American Studies and the Question of Empire:Histories, Cultures and Practices
November 19-22, 1998
Descriptions of Sessions and Events
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American Studies and the Question of Empire: Histories, Cultures and Practices November 19-22, 1998
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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.
7:30 - 10:00 AM
GRAND BALLROOM SECTION C
8:00 AM - 2:00 PM
WEST BALLROOM B
8:00 - 9:45 AM
WEST BALLROOM A
CHAIR:Paul Karlstrom, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
PAPERS:Derrick R. Cartwright, Department of Fine Arts, University of San Diego Conquest and Empire in Early Twentieth Century Public Library Murals M. Elizabeth Boone, Department of Art, Humboldt State University Jewish History in Bernard Zakheim's San Francisco Mural Projects Sarah Louise Schrank, Department of History, University of California, San Diego Envisioning Los Angeles: Civic Identity, Public Art, and the Annual All-City Art Festivals Sally Yard, Department of Fine Arts, University of San Diego Backyard Fences and Civic Facades: Some Recent Projects Along the San Diego-Tijuana Frontier
COMMENT:Paul Karlstrom
8:00 - 9:45 AM
EAST BALLROOM A
CHAIR:Chanta Haywood, Department of English, Florida State University
PAPERS:Andrew Jones, School of Humanities, Southern Cross University In/appropriating Sainthood--The Unbecoming Cause: Negotiating the Soul Imperative of Empire Annette Trefzer, Department of English, Southeastern Oklahoma State University Zora, Zombies and the Spirit of Trans-Caribbean Identities Anne M. Martínez, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota 1400 Souls Not Counting Mexicans: The Archdiocese of Chicago and the "Mexican Situation"
COMMENT:Ramón Gutiérrez, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego
8:00 - 9:45 AM
ASPEN
CHAIR:Dianne R. Layden, Department of Management and Business, University of Redlands
PAPERS:Kasturi Ray, Department of English, Brown University After 1898: Women's Work and Community Building in Contemporary Hawai'ian Literature Mark Chiang, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania Asian American Labor and the Building of the Nation: Gendered Economies and Private Stories in the Fiction of Hisaye Yamamoto Eric Tang, American Studies Program, New York University Collateral Damage: Reading Southeast Asian Poverty in the United States
COMMENT:Edward J.W. Park, Department of Sociology, University of Southern California
8:00 - 9:45 AM
DOUGLAS
CHAIRS:Jane Desmond, American Studies Program, University of Iowa Virginia R. Dominguez, Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa
PANELISTS:Geoff White, Program on Culture, East-West Center Nick Deocampo, Mowelfund Film Institute, Philippines Ralph Cintron, Rhetoric Program, University of Iowa Soraya Castro Marino, Centro de Estudios Sobre Estados Unidos, Cuba Marvette Perez, Department of Social and Cultural History, Smithsonian Institution
COMMENT:Virginia R. Dominguez
8:00 - 9:45 AM
JUNIPER
CHAIR:Charles H. Rowell, Department of English, University of Virginia
PAPERS:Sheila Lloyd, Department of English, Wayne State University Imagining the "Black Pacific": Langston Hughes' Interrogations of Japanese and U.S. Imperialist Expansion Dwight A. McBride, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh Transnationalizing Slavery and Abolitionist Discourse: A Model for Early African-American Studies Michelle M. Wright, Department of English, Carnegie Mellon University Is the Speech Subaltern?: Transnational Baldwin, the Politics of Forgetting and the Project of Modernity
COMMENT:Lindon Barrett, Departments of English and African-American Studies, University of California, Irvine
8:00 - 9:45 AM
MADRONA
CHAIR:Susan Strasser, Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts
PAPERS:Judi Moore Latta, Department of Radio-TV-Film, Howard University Troubling the Water: African-American Sacred Song in Sacred Space Psyche A. Williams, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park Black-eyed Peas and Collard Greens: What's African American about African American Foodways? Sandra Patton, Institute on Race and Poverty, University of Minnesota Law School "I had an idea of roots": Transracial Adoption and Identity
COMMENT:Susan Strasser
8:00 - 9:45 AM
METROPOLITAN BALLROOM
CHAIR:Bill Lyons, Department of Political Science, University of Akron
PRESENTER:Lisa Miller, Department of Political Science, University of Washington (co-author Bill Lyons) A Citizen's Guide to Community Policing
COMMENT:Dr. Robert Jeffery, New Hope Baptist Church, Seattle Assistant Chief Harv Ferguson, Seattle Police Department
8:00 - 9:45 AM
SUITE 416
CHAIR:Mark Eaton, Department of English, Oklahoma City University
PAPERS:Scott Andrews, Department of English, University of California, Riverside "Tied to the Whipping Post": The post-nationalist, postmodern, post-Indian in Reservation BluesJon Panish, Program in Comparative Culture, University of California, Irvine Crazy Horse with a Slide Guitar: Sherman Alexie's "Contact" Blues T.V. Reed, American Studies Program, Washington State University, Pullman Reds, Whites, and Blues: Trickster Realism and Questions of Audience in Sherman Alexie's Fiction Cyrus R.K. Patell, Department of English, New York University Sherman Alexie and the Task of U.S. Emergent Literatures
COMMENT:Alan Velie, Department of English, University of Oklahoma
8:00 - 9:45 AM
SUITE 418/420
CHAIR:Jonathan Nashel, Department of History, Indiana University, South Bend
PAPERS:Danielle Glassmeyer, Department of English, Loyola University, Chicago Tom Dooley's Benevolent Empire: 1956-1961 Katherine Kinney, Department of English, University of California, Riverside Marlon Brando and Imperial Persona Mimi Nguyen, Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley Burn Baby Burn: Mediations on Haunting and Historical Amnesias
COMMENT:Jonathan Nashel
8:00 - 9:45 AM
SUITE 428/430
CHAIR:Michael Hames-García, Department of English, State University of New York, Binghamton
PAPERS:Linda Martín Alcoff, Department of Philosophy, Syracuse University Realistic Identity Politics Paula M.L. Moya, Department of English, Stanford University Realist Proposals for Multicultural Education Satya P. Mohanty, Department of English, Cornell University Can Our Values Be Objective? A Realist Approach to Multiculturalism and the Canon Debates
COMMENT:Ramón Saldívar, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University
8:00 - 9:45 AM
EAST BALLROOM B
CHAIR:Kandice Chuh, Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park
PAPERS:Daniel Moshenberg, Department of English, George Washington University Not So Fast: The Persistence of Women's Slow Work, Nimble Fingers, Civil Wars Sangeeta Ray, Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park Doughnut Shops, David Letterman, and South Asian Women Leti Volpp, National Employment Law Project, New York Women, Work, and Global Economic Restructuring
COMMENT:Eliza Noh, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
8:00 - 9:45 AM
SUITE 422/424
CHAIR:Lisbeth Gant-Britton, Department of English, Kalamazoo College
PAPERS:Jeff Berglund, American Thought and Language Program, Michigan State University Building the American Nation, Exhibiting Imperialism: P.T. Barnum's Fiji Cannibals Coll-Peter Thrush, Department of History, University of Washington Vanishing in Public: Native Americans, Civic Ritual and Urban Empire in Seattle, 1870-1920 J. Patrick Linder, Department of English, University of Washington The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909: Imperialism, the "Other," and National Identity
COMMENT:Thomas Schlereth, Department of American Studies, University of Notre Dame
8:00 - 9:45 AM
CIRRUS
CHAIR:Linda Grasso, Department of English, York College, City University of New York
PAPERS:Geraldine Murphy, Department of English, City College, City University of New York Making a Man of Henry James: Lionel Trilling's Cold War Revision of the Master Betsy Erkkila, Department of English, Northwestern University The Poetics of Whiteness: Poe and the Racial Imaginary Lauren Stuart Muller, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley Extravagant Incongruities: Educating the Savage in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
COMMENT:Shelly Fisher Fishkin, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
10:00 - 11:45 AM
WEST BALLROOM A
CHAIR:Alan Trachtenberg, American Studies Program, Yale University
PAPERS:Shawn Michelle Smith, Department of English, Washington State University American Archives: Photography and National Belonging Maren Stange, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Cooper Union "Not What We Seem": Image and Text in 12 Million Black Voices Laura Wexler, Women's Studies Program, Yale University No Place Like Home: Francis Benjamin Johnston's Photographs Aboard Admiral George Dewey's Flagship Olympia COMMENT:Jace Weaver, American Studies Program, Yale University
10:00 - 11:45 AM
EAST BALLROOM ABecoming an Attraction: Perspectives from the Toured
CHAIR:Nancy A. Hewitt, Department of History, Duke University PAPERS:Jorge Mariscal, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego The Unfinished Conquest of Aztlan Austin Allen, Department of Communication, Cleveland State University Olmstead: Sighting Slavery, Siting Diversity Raul H. Villa, American Studies Program, Occidental College Mex-en-Scene: Representing the Place of Chicano Culture in the Los Angeles Central Urban Landscape Susan G. Davis, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego From Legoland to Barrioland: Ethnic Heritage and History in Carlsbad, California COMMENT:John Dorst, American Studies Program, University of Wyoming
10:00 - 11:45 AM
EAST BALLROOM B(Dis)ordering Chicanos in Nation and Empire: Racing to and from Whiteness
CHAIR:Jeffrey M. Garcilazo, Department of History, University of California, Irvine PAPERS:Gabriel Gutiérrez, Department of Chicana/o Studies, Loyola Marymount University Affirmative Action of the First Kind: White Aliens, White Privilege, and Preferential Treatment in Nineteenth-century California Mónica Russel Y Rodríguez, Department of Chicana/o Studies, Metropolitan State College of Denver Mexican Hybridity: Nationalism and the Pure Mixed Blooded Laurie Kroshus Medina, Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University Naming and Claiming Heritage: Reasserting Whiteness in a Struggle to Define "Local Values and History" Karen Mary Davalos, Department of Chicana/o Studies, Loyola Marymount University Looking for "whiteness," nation and empire in all the wrong places: the Nelson A. Rockefeller Collection of Mexican Folk Art at the Mexican Museum COMMENT:Karen Brodkin, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
10:00 - 11:45 AM
ASPENDifference and American Empire: Three Phases of U.S. Internationality
CHAIR:Cathy J. Cohen, Department of Political Science, Yale University PAPERS:Chandan Reddy, Department of English, Columbia University Melville in the Period of Empire: Race, Sexuality, and National Literature in an International Frame Eleanor Jaluague, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego "Those Happy Melting-Pot Days": Race and Ethnicity after the New Deal Jodi Melamed, Department of English, Columbia University Race, The End of a Primitive, and Domestic Repudiation of Development COMMENT:Cathy J. Cohen
10:00 - 11:45 AM
CEDARNative American Political Resurgence and Activism
CHAIR:Alexandra Harmon, American Indian Studies Center, University of Washington PAPERS:Charlotte Cote, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley The Legal Dance of Resistance: Aboriginal Rights in Canada--the Nuuchahnulth Experience Lisa J. Udel, Department of English, University of Cincinnati "Where Are Our Women?": The Politics of Native Women's Feminism Shelton Waldrep, Department of English, Georgia State University Reverse Empire: Casinos in Native America COMMENT:Betty Louise Bell, American Cultures Program, University of Michigan
10:00 - 11:45 AM
DOUGLASImmigrants, Blacks, and Ex-Colonials: West Indian Life in the Twentieth-Century U.S.
CHAIR:Marilyn Halter, Department of History, Boston University PAPERS:Violet Johnson, Department of History, Agnes Scott College Restless Turks in Brahmin Land: West Indian Activism in Boston in the First Half of the Twentieth Century Irma Watkins-Owens, Department of African and African-American History, Fordham University Caribbean Women Immigrants, Social Networks and Anti-colonial Politics in New York City Rachel Buff, Department of History, Bowling Green State University "The Home of this Great Parade": Caribbean Carnival in Manhattan and Brooklyn, 1964-75 COMMENT:Alex Dupuy, Department of Sociology, Wesleyan University
10:00 - 11:45 AM
JUNIPERConduct Becoming Citizens: The Political Life of Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century America
CHAIR:Robert Dawidoff, Department of Political Science, Claremont Graduate University PAPERS:Amy S. Greenberg, Department of History, Pennsylvania State University Filibustering, Aggressive Manhood and Political Authority in the Mid-nineteenth Century Thomas Augst, Department of English, University of Minnesota The Sobriety Test: Intoxication and the Poetics of Citizenship Kathi Korn, Department of History, University of Kentucky "Savage Masculinity" and Wounded Knee: The Case of Leonard Colby COMMENT:Robert Dawidoff
10:00 - 11:45 AM
MADRONARace and Colonial Body Politics in the United States and Puerto Rico, 1865-1940
CHAIR:Sarah Elbert, Department of History, State University of New York, Binghamton PAPERS:Karen Gagne, Department of Sociology, State University of New York, Binghamton Coloniality at the Foundation of Nation-Building: Remapping the Boundaries of Empire in 'American Studies' Kelvin Santiago-Valles, Department of Sociology, State University of New York, Binghamton 'Producing the Portorriqueñan People:' Imperial Medicine and Racial Demography during the Early 20th Century Gladys M. Jiménez-Muñoz, School of Education and Human Development, State University of New York, Binghamton 'Womanhood' and 'Race' under U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico between the World Wars COMMENT:Sarah Elbert
10:00 - 11:45 AM
SUITE 416Roundtable: Empire and the Making of Asian Pacific America (Sponsored by the Association for Asian American Studies)
CHAIR:Shirley Hune, Department of Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles PANELISTS:Karin Aguilar-San Juan, Department of Sociology, Brown University Patricia Chu, Department of English, George Washington University John Liu, Asian American Studies Program, University of California, Irvine Viet Thanh Nguyen, Department of English, University of Southern California James Sobredo, Asian American Studies Department, California State University, Northridge COMMENT:The Audience
10:00 - 11:45 AM
SUITE 418/420Anxiety in the American Century: Slander, Conspiracy and Rumor as Narratives of Contested Nationalism
CHAIR:Bryant Simon, Department of History, University of Georgia PAPERS:Ann Pfau, Department of History, Rutgers University Male Anxiety and the Women's Army Corps: The Slander Campaign During the Second World War Kirsten Ostherr, Department of American Civilization, Brown University Conspiracy, Disease, and Globalization in Postwar Film James T. Sparrow, Department of History, Brown University Ambivalent Patriotism: The Rumor Publics of World War II COMMENT:Beth Bailey, Department of American Studies, University of New Mexico
10:00 - 11:45 AM
SUITE 422/424Europe, Africa and the Americas
CHAIR:Joseph Jordan, Department of English, Xavier University PAPERS:Bruce Levy, Department of English, Southern Methodist University Distancing Africanism: Frederick Douglass, Scotland, and the Geopolitics of Racial Identity Elisa Tamarkin, Department of English, Stanford University The "Englishness" of Abolition and the Making of the Black Intellectual Luciana Herman, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley The U.S., Haiti and France and the Containment of Democracy in 1798 COMMENT:Joseph Jordan
10:00 - 11:45 AM
SUITE 428/430Empires of Print: Antebellum Print Culture
CHAIR:Richard Fine, Department of English, Virginia Commonwealth University PAPERS:Jeff Finlay, American Studies Program, New York University Publishing Empire: Structure of Imperial Discourse in American and British Public Opinion During the Antebellum Period Emily Todd, Department of English, University of Minnesota Establishing the Novel: British Reprints and the Early Nineteenth-century American Publishing Industry John Smolenski, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania Empires of Print: Clubs, Publicity, and the Creation of Ethnic and Communal Identities in Colonial Pennsylvania John Dougan, American Studies Program, College of William and Mary The Sound of Plain People Singing: Music, Noise, and the Book of the Sacred Harp COMMENT:Ezra Greenspan, Department of English, University of South Carolina
10:00 - 11:45 AM
METROPOLITAN BALLROOMThe Business of American Studies (Sponsored by the Committee on American Studies Programs)
CHAIR:Paula Rabinowitz, Department of English, University of Minnesota PAPERS:Bruce Robbins, Department of English, Rutgers University Business as Usual? Caitlan Patterson, Director, Writing Across the Curriculum, Harry S. Truman College Rediscovering America in Third World Chicago John Bloom, Department of American Studies, Dickinson College Notes from a Road Scholar: American Studies and Intellectual Labor in the 1990s Rebecca Hill, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota Cultural Studies Meet the Labor Movement: Organizing the New Graduate Student Unions COMMENT:The Audience
10:00 - 11:45 AM
CIRRUSRoundtable: Interdisciplinary Pedagogy: Approaches to Gender and Globalization
CHAIR:Alvina Quintana, Department of English, University of Delaware PANELISTS:Rosa Linda Fregoso, Women's Studies Program, University of California, Davis Lisa Lowe, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Women's Studies Program, Hamilton College Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Women's Studies Program, Spelman College COMMENT:The Audience
10:00 - 11:45 AM
BOARDROOMSociety for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) American Studies Association Caucus Business Meeting
12:00 - 1:45 PM
WEST BALLROOM AEmpire and Interiority: Pedagogies of Race and Citizenship
CHAIR:Kenneth W. Warren, Department of English, University of Chicago PAPERS:Laura Rigal, American Studies Program, University of Iowa Writing with Gunpowder: Logan's Note to Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia Christopher Castiglia, Department of English, Loyola University, Chicago The Crying Game: William Lloyd Garrison's Sympathetic Address and the Civil State of Empire Lisa Brawley, Department of English, Kent State University Panic and "The Picturesque Line of America": Local Lessons in National Expansion c. 1857 Martin A. Berger, Department of Art History, Northwestern University Private Instruction in National Belonging: Race, Pedagogy, and Paternity in Thomas Eakins's The Dance LessonCOMMENT:The Audience
12:00 - 1:45 PM
EAST BALLROOM BThe Price of Empire: Public Ceremonies and Public Intellectuals in
Cold War AmericaCHAIR:Michael McCann, Department of Political Science, University of Washington PAPERS:Richard M. Fried, Department of History, University of Illinois, Chicago "Capturing the Streets for Loyalty": Loyalty Day and the Political Culture of the 1950s Mary M. Wheeler, Department of History, University of Michigan The Ex-Communist Confessionals and Anti-Communist Networks: Political Identity and Cultural Production in Cold War America Robert Shulman, Department of English, University of Washington Arthur Miller and Cold War Anti-communism: From the Waldorf Peace Conference to The CrucibleCOMMENT:Ellen Schrecker, Department of History, Yeshiva University
12:00 - 1:45PM
CEDARNegotiating Race and Citizenry in the Nineteenth Century
CHAIR:Lee Quinby, Department of English, Hobart and William Smith Colleges PAPERS:Malini Johar Schueller, Department of English, University of Florida Travel Writing, Cultural Capital, and African American Identity Laura Donaldson, Women's Studies Program, University of Iowa William Apess and the Indian's Looking Glass for the White Man Russ Castronovo, Department of English, University of Miami The Medium of Citizenship: Incidents in the (After) life of a Slave Girl COMMENT:
Stephanie A. Smith, Department of English, University of Florida
12:00 - 1:45 PM
DOUGLASThe Nation and Nationalism in Queer Art, Culture and Politics
CHAIR:Joanne Meyerowitz, Department of History, University of Cincinnati PAPERS:Nan Alamilla Boyd, Women's Studies Program, University of Colorado Race, Space and Political Power: Lesbian Feminist Bodies and Nations Meredith Wood, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota Formula Fiction as National and Sexual Dissent: The Case of Lesbian Detective Fiction Jeffery Edwards, Department of Political Science, Roosevelt University AIDS, Race, and the Rise and Decline of a Militant Oppositional Lesbian/Gay Politics COMMENT:Joanne Meyerowitz
12:00 - 1:45 PM
MADRONA1898/1998: Centennial of What?
CHAIR:John González, American Cultures Program, University of Michigan PAPERS:Sandra Gunning, American Cultures Program, University of Michigan Gender, Travel, and the Negotiation of Domestic Authority in A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Price Anne E. Goldman, Department of English, University of Colorado, Boulder Toward a More Dialectical Model for American Studies: Rereading Pauline Hopkins' Hagar's DaughterSusan Gillman, Department of American Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz Villaverde's Cuba: Revolutionary Nation or America's Empire for Slavery COMMENT:John González
12:00 - 1:45 PM
METROPOLITAN BALLROOMFemale Bodies and the National Imaginary
CHAIR:Catherine Gunther Kodat, American Studies Program, Hamilton College PAPERS:Rebecca Lindsey Epstein, Department of Film and Television, University of California, Los Angeles The "Acting" Aristocracy: Grace Kelly, Jacqueline Kennedy, and Diana Spencer as Public Performers and Sartorial Stars Ann Chisholm, Department of Speech Communication, California State University, Northridge Contortion, Cuteness and the Acrobatic Child: U.S. Media Representations of the 1996 Olympic Women's Gymnastics Team Adriana Estill, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of New Mexico The Marketing of Latinas: Magazines and Multicultural Beauty Sarah Banet-Weiser, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California Making the National Body White: Miss America as a Multicultural Phenomenon COMMENT:Nan Enstad, Department of History, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
12:00 - 1:45 PM
SUITE 416Constructing Race, Creating Nations: Relating African American and American Indian (Hi)stories
CHAIR:Robert Allen Warrior, Department of English, Stanford University PAPERS:Catherine Griffin, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota African American and American Indian Women Intellectuals and the Reconstruction of "American" Place: History, Land and Nation in Toni Morrison and Leslie Marmon Silko Melinda Micco, Department of Ethnic Studies, Mills College Empire-Building and the Construction of Black Seminole Identity Tiya Miles, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota "Bone of My Bone": Blacks and Blackness in the Cherokee Nation 1820-1830 COMMENT:Robert Allen Warrior
12:00 - 1:45 PM
SUITE 418/420Black Women's Cultural and Political Production in the 1970s
CHAIR:Adrienne Dale Davis, Washington College of Law, American University PAPERS:Kim Springer, Institution for Women's Studies, Emory University Cleopatra Jones vs. The Second Wave Feminist Empire: Black Feminist Organizations of the 1970s Duchess Harris, Department of Political Science, Macalaster College From Kennedy to Combahee: Black Feminist Organizing 1960 to 1980 Benita Roth, Department of Sociology, State University of New York, Binghamton A Couple of Things: The Emergence of Black Feminism in the Second Wave COMMENT:Jennifer DeVere Brody, Department of English, George Washington University
12:00 - 1:45 PM
SUITE 422/424Imperialized Alliances: Cross-cultural Readings between Chicano and Filipino-American Cultural Studies
CHAIR:Elizabeth H. Pisares, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley PAPERS:Carla Tejeda, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley Navigating the Politics of Border Theory and Traffic Signs Jean Vengua Gier, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley "Poetics of Presence": A Dialogue Between Filipino-American and Chicano Writing Dionne Espinoza, Department of Chicano Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison Ressentiment and Horizontal Relations of Power: Philip Vera Cruz's Critique of Chicano Leadership in the United Farmworkers Movement COMMENT:Walter Mignolo, Department of Romance Studies, Duke University
12:00 - 1:45 PM
SUITE 428/430Cold War Orientalisms
CHAIR:Melani McAlister, Department of American Studies, George Washington University PAPERS:Bill Mullen, American Studies Program, Youngstown State University The Color Curtain: Afro-Orientalism and the Cold War Refuge of Black Radicals Christina Klein, Department of Literature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology America's Asia: Hawaii as Cold War Paradise Brian Edwards, American Studies Program, Yale University Hippie Orientalism: The Interpretation of Countercultures COMMENT:Melani McAlister
12:00 - 1:45 PM
ASPENThe Imagined Community of International American Studies
(Sponsored by the International Committee)CHAIR:Maureen Montgomery, Department of American Studies, University of Canterbury, New Zealand PANELISTS:Gonul Pultar, Department of English, Bilkent University, Turkey Hiroko Sato, Department of English, Tokyo Women's Christian University, Japan Bruce Tucker, Department of History, Philosophy & Political Science, University of Windsor, Canada Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Department of Dance, Temple University This panel will explore the construction of the international community of American Studies, examine its diversity and areas of common ground, and contribute to an ongoing dialogue between Americanists throughout the world. Participants include scholars from within and outside of the United States who will address the following questions: What does American Studies mean in terms of your own scholarship? What materials are needed for teaching and research in American Studies? How is "American Studies" configured in your institution and local community? How do we account for, and deal with, the resistances? Is American Studies viewed as imperialistic? What understandings of American culture are fostered through scholarly work and how do these interact with the transmission of American culture through other media? How do exchanges of faculty and students foster this scholarly work?
12:00 - 1:45 PM
EAST BALLROOM AMedicine, Science, and Racialized Power
CHAIR:Alan Winkler, Department of History, Miami University, Ohio PAPERS:Laura Briggs, Women's Studies Program, University of Arizona "Mass Sterilization" and Colonialism in Puerto Rico: A Defining Issue for Feminism, Catholicism, and Nationalism Kathryn Keller, Social Study of Science and Technology, University of Washington Telling Tales: Race, Nation and Disease Eradication Projects Alondra Nelson, American Studies Program, New York University Spin Doctors: The Black Panther Party and Their Sickle Cell Anemia Campaign COMMENT:Regina Morantz-Sánchez, Department of History, University of Michigan
1:00 - 4:00 PM
SUITE 426ASA Students' Committee Mock Interviews
2:00 - 3:45 PM
WEST BALLROOM AEmpirical Images: The Photographic Practice of Nation Building
CHAIR:Mary Panzer, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution PAPERS:Alicia María Gámez, Program in Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University Visual Symptoms: Race and Diagnosis in Nineteenth-century Literature and Science Anna Pegler Gordon, American Cultures Program, University of Michigan Halftone Colonialism: Illustrating the Spanish-American War and Our New Possessions, 1898-1905 Carol Williams, Department of History, Rutgers University "Opening Blind Eyes": Missionary Use of the Magic Lantern Slide Show to Convert and Colonize Nuu-chah-nulth People in the Pacific Northwest Prior to 1920 COMMENT:Mary Panzer
2:00 - 3:45 PM
EAST BALLROOM AAgainst Derealization: Assault, New Media, and Empire Exposed
CHAIR:David W. Noble, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota PAPERS:Camilla Benolirao Griggers, Women's Studies Program, Carlow College Memories of a Forgotten War: The Philippine-American War of 1899 Joe Austin, American Culture Studies Program, Bowling Green State University "Graffiti Wars": Urban Crisis, Youth Culture, and Channels of Assault Maria Fernandez, School of Art, Carnegie Mellon University Toward a Postcolonial Electronic Media Theory COMMENT:David W. Noble
2:00 - 3:45 PM
EAST BALLROOM BMore than One Movement: Conflicting Definitions of
"Civil Rights" in the 1960sCHAIR:Quintard Taylor, Department of History, University of Oregon PAPERS:Henry J. Gutiérrez, Social Science Department, San Jose State University Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Los Angeles Jack Dougherty, Department of Education Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison Reinterpreting the Black "Abandonment" of School Integration in Milwaukee Andrea Jule Sachs, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota From Civil Rights to Welfare Rights: The National Welfare Rights Organization and the Search for Entitlement COMMENT:Earl Lewis, Center for Afro-American & African Studies, University of Michigan
2:00 - 3:45 PM
ASPENCultures of Revolution/Revolution in Cultures: Forging Identities,
Building MovementsCHAIR:Michael Murashige, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego PAPERS:Jane Rhodes, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego Cultures of Black Nationalism: The Self-Fashioning of the Black Panther Party Daryl Maeda, American Cultures Program, University of Michigan Constructing Yellow Power: The Asian American Movement's Encounter with Black Power Sandra Liu, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley The Asian American Movement and the Movies COMMENT:Laura Pulido, Department of Geography, University of Southern California
2:00 - 3:45 PM
CEDAROvercoming the Boarding School Experience in American Indian Education: Views from the Rez to Academia
CHAIR:James Nason, Professor of Anthropology, University of Washington PAPERS:Nan Little, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington Science Education with or for Native Americans? Augustine McCaffrey, Department of Education, University of Washington History of the American Indian Boarding School Experience Leon Strom, Superintendent of Schools, Taholah School District, Quinault Indian Reservation Impact of Federal Policies in the Native Classroom COMMENT:Indian Students from Washington and the University of Washington
2:00 - 3:45 PM
DOUGLASLatent Destiny: Queering the Critique of United States Imperialism
CHAIR:Nancy Bentley, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania PAPERS:Christopher Breu, Department of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz The Sun Never Sets: Imperial Masculinity in The Sun Also Rises Elizabeth Freeman, Department of Literature, Sarah Lawrence College "The Immediate Country": Mass-mediated Weddings and the Forms of National Feeling Carla Freccero, Department of English, University of California, Santa Cruz Outcast Recruits and Imperialist Fantasies: The Alien Trilogy COMMENT:Nancy Bentley
2:00 - 3:45 PM
MADRONAStaging Racial Conflict
CHAIR:Rosemary Weatherson, Department of English, University of Southern California PAPERS:David Román, Department of English, University of Southern California Notes on The Capeman Sasha Torres, Department of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University Guiliani Time: Abner Louima and Brooklyn South Rebecca Sumner-Burgos, American Studies Program, New York University Who Your Pusher?: Race, Drugs and The New York Times José Esteban Muñoz, Department of Performance Studies, New York University This Bridge Called My Crack: Alternative Economies and Utopian Economies COMMENT:David Eng, Department of English, Columbia University
2:00 - 3:45 PM
METROPOLITAN BALLROOMWhere We Stand--Coloring American Studies: A Roundtable Discussion with the Audience Facilitated by Graduate Students and Faculty of Color
CHAIR:Carol Miller, Department of American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota PANELISTS:Ernesto Chávez, Department of History, University of Texas, El Paso Estevan Rael y Galvez, American Cultures Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Renea Henry, Department of American Civilization, Brown University Jonathan Holloway, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego
2:00 - 3:45 PM
SUITE 416Race, Gender, Empire: The Politics of Expansion in Nineteenth-Century America
CHAIR:Kristin Hoganson, Department of History, Harvard University PAPERS:Maria S. Castellanos, Department of English, Brown University Reading the Romance: Anglo-Saxon Manhood and the Mexican-American War Bruce Dorsey, Department of History, Swarthmore College Exploring a Gendered History of the African Colonization Movement in Antebellum America Floyd Cheung, Department of English, Tulane University Parading Masculinities: European American and Chinese Imperialism and Gender in Territorial Arizona, 1869-1892 Laura Prieto, Department of History, Simmons College Señorita Cisneros and the American Girl: Popular Representations of Gender and Race in Promoting the War of 1898 COMMENT:Kristin Hoganson
2:00 - 3:45 PM
SUITE 418/420Essentializing Class
CHAIR:Mark Pittenger, Department of History, University of Colorado, Boulder PAPERS:Katherine Stubbs, Department of English, Colby College Performing the Real Thing: Imitation and Class Authenticity Jaime Harker, Department of English, Temple University Proletarian Middlebrow: Josephine Herbst, the "Authentic" Working Class, and Bourgeois Redemption Jennifer Parchesky, Department of American Studies, George Washington University Offspring of a Mismated Pair: Class Miscegenation and Stella Dallas COMMENT:Mark Pittenger
2:00 - 3:45 PM
SUITE 422/424Century of Eugenics: Permutations of the Gene Dream, 1890s-1990s
CHAIR:Stephanie Athey, Trotter Institute, University of Massachusetts PAPERS:Carole McCann, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Eugenics, Nationalism and the Foundations of Demography Alexandra Stern, Department of History, University of Chicago No Space for Error: Standardized Testing, Governmentality, and Normalcy across a Century of Eugenics Carol Mason, Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College Eugenic Implications in Pro-life Novels COMMENT:Stephanie Athey
2:00 - 3:45 PM
SUITE 428/430Murderous Desires: Violence and Alternative Sexualities
CHAIR:Nayan Shah, Department of History, State University of New York, Binghamton PAPERS:Lisa Duggan, American Studies Program, New York University Violent Passions: Race, Sexuality and Murder in the Making of American Nationalism Gayatri Gopinath, Department of English, Columbia University Cartographies of Violence in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night Judith Halberstam, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego Murder in Rural Nebraska: The Brandon Teena Story and Discourses of Gender Authenticity COMMENT:Nayan Shah
2:00 - 3:45 PM
CIRRUSInternational Committee Business Meeting
4:00 - 5:45 PM
WEST BALLROOM ASpace and Social Identities
CHAIR:Daniel Peck, Department of English, Vassar College PAPERS:J. Kehaulani Kauanui, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz The Mapping of Land and "Blood" in Hawai'i: The Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920 Julie L. McGee, Department of Art, Bowdoin College Inside/Outside: Africa as Locality in African American Art Carlos Tovares, Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle The Spaces of Chicano Modernity: Rethinking Aztlan and Chicano Nationalism COMMENT:Susan Lurie, Department of English, Rice University
4:00 - 5:45 PM
EAST BALLROOM AThe Empire Crawls Back: Gerber Classics and the Imperial Work of Children's Texts
CHAIR:Phyllis Jackson, Department of Art and Art History, Pomona College PAPERS:Rosemary George, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego The Logic behind the Magic: British Imperialism in U.S. Children's Narratives Indira Karamcheti, Department of English, Wesleyan University Child's Play: Louisa May Alcott's Imperial Schoolroom Ann duCille, Literature Department, University of California, San Diego Boricua Barbie and the Shirley Temple of Doom: Dolls, Dream Girls and Manifest Destiny COMMENT:The Audience
4:00 - 5:45 PM
EAST BALLROOM BP.T. Barnum's Empire: Rethinking Its Impact in 19th-century America
CHAIR:Robert Allen, American Studies Program, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill PAPERS:James W. Cook, Jr., Department of History, Butler University The Feejee Mermaid and the Market Revolution Martha Dennis Burns, Department of History, Brown University The Jenny Lind Concert Tour and the Making of Middle-Class Politics Janet Davis, Department of History, University of Wisconsin P.T. Barnum and the Commodification of Racial Difference in Late Nineteenth-Century America COMMENT:Bluford Adams, Department of English, University of Iowa
4:00 - 5:45 PM
ASPENOn Inter-American Cultural Criticism
CHAIR:José David Saldívar, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley PANELISTS:Julio Ramos, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Berkeley On Latin Americanism Alberto Moreiras, Department of Romance Studies, Duke University Latin/American Neotranscendentalism Doris Sommer, Department of Romance Languages, Harvard University The Rhetoric of Particularisms COMMENT:Norma Alarcon, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
4:00 - 5:45 PM
CEDARNative American Studies/ASA Caucus
4:00 - 5:45 PM
DOUGLASRewriting the West: War, Migration, and Empire, 1848-1898
CHAIR:Rosaura Sánchez, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego PAPERS:Shelley Streeby, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego Class, Empire, and Popular Culture in the American 1848 Frances Smith Foster, Institute of Women's Studies, Emory University The OverGround Railroad: African-American Emigrants and the Westward Expansion of US America Beatrice M. Pita, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego Suppressed Evidence: Ruiz de Burton and the Aftermath of 1848 COMMENT:David Lloyd, Humanities Department, Scripps College
4:00 - 5:45 PM
JUNIPERAre the Cats Still Singing? Modernity, Prostitution and the "Silent" Politics of Translation
CHAIR:Josephine Chuen-juei Ho, Department of English, National Central University, Republic of China PAPERS:Jen-Peng Liu, Department of Chinese Literature, National Tsing Hua University, Republic of China From "Our Own" to "Our Nation": Empire, Colonialism and Identity/Resistance in Ma Chun-wu's Chinese Translation of "The Rights of Women" Nafei Ding, Department of English, National Central University, Republic of China A Land Where Cats Do Not Sing: Licensed Prostitutes and State Feminism in 1990s Taiwan Amie Parry, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Chiao Tung University, Republic of China The Queer Feeling of Herland and the Sexual Politics of Feminist Translation Pin-chia Feng, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Chiao Tung University, Republic of China Re-mapping Asian American Literature: The Case of Fu San COMMENT:Josephine Chuen-juei Ho
4:00 - 5:45 PM
MADRONAMasculinity, Social Space, and Disciplinary Practices
CHAIR:Susan Jeffords, Department of English, University of Washington PAPERS:Lorna Rhodes, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington Managing "Sociopathy": Men in Disciplinary Space Elliot Gruner, Department of English, U.S. Air Force Academy The Prisoner of West Point Masculinity, Virtual Worlds, and the Total Institution Neil Smith, Department of Geography, Rutgers University The Geographical Pivot of History: Isaiah Bowman and the Geography of the American Empire COMMENT:Susan Jeffords
4:00 - 5:45 PM
METROPOLITAN BALLROOMThe Cultural Practices of Country Music: An Interdisciplinary Panel
CHAIR:Aaron A. Fox, Department of Music, Columbia University PAPERS:Thomas Porcello, Department of Music, University of Pennsylvania On the Border of Country: Ethnicity and Authenticity in the Recording Studio Cathy Brigham, Folklore/Ethnomusicology, Indiana University Meaningful Experiences of Country Music: How Even Top 40 Can Be Authentic Nastia Snider, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania Contradiction in Country: The (Vocal) Performance of Authenticity Barbara Ching, Department of English, University of Memphis Sad Songs in the Happy Days Era: Hank Williams and the Culture of Failure Pamela Fox, Department of English, Georgetown University Tearing the Stillhouse Down: Alternative Country and the Performance of Abjection COMMENT:Aaron A. Fox
4:00 - 5:45 PM
SUITE 416Building Empire at Home: Domestic Forms of American "Colonization"
CHAIR:Mary A. Renda, Department of History, Mount Holyoke College PAPERS:Stephanie Batiste Bentham, Department of American Studies, George Washington University "Taming the Yellow Peril": The Negotiation of Race through Gender Constructions in American Film, 1942-1957 Michèle Gates Moresi, Department of American Studies, George Washington University Exhibiting the Negro: Displaying Race and Nation at the Smithsonian Institution, 1929-30 Richard Ribb, American Studies Program, University of Texas, Austin Riding the Rangers: José Tomás Canales, the Texas Rangers and Empire on the Rio Grande in 1919 Ellen Fernandez Sacco, Department of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley Winner Takes All: Conquest, Gender and Collecting in Peale's Museum, 1779-1796 COMMENT:Mary A. Renda
4:00 - 5:45 PM
SUITE 418/420Sweatshop Lit.
CHAIR:George Yudice, American Studies Program, New York University PAPERS:Kitty Krupat, American Studies Program, New York University No Sweat: A Political Intervention for Human Rights Claire F. Fox, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Stanford University PanAmericanism and Intellectual Production on the U.S Mexico Border Amitava Kumar, Department of English, University of Florida Labor in the Ivory Tower COMMENT:Andrew Ross, American Studies Program, New York University George Yudice
4:00 - 5:45 PM
SUITE 422/424Nationalism/Immigration/Neocolonialism
CHAIR:Enrique Bonus, Department of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington PAPERS:Kulvinder Arora, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego Historicizing Early 20th Century European and Late 20th Century South Asian Immigrant Narratives Sonali Perera, Department of English, Columbia University Culture and Neocolonialism Vanita Sharma, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego (Re)Staging Independence: The Politics of Commemorating Fifty Years of Indian Independence COMMENT:Enrique Bonus
4:00 - 5:45 PM
SUITE 428/430All Quiet on the Home Front? Life and Labor in World War II America
CHAIR:David Gutiérrez, Department of History, University of California, San Diego PAPERS:Risa Goluboff, Department of History, Princeton University "Living in a Free Country, Working as a Slave": Patriotism, Patronage, and Peonage in Florida Sugar, 1941-1943 Sonya Smith, American Cultures Program, University of Michigan Working to the Beet: Negotiation and Survival Among Japanese American and Mexican Sugar Beet Workers During World War II Deborah Cohen, Department of History, University of Chicago Masculine Sweat, Modern Stamina: Making Mexico's Good Workers "Modern," Journeys of Bracero Laborers, 1942-1958 Josh Sides, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles Reconsidering Race, Re-organizing Labor: The Case of World War II Los Angeles COMMENT:David Gutiérrez
4:00 - 6:00 PM
WEST BALLROOM BUniversity of Minnesota Reception
The University of Minnesota Program in American Studies invites all of its alumni, friends, students and associates to this annual reception.
7:00 - 7:45 PM
GRAND BALLROOM SECTION CAwards Ceremony for ASA Prize Recipients
PRESIDING:Mary Kelley, Department of History, Dartmouth College, and President-elect of the American Studies Association Presentation of the 1998 Bode-Pearson Prize for outstanding contributions to American Studies, the 1998 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for the best book in American Studies, the 1998 Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize for the best dissertation in American Studies, the 1998 Constance Rourke Prize for the best article in American Quarterly, the 1998 Mary C. Turpie Prize for outstanding teaching, advising, and program development in American Studies, the 1998 Wise-Susman Prize for the best student paper at the convention, and the Annette K. Baxter Travel Awards to provide travel assistance to outstanding graduate students on the program.
8:00 - 9:30 PM
EAST BALLROOMPresident's Address
SPEAKER:Janice Radway, Program in Literature, Duke University, and the President of the American Studies Association What's in a Name
9:30 PM - 12:30 AM
EAST BALLROOMPresident's Reception and Dance
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