Breakfast for Women in American Studies (Sponsored by the ASA Women's Committee)

The Landscape of Race and Class: Detroit as a Site of Cultural Struggle

	CHAIR:	Mary Helen Washington, Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park
	PAPERS:	Adilifu Nama, Department of Sociology, University of Southern California The Othering of Post-Industrial Decline: Representations of Detroit as the Nexus of Social Trauma in Hollywood Films Benjamin Flowers, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota Postwar Architecture in Detroit: Race, Capitalism, and Class Karen R. Miller, Department of History, University of Michigan Whose History, Whose Culture? Detroit's Museum of African American History, The Detroit Institute of Art, and Urban Politics Catherine E. Daligga, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor You Don't Know What You've Got 'Til It's Gone: The Unfulfilled Promise of the Merrill-Palmer Institute in Detroit
	COMMENT:	Mary Helen Washington

Landscapes of Race and Erasure

	CHAIR:	Gary Kulik, Deputy Director, Winterthur Museum
	PAPERS:	Jacqueline Fear-Segal, School of English and American Studies, University of East Anglia Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Landscape of Race and Erasure K. Ian Grandison, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan The Spatial Politics of Patronage: Race, Philanthropy, and the American College Campus Craig Barton, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University Department of Architecture, University of Virginia Constructing Invisibility: Race, Urban Design, and the Politics of Memory Mabel Olivia Wilson, California College of Arts and Crafts Thresholds of Enunciation-Building Black Cultural Institutions
	COMMENT:	Gary Kulik

Performing Ethnicities I : 1880-1930 (TALK)

	CHAIR:	W. T. Lhoman, Department of English, Florida State University, Tallahassee
	PAPERS:	Timothy B. Powell, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania Chinese Opera and Cultural Memory in the Age of the Exclusion Ted Merwin, Theatre, City University of New York Graduate School Performing Ethnicity in 1920s American Jewish Popular Culture Esther Romeyn, Interdisciplinary Humanities Program, Arizona State University "One piece beer mit pretzels, by gollies": Performing ethnicity in the Urban Borderlands of Turn-of-the-century New York Peter Conolly-Smith, Humanities and Social Sciences, DeVry Institute Casting "Teutonic Types" from Neutrality to War: Nationalism, the Preparedness Epic, and the Press, 1915-1918
	COMMENT:	W. T. Lhoman

Speaking America: Nation, Citizenship and the Question of Bilingual Education

	CHAIR:	Stephen J. Pitti, History Department, Yale University
	PAPERS:	Dèmian Pritchard, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego Policing the Borders: Language, Literature, and the Question of Nation and Citizenship in the US Southwest Linda Heidenreich, Department of Women's Studies, Washington State University The Next Generation: Eclectic Readers and the Education of Young Americans in the Nineteenth Century West Rita Urquijo-Ruiz, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego From "Ya no vengan para acá" to "Go back to where you came from": Elitism, Language and Contradictions in the First Chicano/a Novel, Las aventuras de don Chipote o cuando los pericos mamen Alana Cortès, Bilingual Educator, Grand View Elementary School The Politicization of the Bilingual Classroom: Its History and Consequences
	COMMENT:	Stephen J. Pitti

Workers' Bodies

	CHAIR:	Debra J. Blake, English, University of Iowa
	PAPERS:	Todd Vogel, American Studies, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut Frederick Douglass's Other Tool: The Worker in Early America Larry Smith, English, Bowling Green State University, Huron, Ohio Workers' Pain: Honoring It By Naming and Releasing It in Poetry Janet Zandy, Language and Literature, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York Worker Ghosts: Who Speaks for the De-Industrialized and Downsized?
	COMMENT:	Debra J. Blake

The Roman Catholic Household and American Catholic Identity

	CHAIR:	John T. McGreevy, Department of History, University of Notre Dame
	PAPERS:	Una M. Cadegan, American Studies Program, University of Dayton "My Immaculate Heart Will Triumph": The Fatima Devotion and U.S. Roman Catholic Anticommunism, 1917-1959 Anthony Burke Smith, Department of Religious Studies, University of Dayton The Other Catholic Social Reformer on the Radio: John A. Ryan, Father Coughlin and Liberal Catholicism in America Leslie Woodcock Tentler, Department of History, Catholic University of America Catholic Identity and the Debate over Contraception, 1919-1960
	COMMENT:	John T. McGreevy

Detroit Working-Class History and Politics: A Conversation on Race and Class (Sponsored by the Working-Class Studies Caucus)

	CHAIR:	Deirdre J. Murphy, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota
	PANELISTS:	General Baker, Autoworker and Labor Leader Jane Slaughter, Freelance Journalist Thomas Sugrue, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
	COMMENT:	Steven Garabedian, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota

Education and Activism: The Case of "Students Against Sweatshops" (Roundtable)

	CHAIR:	Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
	PANELISTS:	Jessica Champagne, Department of Anthropology, Yale University Snehal Ishwar Patel, Center for Health Policy, Duke University Gary Gereffi, Department of Sociology, Duke University Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Department of History and Literature, Harvard University Eileen Boris, Department of Studies in Women and Gender, University of Virginia Andrew Ross, Department of American Studies, New York University Jonathan Rosenblum, Labor Attorney, Madison, Wisconsin
	COMMENT:	Audience

Leaving the Camps Behind: Perspectives on the Post-Internment Japanese-American Experience

	CHAIR:	Stephen H. Sumida, Department of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington
	PAPERS:	Thomas Y. Fujita Rony, Asian American Studies, California State University, Fullerton Narratives of Knowledge: Gender, Race, Class and Heroism Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado,Boulder Japanese American Resettlement in Colorado, 1942-1945: A Diasporic Moment Greg Robinson, History, New York University What I Did in Camp: Interpreting Narratives of the Japanese-Ameircan Internment
	COMMENT:	Stephen H. Sumida

Tourists/Theorists/Terrorists: American Studies After Seattle

	CHAIR:	Bruce Robbins, Department of English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
	PAPERS:	Amitava Kumar, Department of English, Pennsylvania State University American Studies, Meet the World Bank Caren Irr, Department of English, Brandeis University How American is the World Intellectual Property Organization Aamir Rashid Mufti, English & Comparative Literature Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor One World After All
	COMMENT:	Laura Kipnis, Department of Radio and Television-Film, Northwestern University Bruce Robbins

Scholars Walk the Talk: Rebuilding Detroit from the Ground Up

	CHAIR:	Julia Pointer, University of Detroit Mercy
	PAPERS:	Grace Lee Boggs, Activist and Author Community-Building from K-12 JoAnne Isbey, English Department, University of Detroit Mercy Explorations into Creating Sustainable Community Activism Kami Pothukuchi, Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Wayne State University Organizing for Food Security: Education through Involvement Charles Simmons, Journalism Department, Eastern Michigan University Service Learning: Journalism Students & Environmental Justice
	COMMENT:	Audience

FOCUS ON TEACHING --Seeing the World in Our American Studies Classroom: Teaching Immigrants in the 21^st-Century (Roundtable submitted by ASA Secondary Education Standing Committee)

	CHAIR:	Sarah Robbins, English Department, Kennesaw State University
	PANELISTS:	Gerri Hajduk, Program in American Studies, Wheeler High School Marietta, Georgia Laura Schiller, K-12 Literacy Coordinator, Southfield Public Schools, Michigan Marsha Ehlers, Community Outreach Coordinator, Montebello High School, California
	COMMENT:	Rinaldo Walcott, Humanities/Interdisciplinary Studies, York University, Canada

Polka Theory: Ethnic Urban American Music at the Millenium

	CHAIR:	David J. Gunkel, Communications, Northern Illinois University
	PAPERS:	Dick Blau, Film, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Three Polonias: Polka (and other) Pictures 1970-2000 Ann Hetzel Gunkel, Humanities, Columbia College, Chicago Polka as Counter-Hegemonic Ethnic Practice Charles Keil, American Studies, State University of New York, Buffalo Polka Theory: Perspectives on the Will to Party
	COMMENT:	David J. Gunkel, Communications, Northern Illinois University

The Emergence of Modern America: Rethinking Pragmatism, Cosmopolitanism, and Cultural Democracy, 1890-1940

	CHAIR:	Ross Posnock, Andrew Hilen Professor of American Literature,University of Washington
	PAPERS:	Sally Anne Duncan, Department of Art History, Tufts University From Cosmopolitanism to Cultural Democracy: Paul J. Sachs and the Envisioning of a Museum Profession Jonathan M. Hansen, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Revocable Consent in W. E. B. DuBois and David Hollinger Jeanne Follansbee Quinn, Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, Harvard University Kenneth Burke's Pragmatism: Identification and the Rhetoric of Social Change Mark Rennella, Department of History, Brandeis University Traveling Between Cultures, Traveling Between Categories:William James's Thought in a Cosmopolitan Context
	COMMENT:	Casey N. Blake, Director, American Studies Program, Columbia University

Public Policy and Employment: Case Study of Women Construction Workers on the Century Freeway in Los Angeles (FILM)

	CHAIR:	Vivian Price, Politics and Society Program, University of California, Irvine
	FILM:	Hammering It Out: Women in the Construction Zone
	COMMENT:	Audience

Student Hospitality Lounge (Sponsored by the ASA Students' Committee)

Public Viewings: Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century America

	CHAIR:	Richard Masteller, English Department, Whitman College
	PAPERS:	Karen Flood, History of American Civilization Program, Harvard University Stopping Time and Capturing the Self: Embalming and Photography in 19th-Century America Laura Schiavo, American Studies, George Washington University "Pleasurable Impressions": "New Media" and the Performance of Modern Vision in the Nineteenth Century Michael Clapper, Department of Art and Art History, Skidmore College Tainted Art?: The Case of Chromos
	COMMENT:	Maren Stange, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York

Art, Memory, and the Industrial Landscape of Detroit (Sponsored by the Visual Culture/Art History Caucus)

	CHAIR:	Patricia Hills, Department of Art History, Boston University
	PAPERS:	Linda Banks Downs, Director of Education, National Gallery of Art The Detroit Industry Murals by Diego Rivera: The Memory of an Ideal Past Terry Smith, Department of Fine Arts, University of Sydney, Australia Sites of Modernity and Conflict: Fordism, the River Rouge Plant, and Greenfield Village Lowell Boileau, Artist, Photographer, and Web Designer, Detroit The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit
	COMMENT:	Patricia Hills Mike O. Smith, Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University

American Studies in Vietnam (Roundtable)

	CHAIR:	Jonathan Auerbach, Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park
	PANELISTS:	Bill Brown, Department of English, University of Chicago Kandice Chuh, Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park Cathy Davidson, Office of the Provost, Duke University H. Bruce Franklin, Department of English, Rutgers University, Newark
	COMMENT:	Audience

Environment, Landscape, Politics (TALK)

	CHAIR:	Michael Aaron Rockland, Department of American Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
	PAPERS:	Douglas Reichert Powell, Center for Teaching, Learning, and Writing, Duke University "The Dump is Full of Images": Re-Reading Regional Landscapes Susan Kollin, Department of English, Montana State University Beyond the Whiteness of Wilderness: Environmental Justice and Alaska Native Sovereignty Jan A. Stryz, Department of English, Michigan State University Meridel Le Sueur, Ecology, and Community
	COMMENT:	Lawrence Buell, English Department, Harvard University

Performing Ethnicities II: Assimilation and Resistance

	CHAIR:	Dorinne Kondo, Departments of Anthropology and American Studies, University of Southern California
	PAPERS:	Rachael Lee, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles "Faking, Dipping, Juking": Postmodern Yellowface Meets Gender Performativity Marc E. Johnson, Musicology, City University of New York, Graduate Center Elvis as Melting Pot: Cultural Politics and the Revision of Rock History Laura Ehrisman, Department of American Studies, University of Texas at Austin Cascarones and Consumption: The Dilemmas of "Dressing Mexican"
	COMMENT:	Dorinne Kondo

Under Construction(s): Asian/America(s) and the Processes of Definition, Self Definition, and State Building

	CHAIR:	Gary Y. Okihiro, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Columbia University
	PAPERS:	Victor Jew, Department of History, Michigan State University Blood Will Tell: The Cultural Politics of Repealing Chinese Exclusion during World War II Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Department of History, Ohio State University Surrogate Motherhood, Interracial Sexuality, and Transnational Patriotism: Cinematic and Comic Book Depictions of Mom Chung Andrea Louie, Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University Marginal Transnationals: American-Born Chinese Americans and the question of Transnationalism
	COMMENT:	Robert G. Lee, Department of American Civilization, Brown University

Transmedia Travels of Literary Texts

	CHAIR:	Paul Wright, Editor, University of Massachusetts Press
	PAPERS:	Louise Stevenson, History Department and American Studies Program, Franklin and Marshall College The Material Culture of Literary Culture: 1840-1890 Ellen Garvey, English Department, New Jersey City University The Book, the Scrapbook, and the Periodical Janice Radway, Program in Literature, Duke University Girls, Zines, and the Miscellaneous Production of Subjectivity in an Age of Unceasing Circulation
	COMMENT:	Cecelia Tichi, English Department, Vanderbilt University

Popular Culture and Urban Struggle (Roundtable)

	CHAIR:	Nan Enstad, Department of History, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
	PANELISTS:	Mr. Adè, Electrofunk Records Inc., Detroit Linda España-Maram, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, California State University, Long Beach Michelle Habell-Pallan, Department of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington George Lipsitz, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego Suzanne E. Smith, Department of History, George Mason University
	COMMENT:	Audience

Implications of Social Science Methodologies for American Studies

	CHAIR:	Jennifer Tebbe, School of Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
	PAPERS:	Kimberly Scott Little, Department of American Thought and Language, Michigan State University Charting Change: Using Geographical Information Systems and Databases to Understand Political Culture Jeremy L. Korr, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park Yes, There Can Be a Method to American Studies: Developing a Race/Class/Gender/Ethnicity-Cognizant Fieldwork Model Gwen Bergner, Department of English, West Virginia University Constructing Public Policy on Race: The Uses of Social Psychology
	COMMENT:	Mark Tebeau, Department of History, Cleveland State University

Early American Culture and Postcolonial Studies/ Postcolonial Culture and Early America

	CHAIR:	Edward Watts, Department of American Thought and Language, Michigan State University
	PAPERS:	Ralph Bauer, University of Maryland, College Park "Hottentots in North Carolina": Empire, Science, and the "Invention" of the Creole in William Byrd's Histories of the Dividing Line Kariann Yokota, American Studies Department, Yale University A Culture of Insecurity: The Early Republic as a Post-Colonial Nation Jennifer Rae Greeson, American Studies Program, Yale University The Moral Geography of the Early U.S. Gothic
	COMMENT:	Malini Johar Schueller, Department of English, University of Florida

New Gender Formations

	CHAIR:	Eva Cherniavsky, Department of English, Indiana University, Bloomington
	PAPERS:	Chris Mayo, Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Resisting Girls: Why Isn't Butchness Femininity? Stephanie Foote, Department of English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign The Lesbian Parvenue Susana L. Gallardo, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University Tom Foster, Department of English, Indiana University, Bloomington "You are fully Functional, arenít you?": Feminist Fantasies and Male Cyborgs
	COMMENT:	Eva Cherniavsky

FOCUS ON TEACHING DAY: Real Investigations in American Culture: Secondary Students Cross Boundaries from School to the "Real" World through Internships, Service Learning and Oral History Projects (Roundtable)

	CHAIR:	Nancy Traubitz, Consultant, Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland
	PANELISTS:	Sara F. Parrot, Gifted and Talented Specialist, Mt. Hebron High School, Maryland Debra R. Messer,Gifted and Talented Specialist, Hammond High School, Maryland Rena F. Bezilla, Gifted and Talented Specialist, Wilde Lake High School, Maryland
	COMMENT:	Audience

Penal Codes and Colonies: Race, Resistance, and Representation in US Prisons

	CHAIR:	Sheila M. Contreras, Department of American Thought and Language, Michigan State University
	PAPERS:	Louis Menoza, Department of English, University of Texas, San Antonio "Resisiting the Mind Fuck": Power, Penology, and the Pen in the U.S. Carceral Rachel Jennings, Department of English, University of the Incarnate Word The Folkloric Response to Penal Abuses: the Case of Gregorio Cortez, Chipita Rodriguez, and Frankie Silver Kate Kane, Department of English, University of Montana Leonard Peltier's Sun Dance and Indian/Native American Resistance to Carceral Colonialism
	COMMENT:	Sheila M. Contreras

Comparative Approaches to Latino/a Urban Youth in the Midwest

	CHAIR:	Frances Aparicio, Latin American Studies Program, University of Illinois, Chicago
	PAPERS:	Lorena Garcìa, Sociology Department, University of California, Santa Barbara Preventing Unplanned Pregnancy: A Case Study of Sexual Responsibility among Latina Adolescents Eddi Fergus, School of Education, University of Michigan Phenotype, Ethnic Identity, and Perceptions of Opportunity among Second Generation Puerto Rican and Mexican Adolescents Lorelei Vargas, School of Education, University of Michigan Chicago Inner-City Youth Participation in the Labor Force Merida Rua, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan Porto-Mexes and Mexi-Ricans: Inter-Latino Perspectives on Language and Cultural Identity
	COMMENT:	Frances Aparicio

Hidden Circuits: Race and Technology in Everyday Life

	CHAIR:	Wahneema Lubiano, Literature Program, Duke University
	PAPERS:	Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, Program in American Studies, New York University New Tales to Tell: Rethinking Race and Technology Mimi Nguyen, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley Tales of an Asiatic Geekgirl: Slant from Paper to Pixel Ben Chappell, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin Mexican American Lowriders as Complicitous Critique
	COMMENT:	Wahneema Lubiano

2001 Program Committee Business Meeting

Focus on Teaching Day Luncheon

12:00 - 4:00 PM

BUS TOUR

SATURDAY

Can't Forget the Motor City: Reading and Hearing Detroit

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on African American Culture and Life as Represented in Three Projects Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities

	CHAIR:	William Ferris, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities
	PAPERS:	John Michael Vlach, American Studies Program, George Washington University Thomas Day, Furniture Maker, and Free Black Experience in the Antebellum South Kendrick Ian Grandison, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor The Other Side of the Tracks: Reading the Location of Historically Black College Campuses Gladstone L. Yearwoodo, African American Studies Program, University of Central Florida Black Film Studies: Integrating African American Cinema into the Arts and Humanities Curriculum
	COMMENT:	Audience

Capital, Bodies, Landscapes and the Spatial Logic of Everyday Life: Reimagining Postwar California

	CHAIR:	Michele Mitchell, Department of History, University of Michigan
	PAPERS:	Linda Nash, Department of History, University of Washington The View from the Interstate: Constructions of Body and Place in Postwar California Robert Self, Department of History, University of Michigan The Making of a California Industrial Garden: Postwar Oakland and the East Bay Greg Hise, School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California Grand Theory, Real Places: What Kind of Detroit Is Los Angeles?
	COMMENT:	John Hartigan, Jr., Institute of Anthropology, University of North Texas

Queerying Popular Culture

	CHAIR:	Siobhan Somerville, Department of English, Purdue University
	PAPERS:	Margaret DeRosia, History of Consciousness Department, University of California, Santa Cruz "That Queer American": Hollywood Adapts Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley Yvonne Keller, Womenís Studies Program, Miami University of Ohio Can Lesbianism Be Represented? Two Novels' Attempts to Refigure the Pre-Stonewall Gaze Meredith Wood, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota On the Job: The Lesbian Police Procedural and the Predicament of Contemporary Queer Politics Anne M. Martinez, Department of American Studies and Chicano Studies, University of Minnesota
	COMMENT:	Siobhan Somerville Lazaro Lima, Department of American Studies, Dickinson College

Laboring from the Margins: Race, Space and Work in the Construction of New National Identities

	CHAIR:	E. San Juan, Jr., Department of Comparative American Cultures, Washington State University, Pullman
	PAPERS:	Jose M. Alamillo, Department of Comparative American Cultures, Washington State University, Pullman Negotiating Racial and Spatial Boundaries: Mexican, Italian and White Workers in Corona, California, 1930-1950 Wilson C. Chen, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine Transnational Articulations in the Culture of U.S. Empire: Race, Class, and Community in Carlos Bulosan's The Cry and the Dedication Cindy I-Fen Cheng, Department of History, University of California, Irvine Strategic Memories: The Politics of Chinese/American Identity Formation in the Early Cold War Years
	COMMENT:	Audience

The Body of Laughter: Racial Embodiment and the Uses of Humor

	CHAIR:	Karen Su, American Studies, Temple University
	PAPERS:	Hiram Pèrez, English, St. Lawrence University "You Black, I'm Black, My Mama's Black": Hostile Joking and Racial Identification Sarita Echavez See, English Department, Williams College Laughter and Imperial Forgetting: Ralph PeÒa's Flipsoids and Alec Mapa's I Remember Mapa Darby Li Po Price, American Studies Department, DePaul University Embodiments of Stereotypes as Comic Re-Appropriations of Marginalized Identities
	COMMENT:	Audience

Social Justice, Social Action

	CHAIR:	Ardis Cameron, University of Southern Maine
	PAPERS:	William Takamatsu Thompson, American Studies Program, Washington State University Global Capital, Political Control, and the Militarization of Local Policing in the Southwest: A Case-Study of Denver, Colorado Rachel Barrett Martin, Department of History, University of Minnesota Stonewall Nation and Washoe Indians: Some Cultural Politics of Queer Race and Trans-Urban Space Andrea Y. Simpson, Department of Political Science, University of Washington Who Hears Their Cry? African-American Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Memphis, Tennessee Stephan Ward, Department of History, The University of Texas at Austin Revolutionary Scholarship: The Institute of the Black World and the Meaning of the Black Power Movement
	COMMENT:	Alan Wald, Department of English, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

God, Politics, and Pop Culture: Lived Religion in Contemporary America

	CHAIR:	Erin Smith, American Studies Program, University of Texas, Dallas
	PAPERS:	Melani McAlister, American Studies Program, The George Washington University No Longer Left Behind: Fundamentalist Culture Goes Popular Aaron Ketchell, American Studies Program, University of Kansas "These Hills will give you great Treasure": Ozark Tourism and the Collapse of "Sacred" and "Secular" Jaime Harker, Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh "Religion is a Queer Thing": Christian Identity and Gay Politics
	COMMENT:	Alexis McCrossen, Department of History, Southern Methodist University

Where is Home?: Community and Representation in Queer Chicana/o Cultural Production (ONLINE)

	CHAIR:	Catrióna Rueda Esquibel, English Department, New Mexico State University
	PAPERS:	Sandy Soto, Chicano Studies, Univesity of California, Santa Barbara From One Yellow House to "Late Victorians'": Richard Rodriguez's Isolated Labyrinth of Identity Lisa Tatonetti, English Department, Ohio State University Claiming Race, Claiming Queerness: Constructing the Queer Family in Cherríe Moraga's Autobiographical Fiction Maria DeGuzman, English Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The Historical Night of Desire: Recovering "Queer" Community in Graciela Limon's The Day of the Moon Amy Sara Carroll, Literature Program, Duke University Influential Border-Crossings: Chicana Queer and Mexican Lesbian Feminist Cultural Production Luz Calvo, History of Consciousness Department, University of California, Santa Cruz Impassioned Icons: Alma López and Queer Chicana Visual Desire
	COMMENT:	Catrióna Rueda Esquibel

Towards an Internationalization of American Studies - The State of American Studies in Post Cold War Europe (ONLINE)

	CHAIR:	Sabine Broeck, University of Bremen
	PAPERS:	Claudine Raynaud, Université F. Rabelais American Studies and Language Teaching Constraints Bruce Spear, University of Potsdam The Modernization of American Studies in Germany Rodica Mihaila, University of Bucharest Post-Communism and the Second Wave of American Studies Internationalization André Kaenel, Université Nancy 2 From American Studies to Cultural Studies Dana Heller, Old Dominion University From Dr. Zhivago to the Barber of Siberia: Or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Internationalization Stephanie Palmer, Bilkent University Thinking Through Race, Class, Gender at a Turkish University
	COMMENT:	Sabine Broeck

Sexual Rights Activism

	CHAIR:	John D'Emilio, Gender & Womenís Studies and History, University of Illinois, Chicago
	PAPERS:	Terence Kissack, Center for the History of Sexual Diversity From Prison Cells to Lecture Halls: Anarchism and the Politics of Homosexuality Leslie Fishbein, Department of American Studies, Rutgers University COYOTE Howls - Who Listens?: The Politics of Prostitutes Rights Activism Ann Cvetkovich, Department of English, University of Texas, Austin Lesbian AIDS Activists and Sexual Rights: The Lessons of Oral History
	COMMENT:	John D'Emilio

Race, Nation and 20^th-Century Girls' Cultures

	CHAIR:	Wini Breines, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Northeastern University
	PAPERS:	Katie Friedman, Department of History, New York University Cheering For America: Race, Girls' Physicality, and School Spirit in the Postwar US Erin McMurray, Department of History, New York University "The Golden Eaglet": Gender, Race and Imperialism in Girls' Scouting Mary Jane McCallum, Frost Center for Canadian Studies and Native Studies, Trent University Girl Guiding, Race and Nation in Canada
	COMMENT:	Wini Breines

Social Construction of the Body and Illness (TALK)

	CHAIR:	Tom Lutz, English Department, University of Iowa
	PAPERS:	Amy C. Farrell, American Studies Program, Dickinson College The Crying Evil of Obesity: Fat and Dieting in 19th and 20th Century England and the United States April Herndon, Program in American Studies, Michigan State University Disabling Dimensions: Constructing Fat Bodies and Politics Sharon O'Brien, Departments of English and American Studies, Dickinson College "The American Disease": Juxtaposing Neurasthenia and Depression
	COMMENT:	Becky Thompson, Department of Sociology, Simmons College

Celebrities from India in the American Imagination: The Social and Historical Reasons for Their Allure

	CHAIR:	Rajini Srikanth, English Department, University of Massachusetts, Boston
	PAPERS:	Vijay Prashad, Department of International Studies, Trinity College PropaGandhi: Nonviolent India in Black America Zeyba Rahman, jungli billi Productions, New York Ravi Shankar: Musical Crosscurrents in American Culture Gautam Premnath, Department of International Studies, Trinity College The Greater Common Reader: Arundhati Roy's Publics
	COMMENT:	Audience

Job Interviews in American Studies: A Demonstration Workshop (Sponsored by the ASA Students' Standing Committee)

	CHAIR:	Lynn Sacco, Department of History, University of Southern California
	ìSEARCH COMMITTEEî:	Betty L. Bell, Department of American Culture and English, University of Michigan Gena Caponi-Tabery, Department of Behavior and Cultural Studies, University of Texas, San Antonio James J. Farrell, Department of History and American Studies, St. Olaf College Claire Bond Potter, Department of History and American Studies, Wesleyan Unversity Mari Yoshihara, Department of American Studies, University of Hawai'i, Manoa Joanna Schneider Zangrando, Department of American Studies, Skidmore College
	ìJOB CANDIDATEî:	Maureen E. Reed, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
	COMMENT:	Audience

Finding a United Front: Women's Recreation and the Assertion of Radical Politics in the 1930s and 1970s

	CHAIR:	Richard Moser, American Association of University Professors
	PAPERS:	Daniel Katz, Department of History, Rutgers University The Spanish Section of ILGWU Local 22 and the Making of a Working-Class Ethnic Identity Anne Enke, Department of History, University of North Carolina, Greensboro From Motown Softball to Minneapolis' "Lesbian Heaven": Women's Recreation and Politics, 1968-1978 Margaret Stroble, Women's Studies and History, University of Illinois, Chicago Sports Organizing in the Chicago Women's Liberation Union
	COMMENT:	Richard Moser

Repudiating Whiteness: The Politics of Passings and Trespassings

	CHAIR:	Theodore Allen, Independent Scholar, Brooklyn, New York
	PAPERS:	Kevin Mumford, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University "Nigger Heaven" and Black Sexual Politics Laura Browder, Department of English, Virginia Commonwealth University Digging for New Roots: Mezz Mezzrow's Search for Americaness Jennifer Delton, Department of History, Skidmore College Before the White Negro: Sinclair Lewis's Escape from Whiteness Bill Anthes, Department of Art, University of Memphis A White Buffalo in New York: Painting Modern and Passing for Indian in Postwar America Lara Medina, Religious Studies Department, California State University, Northridge Margaret Ramirez, Religion Reporter for Los Angeles Times on Latina/os, Community and Faith in Los Angeles Laura E. Perez, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
	COMMENT:	Matthew Frye Jacobson, American Studies Department, Yale University

Dance, Memory, and Identity among African Americans (TALK)

	CHAIR:	Halifu Osumare, Department American Studies, University of Hawai'i, Manoa
	PAPERS:	Deborah Whaley, American Studies, The University of Kansas Stepping into the Black Atlantic: Performing Diasporic Identities in African American Sorority Step Shows Brenda Washington Lacey, Department of American Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo Feet Don't Fail Me Now: A Cultural Exploration of African American Drill and Step Team Performance
	COMMENT:	Halifu Osumare

American Interiors: Inner Life and the National Publics

	CHAIR:	Julia Stern, Department of English, Northwestern University
	PAPERS:	Chris Castiglia, Department of English, Loyola University, Chicago A Good Head for Empire: Phrenology and Whitmanís Franklin Evans Russ Castronovo, American Studies Program, University of Miami Girls, Seances, and Eroticism: The Spirit of Privacy in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. Thomas Dumm, Department of Political Science, Amherst College Coming to a Lonely Place: the Gift of Death in Unforgiven
	COMMENT:	Julia Stern

Visions of Modernity: Reaction and Resistance in Detroit and Beyond

	CHAIR:	Nora Faires, Department of History, University of Michigan, Flint
	PAPERS:	Bruce Pietrykowski, Department of Social Sciences, University of Michigan, Dearborn Working and Shopping in the World of Ford: Gender and the Creation of Fordism Gregory Field, Department of Social Sciences, University of Michigan, Dearborn Of Godless Medical Technocrats, Creeping Socialism, and Precious Bodily Fluids: Understanding Popular Resistance to Fluoridation after 1945
	COMMENT:	Nora Faires

Reclaiming the Colonial Archive

	CHAIR:	Laura Wexler, American Studies Program, Yale University
	PAPERS:	David Kazanjian, Department of English, Queens College, CUNY All the Rights of Citizens: Official and Popular Discourses of the U.S.-Mexico War Karin Thomas, American Studies Program, Yale University "The Blood of a Race Doomed to Extinction": Sylvester Long and his Ethnographic Imagination Kamari Clarke, Department of Anthropology, Yale University "Many Were Taken But Some Were Sent": Ritual Words and National Classification Alicia Schmidt Camacho, American Studies Program, Yale University Mourning and Racial Memory
	COMMENT:	Laura Wexler

Revolutionary Religions

	CHAIR:	James Hall, Department of African-American Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago
	PAPERS:	Danielle Brune, American Studies Department, University of Texas at Austin Busting the Black Gods: Arthur Huff Fauset, Father Divine, Daddy Grace, and the FBI Bernard E. Powers Jr., Department of History, College of Charleston Emancipation and the Rise of African Methodism in South Carolina 1863-1880 Kelly Willis Mendiola, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin "The Woman Who Compassed a Man": Two Approaches to Establishing Women's Authority in Early Twentieth-Century Pentecostalism Andrea Smith, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz The Bible and Native Nationalism(s): American Indians within the Christian Right
	COMMENT:	Barbara Dianne Savage, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania

Colonization and Mythologies: Reframing Early American Writings

	CHAIR:	Dennis Moore, Department of English, Florida State University, Tallahassee
	PAPERS:	Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley What If We Began the American Literature Survey with French-Iroquois Treaty Negotiations?: Challenging the Myth of Native Illiteracy Hsuan L. Hsu, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley Unmapping: Charles Brockden Brown and Geographical Crisis Sarah Pelmas, Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley How Racial and Cultural Mythology Become Law: The Supreme Court and the Cherokee Nation
	COMMENT:	Dan Richter, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania

Recovering Chicana/o Counterspaces: Social Movements in Borderland Archives, 1848-1968

	CHAIR:	Rosaura S·nchez, Literature Department, University of California, San Diego
	PAPERS:	Beatrice Pita, Literature Department, University of California, San Diego The Risky Proposition of Archival Research: The Case of Ruiz de Burton Curtis Marez, American Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz Anarchy in the U.S.A.: The Mexican Revolution, Southwestern Labor Radicals, and the History of American Studies Yolanda Padilla, English Language and Literature Department, University of Chicago Queering Chicanismo: Masculinity, Identity, and the Politics of Indigenismo in Arturo Islas' The Rain God
	COMMENT:	Rosaura Sanchez

When Neighbors Become Strangers: Blacks and Jews in Brownsville--A Showing of Brownsville Black and White (FILM)

	CHAIR:	Judith Smith, American Studies Program, University of Massachusetts, Boston
	PANELIST:	Jeffrey Melnick, Division of History and Society, Babson College Wendell Pritchett, Department of History, Baruch College
	COMMENT:	Audience

Representing and Reconfiguring the Recovery Movement

	CHAIR:	Lori Rotskoff, American Studies Program, Yale University
	PAPERS:	Julia Ehrhardt, Women's Studies, Honors College, University of Oklahoma Girl Gets AA and Lives One Day at a Time: The Gender Politics of Caroline Knappís Drinking: A Love Story Trysh Travis, English Department, Dedman College, Southern Methodist University "You Are Not Your Fucking Khakis": Masculine Recovery in David Fincher's Fight Club
	COMMENT:	Lori Rotskoff

Street Opera, Cultural Weave: Spike Lee in the African/Italian American Contact Zone

	CHAIR:	Carlo Rotella, English Department, Boston College
	PAPERS:	Thomas Ferraro, Department of English, Duke University Giancarlo and the Border Patrol Jennifer Scappettone, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley Invisible Brothers: Lee's American Italians and the Mirror of Kinship John Gennari, Department of American Studies, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg Intimate Enemies: Spike Lee and his Goombahs
	COMMENT:	Gerald Early, African and Afro-American Studies Program, Washington University

FOCUS ON TEACHING DAY--Material Meaning: Citing Detroit as a Site for Writing Culture

	CHAIR:	Berit Pavloff, English Department, Avondale High School
	PAPERS:	Corrine Calice, Department of English, Wayne State University Slimís Bike: The Individual and the Power of Materiality Amy Hawkins, Humanities Department, University of Michigan, Dearborn Between a Church and an Empty Lot: Detroitís Party Store as a Local Site of Cultural Reflexivity Marshall Kitchens, Department of English, Wayne State University Detroit Elders and the World Wide Web: Service Learning, Historical Ethnograpy and a Global Audience
	COMMENT:	Berit Pavloff

American Gender and Sexual Identities at the Millennium

	CHAIR:	Chris Cuomo, Department of Philosophy, Unversity of Cincinnati
	PAPERS:	Cheryl Chase, Intersexual Society of North America Intersex Bodies Challenge Sex as a Natural Category Paisley Currah, Department of Political Science, Brooklyn College of the City of New York Transgender Bodies and the Legal Construction of Sex Monica Bachmann, Department of English, University of Michigan Queers and Ex-Gays: Post-Lesbian Figures at the Millennium
	COMMENT:	Chris Cuomo

Crossing to the Other Side: African-American Life on the Detroit/Windsor Border

	CHAIR:	Karolyn E. Smardz, Department of History, University of Waterloo
	PAPERS:	Cheryl LaRoche, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland Women and the Underground Railroad Afua Cooper, Department of History, University of Toronto The Fluid Frontier: Henry Bibb and the Detroit River Border Region Warren Crichlow, Department of Education, York University Stan Douglas and the Aesthetic Critique of Urban Decline Greg Dimitriadis, Department of Education, State University of New York, Buffalo Performance, Identity and Detroit Techno
	COMMENT:	Leslie Sander, Department of Humanities, Atkinson College, York University

Sites of Memory (TALK)

	CHAIR:	Bryan Le Beau, Department of History, Creighton University
	PAPERS:	John Streamas, American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University Japanese American Concentration Camp Home Movies and a Loss of Public Life Kathy Freise, American Studies, University of New Mexico "Those Wild and Mad Barbarians": Debating a New Mexico Monument Stacy L. Washington, Program in American Culture, Univeristy of Michigan, Ann Arbor Making a Space for Eleanor: Memory's Place within the Academy
	COMMENT:	Bryan Le Beau

International Women's Task Force Business Meeting

Plenary Event: American Studies in the World/The World in American Studies

	CHAIR:	Michael Frisch, American Studies Association President
	PRESENTATION: MODERATOR:	William Ferris, Chair, National Endowment for the Humanities Murray Jackson, Board of Governors, Wayne State University
	PANELISTS:	Charles Bantz, Provost and Senior Vice President, Wayne State University Julie Ellison, Executive Director, Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life Mary Ann Mahaffey, President Pro-Tem, Detroit City Council Mary Helen Washington, Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park
	COMMENT:	Audience

ASA Nominating Committee Business Meeting

University of Michigan Reception (Co-Sponsored by the Great Lakes American Studies Association)

ASA Working Class Studies Caucus

A CELEBRATION OF AMERICAN STUDIES IN DETROIT,
DETROIT IN AMERICAN STUDIES

6:30 - 8:15 PM

DIEGO RIVERA COURT, DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ART

SATURDAY

Reception and "Community Commons"

8:30 - 9:45 PM

CHARLES WRIGHT MUSEUM

SATURDAY

	Poetry Reading:	Ted Pearson
		Leslie Reese
	Dance Performance:	Jawolle Willa Joe Zollar, Artist-in-Residence