American Studies and the Question of Empire:
Histories, Cultures and Practices

November 19-22, 1998


Descriptions of Sessions and Events


Thursday, November 19 | Friday, November 20 | Saturday, November 21 | Sunday, November 22


Thursday, November 19, 1998


The papers and commentaries presented during this meeting are intended solely for the hearing of those present and should not be tape recorded, copied or otherwise reproduced without the consent of the authors. Recording, copying, or reproducing a paper without the consent of the author may be a violation of common law copyright and may result in legal difficulties for the person recording, copying, or reproducing.


8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
EAST BALLROOM A

Business Meeting of the ASA National Council


9:00 - 10:30 AM
WEST BALLROOM A

Pre-convention Workshop for American Studies Program Directors:
The American Studies Graduate Degree: Results of the National Research Council Study and Discussion of Professional Training, Placements, and the Job Market (Sponsored by the Committee on American Studies Programs)

CHAIR:
Vera Norwood, Department of American Studies, University of New Mexico
PANELISTS:
Eric Sandeen, American Studies Program, University of Wyoming
Christopher Just, Department of History, George Washington University
Richard Candida-Smith, American Cultures Program, University of Michigan
David Katzman, American Studies Program, University of Kansas
Monica Torres, Department of American Studies, University of New Mexico
Todd Guenther, Director, Pioneer Museum, Lander, Wyoming

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
WEST BALLROOM A

Pre-convention Workshop for American Studies Program Directors: American Studies Pedagogy (Sponsored by the Committee on American Studies Programs)

CHAIR:
Sherry Linkon, American Studies Program, Youngstown State University
PANELISTS:
James Farrell, American Studies Program, St. Olaf University
Mapping the Mall of America
Eve Allegra Ramon, Department of Arts and Humanities, Lewiston-Auburn College,
University of Southern Maine
What is "Race" to American Studies?
Warren Belasco, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland,
Baltimore County
Environmental Education through American Studies
Carol Cyganowski, American Studies Program, DePaul University
Domestic Study--Study/Travel USA

12:00 - 1:45 PM
GRAND BALLROOM SECTION C

Migrating Musics: Postcolonial Approaches to Popular Music in the Caribbean and Its Diaspora

CHAIR:
Raúl Fernández, School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine
PAPERS:
Reebee Garofalo, American Studies Program, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Department of American Civilization, Brown University
Yo, Havana Raps! The Rap Scene in Contemporary Cuba
Shannon Dudley, Department of Music, University of Washington
Steelband Music and Power in Trinidad and Tobago
Marisol Berrios-Miranda, Department of Music, University of California, Berkeley
Salsa: Whose Music Is It?
Wilson Valentin, American Cultures Program, University of Michigan
Overshadowed and "Intermusical": Latin Jazz in-between Birdland and S.O.B.'s
COMMENT:
Raúl Fernández

12:00 - 1:45 PM
EAST BALLROOM B

Visual Imagery and Cultural Contact

CHAIR:
Sarah L. Burns, Department of Art History, Indiana University
PAPERS:
Constance Chen, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
"The Orient" and Turn-of-the-Century American Culture
Jochen Wierich, American Studies Program, The College of William and Mary
Aztecs, Spaniards, Jews, Norsemen, and Fair Anglo-Saxon Women: Emanuel
Leutze's Paintings of Universal History
Jeffrey Belnap, Division of Fine Arts, Brigham-Young University, Hawaii Campus
Diego Rivera as "Guerilla Fighter" of the Eye: Representing the Native American Substrate
behind Enemy Lines
COMMENT:
David Lubin, Department of Art, Colby College

12:00 - 1:45 PM
CEDAR

Hypertext and American Studies: Theory, Practice, Knowledge

CHAIR:
Roy Rosenzweig, Department of History, George Mason University
PAPERS:
Saul Cornell, Department of History, Ohio State University
Hypertext and Postmodern Approaches to History: Narrative and Metanarrative
Lisa Nakamura, Department of English, Sonoma State University
Decentering the Margins: What Happens to Race in Hypertext?
Randy Bass, Department of English, Georgetown University
The Story and the Archive: Argument, Evidence, and Rhetorical-Multicultural
Approaches to Literary History
COMMENT:
The Audience

12:00 - 1:45 PM
DOUGLAS

No Place Like Home: Domesticating Foreign Policy

CHAIR:
Priscilla Wald, Department of English, University of Washington
PAPERS:
Nikhil Singh, American Studies Program, New York University
Re-coding Empire in an Age of Democracy
Matthew Jacobson, American Studies Program, Yale University
Material Prosperity and the Civilizing Mission: Notes on Economics, Ideology,
and the Interpretation of American Imperialism
COMMENT:
Vicente Rafael, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego
Zita Nunez, Department of English, Columbia University
Michelle Stephens, Department of English, Mount Holyoke College

12:00 - 1:45 PM
JUNIPER

Mixing Metaphors: Race and Sexuality in American Culture

CHAIR:
Siobhan B. Somerville, Department of English, Purdue University
PAPERS:
Amanda Frisken, Department of History, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Inside the Opium Den: Race, Sex and Vice in 1870s New York
Charles E. Clifton, Department of History, University of Chicago
"Real Love. Gotta Have the Real Thing": James Baldwin and the Production of
Afro-homosexualities
Matthew Pratt Guterl, Department of History, Rutgers University
"All was Closed and Sealed Tight": Jean Toomer, Physical Culture and Blackness
COMMENT:
Siobhan B. Somerville

12:00 - 1:45 PM
MADRONA

The Politics of Neutral Ground, 1820-1830

CHAIR:
Milette Shamir, Department of English, Tel Aviv University, Israel
PAPERS:
Robert S. Levine, Department of English, University of Maryland
The Spy: James Cooper's Missouri Compromise
Gretchen Murphy, Department of English, University of Washington
Separate (Hemi-) Spheres: Domesticity and the Monroe Doctrine in Lydia Maria
Child's Hobomok
Rodrigo Lazo, Department of English, Miami University
"A Federated Republic": Jicotencal and the Cuban (American) Philadelphia Dream
COMMENT:
Peter Carafiol, Department of English, Portland State University

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SUITE 418/420

The Reel World Order: Contemporary Film and Cultural/National Citizenship

CHAIR:
Ann Cvetkovich, Department of English, University of Texas, Austin
PAPERS:
You-me Park, Department of History, Byrn Mawr College
Spectres of the Mother/Laborer: Rereading Class, Citizenship and Consumption in Picture Bride
Yasmin Nair, Department of English, Purdue University
Consuming China: Chinese Film and Transnational Yearnings
Gayle Wald, Department of English, George Washington University
Clueless in the Neocolonial World Order
COMMENT:
Ann Cvetkovich

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SUITE 422/424

Philippines and Global Culture

CHAIR:
Oscar V. Campomanes, Asian/Pacific/American Studies, New York University
PAPERS:
Brian Manuel Bomediano, Department of Anthropology, York University
The "Race" of PanEthnicity: Reconsiderations and Reconfigurations of Filipino Identity
Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns, American Studies Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Kodakan: Pilipino-American Lives through Photography
Nerissa Balce, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Our Dangerous Isles: Women and Travel Writing on the Philippines, 1900-1930
Adam A. Pagan, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota
Joe Bataan's Latin Soul: Diasporican Cultural Nationalism and the Black Arts Renaissance
of the 1960s and 1970s
COMMENT:
Oscar V. Campomanes

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SUITE 428/430

Anywhere But (T)here: Placing the "Citizenry"

CHAIR:
Cindi Katz, Environmental Psychology Program, City University of New York
PAPERS:
Lucy Jarosz, Department of Geography, University of Washington, and
Victoria Lawson, Department of Geography, University of Washington
Mapping the Red, White and Blue: Colonizing Rural American Landscapes
George Henderson, Program in Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies, University of Arizona
Capital and the Fantasy of Multiculture in 1920s Pacific-Rim California
Katharyne Mitchell, Department of Geography, University of Washington
Transnational Migration and the Reworking of Citizenship
COMMENT:
Marvin Waterstone, Program in Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies, University of Arizona

12:00 - 1:45 PM
METROPOLITAN BALLROOM

The Empire of the Lens: Anglo-American Women Photographers among the Indians

CHAIR:
Lisa MacFarlane, Department of English, University of New Hampshire
PAPERS:
Nicole Tonkovich, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
Delineating Empires: Jane Gay and Alice Fletcher among the Nez Perce
Susan Bernardin, Division of Humanities, University of Minnesota, Morris
Capturing and Recapturing Culture: Visual and Narrative Representations of the Karuk in
Northwestern California
Melody Graulich, Department of English, Utah State University
"I Became the 'Colony'": Kate Cory's Hopi Photographs
COMMENT:
Lisa MacFarlane

12:00 - 1:45 PM
WEST BALLROOM B

Performance, History, and Spirit in Contemporary Chicana Cultural Practices

CHAIR:
Theresa Tensuan, Department of English, Haverford College
PAPERS:
Laura E. Perez, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
On the Altars of Alterity: Celia Rodriguez's Altar and Performance Art and Alex Donis's
My Cathedral Show
Theresa Delgadillo, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles
Gendered Conceptions of Spirituality and Spiritual Practice in Chicana/o Theatre
Mary Pat Brady, Department of English, Indiana University
Fantasies and Nightmares of the Migration
COMMENT:
Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Stanford University

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SUITE 426

Roundtable: Using What's There: Doing American Studies at Community Colleges

PANELISTS:
Susan Butler, Department of History, Cerritos College
Computer Conferencing: Making an Online Course an Interactive Learning Experience
Kathy Walsh, Humanities Division, Central Oregon Community College
Using American Studies On-Line Resources as Course Enhancement, or When WILL
the Student Cross the Road?
Barbara Ewell, Department of English, City College, Loyola University, New Orleans
Using Websites and E-mail to Make Online Courses for Adults Interactive
Lauren Coodley, Social Sciences Division, Napa Valley Community College
American Studies and the Use of Multicultural Requirements
Julianne Seeman, American Studies Program, Bellevue Community College
The History and Growth of Bellevue's American Studies Program

1:00 - 3:00 PM
BOARDROOM

Committee on American Studies Programs Business Meeting


2:00 - 3:45 PM
WEST BALLROOM B

The "Imperial Market": Determination and Agency in the Mid-twentieth Century Culture Industries

CHAIR:
Susan Douglas, Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan
PAPERS:
Kathy Newman, Department of English, Carnegie Mellon University
The Unseen Audience: Radio, Advertising, and the Production of Aural Communities
Barry Shank, American Studies Program, University of Kansas
The Mass Production of Distinction: The American Artist Group and the Middlebrow
Christmas Card
Scott Saul, American Studies Program, Yale University
Trading in Outrage: Charles Mingus and the Invention of the Jazz Auteur
COMMENT:
Jean-Christophe Agnew, American Studies Program, Yale University
Susan Douglas

2:00 - 3:45 PM
EAST BALLROOM B

Skin Deep: American Indian Literature as Anti-Colonial Resistance

CHAIR:
Ned Blackhawk, Department of History, University of Washington
PAPERS:
Pauline Escudero Shafer, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington
The Urban Indian Literary Writer as Activist: Straddling Nations
Deborah Miranda, Department of English, University of Washington
In My Subversive Country: The Erotics of History and Invisibility in Native
Women's Love Poetry
COMMENT:
Sherman Alexie, Poet, Novelist, Film Maker, Seattle, Washington
Crystos, Poet, Banbridge Island, Washington
The Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM
CEDAR

Information, Inquiry, and Knowledge: Opportunities and Problems in Using New Technologies to Teach American Studies

CHAIR:
Kate Delaney, Cultural Attache, U.S. Embassy, Warsaw
PAPERS:
Gabrielle Foreman, Department of English, Occidental College
Use, Access, and Dialogue: Network Technologies in a Course on "Race, Gender,
and Justice"
Tracy Weiss, Department of History, Millersville University
Faculty and Student Development in the New Media Classroom: New Technologies in
Teaching the History of Civil Rights
John McClymer, Department of History, Assumption College
Primary Sources, Student Learning, and Authentic Inquiry in U.S. History Courses
COMMENT:
The Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM
DOUGLAS

Understanding and Locating Chester Himes

CHAIR:
Alan Wald, American Culture Program, University of Michigan
PAPERS:
Jon-Christian Suggs, Department of English, John Jay College of Criminal Justice,
City University of New York
Chester Himes and "Desperate Americanism": Pre-exile Patriotism in Himes' War-time
Fiction and Essays
Alexander Lubin, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota
Interracial Sex and the Limits of Post-WWII Pluralism in the Literature of Chester Himes
Stephanie Brown, Department of English, Columbia University
The Black Joke in Chester Himes' The End of a Primitive
COMMENT:
Alan Wald

2:00 - 3:45 PM
JUNIPER

Queer in American Studies

CHAIR:
Scott Bravmann, Independent Scholar
PAPERS:
Leigh Corrette, American Culture Studies Program, Bowling Green State University
Ameriqueer Studies Messing with the Mantra: Where Race/Class/Gender Ain't Enough--
A Queer Case Study
Anne Enke, Department of History, University of Minnesota
Out in the (American Studies) Ballpark: Covering Bases from Feminist History
to Queer Theory
Brett Beemyn, Department of African-American Studies, Western Illinois University
We're Here, We're Queer, We're Un(der)employed: Perils of an American Studies Graduate
COMMENT:
Chris Nealon, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley

2:00 - 3:45 PM
METROPOLITAN BALLROOM

Imagining the Body: Pedagogies of Modern Individuality in Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century America

CHAIR:
Bryan Wolf, American Studies Program, Yale University
PAPERS:
Richard S. Lowry, American Studies Program, College of William & Mary
Lewis Hine's Industrial Family Romance
Angela Miller, Department of Art History, Washington University
The Mirror Has Two Faces: Men, Women, and the Refiected Self
Joel Pfister, American Studies Program, Wesleyan University
The Changing Pedagogy of Individuality and Native American Bodies: 1870s-1930s
COMMENT:
Bryan Wolf

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SUITE 418/420

Passing in the Service of Empire: (Inter) national Bodies and the Trans-Mogrification of American Culture

CHAIR:
Rachel C. Lee, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles
PAPERS:
Daphne A. Brooks, Department of African-American Studies, University of California,
Berkeley
Dragging It Back to "Africa": Spectacles of Passing, Empire and Corporeal Intervention
in Williams' and Walker's In Dahomey
Lisa B. Thompson, Program in Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University
Traveling thru Quicksand: Region, Class, and Global Sexuality in the Fiction of Nella Larsen
Allegra Gibbons-Shapiro, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles
"Mayke, We are Going Home": Race and Nation in The Return of Nathan Becker
Sonnet Retman, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles
Westward Expansion: Caught in the Act of the Class Pass in A Cool Million

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SUITE 422/424

Afro-America in an International Frame

CHAIR:
Jean Fagan Yellin, Department of English, Pace University
PAPERS:
Guenter H. Lenz, Institute of English and American Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin
African American Modernism and the Dynamics of Imperialism: Fiction and Cultural
Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to 1960
Wendy W. Walters, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
Reclaiming "the Subjectivity of the Drowned": African Diasporic Writing and the Politics of
Visual Terror
Danielle Brune, American Studies Program, The University of Texas, Austin
Reconsidering Sweet Daddy Grace: Cape Verdean, Immigrant, Prophet
COMMENT:
Carla L. Peterson, Department of English, University of Maryland

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SUITE 428/430

Toward the White Man's Burden: Race, Class, Gender, and Nation in the 19th Century

CHAIR:
Christina Accomando, Department of English, Humboldt State University
PAPERS:
Victor Bascara, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Laissez-Faire Imperialism: How the U.S. Constitution Underdeveloped the Philippines
Desiree Henderson, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
The Production of (a) National Mourning: History, Cemeteries, and the American
Leisure Class
Grace Kyungwon Hong, Civil Liberties Public Education Fund National Fellow
The Not-Working Class and Chinese Immigrant Labor: Building a Nation (and an Empire)
in the Overland Monthly and the Photographs of Arnold Genthe
Demian Pritchard, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
"Ramona and Jesus Were Real People . . . ": Racializing Nation in the U.S. Southwest
in Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 Novel Ramona
COMMENT:
Christina Accomando

2:00 - 3:45 PM
GRAND BALLROOM SECTION C

Roundtable: Latina/o Popular Culture: Cultural Politics into the 21st Century

CHAIR:
Michelle Habell-Pallan, Department of American Ethnic Studies,
University of Washington
PANELISTS:
Keta Miranda, Department of History of Consciousness, University of California,
Santa Cruz
Ricardo Ortiz, Department of English, Dartmouth College
Margarita Barcelo, Department English, Fort Lewis College
Adrian Burgos, Department of History, University of Michigan
Mary Romero, School of Justice Studies, Arizona State University
Susana Chavez Silverman, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures,
Pomona College
Luz Calvo, Department of History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
Frances Aparicio, American Cultures Program, University of Michigan

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SUITE 426

Hunting for Good Will: Building Opportunities for Interdisciplinary American Studies at Community Colleges

CHAIR:
Kate Adams, Department of English, Allan Hancock College
PANELISTS:
Deb Franzman, Department of Sociology, Allan Hancock College
Buy-in Stakeholders, Ed Code and Legislation: The Pre-History of an American
Studies Major
Cheryl Fish, Department of English, Borough of Manhattan Community College,
City University of New York
Upping the Standards: Attacks on Remediation at Community Colleges and the Atmosphere
for Interdisciplinarity
Christy Rishoi, Department of Language and Literature, Jackson Community College
Welfare Reform and the Future of Interdisciplinary Studies
COMMENT:
Ellen Shockro, Social Sciences Division, Pasadena City College

2:00 - 4:00 PM
SUITE 416

Minority Scholars' Committee Business Meeting


3:00 - 6:00 PM
ASPEN

International Women's Task Force Business Meeting


3:00 - 7:00 PM
CIRRUS

American Quarterly Board Meeting


4:00 - 5:45 PM
WEST BALLROOM B

Movidas y Movimientos: Social Networks among Musicians, Artists, and Vendedoras in Latino Los Angeles

CHAIR:
Eric R. Avila, César E. Chávez Center for Chicana/o Studies, University of California,
Los Angeles
PAPERS:
Anthony Macías, American Cultures Program, University of Michigan
"Pachuco Boogie": Chicano Musicians, Latinos and African Americans during 1940s
Los Angeles
Jeffrey J. Rangel, American Cultures Program, University of Michigan
"It was an incredible assemblage of people . . . But we were overworked.": Chicano Artists'
Networks and the Formation of Plaza de la Raza
Alejandra Marchevsky, American Cultures Program, University of Michigan
Doblando el dolar, Doubling the Dollar: Latina Immigrants and Direct-sales Networks in
Los Angeles County
COMMENT:
Eric R. Avila

4:00 - 5:45 PM
EAST BALLROOM B

Representation and Race

CHAIR:
Linda Borish, Department of History, Western Michigan University
PAPERS:
Karen Su, Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program, New York University
Critical Pidgins and Multi-lingual Puns in Asian American Literature: The Resistant
Lingos of Globularious Schraubi and Joy Kogawa
Reynolds Scott-Childress, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park
When We'se Reco'nised ez Citiz'--: Paul Laurence Dunbar, Dialect Writing, and the
Project of Cultural Reconstruction, 1896-1906
Arthé Anthony, American Studies Program, Occidental College
Self-Representation, Gender, and the Politics of Black Portraiture in Jim Crow New Orleans
COMMENT:
Rob Snyder, Department of Humanities and American Studies, University of South Florida

4:00 - 5:45 PM
CEDAR

Cracking Down: The Reconsolidation of America as Police State

CHAIR:
Richard Perry, Law and Criminology Program, University of California, Irvine
PAPERS:
Carol Stabile, Department of Communication, University of Pittsburgh
Culturing Fear: Local Television Coverage and Crime
Carrie A. Rentschler, Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Designing Fear: Architecture, Security, and the U.S. Police State
Daniel McGee, Medical Scholars Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Gearing up for America's New Threat: The Domestic Preparedness Program
Gretchen Soderlund, Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Making the John Pay: First Offender Prosecution Programs and the Rhetoric of Victimization
David H. Price, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, St. Martin's College
DARE to Inform on Your Parents: The Classroom as Police State's Foyer
COMMENT:
The Audience

4:00 - 5:45 PM
DOUGLAS

Displacements, Colonialisms, Alternative Knowledges: Asian Immigrant Women

CHAIR:
Dorinne Kondo, Department of Asian American Studies, University of Southern California
PAPERS:
Elaine H. Kim, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Dangerous Women: Korean Immigrant Women in the United States
Yen Le Espiritu, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego
War, Colonialism, and Gender Formation: Vietnamese and Filipina Women in the United States
Jessica Hagedorn, Author
"Dogeaters": Memory, Narrative, Performance
COMMENT:
Kamala Visweswaran, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin

4:00 - 5:45 PM
JUNIPER

Race and Nation in Contemporary Public Schooling

CHAIR:
David Roediger, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota
PAPERS:
Pamela Perry, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
White Youth and Racial/National Identity: A Comparison of the Construction of
Whiteness-as-norm in Two High Schools
Murray Forman, Department of Communication Studies, Northeastern University
Prescribed Identities, Immigrant Youth: Discourses of Nation and Belonging
in Contemporary High Schools
John A. Powell, School of Law, University of Minnesota
Purity, Whiteness and "Other" in Education
COMMENT:
Rinaldo Walcott, Division of Humanities (Arts), York University
David Roediger

4:00 - 5:45 PM
METROPOLITAN BALLROOM

Writing the National Body

CHAIR:
Brenda Wineapple, Department of English, Union College
PAPERS:
Rebecca R. Noel, American and New England Studies Program, Boston University
Empire of Hygiene? Schooling the Body in Antebellum New England
Laura Schiavo, Department of American Studies, George Washington University
Picturing the Colonized Body: Reading Race and Gender in the Work of Winslow Homer
Juniper Ellis, Department of English, Loyola College in Maryland
The Anthropology of Pacific Sexuality in the U.S.
COMMENT:
Lois Banner, Department of History, University of Southern California

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SUITE 418/420

Cross-Cultural Interpretations of the American Experience

CHAIR:
Jung-Mai Kim, Department of English, Dongkuk University, Korea
PAPERS:
Hwang-tae Lyoo, Department of English, Dong-eui University, Korea
Margaret Fuller from a Buddhist Perspective
Young-Oak Lee, Department of English, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Morrison's Beloved and Keller's Comfort Woman
Kathy Foley, Department of Theatre Arts, University of California, Santa Cruz
Farewell to Manzanar and Baba/Flight of the Monkey King: Asian American Literature,
Asian Theatre Techniques and Multicultural Theatre Performance
COMMENT:
Stephen H. Sumida, American Cultures Program, University of Michigan

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SUITE 422/424

Remapping Cultural Identity, beyond Race, Class and Gender

CHAIR:
Timothy B. Powell, Department of English, University of Georgia
PAPERS:
Lennard Davis, Department of English, SUNY Binghamton
The Place of Disability Studies in Left Criticism and Identity Politics
Michael Davidson, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
Strange Blood: Hemophobia and the Unexplored Boundaries of Queer Nation
Sharon Holland, Department of English, Stanford University
"From This Moment Forth, We Are Black Lesbians": Querying Feminism and Killing
the Self in Consolidated's Business of Punishment
COMMENT:
John Lowe, Department of English, Louisiana State University

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SUITE 428/430

Gendering Vice: Early Twentieth-Century Constructs of Femininity and Deviance

CHAIR:
Sarah Stage, Women's Studies Program, Arizona State University West
PAPERS:
Janis Appier, Department of History, Ohio State University, Newark
White Slaves, Rotten Parents, and City Politics in Progressive-era Los Angeles
Nancy D. Campbell, Department of Women's Studies, Ohio State University
Opium Vampires in the "Age of Dope": Figurations of Female Addicts in the 1920s
Timothy A. Hickman, Department of History, University of California, Irvine
A Modern Eve in a Technological Eden: Middle-class Women in the Turn-of-the-Century
Discourse of Addiction
Mara L. Keire, Department of History, John Hopkins University
"Predatory Country Girls": Competing Images of Prostitution during the First World War
Michelle McClellan, Department of History, Pitzer College
"A Tippling Mother Is Indeed a Dire Disaster": Medical Constructions of Female Inebriety,
1890-1920
COMMENT:
Sarah Stage

5:00 - 6:00 PM
BOARDROOM

Business Meeting of the Material Culture Caucus


5:30 PM
ELLIOT BAY BOOKSTORE

Northwest Writers Reading

AUTHORS:
Sherman Alexie, Crystos, Colleen McElroy, and Shawn Wong

The landmark Elliott Bay Bookstore has graciously contributed its space to the ASA and is hosting a reading of Northwest writers on Thursday, November 19th at 5:30 PM. The bookstore can accommodate over 200 people, and welcomes the ASA to Seattle and the reading. Elliott Bay Books [(206) 624-6600] is located at 1st and Main in Pioneer Square and can be reached by bus, taxi, or on foot.


6:00 - 7:00 PM
SUITE 426

Business Meeting of the Visual Culture/Art History Caucus


6:00 - 7:30 PM
WEST BALLROOM A

International Reception


7:00 - 9:00 PM
ASPEN

Students' Committee Business Meeting


7:30 - 9:00 PM
SUITE 416

Ethnic Studies Program Directors and Faculty Workshop

MODERATOR:
Mary Helen Washington, University of Maryland, College Park
PANELISTS:
Elaine Kim, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Alex Saragoza, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Carol Miller, Department of American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota

The workshop for ethnic studies program directors and faculty, sponsored by the presidential advisory committee on relations with ethnic studies departments and programs, faculty, and students, will be followed by the jointly sponsored reception of the Minority Scholars' Committee, the Women's Committee, and the Sexual Minority Scholars(hip) Studies Caucus.

The discussion will focus on: 1) a future of American Studies and American Ethnic Studies that calls for and enlargement of American Studies so as "to embrace all of the American themes primarily taught in other departments and programs"; 2) "making Ethnic Studies the site for redefining American studies" and for continuing "to blur the margin and the mainstream"; and 3) "whether it's because of and through the critical pressuring of these distinctive fields that American Studies and American Ethnic Studies have engaged in highly productive debate that necessitates and contributes to carefully nuanced intellectual work." How do these various positions take into account "local conditions," "institutional histories," and the day-to-day realities of doing interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching?


9:00 - 10:30 PM
GRAND BALLROOM SECTION C

Minority Scholars' Committee, Women's Committee and the Sexual Minority Scholars(hip) Caucus Reception


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