ASA Program Book
Session Subjects Index
African American Studies
At the Crossroads of Children's Studies and American Studies: Intersections, Possibilities, Challenges...190
Back Down To the Ground: Race, Structural Inequality, and the Violence of Everyday Queer Life...143
Biopolitics and Transnationalism...217
Black Fiction in the Atlantic World from Clotel to Tar Baby...173
Black Native Race/Identity from the Eighteenth Century to the Twentieth ...113
Black Poetry Matters: Black Poetry at the Crossroads of Subalternity and Cultural Studies...182
Black Rights and Citizenship...192
Bodies and Spirits: Reconsidering the American Occult...123
Cosmopolitan Humanitarianism in the Progressive-Era Settlement Movement...198
Crossroads in New Orleans: Storytelling and Counterhegemonic Geographies in Pre- and Post-Katrina New Orleans...104
Culture and Consumption in the American City...224
Diasporic Networks...184
Ghost Notes and Spirit Moves: What Jazz Studies Doesn't Hear...198
King of the Crossroads: Theorizing the Art and Impact of Jean-Michel Basquiat...106
Labor and Representation...146
Looking for Home in Unexpected Places: James Baldwin and the Politics of Return...109
Maneuvering Race, Labor, and Place in America's Cities: Tactical Survival in an Urban Context...202
Maps and Geographies of Malleable Spaces...145
Middle Passages: Resisting Forced Migration in the Atlantic, Chinese, and U.S. Internal Slave Trades...149
Migration, Racialization, and Resistance: African Americans, Mexicanos, and Mexican Americans in Comparative Urban Experience (Sponsored by the Committee on Ethnic Studies)...165
Musical Cross-Pollination in Rhythm, Blues, and Rap...217
No Laughing Matter: Race and American Visual Humor...132
On Location: Film Histories...164
Photography in Print...155
Picturing Culture: The Politics of Image and Illustration...192
Power and Public Spaces...145
Print, Publics, and Racial Feeling...222
Public Art and Historic Preservation...183
Radio: Medium and Metaphor...173
Scandalous Selves: Properties of Early Black Personhood...122
“See-Saw”: A Performance by Jeffrey Q. McCune...200
Slavery, Sexuality, and the Shape of Public Memory in the United States, 1888–1985...214
Techno-Aesthetic Strategies in Black Music...143
The Animal Nature of Human Social Relations...119
The Black Press in the Twentieth Century...146
The Day that Martin Died: The Politics and Poetics of Loss...157
Theorizing Race, Gender, and Sexuality at the Crossroads of the Popular and the Profane...132
Thinking Big about American Studies: From Case Studies to Field Imaginaries...144
Thinking with W. E. B. Du Bois at the Crossroads of Theory and Practice...115
Trafficking in Folklore...193
Visualizing Racial Violence...136
Writers and Migrancy...127
Anthropology
American Studies and Anthropology: The Road Less Traveled...168
Museums and the Politics of Memory...210
Rereading American Studies Origins...119
Asian American Studies
Activists and Movements...200
Asia/Pacific/America: Contact Zones...201
Asian Bodies, American Mediation, Transnational Movements...215
Cross-Bodies: Filipina/os in Transnational Spaces...131
Labor and Representation...146
Law and Cultural Studies: Understanding Asian/American and Latino/a Racial and Gendered Subjects across Spatialities...107
Negotiating Asian/Native Identity...137
9/11 Vernaculars...119
On Location: Film Histories...164
Photography, Power, and the Body...225
Race and Gender in American Dance...184
Reexamining Early Twentieth-Century South Asian American Histories...181
Theorizing Race, Gender, and Sexuality at the Crossroads of the Popular and the Profane...132
Thinking Big about American Studies: From Case Studies to Field Imaginaries...144
Transpacific Cultural Production...154
Visualizing Racial Violence...136
Border Studies
Alternative Contact II: Contesting American (Indian) Lands and Nations...186
Black Native Race/Identity from the Eighteenth Century to the Twentieth...113
Brokering Borders: The Transnational Makings of Mexican American Citizenship Across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1935–1980...156
Crossroads, Borderlands, Diaspora: Remapping the Terrains of Native American Studies...166
Cultural Crossroads: Middlebrow and the (Re)making of American Studies...196
Debating Public Art in New Mexico...137
Diasporic Networks...184
International Committee Talkshop II: Crossroad Adventures: The Practice of International American Studies Since the “Transnational Turn”...140
Legal Borderlands: The Uses of Race, Gender, and Aesthetics in the Making of American Imperial Identity...171
Life Is Complicated: Coming to Terms with Seething Pasts, Haunting Memories, and Economies of Inequity...213
Mutual Contamination at the Limits: Becoming Human/Artist...161
National, International, Planetary? American Studies Meets Comparative Literature...159
National Identities, Transnational Figures...111
No Somos Criminales/We Are Not Criminals: Latina/o Music and Performance as Decolonizing Practices in the (neo) Colonial Borderlands...141
Origin Stories: National Identities and Hegemonic Memories in the American Southwest, 1898–1940...188
Places of Critical Thinking...229
Post-Border Mexico? The Paradigmatic Drama of the Border in and for Inter-American Studies...134
Public Art and Historic Preservation...183
Race, Nature, and Nation at the Crossroads II...205
Sculpting Model Americanness: The Intersecting Regulatory Regimes of Normative Citizenship...222
Self-Locating in Academe and Activism: Identity Politics at the Crossroads...117
The Western Frontier as International Metaphor: Mapping Morphing Cultural Boundaries since 1945...115
Troubling Citizenship: Belonging, Community, and Resistance in an Age of Migration...171
Walls, Borders, and Militarization: A Comparative Dialogue on U.S./Mexico and Israel/Palestine (Sponsored by the Committee on Ethnic Studies)...150
Where Is “America” in Transnational American Studies?...115
Chicano/Latino Studies
Brokering Borders: The Transnational Makings of Mexican American Citizenship Across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1935–1980...156
Coloring America: (Dis)Identifying Hues and Shades of Latinidad(es) through Diverse Approaches to U.S. Latina/o Culture...210
Critical Regionalism and American Studies: The Comparative Case of Chicana/o Regionalisms (Sponsored by the Site Resource Committee)...203
Culture and Consumption in the American City...224
Homeland, Heartland: Creating and Remembering People and Place...117
Imagineering Public History: Contradictions, Gentrification, and Counterstorytelling in Northern New Mexico Public Spaces...142
Latino/a Resistance in L.A....191
Law and Cultural Studies: Understanding Asian/American and Latino/a Racial and Gendered Subjects across Spatialities...107
Mexican Americans and Whiteness...116
Migration, Racialization, and Resistance: African Americans, Mexicanos, and Mexican Americans in Comparative Urban Experience (Sponsored by the Committee on Ethnic Studies)...165
National Identities, Transnational Figures...111
No Somos Criminales/We Are Not Criminals: Latina/o Music and Performance as Decolonizing Practices in the (neo) Colonial Borderlands...141
Not in Isolation: Solidarity, Responsibility, and Sacrifice throughout the U.S. Southwest, 1900–2007...121
Picturing Culture: The Politics of Image and Illustration...192
Post-Border Mexico? The Paradigmatic Drama of the Border in and for Inter-American Studies...134
Race, Identity, and Educational Politics...106
Remapping Latina/o Chicago...180
Rights, Knowledge, Activism...138
Saints, Sacrifice, and Sovereignty...225
Screening Crossroads: A Transatlantic Dialogue on America and Film...130
The Crossroads of the Americas: Revolutionary Hispanophone Writers in the Nineteenth-Century United States...162
The Julian Samora Legacy Project: A Model for the Reclamation and Mining of Historical Archives...168
Theory Meets Practice: “American Sabor: U.S. Latinos in Popular Music” and the Possibilities of Public Scholarship in the Museum Context...113
Urban Crossings: Interethnic Encounters in Cultural Practice...216
U.S. Latinos/as at War: Identity and Citizenship at the Crossroads and in the Cross Hairs...197
Communication and Film and Media Studies
American Antipodes: Transnational Culture/National Identity in Australia and New Zealand...126
American Humor in Theory and Practice: A Discussion...166
American Studies at the Digital Crossroads...148
Art, Craft, and Film in Native America...164
Asia/Pacific/America: Contact Zones...201
At the Crossroads of Representation and Use: Negotiating Conflict and Distinction on the Postwar Sub\Urban Landscape...169
Bowling Across Boundaries: An American Leisure Activity Revisited...105
East Goes Western: Seeing the Cowboy through Korean and Korean American Eyes...182
Genre Discontinuities: Allegorizing the Vietnam War in American Television and Film...114
Global Circulation of Images: Middle East Meets West in U.S. Motion Pictures...100
Going Mobile: Global Flows of Media and the American Experience with Portable Technology (Sponsored by the Science and Technology Caucus)...124
If You Meet a Punk at the Crossroads, Kill the Buddha: Punk Rock and the Politics of Geolocality...207
Labor and Representation...146
Media Matters: Access, Ownership, and Diversity...181
9/11 Vernaculars...119
On Location: Film Histories...164
Premature Antifascism: Hollywood and Nazism in the 1930s...148
Queer Studies, Media Studies...163
Radio: Medium and Metaphor...173
Rethinking Global Hollywood: Old Myths and New Realities...122
Rights, Knowledge, Activism...138
Saints, Sacrifice, and Sovereignty...225
Screening Crossroads: A Transatlantic Dialogue on America and Film...130
Teaching at the Crossroads: American Studies and Film Studies...140
Comparative Native Studies
Alternative Contact I: Race and Indigeneity in Hawai‘i...177
Alternative Contact III: Mixed-Race Indigeneity...195
Crossroads, Borderlands, Diaspora: Remapping the Terrains of Native American Studies...166
Listening to the Land: At the Crossroads of Ecofeminism, Transnationalism, and Native American Studies...101
Theorizing Native Studies...123
Contemporary Culture
American Studies at the Intersection of Food and Health: Science, Policy, and Culture...134
Art, Craft, and Film in Native America...164
Art and Engaged Citizenship: The Case of the LAB...179
At the Crossroads of Technology and Transnationalism: A Conversation with Michael Adas (Sponsored by the Science and Technology Caucus)...208
Bodies without Borders: Intimate Knowledges, Public Embodiments, and the Trans-Global–American Crossroads...125
Craft at the Crossroads Roundtable (Sponsored by the Material Culture Caucus)...149
Cross-Cultural Encounters: Person-Centered Approaches...208
Crossroads with Various Intersections: (Geo)Cultural and Ethnic “Triple/Multiple Consciousness” in a Transnational Age...189
Eating the “Other”...226
Food and Identity...144
Homefront: Iraq...180
If You Meet a Punk at the Crossroads, Kill the Buddha: Punk Rock and the Politics of Geolocality...207
In Motion: Crossroad Variations and the Work of Praxis...132
Maps and Geographies of Malleable Spaces...145
Policing the Crisis: On the Importance of Stuart Hall...194
Rethinking Global Hollywood: Old Myths and New Realities...122
Sacred/Secular Crossroads and Conundrums...170
Saints, Sacrifice, and Sovereignty...225
The Animal Nature of Human Social Relations...119
The Day that Martin Died: The Politics and Poetics of Loss...157
Theories in American Studies III: Class...207
The Sixties: A Conversation with Mark Rudd...165
Cultural Geography
At the Crossroads of Representation and Use: Negotiating Conflict and Distinction on the Postwar Sub\Urban Landscape...169
Coloniality and Imperialism in the Philippines...144
Coloring America: (Dis)Identifying Hues and Shades of Latinidad(es) through Diverse Approaches to U.S. Latina/o Culture...210
Crossroads in New Orleans: Storytelling and Counterhegemonic Geographies in Pre- and Post-Katrina New Orleans...104
Debating Public Art in New Mexico...137
Food and Local/Global Imaginaries...151
Homeland, Heartland: Creating and Remembering People and Place...117
Imagineering Public History: Contradictions, Gentrification, and Counterstorytelling in Northern New Mexico Public Spaces...142
Maps and Geographies of Malleable Spaces...145
Orientalism and American Studies: Locating Edward Said...202
Photography in Print...155
Prison, Plantation, and Empire...218
Race, Identity, and Educational Politics...106
Regionalists on the Left: Radical Voices and Regional Diversity in the 1930s...118
Remapping Latina/o Chicago...180
Rights, Knowledge, Activism...138
Taking the “Crossroads” Literally: Reenactments of Historical Journeys and the Bodily Performance of America...197
The Power of Mobility? Cultural Intersections, Identity, and Travel...111
The Western Frontier as International Metaphor: Mapping Morphing Cultural Boundaries since 1945...115
Transnational Regions...161
Transpacific Cultural Production...154
Disability Studies
Biopolitics and Transnationalism...217
Disability and Youth Culture: “Mental Defective” Embodiment, Special Education, and the Brain (Sponsored by the Childhood and Youth Studies Caucus)...159
Gender, Sexuality, and Space: Occupation, Crossings, and Lines of Flight...152
Early American Studies
At the Crossroads of Children's Studies and American Studies: Intersections, Possibilities, Challenges...190
Breakfast Forum: The Future of American and Ethnic Studies (Sponsored by the Students' Committee and the Ethnic Studies Committee)...147
Historical Crosses: Religious Culture in Earlier America...178
Maps and Geographies of Malleable Spaces...145
Museums and the Politics of Memory...210
Positioning Native America with/in American Studies...136
Print, Publics, and Racial Feeling...222
Propaganda before the Twentieth Century...225
Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas (Sponsored by the Early American Matters Caucus)...150
Remembering and Representing Native American Pasts...183
The Counterintuitive Whitman...154
The Politics of Relation: Creolization and the Invention of America...104
Environmental Studies
Challenging Ecocriticism: New Directions for the Study of Literature and Environment...135
Eating at the Crossroads of Agricultural, Environmental, and Cultural History...160
Ecocriticism from Melville to Yamashita...106
Energy, Culture, Environment...171
Environmental History and Policy-Making in the United States and Mexico...223
Histories of the Dust Heap: Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice...107
Keywords in the Study of Environment and Culture (Sponsored by the Environment and Culture Caucus)...125
Listening to the Land: At the Crossroads of Ecofeminism, Transnationalism, and Native American Studies...101
Public Art and Historic Preservation...183
Race, Nature, and Nation at the Crossroads I...184
Race, Nature, and Nation at the Crossroads II...205
Sites and Transits: Indigenous and Indigenized Environmental Ethics and Poetics...108
The Animal Nature of Human Social Relations...119
The Crossroads of Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, and Desire...187
Toxic Crossroads: The Transnational Legacies of Agent Orange...212
Ethnography
Activists and Movements...200
9/11 Vernaculars...119
Piles of Memories: Hurricane Katrina and Native Peoples of Louisiana...229
Places of Critical Thinking...172
Positioning Native America with/in American Studies...136
Folklore
Black Native Race/Identity from the Eighteenth Century to the Twentieth ...113
The Transnational West...127
Trafficking in Folklore...193
Foodways
American Studies at the Intersection of Food and Health: Science, Policy, and Culture...134
Eating at the Crossroads of Agricultural, Environmental, and Cultural History...160
Eating the “Other”...226
Food and Identity...144
Food and Local/Global Imaginaries...151
Gender and Sexuality
African American Women at the Crossroads: Identity, Memory, and the Creation of a Useable Past...206
American Studies and Anthropology: The Road Less Traveled...168
An All-Consuming War? Gender and Mass Culture in the Vietnam Combat Zone: A Junior Scholar Roundtable...162
Asian Bodies, American Mediation, Transnational Movements...215
At the Crossroads of Feminism, Race, and American Studies...199
Biopolitics and Transnationalism...217
Black Native Race/Identity from the Eighteenth Century to the Twentieth ...113
Breakfast Forum: Teaching Politics and the Politics of Teaching: Three Scholars Share Pedagogical Strategies (Sponsored by the Students' Committee)...129
Changing the Subject: New Perspectives on Gender and Racial Identification...204
Clashes and Alliances: Reframing America and the Middle East...190
Debating Public Art in New Mexico...137
Disability and Youth Culture: “Mental Defective” Embodiment, Special Education, and the Brain (Sponsored by the Childhood and Youth Studies Caucus)...159
Faith Activity: Case Studies in Religious Activism...101
Genre Discontinuities: Allegorizing the Vietnam War in American Television and Film...114
Hearing Gender/Sounding Gender...133
Innocence and Complicity: Contemporary Rhetorics of Victimhood, Violence, and Justice...185
Marked by Dirt: The Embodiment of Difference on the Body and by the State...130
Places of Critical Thinking...172
Queer Studies, Media Studies...163
“See-Saw”: A Performance by Jeffrey Q. McCune...200
Slavery, Sexuality, and the Shape of Public Memory in the United States, 1888–1985...214
The Crossroads of Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, and Desire...187
Theories in American Studies I: Sex...116
The Transnational West...127
Global/Transnational/Cross-Cultural Studies
Activists and Movements...200
Alternative Suburban Geographies...121
America's Religious Crossroads: Racialized Transnational Communities and State Power across Historical Periods...167
American Labor: Invisibility in National, Transnational, and Colonial Contexts (Sponsored by LAWCHA and the Working Class Studies Caucus)...109
An American Studies Worthy of Emulation: The Legacy of David W. Noble...213
Asia/Pacific/America: Contact Zones...201
Asian Bodies, American Mediation, Transnational Movements...215
At the Crossroads of Children's Studies and American Studies: Intersections, Possibilities, Challenges...190
At the Crossroads of Technology and Transnationalism: A Conversation with Michael Adas (Sponsored by the Science and Technology Caucus)...208
Between Local and Transnational: Considering American Studies from Positions in the Regionals...206
Biopolitics and Transnationalism...217
Black Fiction in the Atlantic World from Clotel to Tar Baby...173
Bodies without Borders: Intimate Knowledges, Public Embodiments, and the Trans-Global–American Crossroads...125
Changing the Subject: New Perspectives on Gender and Racial Identification...204
Clashes and Alliances: Reframing America and the Middle East...190
Cross-Bodies: Filipina/os in Transnational Spaces...131
Cross-Cultural Encounters: Person-Centered Approaches...208
Crossroads and Crossover: American Top 40 as Cultural Exchange...211
Crossroads with Various Intersections: (Geo)Cultural and Ethnic “Triple/Multiple Consciousness” in a Transnational Age...189
Diasporic Networks...184
Due Processes: Perspectives on Deportation (Sponsored by the Committee on Ethnic Studies)...160
East Goes Western: Seeing the Cowboy through Korean and Korean American Eyes...182
Environmental History and Policy-Making in the United States and Mexico...223
Evolutionary Empires, Unstable Identities: Circum-Atlantic Darwinism and the Colonial Imagination...102
Feminist Subjects in “America”: Violence, Recognition, and Citizenship...108
Food and Identity...144
Global Axes of American Studies...126
Global Circulation of Images: Middle East Meets West in U.S. Motion Pictures...100
Going Mobile: Global Flows of Media and the American Experience with Portable Technology (Sponsored by the Science and Technology Caucus)...124
Humor at the Crossroads of Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration...124
Immigrant Masculinities Meeting at the Crossroads of Religion and Sex...187
Imperial Formations and Manifest Destinies: Israel/Palestine and Circuits of Exceptionality...120
Indigeneity, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Place...153
In Search of Home: Refugees and Representation Along U.S. Borderlands...152
Inter-American Perspectives on Culture and Migration in the Americas...133
International Committee Talkshop I: Obtaining Resources to Teach American Studies Internationally...124
Labor and Representation...146
Life Is Complicated: Coming to Terms with Seething Pasts, Haunting Memories, and Economies of Inequity...213
Lingering at the Crossroads: Building Transnational Perspectives into American Studies Programs...153
Looking for Home in Unexpected Places: James Baldwin and the Politics of Return...109
Maps and Geographies of Malleable Spaces...145
Marked by Dirt: The Embodiment of Difference on the Body and by the State...130
Middle Passages: Resisting Forced Migration in the Atlantic, Chinese, and U.S. Internal Slave Trades...149
Music Production, Exchange, and Performance: Online Videos, Cultural Authority, and Transnational Entertainment Gateways...163
National Identities, Transnational Figures...111
New Directions in Italian American Popular Culture Studies...148
9/11 Vernaculars...119
Once and Future Wars...200
On Location: Film Histories...164
Onshore and Offshore: American Studies for Export...188
Orientalism and American Studies: Locating Edward Said...202
Photography, Power, and the Body...225
Photography in Print...155
Positioning Native America with/in American Studies...136
Post-Border Mexico? The Paradigmatic Drama of the Border in and for Inter-American Studies...134
Prison, Plantation, and Empire...218
Propaganda before the Twentieth Century...225
Race, Identity, and Educational Politics...106
Race, Nature, and Nation at the Crossroads I...194
Recasting Black Transnationalism: Race and Performance on the Global Stage...213
Reexamining Early Twentieth-Century South Asian American Histories...181
Reflections on Race in Comparative Ethnic Studies...209
Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas (Sponsored by the Early American Matters Caucus)...150
Reproduction at the Crossroads...189
Rereading American Studies Origins...119
Rethinking Global Hollywood: Old Myths and New Realities...122
Rethinking the State(s) of America...167
Rights, Knowledge, Activism...138
Routes of U.S. Imperial Capital: Intersections of Political Economy and Desire in the Transnational Pacific...229
Self-Locating in Academe and Activism: Identity Politics at the Crossroads...117
Subjugated Pasts and Histories of the Present...139
The Crossroads of the Americas: Revolutionary Hispanophone Writers in the Nineteenth-Century United States...162
The Politics of Relation: Creolization and the Invention of America...104
The Transnational West...127
The U.S. Militarization of the Pacific: Oceanic Crossings in the Colonial Present...135
Thinking Big About American Studies: From Case Studies to Field Imaginaries...144
Thinking Race at Its Limits: The Future of the Past...117
Thinking with W. E. B. Du Bois at the Crossroads of Theory and Practice...115
Toxic Crossroads: The Transnational Legacies of Agent Orange...212
Trafficking in Folklore...193
Transpacific Cultural Production...154
Transnational Regions...161
Transpacific American Studies: Texts and Methods...211
Where Is “America” in Transnational American Studies?...115
Writers and Migrancy...127
History
An American Studies Worthy of Emulation: The Legacy of David W. Noble...213
Beyond the Binary: Mapping the Intersections of “Indian”and “Black” Lives in the Southeast...170
Black Detroit and Beyond: At the Crossroads of Color, Culture, and Community...199
Black Native Race/Identity from the Eighteenth Century to the Twentieth ...113
Brokering Borders: The Transnational Makings of Mexican American Citizenship Across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1935–1980...156
Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes: A Figurational Approach to American Studies...196
Clashes and Alliances: Reframing America and the Middle East...190
Cosmopolitan Humanitarianism in the Progressive-Era Settlement Movement...198
Culture and Consumption in the American City...224
Diasporic Networks...184
Does History Influence Identity? An Exploration of the Third Generation of Armenians in America...227
Energy, Culture, Environment...171
Environmental History and Policy-Making in the United States and Mexico...223
Hateful Saints, a Sodom City, and the Ku Klux Klan: Anti-Catholicism in the Americas...156
Indigeneity, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Place...153
Media Matters: Access, Ownership, and Diversity...181
Negotiating Asian/Native Identity...137
On Location: Film Histories...164
Positioning Native America with/in American Studies...136
Power and Public Spaces...145
Race, Identity, and Educational Politics...106
Race and Gender in American Dance...184
Rereading American Studies Origins...119
Rewriting Radicalism in the Cold War...221
The Animal Nature of Human Social Relations...119
The Counterintuitive Whitman...154
The Julian Samora Legacy Project: A Model for the Reclamation and Mining of Historical Archives...168
The Religious Left in Modern America (Sponsored by the Religion and American Culture Caucus)...205
The Transnational West...127
U.S. Latinos/as at War: Identity and Citizenship at the Crossroads and in the Cross Hairs...197
Visualizing Racial Violence...147
Landscape and the Built Environment
At the Crossroads of Representation and Use: Negotiating Conflict and Distinction on the Postwar Sub\Urban Landscape...169
Canine America: How Dogs Shape American Personhood, Poetics, and Publics...131
Crossroads in New Orleans: Storytelling and Counterhegemonic Geographies in Pre- and Post-Katrina New Orleans...104
Culture and Consumption in the American City...224
Debating Public Art in New Mexico...137
Ecocriticism from Melville to Yamashita...106
Environmental History and Policy-Making in the United States and Mexico...223
Innovative Interpretations of Nineteenth-Century Western Imagery...158
Keywords in the Study of Environment and Culture (Sponsored by the Environment and Culture Caucus)...125
Maneuvering Race, Labor, and Place in America's Cities: Tactical Survival in an Urban Context...202
Maps and Geographies of Malleable Spaces...145
Mutual Contamination at the Limits: Becoming Human/Artist...161
Of Factories, Supermarkets, and Bomb Shelters: Sensory Environments, Perception, and New Questions in American Studies...226
Photography, Power, and the Body...225
Picturing Culture: The Politics of Image and Illustration...192
Power and Public Spaces...145
Public Art and Historic Preservation...183
Taking the “Crossroads” Literally: Reenactments of Historical Journeys and the Bodily Performance of America...197
The Animal Nature of Human Social Relations...119
The Power of Mobility? Cultural Intersections, Identity, and Travel...111
Legal Studies
Black Rights and Citizenship...192
Critical Race Feminism and the Literary Imagination of Law...204
Engaging Exception: Interdisciplinarity, Intervention, and “States of Exception” in U.S. Imperial Pasts and Presents...222
Expansions of War: National Security, Transnational Internment, and Racial Disciplines...105
Indigeneity, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Place...153
Law and Cultural Studies: Understanding Asian/American and Latino/a Racial and Gendered Subjects across Spatialities...107
Legal Borderlands: The Uses of Race, Gender, and Aesthetics in the Making of American Imperial Identity...171
Race, Identity, and Educational Politics...106
Race and Gender in American Dance...184
Rights, Knowledge, Activism...138
Scandalous Selves: Properties of Early Black Personhood...122
Visualizing Racial Violence...136
Literary Studies
American Antipodes: Transnational Culture/National Identity in Australia and New Zealand...126
At the Crossroads of Feminism, Race, and American Studies...199
Biopolitics and Transnationalism...217
Black Fiction in the Atlantic World from Clotel to Tar Baby...173
Black Poetry Matters: Black Poetry at the Crossroads of Subalternity and Cultural Studies...182
Black Rights and Citizenship...192
Bodies without Borders: Intimate Knowledges, Public Embodiments, and the Trans-Global–American Crossroads...125
Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes: A Figurational Approach to American Studies...196
Clashes and Alliances: Reframing America and the Middle East...190
Coloring America: (Dis)Identifying Hues and Shades of Latinidad(es) through Diverse Approaches to U.S. Latina/o Culture...210
Coloring Outside the Lines: Performing Race in Children's Books...193
Cosmopolitan Humanitarianism in the Progressive-Era Settlement Movement...198
Critical Race Feminism and the Literary Imagination of Law...204
Critical Regionalism and American Studies: The Comparative Case of Chicana/o Regionalisms (Sponsored by the Site Resource Committee)...203
Crossroads with Various Intersections: (Geo)Cultural and Ethnic “Triple/Multiple Consciousness” in a Transnational Age...189
East Goes Western: Seeing the Cowboy through Korean and Korean American Eyes...182
Ecocriticism from Melville to Yamashita...106
Energy, Culture, Environment...171
Expansions of War: National Security, Transnational Internment, and Racial Disciplines...105
Ghost Notes and Spirit Moves: What Jazz Studies Doesn't Hear...198
Homeland, Heartland: Creating and Remembering People and Place...117
Humor at the Crossroads of Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration...124
Integrating Conspiracy into the Shaping of American Identities...169
Labor and Representation...146
National, International, Planetary? American Studies Meets Comparative Literature...159
Negotiating Asian/Native Identity...137
Photography in Print...155
Places of Critical Thinking...172
Positioning Native America with/in American Studies...136
Pragmatism, Ethics, and Democracy: Self and Other Down at the Crossroads...103
Reading Contemporary U.S. Political Memoirs...188
Rereading American Studies Origins...119
Rewriting Radicalism in the Cold War...221
Teaching Memoirs and Oral History in the K–12 Classroom: Identities at the Crossroads (Sponsored by the K–16 Collaboration Committee)...212
The Counterintuitive Whitman...154
The Transnational West...127
Trafficking in Folklore...193
Transpacific American Studies: Texts and Methods...211
Writers and Migrancy...127
Material Culture
An All-Consuming War? Gender and Mass Culture in the Vietnam Combat Zone: A Junior Scholar Roundtable...162
Art, Craft, and Film in Native America...164
Craft at the Crossroads Roundtable (Sponsored by the Material Culture Caucus)...149
Eating the “Other”...226
Middle East/American Studies
Clashes and Alliances: Reframing America and the Middle East...190
Does History Influence Identity? An Exploration of the Third Generation of Armenians in America...227
Global Circulation of Images: Middle East Meets West in U.S. Motion Pictures...100
Homefront: Iraq...180
Imperial Formations and Manifest Destinies: Israel/Palestine and Circuits of Exceptionality...120
Walls, Borders, and Militarization: A Comparative Dialogue on U.S./Mexico and Israel/Palestine (Sponsored by the Committee on Ethnic Studies)...150
Music
Beautiful Kitsch and Random Form: The Role of Aesthetics in the Politics of Access...195
Crossroads and Crossover: American Top 40 as Cultural Exchange...211
Ecocriticism from Melville to Yamashita...106
Ghost Notes and Spirit Moves: What Jazz Studies Doesn't Hear...198
Hearing Gender/Sounding Gender...133
If You Meet a Punk at the Crossroads, Kill the Buddha: Punk Rock and the Politics of Geolocality...207
Kill Them with Love: Punk and Performance, Race and Gender...185
Musical Cross-Pollination in Rhythm, Blues, and Rap...217
Music Production, Exchange, and Performance: Online Videos, Cultural Authority, and Transnational Entertainment Gateways...163
No Somos Criminales/We Are Not Criminals: Latina/o Musics and Performance as Decolonizing Practices in the (neo) Colonial Borderlands...141
Techno-Aesthetic Strategies in Black Music...143
Tradition and Change in Country Music of the 1970s...223
Trafficking in Folklore...193
Twentieth-Century Indigenous Music at the Crossroads: Activism and Cultural Traditions in Transition...177
Native American Studies
Alternative Contact II: Contesting American (Indian) Lands and Nations...186
Alternative Contact III: Mixed-Race Indigeneity...195
Art, Craft, and Film in Native America...164
Beyond the Binary: Mapping the Intersections of “Indian”and “Black” Lives in the Southeast...170
Black Native Race/Identity from the Eighteenth Century to the Twentieth ...113
Crossroads, Borderlands, Diaspora: Remapping the Terrains of Native American Studies...166
Debating Public Art in New Mexico...137
Faith Activity: Case Studies in Religious Activism...101
Gatherings of Nations: American Indian Song, Dance, Art, and Exhibitions...209
Indigeneity, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Place...153
Indigenous Studies Bound (and Unbound): Institutional Realities and Professional Pressures...139
Listening to the Land: At the Crossroads of Ecofeminism, Transnationalism, and Native American Studies...101
Museums and the Politics of Memory...210
Negotiating Asian/Native Identity...137
Once and Future Wars...200
Photography in Print...155
Piles of Memories: Hurricane Katrina and Native Peoples of Louisiana...229
Positioning Native America with/in American Studies...136
Remembering and Representing Native American Pasts...183
Rights, Knowledge, Activism...138
Sexuality, Nationality, Indigeneity: Intersections of Native American and Queer Studies...118
Sites and Transits: Indigenous and Indigenized Environmental Ethics and Poetics...108
Survivance: Gerald Vizenor for Thirty Years...158
The Animal Nature of Human Social Relations...119
Theorizing Native Studies...123
The Speculative Logic of Racial Violence: Investments in Empire in the 1830s...227
Twentieth-Century Indigenous Music at the Crossroads: Activism and Cultural Traditions in Transition...177
Nineteenth Century
African American Women at the Crossroads: Identity, Memory, and the Creation of a Useable Past...206
Black Fiction in the Atlantic World from Clotel to Tar Baby...173
Black Rights and Citizenship...192
Bodies and Spirits: Reconsidering the American Occult...123
Canine America: How Dogs Shape American Personhood, Poetics, and Publics...131
Circulating Scandal in Antebellum Periodicals...112
Coloniality and Imperialism in the Philippines...144
Eating at the Crossroads of Agricultural, Environmental, and Cultural History...160
Innovative Interpretations of Nineteenth-Century Western Imagery...158
Legal Borderlands: The Uses of Race, Gender, and Aesthetics in the Making of American Imperial Identity...171
Middle Passages: Resisting Forced Migration in the Atlantic, Chinese, and U.S. Internal Slave Trades...149
Museums and the Politics of Memory...210
Picturing Culture: The Politics of Image and Illustration...192
Prison, Plantation, and Empire...218
Propaganda before the Twentieth Century...225
Reconstruction and Revision...196
Remembering and Representing Native American Pasts...183
Scandalous Selves: Properties of Early Black Personhood...122
The Counterintuitive Whitman...154
The Crossroads of the Americas: Revolutionary Hispanophone Writers in the Nineteenth-Century United States...162
The Speculative Logic of Racial Violence: Investments in Empire in the 1830s...227
Writers and Migrancy...127
Pacific Islander American Studies
Alternative Contact I: Race and Indigeneity in Hawai‘i...177
Race, Identity, and Educational Politics...106
Routes of U.S. Imperial Capital: Intersections of Political Economy and Desire in the Transnational Pacific...259
The U.S. Militarization of the Pacific: Oceanic Crossings in the Colonial Present...135
Pedagogy
American Studies at the Digital Crossroads...148
Be a Better Writer: How to Produce Strong Abstracts, Proposals, and Cover Letters (Sponsored by the Students' Committee)...157
Breakfast Forum: Teaching Politics and the Politics of Teaching: Three Scholars Share Pedagogical Strategies (Sponsored by the Students' Committee)...129
Graduate Programs in American Studies: Present and Future (Directors' Breakfast Workshop)...99
In Motion: Crossroad Variations and the Work of Praxis...132
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Immigration (Sponsored by the K–16 Collaboration Committee)...218
International Committee Talkshop I: Obtaining Resources to Teach American Studies Internationally...124
Museums and the Politics of Memory...210
Policing the Crisis: On the Importance of Stuart Hall...194
Teaching at the Crossroads: American Studies and Film Studies...140
Teaching Memoirs and Oral History in the K–12 Classroom: Identities at the Crossroads (Sponsored by the K–16 Collaboration Committee)...212
Visions and Revisions: How to Build a High School American Studies Program (Sponsored by the K–16 Collaboration Committee)...178
Performance Studies
American Humor in Theory and Practice: A Discussion...166
Back Down to the Ground: Race, Structural Inequality and the Violence of Everyday Queer Life...143
Culture and Consumption in the American City...224
Gatherings of Nations: American Indian Song, Dance, Art, and Exhibitions...209
Kill Them with Love: Punk and Performance, Race and Gender...185
Kinesthetics Visualized: Posture, Gesture, and Movement in Twentieth-Century Visual Culture...228
Latino/a Resistance in L.A....191
9/11 Vernaculars...119
Race and Gender in American Dance...184
Recasting Black Transnationalism: Race and Performance on the Global Stage...213
Remembering and Representing Native American Pasts...183
Rereading American Studies Origins...119
Sacred/Secular Crossroads and Conundrums...170
“See-Saw”: A Performance by Jeffrey Q. McCune...200
Subjugated Pasts and Histories of the Present...139
Theorizing Race and Performance in Colonial Contexts...102
Twentieth-Century Indigenous Music at the Crossroads: Activism and Cultural Traditions in Transition...177
Philosophy
Pragmatism, Ethics, and Democracy: Self and Other Down at the Crossroads...103
Thinking Race at Its Limits: The Future of the Past...117
Political Culture/Government
Activists and Movements...200
Black Rights and Citizenship...192
Colonial Frictions in the Present Tense: U.S. Colonialism, Racial Formation, Sovereignty...172
Crossing Borders: Political Theory and American Studies at the Crossroads...179
Democratic Vistas II...151
Environmental History and Policy-Making in the United States and Mexico...223
Graduate Programs in American Studies: Present and Future (Directors' Breakfast Workshop)...99
Historical Crosses: Religious Culture in Earlier America...178
Integrating Conspiracy into the Shaping of American Identities...169
Liberal Racism in Academic Institutions...142
Once and Future Wars...200
Onshore and Offshore: American Studies for Export...188
Prison, Plantation, and Empire...218
Reading Contemporary U.S. Political Memoirs...188
Rethinking the State(s) of America...167
Saints, Sacrifice, and Sovereignty...225
Sculpting Model Americanness: The Intersecting Regulatory Regimes of Normative Citizenship...222
The Counterintuitive Whitman...154
The Religious Left in Modern America (Sponsored by the Religion and American Culture Caucus)...205
The Sixties: A Conversation with Mark Rudd...165
Transmitting Public Feelings: Bodies, Emotions, and Politics...162
U.S. Latinos/as at War: Identity and Citizenship at the Crossroads and in the Cross Hairs...197
Walls, Borders, and Militarization: A Comparative Dialogue on U.S./Mexico and Israel/Palestine (Sponsored by the Committee on Ethnic Studies)...150
Popular Culture
American Humor in Theory and Practice: A Discussion...166
Art, Craft, and Film in Native America...164
Asia/Pacific/America: Contact Zones...201
Biopolitics and Transnationalism...217
Bowling Across Boundaries: An American Leisure Activity Revisited...105
Breakfast Forum: Framing Visual Evidence: The Position of Visual and Popular Culture in American Studies (Sponsored by the Students' Committee)...177
Circulating Scandal in Antebellum Periodicals...112
Coloring Outside the Lines: Performing Race in Children's Books...193
Cultural Crossroads: Middlebrow and the (Re)making of American Studies...196
Culture and Consumption in the American City...224
Food and Identity...144
Inter-American Perspectives on Culture and Migration in the Americas...133
Kill Them with Love: Punk and Performance, Race and Gender...185
Labor and Representation...146
Media Matters: Access, Ownership, and Diversity...181
Museums and the Politics of Memory...210
Musical Cross-Pollination in Rhythm, Blues, and Rap...217
New Directions in Italian American Popular Culture Studies...148
Of Factories, Supermarkets, and Bomb Shelters: Sensory Environments, Perception, and New Questions in American Studies...226
Once and Future Wars...200
On Location: Film Histories...164
Places of Critical Thinking...172
Queer Studies, Media Studies...163
Race, Sex, and Science at the Crossroads: Synthetic Personhood in Visual Popular Culture...110
Race, U.S. Orientalism, and the Global “War on Terror”...141
Race and Gender in American Dance...184
Radio: Medium and Metaphor...173
Rereading American Studies Origins...119
Saints, Sacrifice, and Sovereignty...225
Screening Crossroads: A Transatlantic Dialogue on America and Film...130
Theorizing Race, Gender, and Sexuality at the Crossroads of the Popular and the Profane...132
Theorizing Race and Performance in Colonial Contexts...102
The State of Comix: Cultural Identity, the Nation, and the Visual Politics of American Comics (Sponsored by the Visual Culture Caucus)...140
The Transnational West...127
Three Ways of Looking at Bodies...112
Trafficking in Folklore...193
Transpacific Cultural Production...154
Ultimate Sacrifices: Religion and Violence in American Popular Culture (Sponsored by the Religion and American Culture Caucus)...228
Urban Crossings: Interethnic Encounters in Cultural Practice...216
Visualizing Racial Violence...136
Postcolonial Studies
American Antipodes: Transnational Culture/National Identity in Australia and New Zealand...126
Clashes and Alliances: Reframing America and the Middle East...190
Colonial Frictions in the Present Tense: U.S. Colonialism, Racial Formation, Sovereignty...172
Coloniality and Imperialism in the Philippines...144
Diasporic Networks...184
Indigeneity, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Place...153
Liberal Racism in Academic Institutions...142
The Politics of Relation: Creolization and the Invention of America...104
Transpacific Cultural Production...154
Where Is “America” in Transnational American Studies?...115
Print Culture
Beautiful Kitsch and Random Form: The Role of Aesthetics in the Politics of Access...195
Circulating Scandal in Antebellum Periodicals...112
Coloniality and Imperialism in the Philippines...144
Picturing Culture: The Politics of Image and Illustration...192
Print, Publics, and Racial Feeling...222
Reconstruction and Revision...196
The Black Press in the Twentieth Century...146
Public Scholarship
Activists and Movements...200
Alternative Suburban Geographies...121
American Studies at the Digital Crossroads...148
American Studies Outside the Academy: Workshop (Sponsored by the ASA Students' Committee)...103
Art and Engaged Citizenship: The Case of the LAB...179
Back Down to the Ground: Race, Structural Inequality, and the Violence of Everyday Queer Life...143
Between Local and Transnational: Considering American Studies from Positions in the Regionals...206
Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and Technologies of Control...110
Breakfast Forum: Getting Great Advising: A Workshop for Graduate Students (Sponsored by the Students' Committee)...177
Challenging Ecocriticism: New Directions for the Study of Literature and Environment...135
Conditions of Production: Feminist and Queer of Color Engagements with Subjectivity, Nationalism, and Violence...215
Crossroads and Crossover: American Top 40 as Cultural Exchange...211
Culture and Consumption in the American City...224
Democratic Vistas II...151
Digital Crossroads: Online Tools for Open and Collaborative Research...180
Feminist Subjects in “America”: Violence, Recognition, and Citizenship...108
Gender, Sexuality, and Space: Occupation, Crossings, and Lines of Flight...152
Graduate Programs in American Studies: Present and Future (Directors' Breakfast Workshop)...99
Imagineering Public History: Contradictions, Gentrification, and Counterstorytelling in Northern New Mexico Public Spaces...142
Indigeneity, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Place...153
Looking for Home in Unexpected Places: James Baldwin and the Politics of Return...109
Museums and the Politics of Memory...210
Places of Critical Thinking...172
Power and Public Spaces...145
Public Art and Historic Preservation...183
Queering Children, Queering Family: Race, Labor, and Economy...221
Queering Modernist Regionalism: Taos, Santa Fe, and Seattle...100
Rights, Knowledge, Activism...138
Scholarly Reportage: American Studies Meets Journalism, Ethnography, and Creative Nonfiction...203
Theory Meets Practice: “American Sabor: U.S. Latinos in Popular Music” and the Possibilities of Public Scholarship in the Museum Context...113
Queer Studies
Queer Studies, Media Studies...163
Queer Theory, Racial Formation, Neoliberalism...152
Scholarly Reportage: American Studies Meets Journalism, Ethnography, and Creative Nonfiction...203
Sculpting Model Americanness: The Intersecting Regulatory Regimes of Normative Citizenship...222
Sexuality, Nationality, Indigeneity: Intersections of Native American and Queer Studies...118
The Crossroads of Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, and Desire...187
Theory Meets Practice: “American Sabor: U.S. Latinos in Popular Music” and the Possibilities of Public Scholarship in the Museum Context...113
Thinking Big about American Studies: From Case Studies to Field Imaginaries...144
Transmitting Public Feelings: Bodies, Emotions and Politics...162
Troubling Citizenship: Belonging, Community, and Resistance in an Age of Migration...171
Race and Ethnicity
African American Women at the Crossroads: Identity, Memory, and the Creation of a Useable Past...206
Alternative Contact I: Race and Indigeneity in Hawai‘i...177
Alternative Contact II: Contesting American (Indian) Lands and Nations...186
Alternative Suburban Geographies...121
America's Religious Crossroads: Racialized Transnational Communities and State Power across Historical Periods...167
American Studies and Anthropology: The Road Less Traveled...168
At the Crossroads of Feminism, Race, and American Studies...199
At the Crossroads of Representation: Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinas/os in U.S. Culture...214
Beyond the Binary: Mapping the Intersections of “Indian”and “Black” Lives in the Southeast...170
Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and Technologies of Control...110
Biopolitics and Transnationalism...217
Black Detroit and Beyond: At the Crossroads of Color, Culture, and Community....199
Black Fiction in the Atlantic World from Clotel to Tar Baby...173
Black Native Race/Identity from the Eighteenth Century to the Twentieth ...113
Black Poetry Matters: Black Poetry at the Crossroads of Subalternity and Cultural Studies...182
Black Rights and Citizenship...192
Breakfast Forum: Teaching Politics and the Politics of Teaching: Three Scholars Share Pedagogical Strategies (Sponsored by the Students' Committee)...129
Breakfast Forum: The Future of American and Ethnic Studies (Sponsored by the Students' Committee and the Ethnic Studies Committee)...147
Challenging Ecocriticism: New Directions for the Study of Literature and Environment...135
Changing the Subject: New Perspectives on Gender and Racial Identification...204
Coloring Outside the Lines: Performing Race in Children's Books...193
Conditions of Production: Feminist and Queer of Color Engagements with Subjectivity, Nationalism, and Violence...215
Critical Race Feminism and the Literary Imagination of Law...204
Crossing Borders: Political Theory and American Studies at the Crossroads...179
Crossing Over: American Jews and Their Others in Suburbia...216
Culture and Consumption in the American City...224
Debating Public Art in New Mexico...137
Does History Influence Identity? An Exploration of the Third Generation of Armenians in America...227
Engaging Exception: Interdisciplinarity, Intervention, and “States of Exception” in U.S. Imperial Pasts and Presents...222
Environmental History and Policy-Making in the United States and Mexico...223
Expansions of War: National Security, Transnational Internment, and Racial Disciplines...105
Food and Identity...144
Gender, Sexuality, and Space: Occupation, Crossings, and Lines of Flight...152
Genre Discontinuities: Allegorizing the Vietnam War in American Television and Film...114
Hearing Gender/Sounding Gender...133
Humor at the Crossroads of Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration...124
Imperial Formations and Manifest Destinies: Israel/Palestine and Circuits of Exceptionality...120
Indigeneity, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Place...153
Indigenous Studies Bound (and Unbound): Institutional Realities and Professional Pressures...139
Innocence and Complicity: Contemporary Rhetorics of Victimhood, Violence, and Justice...185
In Search of Home: Refugees and Representation Along U.S. Borderlands...152
Inter-American Perspectives on Culture and Migration in the Americas...133
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Immigration (Sponsored by the K–16 Collaboration Committee)...219
International Committee Talkshop II: Crossroad Adventures: The Practice of International American Studies Since the “Transnational Turn”...140
King of the Crossroads: Theorizing the Art and Impact of Jean-Michel Basquiat...106
Labor and Representation...146
Latino/a Resistance in L.A....191
Liberal Racism in Academic Institutions...142
Mexican Americans and Whiteness...116
Museums and the Politics of Memory...210
Negotiating Asian/Native Identity...137
New Directions in Italian American Popular Culture Studies...148
9/11 Vernaculars...119
No Laughing Matter: Race and American Visual Humor...132
Not in Isolation: Solidarity, Responsibility, and Sacrifice throughout the U.S. Southwest, 1900–2007...121
Once and Future Wars...200
Photography, Power, and the Body...225
Piles of Memories: Hurricane Katrina and Native Peoples of Louisiana...229
Places of Critical Thinking...172
Policing the Crisis: On the Importance of Stuart Hall...194
Prison, Plantation, and Empire...218
Queering Children, Queering Family: Race, Labor, and Economy...221
Queer Studies, Media Studies...163
Queer Theory, Racial Formation, Neoliberalism...152
Race, Identity, and Educational Politics...106
Race, Nature, and Nation at the Crossroads I...194
Race, Nature, and Nation at the Crossroads II...205
Race, Sex, and Science at the Crossroads: Synthetic Personhood in Visual Popular Culture...110
Race, U.S. Orientalism, and the Global “War on Terror”...141
Race and Gender in American Dance...184
Radio: Medium and Metaphor...173
Recasting Black Transnationalism: Race and Performance on the Global Stage...213
Reexamining Early Twentieth-Century South Asian American Histories...181
Reflections on Race in Comparative Ethnic Studies...209
Regionalists on the Left: Radical Voices and Regional Diversity in the 1930s...118
Remapping Latina/o Chicago...180
Remembrance and Re-vision: Alternative Genealogies of Race...182
Reproduction at the Crossroads...189
Rights, Knowledge, Activism...138
Self-Locating in Academe and Activism: Identity Politics at the Crossroads...117
Sexuality, Nationality, Indigeneity: Intersections of Native American and Queer Studies...118
Sites and Transits: Indigenous and Indigenized Environmental Ethics and Poetics...108
Slavery, Sexuality, and the Shape of Public Memory in the United States, 1888–1985...214
Taking the “Crossroads” Literally: Reenactments of Historical Journeys and the Bodily Performance of America...197
The Animal Nature of Human Social Relations...119
The Julian Samora Legacy Project: A Model for the Reclamation and Mining of Historical Archives...168
Theories in American Studies II: Race...161
Theorizing Race and Performance in Colonial Contexts...102
The Power of Mobility? Cultural Intersections, Identity, and Travel...111
The Speculative Logic of Racial Violence: Investments in Empire in the 1830s...227
Thinking Race at Its Limits: The Future of the Past...117
Thinking with W. E. B. Du Bois at the Crossroads of Theory and Practice...115
Tradition and Change in Country Music of the 1970s...223
Transpacific Cultural Production...154
Transmitting Public Feelings: Bodies, Emotions, and Politics...162
Troubling Citizenship: Belonging, Community, and Resistance in an Age of Migration...171
Urban Crossings: Interethnic Encounters in Cultural Practice...216
Visualizing Racial Violence...136
Regionalism
Critical Regionalism and American Studies: The Comparative Case of Chicana/o Regionalisms (Sponsored by the Site Resource Committee)...203
Food and Local/Global Imaginaries...151
Origin Stories: National Identities and Hegemonic Memories in the American Southwest, 1898–1940...188
Places of Critical Thinking...172
Queering Modernist Regionalism: Taos, Santa Fe, and Seattle...100
Race, Identity, and Educational Politics...106
Regionalists on the Left: Radical Voices and Regional Diversity in the 1930s...118
The Transnational West...127
Religion
Activists and Movements...200
America's Religious Crossroads: Racialized Transnational Communities and State Power across Historical Periods...167
Faith Activity: Case Studies in Religious Activism...101
Hateful Saints, a Sodom City, and the Ku Klux Klan: Anti-Catholicism in the Americas...156
Historical Crosses: Religious Culture in Earlier America...178
Immigrant Masculinities Meeting at the Crossroads of Religion and Sex...187
Radio: Medium and Metaphor...173
Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas (Sponsored by the Early American Matters Caucus)...150
Sacred/Secular Crossroads and Conundrums...170
Saints, Sacrifice, and Sovereignty...225
The Religious Left in Modern America (Sponsored by the Religion and American Culture Caucus)...205
Ultimate Sacrifices: Religion and Violence in American Popular Culture (Sponsored by the Religion and American Culture Caucus)...228
Visualizing Racial Violence...136
Rhetoric
Coloniality and Imperialism in the Philippines...144
Crossing Borders: Political Theory and American Studies at the Crossroads...179
Debating Public Art in New Mexico...137
Science and Technology
At the Crossroads of Technology and Transnationalism: A Conversation with Michael Adas (Sponsored by the Science and Technology Caucus)...208
Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and Technologies of Control...110
Digital Crossroads: Online Tools for Open and Collaborative Research...180
Environmental History and Policy-Making in the United States and Mexico...223
Evolutionary Empires, Unstable Identities: Circum-Atlantic Darwinism and the Colonial Imagination...102
Going Mobile: Global Flows of Media and the American Experience with Portable Technology (Sponsored by the Science and Technology Caucus)...124
Histories of the Dust Heap: Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice...107
Keywords in the Study of Environment and Culture (Sponsored by the Environment and Culture Caucus)...125
Music Production, Exchange, and Performance: Online Videos, Cultural Authority, and Transnational Entertainment Gateways...163
Photography in Print...155
Race, Sex, and Science at the Crossroads: Synthetic Personhood in Visual Popular Culture...110
Reproduction at the Crossroads...189
Techno-Aesthetic Strategies in Black Music...143
Sociology
Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes: A Figurational Approach to American Studies...196
Clashes and Alliances: Reframing America and the Middle East...190
Race, Identity, and Educational Politics...106
Rethinking the State(s) of America...167
Teaching and K-16 Collaboration
Between Local and Transnational: Considering American Studies from Positions in the Regionals...206
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Immigration (Sponsored by the K–16 Collaboration Committee)...219
Mock Job Interview Workshop (Sponsored by the Students' Committee)...207
TA to Tenure: Rethinking Academic Labor and Unionization (Sponsored by the Students' Committee)...110
Teaching Memoirs and Oral History in the K–12 Classroom: Identities at the Crossroads (Sponsored by the K–16 Collaboration Committee)...212
Visions and Revisions: How to Build a High School American Studies Program (Sponsored by the K–16 Collaboration Committee)...178
Television and Media Studies
Beautiful Kitsch and Random Form: The Role of Aesthetics in the Politics of Access...195
Breakfast Forum: Framing Visual Evidence: The Position of Visual and Popular Culture in American Studies (Sponsored by the Students' Committee)...177
Immigrant Masculinities Meeting at the Crossroads of Religion and Sex...187
Labor and Representation...146
Queer Studies, Media Studies...163
Radio: Medium and Metaphor...173
Three Ways of Looking at Bodies...112
Visualizing Racial Violence...136
Transgender Studies
Queer Theory, Racial Formation, Neoliberalism...152
Trauma Studies
Innocence and Complicity: Contemporary Rhetorics of Victimhood, Violence, and Justice...185
Life Is Complicated: Coming to Terms with Seething Pasts, Haunting Memories, and Economies of Inequity...213
9/11 Vernaculars...119
Power and Public Spaces...145
Twentieth Century
An All-Consuming War? Gender and Mass Culture in the Vietnam Combat Zone: A Junior Scholar Roundtable...162
Asia/Pacific/America: Contact Zones...201
Black Detroit and Beyond: At the Crossroads of Color, Culture, and Community...199
Black Fiction in the Atlantic World from Clotel to Tar Baby...173
Black Rights and Citizenship...192
Bowling Across Boundaries: An American Leisure Activity Revisited...105
Breakfast Forum: The Future of American and Ethnic Studies (Sponsored by the Students' Committee and the Ethnic Studies Committee)...147
Canine America: How Dogs Shape American Personhood, Poetics, and Publics...131
Clashes and Alliances: Reframing America and the Middle East...190
Crossing Over: American Jews and Their Others in Suburbia...216
Cultural Crossroads: Middlebrow and the (Re)making of American Studies...196
Culture and Consumption in the American City...224
Diasporic Networks...184
Disability and Youth Culture: “Mental Defective” Embodiment, Special Education, and the Brain (Sponsored by the Childhood and Youth Studies Caucus)...159
Gatherings of Nations: American Indian Song, Dance, Art, and Exhibitions...209
Histories of the Dust Heap: Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice...107
Integrating Conspiracy into the Shaping of American Identities...169
Kinesthetics Visualized: Posture, Gesture, and Movement in Twentieth-Century Visual Culture...228
Labor and Representation...146
Maps and Geographies of Malleable Spaces...145
Migration, Racialization, and Resistance: African Americans, Mexicanos, and Mexican Americans in Comparative Urban Experience (Sponsored by the Committee on Ethnic Studies)...165
Of Factories, Supermarkets, and Bomb Shelters: Sensory Environments, Perception, and New Questions in American Studies...226
Once and Future Wars...200
Photography in Print...155
Public Art and Historic Preservation...183
Race and Gender in American Dance...184
Radio: Medium and Metaphor...173
Reading Contemporary U.S. Political Memoirs...188
Rereading American Studies Origins...119
Rewriting Radicalism in the Cold War...221
Saints, Sacrifice, and Sovereignty...225
Survivance: Gerald Vizenor for Thirty Years...158
The Black Press in the Twentieth Century...146
The Day that Martin Died: The Politics and Poetics of Loss...157
The State of Comix: Cultural Identity, the Nation, and the Visual Politics of American Comics (Sponsored by the Visual Culture Caucus)...140
The Transnational West...127
The Western Frontier as International Metaphor: Mapping Morphing Cultural Boundaries since 1945...115
Three Ways of Looking at Bodies...112
Tradition and Change in Country Music of the 1970s...223
Trafficking in Folklore...193
Transpacific American Studies: Texts and Methods...211
Writers and Migrancy...127
U.S. Colonialism
Alternative Contact III: Mixed-Race Indigeneity...195
American Labor: Invisibility in National, Transnational, and Colonial Contexts (Sponsored by LAWCHA and the Working Class Studies Caucus)...109
Asia/Pacific/America: Contact Zones...201
Black Rights and Citizenship...192
Colonial Frictions in the Present Tense: U.S. Colonialism, Racial Formation, Sovereignty...172
Coloniality and Imperialism in the Philippines...144
Cross-Bodies: Filipina/os in Transnational Spaces...131
Due Processes: Perspectives on Deportation (Sponsored by the Committee on Ethnic Studies)...160
Engaging Exception: Interdisciplinarity, Intervention, and “States of Exception” in U.S. Imperial Pasts and Presents...222
Evolutionary Empires, Unstable Identities: Circum-Atlantic Darwinism and the Colonial Imagination...102
Indigenous Studies Bound (and Unbound): Institutional Realities and Professional Pressures...139
In Search of Home: Refugees and Representation Along U.S. Borderlands...152
Once and Future Wars...200
Onshore and Offshore: American Studies for Export...188
Orientalism and American Studies: Locating Edward Said...202
Prison, Plantation, and Empire...218
Race, Identity, and Educational Politics...106
Race, U.S. Orientalism, and the Global “War on Terror”...141
Routes of U.S. Imperial Capital: Intersections of Political Economy and Desire in the Transnational Pacific...229
Subjugated Pasts and Histories of the Present...139
Theorizing Native Studies...123
The U.S. Militarization of the Pacific: Oceanic Crossings in the Colonial Present...135
Thinking Big about American Studies: From Case Studies to Field Imaginaries...144
Toxic Crossroads: The Transnational Legacies of Agent Orange...212
Visual Culture Studies
Art, Craft, and Film in Native America...164
Bodies and Spirits: Reconsidering the American Occult...123
Breakfast Forum: Framing Visual Evidence: The Position of Visual and Popular Culture in American Studies (Sponsored by the Students' Committee)...177
Coloniality and Imperialism in the Philippines...144
Craft at the Crossroads Roundtable (Sponsored by the Material Culture Caucus)...149
Debating Public Art in New Mexico...137
Innovative Interpretations of Nineteenth-Century Western Imagery...158
Kinesthetics Visualized: Posture, Gesture, and Movement in Twentieth-Century Visual Culture...228
King of the Crossroads: Theorizing the Art and Impact of Jean-Michel Basquiat...106
Latino/a Resistance in L.A....191
Mutual Contamination at the Limits: Becoming Human/Artist...161
9/11 Vernaculars...119
No Laughing Matter: Race and American Visual Humor...132
On Location: Film Histories...164
Photography, Power, and the Body...225
Photography in Print...155
Picturing Culture: The Politics of Image and Illustration...192
Public Art and Historic Preservation...183
Queering Modernist Regionalism: Taos, Santa Fe, and Seattle...100
Remembrance and Re-vision: Alternative Genealogies of Race...182
Saints, Sacrifice, and Sovereignty...225
Teaching at the Crossroads: American Studies and Film Studies...140
The Animal Nature of Human Social Relations...119
The Counterintuitive Whitman...154
The State of Comix: Cultural Identity, the Nation, and the Visual Politics of American Comics (Sponsored by the Visual Culture Caucus)...140
Thinking Big about American Studies: From Case Studies to Field Imaginaries...144
Trafficking in Folklore...193
Transpacific Cultural Production...154
Women's Studies
Art, Craft, and Film in Native America...164
Asia/Pacific/America: Contact Zones...201
Clashes and Alliances: Reframing America and the Middle East...190
Conditions of Production: Feminist and Queer of Color Engagements with Subjectivity, Nationalism, and Violence...215
Culture and Consumption in the American City...224
Environmental History and Policy-Making in the United States and Mexico...223
Feminist Subjects in “America”: Violence, Recognition, and Citizenship...108
Food and Identity...144
Homefront: Iraq...180
International Committee Talkshop III: The State of Women's Studies Around the World...186
On Location: Film Histories...164
Photography in Print...155
Queer Studies, Media Studies...163
Working-Class Studies
American Labor: Invisibility in National, Transnational, and Colonial Contexts (Sponsored by LAWCHA and the Working-Class Studies Caucus)...109
Ecocriticism from Melville to Yamashita...106
In Motion: Crossroad Variations and the Work of Praxis...132
Labor and Representation...146
Maneuvering Race, Labor, and Place in America's Cities: Tactical Survival in an Urban Context...202
Musical Cross-Pollination in Rhythm, Blues, and Rap...217
9/11 Vernaculars...119
Not in Isolation: Solidarity, Responsibility, and Sacrifice throughout the U.S. Southwest, 1900–2007...121
Photography, Power, and the Body...225
Power and Public Spaces...145
Prison, Plantation, and Empire...218
TA to Tenure: Rethinking Academic Labor and Unionization (Sponsored by the Students' Committee)...110