CHAIR:	Melinda Knight, Communications Department, University of Rochester
	PAPERS:	Keith Goshorn, American Civilization, Universite Stendhal, Grenoble III A Brief Review and Re-assessment of "Reverse Boundary Crossings": When the "Real World' Intrudes and Disrupts the University Paul Ching, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Business School Culture: More than an Oxymoron Theresa Davis Hammond, Carroll School of Management, Boston College A White-Collar Profession: African-American CPA's since 1921 Thomas Akbari, Department of English, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey Clinical Nativism: Foreign Medical Graduates and Professional Identity in American Medicine
	COMMENT:	Eric Guthey, Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, The Copenhagen Business School

Reading Diasporas

	CHAIR:	Sandhya Shukla , Anthropology Department, Columbia University
	PAPERS:	M. Alpha Bah, Department of History, University of Charleston West Africa-South Carolina Lowcountry Connections Amanda Kemp, English and American Studies, Dickinson College Playing the Negro: Black South Africans and Up from Slavery Wendy W. Walters,Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing, Emerson College Black International Writing: Diasporic Authors Write Home Alvaro Hattnher, Department of Modern Languages, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil Broken Brotherhood: African American and African Brazilian Voices in Dialogue
	COMMENT:	Donald Carter, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University

Issues in Twentieth-Century Ethnic Literatures: Resistance,Rights,and Exile

	CHAIR:	Sara Blair, Department of English, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
	PAPERS:	Janine Santiago, Department of American Studies, State University of New York Reconciling Official History and Fictional History in Rosario Ferre'sThe House on the Lagoon Julia Mason, Department of American Cultural Studies, Bowling Green State University Re-casting Pocahontas: Contemporary Representations of American Indian Women as a Form of Resistance Jeannie Chiu, Department of English, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh Human Rights and Asian Diasporic Literature: John Okada's No-No Boy and Shirley Lim's Among the White Moon Faces Hans Bak, American Literature and American Studies, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands Site of Passage: The City as a Place of Exile in Contemporary North American Multicultural Literature
	COMMENT:	Sara Blair

Calling in the Experts: Regulating Immigrants, Asylums, and Tenements

	CHAIR:	Ellen Herman, Department of History, University of Oregon
	PAPERS:	Eliza Starr Byard, Eliza Starr Byard "A New Species of Undesirable Immigrant": Crime, Mental Deficiency, and Homosexuality in U.S. Immigration Law, 1910-1950 Jean Marie Lutes, Department of English, Manhattan College "Who is this Insane Girl?": A Girl Stunt Reporterís Challenges to Science in the 1880s and 1890s Margaret Garb, Department of History, Columbia University Health, Morality, and Housing: "The Tenement Problem" in Chicago
	COMMENT:	Ellen Herman

Toward a Comparative America(s) Studies: Diaspora and Transnationality across Three U.S Borders

	CHAIR:	Claire F. Fox, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Stanford University
	PAPERS:	Erika Lee, Department of History, University of Minnesota Chinese Immigration and "Chinese Catchers": Border Crossings and Border Enforcement During the Chinese Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Department of English, State University of New York, Fredonia Border Writing, Transnational Citizenship, and Cross-Diasporic America(s) Studies Ursula Biemann , Filmmaker, Zurich, Switzerland <performing the border>: on gender, transnational bodies, and technology                                   Monika Kaup, Department of English, College of William and Mary Post-Cold War Cuban-American Foundational Fictions: Building a New Cultural Crossroads in the Americas
	COMMENT:	Claire F. Fox

"A Part/Yet Apart": Asian Americans and Alternatives to American Modernity

	CHAIR:	Michelle Liu, American Studies, Yale University
	PAPERS:	Ji-Yeon Yuh, Department of History, Northwestern University The Politics of History, Memory, and Narrative: Comparing Ethnic Koreans in the U.S. and China Anita Mannur, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts, Amherst "An Epic of Diaspora": The Place ofMississippi Masala in Asian American Studies Tina Chen, Department of English, Vanderbilt University Invoking the Spirit: History and Madness in Comfort Woman Victor Bascara, Department of English, University Georgia The Reason Why the Asian American Was in the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair
	COMMENT:	Michelle Liu

Music and Cultural Politics I

	CHAIR:	David Stowe, Department of American Thought & Language, Michigan State University
	PAPERS:	David Suisman, Department of History, Columbia University Black Swan: The Cultural Politics of the First Black-Owned Record Company Steve Waksman, Ethnic Studies Department, Bowling Green State University Motor City Music: The Noise of Youth and the End of Fordism in Detroit Rock and Roll Michael Kramer, Department of History, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill "Can't Forget the Motor City": Rock Criticism at Creem Magazine in Detroit during the Countercultural Era
	COMMENT:	Barry Shank, American Studies Department, University of Kansas

Navigating and Mapping "Real Worlds": American Studies through the Lens of Ethnography

	CHAIR:	Ellen Kaye Scott, Department of Sociology, Kent State University
	PAPERS:	Doris Friedensohn, Department of Womenís Studies, New Jersey City University The Accidental Ethnographer: Kimchi and My Korean-American Connections Zareena Grewal, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Race and Marriage: Four Muslim Communities in Suburban Detroit Peter R. Ibarra, Department of Justice Studies, Kent State University Skirting Betrayal: On Ethnographic Representation Margaret A. Villanueva, Department of Anthropology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb Re-Crossing Boundaries: Writing in Tropical/Midwestern Contact Zones
	COMMENT:	Ellen Kaye Scott

Asian/American Cultural & Political Exchanges (TALK)

	CHAIR:	John Caughey, American Studies Department, University of Maryland, College Park
	PAPERS:	Ann E. Denkler, American Studies Program, University of Maryland, College Park Traveling in a Tinted-Window Van: An Ethnographic Journey in Uncovering African-American History Adrian T. Gaskins, Carter G. Woodson Institute, University of Virginia "Making Opportunities for Their Prosperity":African Americans and U.S. Colonial Occupation of the Phillipine Islands, 1898-1908 Matthew A. Donahue, American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University I'll Take You There: An Oral and Photographic History of the Hines Farm Blues Club
	COMMENT:	John Caughey Nellie McKay, English and African Studies Department University of Wisconsin

(Re-)Casting Blackness: Local/Global Configurations of Race, Gender, and Sexuality

	CHAIR:	Sandra Patton, Women's Studies Department, University of Minnesota
	PRESENTATION:	Birthmarks

American Studies on Triall: Does the Literary Past Speak to the Law at Present?

Popular Music: Crossing Borders

	CHAIR:	Mark Anthony Neal, Africana Studies Department, State University of New York,Albany
	PAPERS:	Sohail Daulatzai, Department of Critical Studies, University of Southern California Redemption Songs: American Exceptionalism, Hip-Hop Culture and the Transnational Public Sphere Charles Gentry, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan Cross-cultural Currents: Rap Music and Transatlantic Youth Subcultures Elena Espinoza Leyva, Department of Sociology, University of Southern California With an AK-47 in His Hand: Narco-Corridos and the Politics of the Borderlands Aime Ellis, Department of English, University of Kentucky Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice and Hard-core Rap 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:	Herman Gray Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz

Interracial Sex, Racial Identity, and Citizenship in the Antebellum United States

	CHAIR:	Frances Smith Foster, Department of English, Emory University
	PAPERS:	Leslie Harris, Department of History, Emory University Emancipation, Interracial Sex, and Citizenship in Early National New YorkCity,1785-1827 Ariela Gross, Law School, University of Southern California Between "Race" and "Nation": Indian/Black Identity in the Southern Courtroom, 1780-1840. Elise Lemire, Literature Board of Study, Purchase College, State University of New York "A" is for Amalgamation: The Scarlet Letter, Dred Scott, and the Sexuality of Citizenship
	COMMENT:	Richard Yarborough Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles

	CHAIR:	George Klein, Director of Academic Programs Abroad, Eastern Michigan University
	PAPERS:	Ed Donovan, American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin Race, Bass, and Representation in the Funk Music of Bootsy Collins Dale Chapman, Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles Cool Containment: Jazz, Whiteness, and Ideology in the Early Cold War Period Dionne Espinoza, Womenís and Chicana/o Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison Tanto Tiempo Disfutamos . . .: The Sexual Politics of Eastside Sound and Chicana/o Culture, 1960-1975
	COMMENT:	George Klein

Filmmaking and Politics (TALK)

	CHAIR:	Cynthia Erb, English Department, Wayne State University
	PAPERS:	Judylyn S. Ryan, Department of English, Ohio Wesleyan University Black Women Filmmakers: Negotiating Space, Time, Crisis Matt Becker, Program in American Studies, University of Minesota The Politics of Director James Whale Samara Paysse, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara John Sayles and Contemporary Populist Filmmaking
	COMMENT:	Craig Watkins, Department of Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas, Austin J. David Slocum,Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York University

The Poetics of Definition: Racial Representation in 20^th -Century America (ONLINE)

	CHAIR:	Peter J. Bellis, Department of English, University of Miami
	PAPERS:	Lauren R. Sklaroff, Department of History, University of Virginia Joe Louis and the Construction of a Black American Hero, 1935-1945 Ann Eden Gibson, Department of Art History, University of Delaware Racializing Abstraction Robert M. Zecker, Department of American Studies, University of Pennsylvania "Negrov Lyncovani" and the Unbearable Whiteness of Slovaks: the Slavic Press Covers Race, 1890-1926 Nancy Nield Buchwald, Department of Art History, University of Chicago Beholding the Outcry: The Collision of Utterance, Inscription, and Image as Revenants of the Holocaust in Barnett Newman's Station of the Cross
	COMMENT:	Peter J. Bellis