

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