Center for Race and Ethnicity
at Rutgers University
Friday, November 13, 2009
Assembly Room, Winants Hall, Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ
In
the 40 years since the birth of Black and Africana Studies, the
now-expansive field has transformed the academy -- cutting across many
disciplines. This meeting recognizes this year as a major milestone in
African and African-American scholarship while also considering the
road ahead, drawing scholars together across history, politics,
sociology, law, public policy, literature, and culture, to offer
diverse perspectives and insights on today's challenges and
possibilities. For 1 page pdf of this schedule click here.
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Friday, Nov 13, 9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
Edward Ramsamy (Rutgers, Africana); Keith Wailoo, (Rutgers,
History/Center for Race and Ethnicity), Richard L. McCormick
(President, Rutgers University)
9:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Panel I. Documenting and Theorizing Diaspora: Africa, Caribbean, the UK, and the Americas.
What are the contours, opportunities, and limits of African and African-American Diaspora Studies today?
V.P. Franklin, “La Longue Dureé: Documenting and Theorizing African Cultural Penetration in North America and the Caribbean” (University of California - Riverside, Distinguished Professor of History and Education)
Bayo Holsey, “Rethinking the Place of Africa in Black Atlantic Studies” (Duke University, African and African-American Studies/Cultural Anthropology)
Jacqueline Nassy Brown, “Gendering African Diasporic Studies: The State of the Art” (Hunter College, Anthropology)
Shatema Threadcraft, “Intimate Justice: Reproductive Labor and Racial Equality” (Yale University, Political Science)
Percy C. Hintzen, “Re-Theorizing the African Diaspora: Metaphor, Revelation, Recognition and Consciousness” (University of California - Berkeley, African American Studies) (Field: Political Sociology)
Alondra Nelson, “Towards the Future of African Diaspora Studies: Intersections with Science, Medicine and Technology” (Columbia University, Sociology) (Field: American Studies)
Discussants: Mia Bay (Rutgers, History); Allen Howard (Rutgers, History/Center for African Studies)
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10:45 a.m. -11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. -12:30 p.m. Panel II. Sounds of Social Change: Transformation, Performance, and Black Identity.
How do music and innovations in sound resonate with social movements, drive shifts in Black aesthetics and identity, and define new possibilities for social transformation?
Alice Echols, “Soul Music in the Land of Somewhere Else: Writing Disco into the History of African American Music” (Rutgers, American Studies/History)
Michael Birenbaum Quintero, “Diaspora and the Political Economy of Blackness: A View from the “Black Pacific” (Johns Hopkins - Anthropology) (Field: Ethnomusicology)
Carter Mathes, “Tasting Poisoned Bread: Sound as African American Cultural Critique” (Rutgers, English)
Daphne Brooks, “Reverb in the Archive: Sonically Mediating Black Studies & English Studies” (Princeton, English/Center for African American Studies)
Zaire Dinzey-Flores, “Negros a lo Niche: Race and the Urban Spatial Aesthetics of Reggaetón” (Rutgers, Sociology/Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies)
Discussants: Cheryl Wall (Rutgers, English); Minkah Makalani (Rutgers, History)
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12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Lunch
Remarks: Philip Furmanski, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Rutgers
1:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Panel III. The Contemporary Black Experience:
Inequality, Opportunity, and the Road Ahead.
How do African and African-American Studies develop in relation to 21st century Black experiences and perspectives?
Mia Bay, “Traveling Black, Past and Present: On the History and Implications of Segregated Transportation in the United States” (Rutgers, History)
Naa Oyo A. Kwate, “Day to Day Blackness: Race, Place and African American Health” (Columbia, Sociomedical Sciences) (Field: Psychology)
Yohuru Williams, “An Ambition Born of Hope: Black Studies in the Age of Barack Obama” (Fairfield University, History/Black Studies)
Donna Murch, “Johnny Too Bad: Black Youth and the Politics of Juvenile Delinquency in Postwar Cities” (Rutgers, History)
Louis Prisock, “The Conservative Worldview and African-Americans: Towards an Analysis and Critical Assessment” (Colgate University, Sociology)
Lisa Miller, “The Problem of Victimization: African-Americans, Crime and Social Justice” (Rutgers, Political Science)
Discussant: Keith Wailoo (Rutgers, History/Health Policy/Center for Race and Ethnicity)
Conference Organized by The Rutgers Initiative on African and African-American Diaspora Studies: Keith Wailoo, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor History/Founding Director, Center for Race and Ethnicity; Cheryl Wall, Board of Governors Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English; Mia Bay, History/Associate Director, Center for Race and Ethnicity; Carter Mathes, English; Donna Murch, History; Minkah Makalani, History; David Hughes, Human Ecology/Center for African Studies; Edward Ramsamy, Africana Studies (Sponsored by: Center for Race and Ethnicity; School of Arts and Sciences; Africana Studies)
