ASA Program Book
Session Subject Index
African American Studies
Alternative Models of Civil Rights Citizenship: Racial Storytelling and Aesthetic Belonging…212
American Quarterly Editorial Board Panel II: Between Life and Death: Race, Social Death, Necropolitics, Disposability…185
Birth, Belonging, and Rights…199
Black Man, White Man, Commander-in-Chief: Barack Obama in Popular Visual Culture…148
Black Sexual Citizenship: Queering Diasporic Performances, Practices, and Productions…219
Blackness in Musical Performance…111
Claiming Housing Rights…151
Claiming Urban Space and Citizenship: The Underground Railroad, East St. Louis, and Skid Row, LA…159
Colloquy with Stephanie Smallwood on Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora…130
Color Lines and Crossings…146
The Color of Whiteness Studies: Studying Whiteness from an Ethnic Studies Perspective…210
The Cool of Barack Obama…125
Cultures of African American Commodity Consumption…149
Exporting American Dreams…170
Fictions of Freedom: Blood, Labor, Law, and Bondage…157
Framing America’s Hard Edges: Photographs, Health Imagery, and the (De)construction of Racialized Belonging…161
Friends, Neighbors, and Social Capital in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature…146
Genealogies of U.S. Empire…171
Haiti as Icon in Transnational Discourse…119
In Memoriam: John Hope Franklin…215
Interpreting Images, Icons, and Intent: The White House Residence as Cultural Sphere…99
James Baldwin and Devil’s Work: Screening Citizenship and National Belonging in Harlem, London, and Istanbul…206
Living for the City…137
Michelle Obama as Subject and Citizen: Mass Culture and the “First” Lady…198
The New Black/American: The Cultural Politics of National/Racial Identity in the Obama Era…182
New Depression Studies in the New New Deal…217
Nineteenth-Century Geographies of Race and Freedom…226
Pasts That Refuse to Go Away…136
Performing Anti-essentialisms…113
Performing Indian Identities…144
Poetic Visions in the Wake of Katrina…116
Race After Obama…192
Race, Labor, and Incarceration in Early Twentieth-Century American Society and Culture…196
Race, Music, and Performance in the Civil Rights Era…195
Revolution ’67 in Newark, New Jersey: Documentary Film in the K–16 American Studies Classroom…202
Selling Soul: Publics and Markets, Grooves and Revolution…188
Signals and Noise: The Cultural Politics of Sound Technologies…181
Sporting Bodies…135
Sustaining Ecological Citizenship in a Transcultural World: From Colonial History and Literature to Contemporary Film (I and II)…182
Sustaining Ecological Citizenship in a Transcultural World: From Colonial History and Literature to Contemporary Film II…192
Talkin’ ’bout a Revolution…190
Theorizing Prison/Space/Resistance in Post–World War II America…115
There Was a Time: Local and Global Perspectives on the End of Black Power…157
Tools for Teachers: American Studies Resources for the K–16 Classroom…178
Transnational Imagined Communities…119
Visions of Antiracism, 1880–1930…145
Visualizing Color…199
Visualizing Difference, Consuming Identity…228
Weather and Disaster and Social Belonging…223
We Need the Funk? Folklore, Fiction, and Humor…144
We the People Under Stairs: Musical Responses to Katrina…189
Why Walk When You Can Fly? The Living Stage Praxis of Community Engagement and Mobilization, 1956–1992…109
Anthropology
On the Unlikely Queer Subject…223
Asian American Studies
America and Transnational Belonging in Asian American Literature and Film…167
Citizen Alien: Asian Americans on the Outer Limits of Television and Nation…158
Contested Subjects, Contesting Citizenship: Asian Americans and Latinos in the Post-1955 Discourse of Citizenship…139
Cultural Citizenship and Sustainable Communities in Post-1955 Asian American Narrative Practice…147
Cultural Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging: South Asian Americans as a Multicultural Case Study…132
Exporting American Dreams…170
Genres of Citizenship…103
Grace Lee Boggs: Radical Activism and Revolutionary Theory for the Twenty-first Century…166
Intersections of Native American and Japanese American Scholarship: Dispossession, Citizenship, Belonging, and the State…109
Negotiations over Belonging: Figuring Hmong American Citizenship through Cultural Production…206
Racial Inbetweeness: Subtle Constructions of Asian Americanness…214
Racial Narratives of Belonging and Practices of Cultural Citizenship for Asian America…174
Racial Productions of the Borderlands…127
Strategically Subjectless: Is “Asian American” Sustainable?…160
Sustaining Transpacific Studies: Empire, Desert, and Circuit…188
Transnational Adoption between the United States and Asia: Racial and Gendered Violence and Communities of Resistance…228
Transnational Imagined Communities…119
Border Studies
Borders and Circuits: Performative Geographies, Translation, and the Sustainability of Belonging…222
Citizenship and Humanitarian Discourse…145
Citizenship and Modernity in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands…151
Framing America’s Hard Edges: Photographs, Health Imagery, and the (De)construction of Racialized Belonging…161
Frontier Encounters: Citizenship and Belonging in Western Photographic Portraits…159
Musical Geographies of Belonging…170
Pressing the Borders: A Roundtable on Transhemispheric Latino/a Studies…163
Racial Productions of the Borderlands…127
Representation and Resistance in Assimilationist Spaces…213
Transnational Bodies, Performances, and Enactments…111
War, Citizenship, and Latino Identity…135
Chicano/Latino Studies
Borders and Circuits: Performative Geographies, Translation, and the Sustainability of Belonging…222
Citizenship and Modernity in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands…151
Contested Subjects, Contesting Citizenship: Asian Americans and Latinos in the Post-1955 Discourse of Citizenship…139
Countercitizenships in Latino Music…165
Going Hollywood: Dance Floor Democracy, Social Mixing, and Cultural Citizenship…143
Laboring Citizens…190
Latinidad, Comparative Social Movements, and the Politics of the Possible…225
Locating Latina/o Studies in the East Coast…204
The May Day Protests, Grassroots Mobilization, and the Politics of Citizenship…165
Mexicans, Indians, and Crises of Conquest and Belonging…198
Pressing the Borders: A Roundtable on Transhemispheric Latino/a Studies…163
Queer Belongings: Alternative Modes of Citizenship and Community…173
Queer Transnationalisms, Queer Mexico City…220
Racial Productions of the Borderlands…127
Salseras, Tortilleras, and Alien Invaders: Practices of Queer Latina Belonging…134
Something to Declare: Latina/o and Caribbean Place-Making Performances…179
Sporting Bodies…135
Transnational Bodies, Performances, and Enactments…111
Visions of Imperial Hegemony…110
War, Citizenship, and Latino Identity…135
Communication and Film and Media Studies
Citizenship and Aesthetics…155
The City as History…200
Contemporary Displacements of Humanitarianisms…136
Envisioning a Sustainable Transnational Cultural Policy: Lessons and Inspirations from Across the Hemisphere…126
Fat Fictions and the Culture of Consumption: Citizenship in the Era of Obesity…151
iAm: The Work of Self in the Age of Digital Replication…100
Laboring Citizens…190
Media Society=Media Citizenship? Postwar Activism Pushing the Limits of the National Public Sphere…201
Michelle Obama as Subject and Citizen: Mass Culture and the “First” Lady…198
Neoliberalism, Multiculturalism, and the Means of Digital Humanities Production…218
Old/New Technologies of Belonging: Books, YouTube, Mobile Devices, and the Sensuousness of Sustainable Futures…194
Photography: Imaging the Future of Race in America…106
Roundtable: What Can We Learn from the Sciences? National Science Foundation Funding (sponsored by the Science and Technology Caucus)…186
Signals and Noise: The Cultural Politics of Sound Technologies…181
Theorizing Prison/Space/Resistance in Post–World War II America…115
Violent Belonging…103
Visual Distortions of the Environment…143
Visualizing Color…199
Comparative Native Studies
Colonialism, Sovereignty, (In)commensurability…134
Indigeneity and Sustainability…153
Mexicans, Indians, and Crises of Conquest and Belonging…198
Noho Hewa: The Wrongful Occupation of Hawai‘i (a film screening and dialogue with the director)…153
Performing Indian Identities…144
Thinking Outside the Academy: Making Spaces for Indigenous Women’s Work…219
Contemporary Culture
Biocapitalism, Sustainability, and the Reproduction of Value…222
Citizenship and Humanitarian Discourse…145
The City in Ruins? Arguing the Case for the “Other America” in The Wire…169
Combating Inequalities in Higher Education: An Agenda for Tough Times (sponsored by the Minority Scholars’ Committee)…152
Contemporary Displacements of Humanitarianisms…136
The Cultural Productions of Oil in the Americas…122
Food Politics, Sustainability, and Citizenship: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue…141
Genres of Citizenship…103
Grotesque Masculinities in Contemporary American Art and Culture…175
iAm: The Work of Self in the Age of Digital Replication…100
It Ain’t Easy Living in the City: HBO’s The Wire, Labor, and Political Economy at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century…187
Laboring Citizens…190
Musical Geographies of Belonging…170
The New Black/American: The Cultural Politics of National/Racial Identity in the Obama Era…182
Patriotic Investments in Victimhood, Vengeance, and Violence…114
Reading the (USA PAT-)RIOT Act…167
Reality of Belonging…229
Rethinking “Therapeutic Culture”…186
Roundtable: Redefinitions of Citizenship and Revisions of Cosmopolitanism: Transatlantic Perspectives…193
Studying War and Peace through American Studies / Studying America by Studying War and Peace…202
Sustaining Everyday Democracy: New Interdisciplinary Approaches…204
Thinking Outside the Academy: Making Spaces for Indigenous Women’s Work…219
Transnational Bodies, Performances, and Enactments…111
Transnational Imagined Communities…119
Universalism and Its Discontents…127
Violent Belonging…103
Visualizing Color…199
Voluntary Communities…104
Weather and Disaster and Social Belonging…223
We Need the Funk? Folklore, Fiction, and Humor…144
We the People Under Stairs: Musical Responses to Katrina…189
Where Do American Jews Belong? Jewish Ethno-Racial Liminality in the Postwar United States…227
Zombies and Vampires: Identifying American Anxieties over Alterity and Belonging…216
Cultural Geography
Claiming Housing Rights…151
Color Lines and Crossings…146
Cultural Spaces of Neoliberalism and Modes of Belonging…141
Living for the City…137
Musical Geographies of Belonging…170
Nineteenth-Century Geographies of Race and Freedom…226
Reframing American Studies: Hemispheric Citizenship and Transnational Affiliation in the Americas…184
Representation and Resistance in Assimilationist Spaces…213
Something to Declare: Latina/o and Caribbean Place-Making Performances…179
The State(s) of American Studies…218
Disability Studies
Drugs, Death, and Belonging…118
Embodiments of Progress: Technology, Machines, and Belonging in Normalcy…220
Everybody’s Disabled Nowadays: Reconfiguring American Studies through Disability…124
A Nation of Bodies, or Embodying the Nation…154
Psychiatric Biopower and Practices of Resistance…203
Signals and Noise: The Cultural Politics of Sound Technologies…181
Sporting Bodies…135
Early America Education
Expanding God’s Country: Religious Education in Early American Empires…142
Sustaining Ecological Citizenship in a Transcultural World: From Colonial History and Literature to Contemporary Film II…192
Early American Studies
Birth, Belonging, and Rights…199
Citizenship in Sickness and in Death…162
Colloquy with Stephanie Smallwood on Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora…130
Early America, Asia, and the Pacific (sponsored by the Early American Matters Caucus) …105
Friends, Neighbors, and Social Capital in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature…146
Performing Publics and Counterpublics: Belonging and Boundaries in Early American Theater Culture…122
The State(s) of American Studies…218
Sustaining Ecological Citizenship in a Transcultural World: From Colonial History and Literature to Contemporary Film (I and II)…182
Universalism and Its Discontents…127
Visions of Imperial Hegemony…110
English
The Assault of Laughter: The Meanings of Humor in Mark Twain’s America…169
Genres of Citizenship…103
The Intimate Bonds of Citizenship: The Citizen as Neighbor and Friend…108
Limits of Belonging in Nineteenth-Century Literature…229
Representation and Resistance in Assimilationist Spaces…213
Environmental Studies
Citizenship in Sickness and in Death…162
The Contradictions of Environmentality…178
Domestic Environmentalism: Home, Nation, Globe, Planet…98
Food’s Inedible Products: Machines, Labor, and Men…158
High-Tech Sustainability and Socioeconomic Justice…97
Indigeneity and Sustainability…153
New Ethics of Ecological Care and Citizenship…98
Noho Hewa: The Wrongful Occupation of Hawai‘i (a film screening and dialogue with the director)…153
Oil Culture: Representations of the Petroleum Industry…97
Race, Class, and Urban Environmentalism…209
Reality of Belonging…229
Vulnerable Bodies, Ecological Citizenship, and the Making of Environmental Publics (sponsored by the Environment and Culture Caucus)…121
Sustaining Ecological Citizenship in a Transcultural World: From Colonial History and Literature to Contemporary Film (I and II)…182
Sustaining Ecological Citizenship in a Transcultural World: From Colonial History and Literature to Contemporary Film II…192
Thinking Globally: American Environmentalism and Global Society in the Postwar Era…107
Visual Distortions of the Environment…143
Visualizing the Urban Jungle and the Urban Oasis: Cities in the American Environmental Imaginary (sponsored by the Visual Culture Caucus)…100
Weather and Disaster and Social Belonging…223
Ethnography
Barbecue Eating, Gospel Singing, and Bridge Building: Perspectives on Collaborative Scholarship in the U.S. South…121
Citizen Historian: Multiple Perspectives on Studs Terkel…225
Cultural Spaces of Neoliberalism and Modes of Belonging…141
Drugs, Death, and Belonging…118
Exporting American Dreams…170
Girls of Color and Performance Ethnography: Imagining New Spaces of Empowerment and Inclusion…117
Red Light, Green Light: Same-Sex Marriage, Family Policy, and the Rights of Citizenship…187
Voluntary Communities…104
Folklore
We Need the Funk? Folklore, Fiction, and Humor…144
Foodways
Barbecue Eating, Gospel Singing, and Bridge Building: Perspectives on Collaborative Scholarship in the U.S. South…121
Fat Fictions and the Culture of Consumption: Citizenship in the Era of Obesity…151
Food Politics, Sustainability, and Citizenship: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue…141
Food’s Inedible Products: Machines, Labor, and Men…158
Gender and Sexuality
Aging Citizen: Queer Belonging in the Post–Baby Boomer State…183
Biocapitalism, Sustainability, and the Reproduction of Value…222
Black Sexual Citizenship: Queering Diasporic Performances, Practices, and Productions…219
Born in the U.S.A.: Native-Born Americans and Second-Class Citizenship in the Early Twentieth Century…226
Color Lines and Crossings…146
Contemporary Displacements of Humanitarianisms…136
Countercitizenships in Latino Music…165
Drugs, Death, and Belonging…118
En-gendering U.S. Diasporic Visions of Caribbean Migration…112
Exploring the Unsustainable: Feminist, Radical, Queer Politics…102
Found in Translation: Anti-imperialism and Global Solidarity in the Long Sixties…133
GLBT Policy and Movement Building after Proposition 8…138
Grotesque Masculinities in Contemporary American Art and Culture…175
Intimacy, Race, and Global Citizenship…205
Intimate Responses to Empire…137
Michelle Obama as Subject and Citizen: Mass Culture and the “First” Lady…198
Mothering the State…118
A Nation of Bodies, or Embodying the Nation…154
On the Unlikely Queer Subject…223
Perverting Nationalisms: Discourses of Security and the Crafting of Geopolitics…99
Pressing Herself into the National Conversation: Race, Class, and the Power of Women’s Writing in the Early Twentieth Century…150
Promesa y Peligro: Dominican Narrations of Representation, Identity, and (Trans)national Belonging…196
Psychiatric Biopower and Practices of Resistance…203
Queer Belongings: Alternative Modes of Citizenship and Community…173
Reading the (USA PAT-)RIOT Act…167
Reality of Belonging…229
Salseras, Tortilleras, and Alien Invaders: Practices of Queer Latina Belonging…134
Sexual Citizenship and Racialized (Un)belonging…193
Sexuality, Psychology and Normativity…213
Speculative Sexualities: Nineteenth-Century Theories of Time, Affinity, and Desire…123
Stepping On and Across Boundaries: Everyday Dance and Belonging…147
Thinking Outside the Academy: Making Spaces for Indigenous Women’s Work…219
Transnational Bodies, Performances, and Enactments…111
The U.S. Nonprofit Industrial Complex and Its Discontents…101
U.S. Reproductive Citizenship in a Global Context…104
Violent Belonging…103
Visualizing Difference, Consuming Identity…228
War, Citizenship, and Latino Identity…135
Women and Belonging: Gender and Citizenship in the Realm of Public Memory (sponsored by the Women’s Committee)…224
Work and Family in Grad School (sponsored by the Students’ Committee)…197
Geography
Breakfast Forum: Transnational Methodologies: Toward a Substantive Practice of Transnational American Studies (sponsored by the Students’ Committee)…179
Denying Citizenship…214
Roundtable: Bridging Humanities and Social Sciences within American Studies (sponsored by the Committee on American Studies Centers and Programs)…225
Global/Transnational/Cross-Cultural Studies
Against Citizenship…101
America and Transnational Belonging in Asian American Literature and Film…167
America in the Middle East, Area Studies in American Studies…138
America’s Middle East: Cultural Enunciations…156
American Missionaries as Transnational Cultural Critics (sponsored by the Religion and American Culture Caucus)…183
Ballads for Post-Americans: Revisiting the Nationalism of the U.S. Popular Front…211
Baseball and Belonging: Practices of Citizenship on the Diamond and Beyond…185
Black Internationalism and Caribbean Radical Thought in the Americas…207
Children and Youth in History: Belonging in the Past and the Present (sponsored by the Childhood and Youth Studies Caucus)…114
Citizen Alien: Asian Americans on the Outer Limits of Television and Nation…158
Citizenship and Humanitarian Discourse…145
Colonialism, Sovereignty, (In)commensurability…134
Commodity Cultures, Contested Citizenships, and Transnational American Studies…166
The Courts of Public Memory: Trauma, Nation, and Reconciliation…177
Cultural Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging: South Asian Americans as a Multicultural Case Study…132
The Cultural Productions of Oil in the Americas…122
Danger and Beauty: Affect, Aesthetics, and Belonging in Filipino America…160
Domestic Environmentalism: Home, Nation, Globe, Planet…98
Early America, Asia, and the Pacific (sponsored by the Early American Matters Caucus)…105
Embodiments of Progress: Technology, Machines, and Belonging in Normalcy…220
En-gendering U.S. Diasporic Visions of Caribbean Migration…112
Envisioning a Sustainable Transnational Cultural Policy: Lessons and Inspirations from Across the Hemisphere…126
Exporting American Dreams…170
Food Politics, Sustainability, and Citizenship: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue…141
Food’s Inedible Products: Machines, Labor, and Men…158
Found in Translation: Anti-imperialism and Global Solidarity in the Long Sixties…133
Genealogies of U.S. Empire…171
Genres of Citizenship…103
Haiti as Icon in Transnational Discourse…119
Indigeneity and Sustainability…153
International Committee Talkshop I: The United States Is Not Enough: International Research and Teaching Opportunities in American Studies…142
International Committee Talkshop II: Presidential Politics, Administrative Change, and Teaching American Studies Overseas…150
International Committee Talkshop III: “Only in America Is My Story Possible”: Teaching Race and American Studies Overseas, with Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye as a Case Study…159
Internment, Redress, and Reparations…110
Intimacy, Race, and Global Citizenship…205
Intimate Responses to Empire…137
Latinidad, Comparative Social Movements, and the Politics of the Possible…225
Living for the City…137
The May Day Protests, Grassroots Mobilization, and the Politics of Citizenship…165
Misrecognizing Islam: Transnational Identity Politics, Global Citizenship, and Muslims…168
Musical Geographies of Belonging…170
Neocitizenship…175
Neoliberalism, Multiculturalism, and the Means of Digital Humanities Production…218
Palestine in Crisis…148
Palimpsestic Belonging: Anticolonialisms of That Day and Neocolonialisms of Today in the Asia/Pacific/Caribbean Nexus…133
Pasts That Refuse to Go Away…136
Performance Re/Visions: American Theater and National Identity…109
Perverting Nationalisms: Discourses of Security and the Crafting of Geopolitics…99
Practices of Alienation, Extinction, and Exclusion: Prison as a Problem in American Studies…181
Pressing the Borders: A Roundtable on Transhemispheric Latino/a Studies…163
Promesa y Peligro: Dominican Narrations of Representation, Identity, and (Trans)national Belonging…196
Racial Inbetweeness: Subtle Constructions of Asian Americanness…214
Racial Narratives of Belonging and Practices of Cultural Citizenship for Asian America…174
Reframing American Studies: Hemispheric Citizenship and Transnational Affiliation in the Americas…184
Representation and Resistance in Assimilationist Spaces…213
Roundtable: Redefinitions of Citizenship and Revisions of Cosmopolitanism: Transatlantic Perspectives…193
Routes to Emancipation: The Politics of Transnational Antiracist Activism…211
Speculative Science, Future Communities, and the Production of Belonging…212
The State(s) of American Studies…218
Sustaining Transpacific Studies: Empire, Desert, and Circuit…188
Talkin’ ’bout a Revolution…190
There Was a Time: Local and Global Perspectives on the End of Black Power…157
Thinking Globally: American Environmentalism and Global Society in the Postwar Era…107
Transnational Adoption between U.S. and Asia: Racial and Gendered Violence and Communities of Resistance…228
Transnational Markets and Communities: Comparative Cultural Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging…125
U.S. Reproductive Citizenship in a Global Context…104
Visions of Antiracism, 1880–1930…145
Visions of Imperial Hegemony…110
Visual Culture in the Americas…105
Visual Distortions of the Environment…143
War, Citizenship, and Latino Identity…135
Yes We Did? Symbolic Racial Victories from the Cold War to Barack Obama…224
History
Blackness in Musical Performance…111
Born in the U.S.A.: Native-Born Americans and Second-Class Citizenship in the Early Twentieth Century…226
Children and Youth in History: Belonging in the Past and the Present (sponsored by the Childhood and Youth Studies Caucus)…114
Citizen Historian: Multiple Perspectives on Studs Terkel…225
Claiming Urban Space and Citizenship: The Underground Railroad, East St. Louis, and Skid Row, LA…159
Contemporary Displacements of Humanitarianisms…136
The Contradictions of Environmentality…178
Cultural Assimilation, Criminal Codes, and Nativism: Visions of Early American Citizenship…163
Death, Destruction, and Ruin in Nineteenth-Century America…140
Dramas of Belonging…126
Freedom and Free Enterprise: Minority Entrepreneurship in Twentieth-Century America…140
Genres of Citizenship…103
Hollywood in the 1940s: The Spectacle of Cold War Citizenry…117
In Memoriam: Emory Elliot…171
Internment, Redress, and Reparations…110
Interpreting Images, Icons, and Intent: The White House Residence as Cultural Sphere…99
The Intimate Bonds of Citizenship: The Citizen as Neighbor and Friend…108
Literature as Cultural Sustenance: Practicing Citizenship in Childhood Texts…209
Longing to Belong: Sexuality and Queer Citizenship in San Francisco…197
Pasts That Refuse to Go Away…136
Psychiatric Biopower and Practices of Resistance…203
Race, Labor, and Incarceration in Early Twentieth-Century American Society and Culture…196
Roundtable: Belonging and Culture: Making a New Literary History of America…210
Sexuality, Psychology, and Normativity…213
Studying War and Peace through American Studies / Studying America by Studying War and Peace…202
Sustaining Everyday Democracy: New Interdisciplinary Approaches…204
Talkin’ ’bout a Revolution…190
Technologies of War…173
There Was a Time: Local and Global Perspectives on the End of Black Power…157
Thinking Globally: American Environmentalism and Global Society in the Postwar Era…107
Three Perspectives on Citizenship and Belonging: African Americans, Conquered Mexicans, and Immigrant Chinese…106
Under the Influence: Affective Historiographies of Queer Nightlife…115
Universalism and Its Discontents…127
Visions of Antiracism, 1880–1930…145
Visions of Imperial Hegemony…110
Visual Distortions of the Environment…143
The Visual West and American Identity: Constructing Nationalism through the Western Landscape, 1850–1975…227
Voluntary Communities…104
Waging War, Shaping Identity: Exploring Ethnic and Racial Formation during the First and Second World Wars…113
Women and Belonging: Gender and Citizenship in the Realm of Public Memory (sponsored by the Women’s Committee)…224
Landscape and the Built Environment
Circulatory Systems: Affects and Economies…108
The City as History…200
Cultural Spaces of Neoliberalism and Modes of Belonging…141
Death, Destruction, and Ruin in Nineteenth-Century America…140
High-Tech Sustainability and Socioeconomic Justice…97
Race, Class, and Urban Environmentalism…209
Roundtable: What Can We Learn from the Sciences? National Science Foundation Funding (sponsored by the Science and Technology Caucus)…186
Spatializing Culture: The Production of Difference in the Built Environment…174
Staging Citizenship in the Progressive Era…132
Visual Distortions of the Environment…143
The Visual West and American Identity: Constructing Nationalism through the Western Landscape, 1850–1975…227
Legal Studies
Cultural Assimilation, Criminal Codes, and Nativism: Visions of Early American Citizenship…163
Denying Citizenship…214
Drugs, Death, and Belonging…118
Fictions of Freedom: Blood, Labor, Law, and Bondage…157
Internment, Redress, and Reparations…110
Mothering the State…118
Working the Citizen: Law, Labor, and American Citizenship…217
Literary Studies
Alternative Models of Civil Rights Citizenship: Racial Storytelling and Aesthetic Belonging…212
America and Transnational Belonging in Asian American Literature and Film…167
American Literature as Political Theory: Reimagining Citizenship, Bodies, and Belonging…121
Color Lines and Crossings…146
Denying Citizenship…214
En-gendering U.S. Diasporic Visions of Caribbean Migration…112
Genealogies of U.S. Empire…171
Haiti as Icon in Transnational Discourse…119
Hip-Hop, Poetry, and Belonging: Citizenship and the Cultural Politics of Rhyming…126
Indigeneity and Sustainability…153
Internment, Redress, and Reparations…110
Intimate Responses to Empire…137
Limits of Belonging in Nineteenth-Century Literature…229
Literature as Cultural Sustenance: Practicing Citizenship in Childhood Texts…209
Living for the City…137
Mexicans, Indians, and Crises of Conquest and Belonging…198
Precarious Belonging: Place, Community, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature…152
Queer (Be)longings: Sex, Race, and Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Literature on the Left…200
Racial Inbetweeness: Subtle Constructions of Asian Americanness…214
Racial Productions of the Borderlands…127
Reframing American Studies: Hemispheric Citizenship and Transnational Affiliation in the Americas…184
Roundtable: Belonging and Culture: Making a New Literary History of America…210
Speculative Science, Future Communities, and the Production of Belonging…212
Strategically Subjectless: Is “Asian American” Sustainable?…160
Visions of Antiracism, 1880–1930…145
Visions of Imperial Hegemony…110
Weather and Disaster and Social Belonging…223
We Need the Funk? Folklore, Fiction, and Humor…144
Zombies and Vampires: Identifying American Anxieties over Alterity and Belonging…216
Material Culture
The Citadel of All Truths: Museum Staff and Academics Offer New Approaches to Domesticity and Citizenship (sponsored by the Material Culture Caucus)…194
Commodity Cultures, Contested Citizenships, and Transnational American Studies…166
Cultures of African American Commodity Consumption…149
Feeling Like You Belong: Sensory Perception, Experience, and Group Identity…156
Haiti as Icon in Transnational Discourse…119
Pasts That Refuse to Go Away…136
Visual Citizenship: A Roundtable Discussion…164
Visualizing Difference, Consuming Identity…228
Middle East American Studies
Academic Freedom and the Right to Education: The Question of Palestine (sponsored by the Program Committee)…199
America in the Middle East, Area Studies in American Studies…138
America’s Middle East: Cultural Enunciations…156
American Missionaries as Transnational Cultural Critics (sponsored by the Religion and American Culture Caucus)…183
Citizenship and Humanitarian Discourse…145
The Color of Whiteness Studies: Studying Whiteness from an Ethnic Studies Perspective…210
Exporting American Dreams…170
Misrecognizing Islam: Transnational Identity Politics, Global Citizenship, and Muslims…168
Musical Geographies of Belonging…170
Palestine in Crisis…148
Music
Blackness in Musical Performance…111
Countercitizenships in Latino Music…165
Fictions of Freedom: Blood, Labor, Law, and Bondage…157
Hip-Hop, Poetry, and Belonging: Citizenship and the Cultural Politics of Rhyming…126
Michael Jackson and the Contradictions of Belonging…208
Musical Geographies of Belonging…170
Open the Door: Race and Citizenship in Popular Music…117
Race, Music, and Performance in the Civil Rights Era…195
Selling Soul: Publics and Markets, Grooves and Revolution…188
Singing Southern, Sounding Sovereign: Alternative Countries and Country Alternatives…193
Talkin’ ’bout a Revolution…190
We Need the Funk? Folklore, Fiction, and Humor…144
We the People Under Stairs: Musical Responses to Katrina…189
Native American Studies
Birth, Belonging, and Rights…199
Indigeneity and Sustainability…153
Intersections of Native American and Japanese American Scholarship: Dispossession, Citizenship, Belonging, and the State…109
New Ethics of Ecological Care and Citizenship…98
Performing Indian Identities…144
Representation and Resistance in Assimilationist Spaces…213
Transnational Bodies, Performances, and Enactments…111
Universalism and Its Discontents…127
Nineteenth Century
The Assault of Laughter: The Meanings of Humor in Mark Twain’s America…169
Color Lines and Crossings…146
Cultural Assimilation, Criminal Codes, and Nativism: Visions of Early American Citizenship…163
Death, Destruction, and Ruin in Nineteenth-Century America…140
Genealogies of U.S. Empire…171
Limits of Belonging in Nineteenth-Century Literature…229
Mothering the State…118
A Nation of Bodies, or Embodying the Nation…154
Nineteenth-Century Geographies of Race and Freedom…226
Performing Indian Identities…144
Precarious Belonging: Place, Community, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature…152
Racial Productions of the Borderlands…127
Republic in Fragments: Identity, Belonging, and Nationhood after Loughran…176
Speculative Sexualities: Nineteenth-Century Theories of Time, Affinity, and Desire…123
Three Perspectives on Citizenship and Belonging: African Americans, Conquered Mexicans, and Immigrant Chinese…106
Tools for Teachers: American Studies Resources for the K–16 Classroom…178
Visualizing Difference, Consuming Identity…228
Weather and Disaster and Social Belonging…223
Pacific Islander American Studies
A Critical View from Hawai‘i: Pedagogy and Curriculum Workshop…123
Genealogies of U.S. Empire…171
Noho Hewa: The Wrongful Occupation of Hawai‘i (a film screening and dialogue with the director)…153
Pedagogy
Balancing Civic Engagement and Graduate Education (sponsored by the Students’ Committee and the Graduate Education Committee)…203
Breakfast Forum: Transnational Methodologies: Toward a Substantive Practice of Transnational American Studies (sponsored by the Students’ Committee)…179
Challenging Citizenship: Historical Discussions, Enduring Debates (sponsored by the K–16 Collaboration Committee)…189
Encyclopedias and the Organization of Knowledge in American Studies…208
Finding the Fit and Leading the Way: Aligning Undergraduate American Studies Programs with Institutional Initiatives and Demonstrating Relevance at a Critical Time…130
Humor Studies as American Studies (sponsored by the Humor Studies Caucus)…161
Mock Job Interview Workshop (sponsored by the Students’ Committee)…187
On the Virtues of Academic Citizenship: Pedagogy and Practice in the American Studies College Classroom…107
Pedagogical and Story Circle Workshop with Students at the Center, New Orleans…102
Practices of Community and Belonging: Teaching Graphic Narratives in a Post-9/11 World…221
Revolution ’67 in Newark, New Jersey: Documentary Film in the K–16 American Studies Classroom…202
Roundtable: Bridging Humanities and Social Sciences within American Studies (sponsored by the Committee on American Studies Centers and Programs)…225
Why Walk When You Can Fly? The Living Stage Praxis of Community Engagement and Mobilization, 1956–1992…109
Performance Studies
Blackness in Musical Performance…111
Borders and Circuits: Performative Geographies, Translation, and the Sustainability of Belonging…222
Circulatory Systems: Affects and Economies…108
Danger and Beauty: Affect, Aesthetics, and Belonging in Filipino America…160
Dramas of Belonging…126
Girls of Color and Performance Ethnography: Imagining New Spaces of Empowerment and Inclusion…117
Humor Studies as American Studies (sponsored by the Humor Studies Caucus)…161
Pasts That Refuse to Go Away…136
Performance Re/Visions: American Theater and National Identity…109
Performing Anti-essentialisms…113
Performing Health, Narrativizing Racialized Bodies: AIDS, Cancer, and Medical “Knowledge”…124
Performing Publics and Counterpublics: Belonging and Boundaries in Early American Theater Culture…122
Queer Transnationalisms, Queer Mexico City…220
Race, Music, and Performance in the Civil Rights Era…195
Shades of Masculinities and Queer Options: Re/dressing Citizenship…189
Stepping On and Across Boundaries: Everyday Dance and Belonging…147
Why Walk When You Can Fly? The Living Stage Praxis of Community Engagement and Mobilization, 1956–1992…109
Philosophy
Encyclopedias and the Organization of Knowledge in American Studies…208
Grace Lee Boggs: Radical Activism and Revolutionary Theory for the Twenty-first Century…166
A New Exceptionalism? Citizenship, Identity, and Belonging in Obama’s America…116
Patriotic Investments in Victimhood, Vengeance, and Violence…114
Sexuality, Psychology, and Normativity…213
Visual Distortions of the Environment…143
Political Culture/Government
Alternative Models of Civil Rights Citizenship: Racial Storytelling and Aesthetic Belonging…212
American Literature as Political Theory: Reimagining Citizenship, Bodies, and Belonging…121
Black Internationalism and Caribbean Radical Thought in the Americas…207
Blackness in Musical Performance…111
Citizenship and Humanitarian Discourse…145
Citizenship in Sickness and in Death…162
The City in Ruins? Arguing the Case for the “Other America” in The Wire…169
Color Lines and Crossings…146
The Courts of Public Memory: Trauma, Nation, and Reconciliation…177
Denying Citizenship…214
Envisioning a Sustainable Transnational Cultural Policy: Lessons and Inspirations from Across the Hemisphere…126
Genres of Citizenship…103
GLBT Policy and Movement Building after Proposition 8…138
International Committee Talkshop II: Presidential Politics, Administrative Change, and Teaching American Studies Overseas…150
The Intimate Bonds of Citizenship: The Citizen as Neighbor and Friend…108
Intimate Responses to Empire…137
Limits of Belonging in Nineteenth-Century Literature…229
A Nation of Bodies, or Embodying the Nation…154
Neocitizenship…175
A New Exceptionalism? Citizenship, Identity, and Belonging in Obama’s America…116
Palestine in Crisis…148
Pasts That Refuse to Go Away…136
Patriotic Investments in Victimhood, Vengeance, and Violence…114
Popular Fronts: Artists and Activism in the 1920s…139
Practices of Alienation, Extinction, and Exclusion: Prison as a Problem in American Studies…181
Producing and Protecting Citizens: The Nexus of Culture, Policy, and Affect…149
Race After Obama…192
Race, Empire, and Migratory Radicalisms: Considerations on American Anticolonialism…180
Race, Neoliberalism, and Citizenship…205
Regimes of Memory and the Power of Forgetting…203
Republic in Fragments: Identity, Belonging, and Nationhood after Loughran…176
Roundtable: Redefinitions of Citizenship and Revisions of Cosmopolitanism: Transatlantic Perspectives…193
Sexuality, Psychology, and Normativity…213
Sustaining Everyday Democracy: New Interdisciplinary Approaches…204
The U.S. Nonprofit Industrial Complex and Its Discontents…101
Violent Belonging…103
Visual Distortions of the Environment…143
Visualizing Color…199
Visualizing Difference, Consuming Identity…228
Voluntary Communities…104
Vulnerable Bodies, Ecological Citizenship, and the Making of Environmental Publics (sponsored by the Environment and Culture Caucus)…121
Yes We Did? Symbolic Racial Victories from the Cold War to Barack Obama…224
Popular Culture
America’s Middle East: Cultural Enunciations…156
The Assault of Laughter: The Meanings of Humor in Mark Twain’s America…169
Breakfast Forum: Ethno-Racial Representation/Popular Culture Scholarship: Practices, Politics, and Positioning in the Academy (sponsored by the Students’ Committee)…131
Contemporary Displacements of Humanitarianisms…136
The Cool of Barack Obama…125
Going Hollywood: Dance Floor Democracy, Social Mixing, and Cultural Citizenship…143
Hip-Hop, Poetry, and Belonging: Citizenship and the Cultural Politics of Rhyming…126
Humor Studies as American Studies (sponsored by the Humor Studies Caucus)…161
iAm: The Work of Self in the Age of Digital Replication…100
Laboring Citizens…190
Limits of Belonging in Nineteenth-Century Literature…229
Musical Geographies of Belonging…170
Negotiations over Belonging: Figuring Hmong American Citizenship through Cultural Production…206
Old/New Technologies of Belonging: Books, YouTube, Mobile Devices, and the Sensuousness of Sustainable Futures…194
Poetic Visions in the Wake of Katrina…116
Practices of Community and Belonging: Teaching Graphic Narratives in a Post-9/11 World…221
Producing and Protecting Citizens: The Nexus of Culture, Policy, and Affect…149
Race and the Beauty Industry…207
Reality of Belonging…229
Rethinking “Therapeutic Culture”…186
Selling Soul: Publics and Markets, Grooves and Revolution…188
Sporting Bodies…135
Transnational Bodies, Performances, and Enactments…111
Transnational Imagined Communities…119
Transnational Markets and Communities: Comparative Cultural Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging…125
Under the Influence: Affective Historiographies of Queer Nightlife…115
Violent Belonging…103
Visual Citizenship: A Roundtable Discussion…164
Visualizing Color…199
We Need the Funk? Folklore, Fiction, and Humor…144
Zombies and Vampires: Identifying American Anxieties over Alterity and Belonging…216
Postcolonial Studies
American Quarterly Editorial Board Panel II: Between Life and Death: Race, Social Death, Necropolitics, Disposability…185
Citizenship in Sickness and in Death…162
Palimpsestic Belonging: Anticolonialisms of That Day and Neocolonialisms of Today in the Asia/Pacific/Caribbean Nexus…133
Routes to Emancipation: The Politics of Transnational Antiracist Activism…211
Transnational Imagined Communities…119
Print Culture
Citizenship and Aesthetics…155
Commies, Christians, and Queers: Subcultures of Letters in Twentieth-Century America (sponsored the affiliate organization SHARP)…155
Friends, Neighbors, and Social Capital in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature…146
Literature as Cultural Sustenance: Practicing Citizenship in Childhood Texts…209
Performing Indian Identities…144
Representation and Resistance in Assimilationist Spaces…213
Republic in Fragments: Identity, Belonging, and Nationhood after Loughran…176
Public Practice
Aging Citizen: Queer Belonging in the Post–Baby Boomer State…183
Balancing Civic Engagement and Graduate Education (sponsored by the Students’ Committee and the Graduate Education Committee)…203
Challenging Citizenship: Historical Discussions, Enduring Debates (sponsored by K–16 Collaboration Committee)…189
Demystifying Publishing: A Discussion with Writers and Editors…153
Dramas of Belonging…126
Drugs, Death, and Belonging…118
Finding the Fit and Leading the Way: Aligning Undergraduate American Studies Programs with Institutional Initiatives and Demonstrating Relevance at a Critical Time…130
Graduate Student Sustainability? Graduate Student Unionization and the Casualization of Academic Labor…142
The Practice of Labor Photography: A Conversation with Earl Dotter and Mark Rogovin…191
Public Practice/Museum Studies
The Citadel of All Truths: Museum Staff and Academics Offer New Approaches to Domesticity and Citizenship (sponsored by the Material Culture Caucus)…194
Claiming Urban Space and Citizenship: The Underground Railroad, East St. Louis, and Skid Row, LA…159
Photography: Imaging the Future of Race in America…106
Public Scholarship
American Studies 2.0: Student Learning through Documentary Video Production in the American Studies Classroom…219
Barbecue Eating, Gospel Singing, and Bridge Building: Perspectives on Collaborative Scholarship in the U.S. South…121
Combating Inequalities in Higher Education: An Agenda for Tough Times (sponsored by the Minority Scholars’ Committee)…152
Encyclopedias and the Organization of Knowledge in American Studies…208
New Depression Studies in the New New Deal…217
Poetic Visions in the Wake of Katrina…116
Red Light, Green Light: Same-Sex Marriage, Family Policy, and the Rights of Citizenship…187
Queer Studies
Against Citizenship…101
Black Sexual Citizenship: Queering Diasporic Performances, Practices, and Productions…219
Exploring the Unsustainable: Feminist, Radical, Queer Politics…102
Exporting American Dreams…170
GLBT Policy and Movement Building after Proposition 8…138
James Baldwin and Devil’s Work: Screening Citizenship and National Belonging in Harlem, London, and Istanbul…206
Longing to Belong: Sexuality and Queer Citizenship in San Francisco…197
Mothering the State…118
Queer Belongings: Alternative Modes of Citizenship and Community…173
Queer (Be)longings: Sex, Race, and Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Literature on the Left…200
Queer Transnationalisms, Queer Mexico City…220
Red Light, Green Light: Same-Sex Marriage, Family Policy, and the Rights of Citizenship…187
Salseras, Tortilleras, and Alien Invaders: Practices of Queer Latina Belonging…134
Sexual Citizenship and Racialized (Un)belonging…193
Sexuality, Psychology, and Normativity…213
Shades of Masculinities and Queer Options: Re/dressing Citizenship…189
Speculative Sexualities: Nineteenth-Century Theories of Time, Affinity, and Desire…123
Talkin’ ’bout a Revolution…190
Under the Influence: Affective Historiographies of Queer Nightlife…115
Universalism and Its Discontents…127
Race and Ethnicity
A Critical View from Hawai‘i: Pedagogy and Curriculum Workshop…123
American Quarterly Editorial Board Panel I: Between Life and Death: Race, Social Death, Necropolitics, Disposability…176
American Quarterly Editorial Board Panel II: Between Life and Death: Race, Social Death, Necropolitics, Disposability…185
American Quarterly Editorial Board Panel III: Between Life and Death: Race, Social Death, Necropolitics, Disposability…195
Ballads for Post-Americans: Revisiting the Nationalism of the U.S. Popular Front…211
Baseball and Belonging: Practices of Citizenship on the Diamond and Beyond…185
Black Internationalism and Caribbean Radical Thought in the Americas…207
Black Man, White Man, Commander-in-Chief: Barack Obama in Popular Visual Culture…148
Born in the U.S.A.: Native-Born Americans and Second-Class Citizenship in the Early Twentieth Century…226
Breakfast Forum: Ethno-Racial Representation/Popular Culture Scholarship: Practices, Politics, and Positioning in the Academy (sponsored by the Students’ Committee)…131
The Citadel of All Truths: Museum Staff and Academics Offer New Approaches to Domesticity and Citizenship (sponsored by the Material Culture Caucus)…194
Citizenship in Sickness and in Death…162
Colloquy with Stephanie Smallwood on Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora…130
Color Lines and Crossings…146
Combating Inequalities in Higher Education: An Agenda for Tough Times (sponsored by the Minority Scholars’ Committee)…152
Cultural Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging: South Asian Americans as a Multicultural Case Study…132
Cultures of African American Commodity Consumption…149
Denying Citizenship…214
Drugs, Death, and Belonging…118
Exploring the Unsustainable: Feminist, Radical, Queer Politics…102
Freedom and Free Enterprise: Minority Entrepreneurship in Twentieth-Century America…140
Frontier Encounters: Citizenship and Belonging in Western Photographic Portraits…159
Genres of Citizenship…103
Going Hollywood: Dance Floor Democracy, Social Mixing, and Cultural Citizenship…143
Grace Lee Boggs: Radical Activism and Revolutionary Theory for the Twenty-first Century…166
International Committee Talkshop III: “Only in America Is My Story Possible”: Teaching Race and American Studies Overseas, with Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye as a Case Study…159
Internment, Redress, and Reparations…110
Intimacy, Race, and Global Citizenship…205
Intimate Responses to Empire…137
It Ain’t Easy Living in the City: HBO’s The Wire, Labor, and Political Economy at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century…187
Laboring Citizens…190
Latinidad, Comparative Social Movements, and the Politics of the Possible…225
Locating Latina/o Studies in the East Coast…204
Longing to Belong: Sexuality and Queer Citizenship in San Francisco…197
The May Day Protests, Grassroots Mobilization, and the Politics of Citizenship…165
Migration, Science, and Technology…177
Mothering the State…118
Negotiations over Belonging: Figuring Hmong American Citizenship through Cultural Production…206
Neoliberalism, Multiculturalism, and the Means of Digital Humanities Production…218
The New Black/American: The Cultural Politics of National/Racial Identity in the Obama Era…182
Open the Door: Race and Citizenship in Popular Music…117
Pasts That Refuse to Go Away…136
Performing Anti-essentialisms…113
Performing Health, Narrativizing Racialized Bodies: AIDS, Cancer, and Medical “Knowledge”…124
Performing Publics and Counterpublics: Belonging and Boundaries in Early American Theatre Culture…122
Photography: Imaging the Future of Race in America…106
Practices of Alienation, Extinction, and Exclusion: Prison as a Problem in American Studies…181
Pressing Herself into the National Conversation: Race, Class, and the Power of Women’s Writing in the Early Twentieth Century…150
Queer (Be)longings: Sex, Race, and Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Literature on the Left…200
Race After Obama…192
Race and the Beauty Industry…207
Race, Class, and Urban Environmentalism…209
Race, Empire, and Migratory Radicalisms: Considerations on American Anticolonialism…180
Race, Neoliberalism, and Citizenship…205
Racial Narratives of Belonging and Practices of Cultural Citizenship for Asian America…174
Racial Productions of the Borderlands…127
Reading the (USA PAT-)RIOT Act…167
Representation and Resistance in Assimilationist Spaces…213
Routes to Emancipation: The Politics of Transnational Antiracist Activism…211
Sexual Citizenship and Racialized (Un)belonging…193
Sexuality, Psychology, and Normativity…213
Shades of Masculinities and Queer Options: Re/dressing Citizenship…189
Singing Southern, Sounding Sovereign: Alternative Countries and Country Alternatives…193
Spatializing Culture: The Production of Difference in the Built Environment…174
Staging Citizenship in the Progressive Era…132
Stepping On and Across Boundaries: Everyday Dance and Belonging…147
Strategically Subjectless: Is “Asian American” Sustainable?…160
Sustaining Happiness: Commercial and Personal Pleasure during the Great Depression…180
Talkin’ ’bout a Revolution…190
Theorizing Prison/Space/Resistance in Post–World War II America…115
Three Perspectives on Citizenship and Belonging: African Americans, Conquered Mexicans, and Immigrant Chinese…106
Transnational Adoption between the United States and Asia: Racial and Gendered Violence and Communities of Resistance…228
Transnational Markets and Communities: Comparative Cultural Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging…125
Universalism and Its Discontents…127
The U.S. Nonprofit Industrial Complex and Its Discontents…101
Visions of Imperial Hegemony…110
Visual Culture in the Americas…105
Visual Distortions of the Environment…143
Visualizing Color…199
Voluntary Communities…104
Waging War, Shaping Identity: Exploring Ethnic and Racial Formation during the First and Second World Wars…113
War, Citizenship, and Latino Identity…135
Weather and Disaster and Social Belonging…223
We Need the Funk? Folklore, Fiction, and Humor…144
Where Do American Jews Belong? Jewish Ethno-Racial Liminality in the Postwar United States…227
Yes We Did? Symbolic Racial Victories from the Cold War to Barack Obama…224
Regionalism
Dramas of Belonging…126
Singing Southern, Sounding Sovereign: Alternative Countries and Country Alternatives…193
Religion
American Missionaries as Transnational Cultural Critics (sponsored by the Religion and American Culture Caucus)…183
Citizenship and Belonging: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in Representations of American Catholicism…131
Citizenship in Sickness and in Death…162
Expanding God’s Country: Religious Education in Early American Empires…142
Haiti as Icon in Transnational Discourse…119
Misrecognizing Islam: Transnational Identity Politics, Global Citizenship, and Muslims…168
Perverting Nationalisms: Discourses of Security and the Crafting of Geopolitics…99
Universalism and Its Discontents…127
Voluntary Communities…104
Rhetoric
American Literature as Political Theory: Reimagining Citizenship, Bodies, and Belonging…121
Limits of Belonging in Nineteenth-Century Literature…229
Roundtable: Belonging and Culture: Making a New Literary History of America…210
Transnational Bodies, Performances, and Enactments…111
Science and Technology
Biocapitalism, Sustainability, and the Reproduction of Value…222
Circulatory Systems: Affects and Economies…108
Citizenship in Sickness and in Death…162
Darwin in America: A Keywords Approach to the Darwin Bicentennial…164
Domestic Environmentalism: Home, Nation, Globe, Planet…98
Embodiments of Progress: Technology, Machines, and Belonging in Normalcy…220
Fat Fictions and the Culture of Consumption: Citizenship in the Era of Obesity…151
Genealogies of U.S. Empire…171
High-Tech Sustainability and Socioeconomic Justice…97
Migration, Science, and Technology…177
Mothering the State…118
A Nation of Bodies, or Embodying the Nation…154
Old/New Technologies of Belonging: Books, YouTube, Mobile Devices, and the Sensuousness of Sustainable Futures…194
Performing Health, Narrativizing Racialized Bodies: AIDS, Cancer, and Medical “Knowledge”…124
Roundtable: What Can We Learn from the Sciences? National Science Foundation Funding (sponsored by the Science and Technology Caucus)…186
Speculative Science, Future Communities, and the Production of Belonging…212
Technologies of War…173
U.S. Reproductive Citizenship in a Global Context…104
Sociology
Denying Citizenship…214
Feeling Like You Belong: Sensory Perception, Experience, and Group Identity…156
Mothering the State…118
Race, Neoliberalism, and Citizenship…205
Roundtable: Bridging Humanities and Social Sciences within American Studies (sponsored by the Committee on American Studies Centers and Programs)…225
Sexuality, Psychology, and Normativity…213
Sporting Bodies…135
Voluntary Communities…104
Sports Studies
Baseball and Belonging: Practices of Citizenship on the Diamond and Beyond…185
A Nation of Bodies, or Embodying the Nation…154
Sporting Bodies…135
Teaching and K–16 Collaboration
Challenging Citizenship: Historical Discussions, Enduring Debates (sponsored by the K–16 Collaboration Committee)…189
Children and Youth in History: Belonging in the Past and the Present (sponsored by the Childhood and Youth Studies Caucus)…114
A Critical View from Hawai‘i: Pedagogy and Curriculum Workshop…123
Finding the Fit and Leading the Way: Aligning Undergraduate American Studies Programs with Institutional Initiatives and Demonstrating Relevance at a Critical Time…130
Pedagogical and Story Circle Workshop with Students at the Center, New Orleans…102
Television and Media Studies
American Studies 2.0: Student Learning through Documentary Video Production in the American Studies Classroom…219
Bad Citizenship and Good Games: Video Gaming, Criminality, and Citizenship…201
Breakfast Forum: Ethno-Racial Representation/Popular Culture Scholarship: Practices, Politics, and Positioning in the Academy (sponsored by the Students’ Committee)…131
Citizen Alien: Asian Americans on the Outer Limits of Television and Nation…158
The City in Ruins? Arguing the Case for the “Other America” in The Wire…169
The Cool of Barack Obama…125
Hollywood in the 1940s: The Spectacle of Cold War Citizenry…117
Reality of Belonging…229
Visualizing Color…199
Transgender Studies
On the Unlikely Queer Subject…223
Sexuality, Psychology, and Normativity…213
Sporting Bodies…135
Trauma Studies
Contemporary Displacements of Humanitarianisms…136
The Courts of Public Memory: Trauma, Nation, and Reconciliation…177
Regimes of Memory and the Power of Forgetting…203
Twentieth Century
Aging Citizen: Queer Belonging in the Post–Baby Boomer State…183
Bad Citizenship and Good Games: Video Gaming, Criminality, and Citizenship…201
Breakfast Forum: Transnational Methodologies: Toward a Substantive Practice of Transnational American Studies (sponsored by the Students’ Committee)…179
Citizen Historian: Multiple Perspectives on Studs Terkel…225
Citizenship and Aesthetics…155
Claiming Housing Rights…151
Color Lines and Crossings…146
Commies, Christians, and Queers: Subcultures of Letters in Twentieth-Century America (sponsored by the affiliate organization SHARP)…155
The Contradictions of Environmentality…178
The Cultural Productions of Oil in the Americas…122
Dramas of Belonging…126
Everybody’s Disabled Nowadays: Reconfiguring American Studies through Disability…124
Exporting American Dreams…170
Found in Translation: Anti-imperialism and Global Solidarity in the Long Sixties…133
Freedom and Free Enterprise: Minority Entrepreneurship in Twentieth-Century America…140
Haiti as Icon in Transnational Discourse…119
Hollywood in the 1940s: The Spectacle of Cold War Citizenry…117
International Committee Talkshop III: “Only in America Is My Story Possible”: Teaching Race and American Studies Overseas, with Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye as a Case Study…159
Intersections of Native American and Japanese American Scholarship: Dispossession, Citizenship, Belonging, and the State.…109
Living for the City…137
Media Society=Media Citizenship? Postwar Activism Pushing the Limits of the National Public Sphere…201
Migration, Science, and Technology…177
Musical Geographies of Belonging…170
New Ethics of Ecological Care and Citizenship…98
Oil Culture: Representations of the Petroleum Industry…97
Open the Door: Race and Citizenship in Popular Music…117
Performance Re/Visions: American Theater and National Identity…109
Performing Indian Identities…144
Popular Fronts: Artists and Activism in the 1920s…139
Pressing Herself into the National Conversation: Race, Class, and the Power of Women’s Writing in the Early Twentieth Century…150
Producing and Protecting Citizens: The Nexus of Culture, Policy, and Affect…149
Promesa y Peligro: Dominican Narrations of Representation, Identity, and (Trans)national Belonging…196
Racial Inbetweeness: Subtle Constructions of Asian Americanness…214
Reality of Belonging…229
Representation and Resistance in Assimilationist Spaces…213
Rethinking “Therapeutic Culture”…186
Revolution ’67 in Newark, New Jersey: Documentary Film in the K–16 American Studies Classroom…202
Sexuality, Psychology, and Normativity…213
Spotlight on Student ASA Regional Award Winners (sponsored by the Students’ Committee and Regional Chapters’ Committee)…168
Studying War and Peace through American Studies / Studying America by Studying War and Peace…202
Sustaining Happiness: Commercial and Personal Pleasure during the Great Depression…180
Talkin’ ’bout a Revolution…190
Technologies of War…173
Tenure and Promotion in American Studies: Guidelines and Issues (Directors’ Breakfast Workshop)…216
Tools for Teachers: American Studies Resources for the K–16 Classroom…178
Universalism and Its Discontents…127
Visions of Antiracism, 1880–1930…145
We Need the Funk? Folklore, Fiction, and Humor…144
Where Do American Jews Belong? Jewish Ethno-Racial Liminality in the Postwar United States…227
U.S. Colonialism
America in the Middle East, Area Studies in American Studies…138
Ballads for Post-Americans: Revisiting the Nationalism of the U.S. Popular Front…211
Citizenship and Humanitarian Discourse…145
Colonialism, Sovereignty, (In)commensurability…134
Contested Subjects, Contesting Citizenship: Asian Americans and Latinos in the Post-1955 Discourse of Citizenship…139
Denying Citizenship…214
Expanding God’s Country: Religious Education in Early American Empires…142
Exporting American Dreams…170
Genealogies of U.S. Empire…171
Haiti as Icon in Transnational Discourse…119
Intimate Responses to Empire…137
Neocitizenship…175
Palimpsestic Belonging: Anticolonialisms of That Day and Neocolonialisms of Today in the Asia/Pacific/Caribbean Nexus…133
Performing Indian Identities…144
Race, Empire, and Migratory Radicalisms: Considerations on American Anticolonialism…180
Racial Productions of the Borderlands…127
Violent Belonging…103
Visions of Imperial Hegemony…110
Visual Culture Studies
American Studies 2.0: Student Learning through Documentary Video Production in the American Studies Classroom…219
Bad Citizenship and Good Games: Video Gaming, Criminality, and Citizenship…201
Black Man, White Man, Commander-in-Chief: Barack Obama in Popular Visual Culture…148
The City as History…200
Contemporary Displacements of Humanitarianisms…136
Danger and Beauty: Affect, Aesthetics, and Belonging in Filipino America…160
Everybody’s Disabled Nowadays: Reconfiguring American Studies through Disability…124
Exporting American Dreams…170
Feeling Like You Belong: Sensory Perception, Experience, and Group Identity…156
Framing America’s Hard Edges: Photographs, Health Imagery, and the (De)construction of Racialized Belonging…161
Frontier Encounters: Citizenship and Belonging in Western Photographic Portraits…159
Grotesque Masculinities in Contemporary American Art and Culture…175
Haiti as Icon in Transnational Discourse…119
Internment, Redress, and Reparations…110
Interpreting Images, Icons, and Intent: The White House Residence as Cultural Sphere…99
Intimate Responses to Empire…137
James Baldwin and Devil’s Work: Screening Citizenship and National Belonging in Harlem, London, and Istanbul…206
Laboring Citizens…190
Mothering the State…118
A Nation of Bodies, or Embodying the Nation…154
Oil Culture: Representations of the Petroleum Industry…97
Pasts That Refuse to Go Away…136
Performing Indian Identities…144
Popular Fronts: Artists and Activism in the 1920s…139
The Practice of Labor Photography: A Conversation with Earl Dotter and Mark Rogovin…191
Practices of Community and Belonging: Teaching Graphic Narratives in a Post-9/11 World…221
Racial Inbetweeness: Subtle Constructions of Asian Americanness…214
Regimes of Memory and the Power of Forgetting…203
Something to Declare: Latina/o and Caribbean Place-Making Performances…179
Spatializing Culture: The Production of Difference in the Built Environment…174
Staging Citizenship in the Progressive Era…132
Sustaining Transpacific Studies: Empire, Desert, and Circuit…188
Training Sights: The Visual Pedagogies of American Citizenship…102
Transnational Imagined Communities…119
Violent Belonging…103
Visions of Antiracism, 1880–1930…145
Visual Citizenship: A Roundtable Discussion…164
Visual Culture in the Americas…105
Visual Distortions of the Environment…143
The Visual West and American Identity: Constructing Nationalism through the Western Landscape, 1850–1975…227
Visualizing Difference, Consuming Identity…228
Visualizing the Urban Jungle and the Urban Oasis: Cities in the American Environmental Imaginary (sponsored by the Visual Culture Caucus)…100
Vulnerable Bodies, Ecological Citizenship, and the Making of Environmental Publics (sponsored by the Environment and Culture Caucus)…121
Women and Belonging: Gender and Citizenship in the Realm of Public Memory (sponsored by the Women’s Committee)…224
Women’s Studies
Against Citizenship…101
The Color of Whiteness Studies: Studying Whiteness from an Ethnic Studies Perspective…210
Girls of Color and Performance Ethnography: Imagining New Spaces of Empowerment and Inclusion…117
Race and the Beauty Industry…207
Visualizing Difference, Consuming Identity…228
Working-Class Studies
Commodity Cultures, Contested Citizenships, and Transnational American Studies…166
Institutional Strategies of Empowerment and Belonging: Intersections of Union, Community, and Philanthropic Organizing…120
It Ain’t Easy Living in the City: HBO’s The Wire, Labor, and Political Economy at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century…187
Laboring Citizens…190
New Depression Studies in the New New Deal…217
The Practice of Labor Photography: A Conversation with Earl Dotter and Mark Rogovin…191
Working the Citizen: Law, Labor, and American Citizenship…217