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.
8:00 - 9:45 AM
GRAND BALLROOM SECTION C
CHAIR:Susan L. Johnson, Department of History, University of Colorado
PAPERS:Kimberly Alidio, Department of History, University of Michigan Ethnography and Colonial Knowledge of Filipinos in an America City, 1920-1935 Javier Morillo-Alicea, Program in Anthropology and History, University of Michigan Bureaucratic Intimacies and Imperial Circuits: The Male World of the U.S. Colonial Archive, 1898-1934 Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Comparative/Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, Rutgers University The Empire in the Motion Picture Archive
COMMENT:Licia Fiol-Matta, Department of Spanish and Latin American Cultures, Barnard College
8:00 - 9:45 AM
WEST BALLROOM B
CHAIR:Gary Y. Okihiro, Asian American Studies Program, Cornell University
PAPERS:Marilyn M. Mehaffy, Department of Languages & Literature, Eastern New Mexico University Of Soap and Civilization Peter Hitchcock, Literary and Cultural Studies Program, City University of New York Joe: An Architectonics of Neo-colonialism and Capital Sivagami Subbaraman, Department of Women's Studies, University of Maryland Catalog-ing Ethnicity Keith Aoki, School of Law, University of Oregon Freezing the Meaning Because You 'Own' the Sign: US Trademark Law from the 19th Century to the Present
COMMENT:Gary Y. Okihiro
8:00 - 9:45 AM
EAST BALLROOM A
CHAIR:Curtis Marez, Department of American Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
PANELISTS:Sonia Saldivar-Hull, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles Packaging Chicana Songs: Tish Hinojosa, Nydia Rojas, and the Music of Transfrontera Memory Timothy D. Taylor, Department of Music, Columbia University Marketing "World Music": The Export of the Local as Global Josh D. Kun, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley "The Sun Never Sets on MTV": Global Networks, National Cultures, and Local Interference Cynthia J. Fuchs, Department of English, George Mason University I'll master your language, and in the meantime, I'll create my own: Empire and Hiphop Mutations
COMMENT:The Audience
8:00 - 9:45 AM
EAST BALLROOM B
CHAIR:Inderpal Grewal, Department of Women Studies, San Francisco State University
PAPERS:Caren Kaplan, Department of Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley Globalization, Target Markets and Identity Politics in Postmodernity Arvind Rajagopal, Department of Communication, Purdue University Non-committed Voters, Emerging Markets, and the Reconfiguration of Politics in the Wake of Globalization in India Lydia Liu, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley Beijing Sojourners in New York: Transnationalism and the Study of Global Popular Culture
COMMENT:Donald Lowe, Department of History, San Francisco State University
8:00 - 9:45 AM
ASPEN
CHAIR:Edward Orser, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore
PAPERS:Jennifer Schulz, Liberal Studies Program, University of Washington Cultural Infrastructure: An Archaeology of Harlem Maps Kenrick Ian Grandison, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan Negotiated Space: The Historically Black College Campus as a Record of the Postbellum South Molly Berger, Department of History, Case Western Reserve University Planting the Standard of Civilization: The Luxury Hotel as a Symbol of Conquest
COMMENT:Edward Orser
8:00 - 10:00 AM
CEDAR
CHAIR:Michael Denning, American Studies Program, Yale University
PAPERS:Brent Edwards, Department of English, Rutgers University Self-determining Bloods: The Internationalism of Black Radicalism After World War I Miranda Joseph, Women's Studies Program, University of Arizona Family Affairs: Kinship and Race in Narratives of Globalization and Regionalism David Kazanjian, Department of English, Queens College, City University of New York Enclosing the "Open Sea": Mercantilism and Racial Masculinity in the Early Nineteenth-Century North Atlantic Alys Eve Weinbaum, Department of English, University of Washington Reproducing Racial Globality: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Sexual Politics of Black Internationalism Melissa W. Wright, Department of Geography, University of Georgia Making American in a Mexican Factory
COMMENT:Michael Denning
8:00 - 9:45 AM
JUNIPER
CHAIR:Edward Watts, Department of American Thought and Language, Michigan State University
PAPERS:Katherine V. Snyder, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley The Bachelor Imaginary: Dreaming Manhood in Donald Grant Mitchell's Reveries of a Bachelor David M. Stewart, Department of English, National Central University Reading Violence: Toward a Recreational Male Identity Robert Martin, Department of English, University of Montreal, Canada "A Bare and Brawny Arm": Constructing the Masculine Body in the Artist of the Beautiful Bryce Traister, Department of English, University of Western Ontario, Canada The Medium, the Doctor and the Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Construction of Masculinity
COMMENT:Edward Watts
8:00 - 9:45 AM
METROPOLITAN BALLROOM
CHAIR:Herman Gray, Sociology Board, University of California, Santa Cruz
PAPERS:Sherrie Tucker, History of Consciousness Board, University of California, Santa Cruz Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies Ingrid Monson, Department of Music, Washington University Civil Rights, Manhood, and Jazz Bob McMichael, Department of Music, Stanford University Ain't That a Bitch? Misogyny and Jazz
COMMENT:The Audience
8:00 - 9:45 AM
SUITE 418/420
CHAIR:Ellen Seiter, Department of Communications, University of California, San Diego
PAPERS:Karen Connolly-Lane, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota 70s Cool or 80s Fool?: TV's Banacek on Money, Manhood, and the Power of a Polish Proverb Chris R.B. Fay, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin Six Kids, One Bathroom: The Virtual Vernacular of Situation Comedies Jaime Cárdenas, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles Zorro, Masculinity, and Post-War Culture: Televised Popular History Michael Kackman, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin, Madison I Spy a Colorblind Nation: Racial Integration, the Cold War, and American Paternalism
COMMENT:Lynn Spigel, School of Cinema and Television, University of Southern California
8:00 - 9:45 AM
SUITE 422/424
CHAIR:Evie Joselow, Art History Program, City University of New York
PAPERS:Sandra Dahlberg, Department of English, University of Houston, Downtown Zoot Suits and Overalls: Pantsing as Power in Kaneko's "The Shoyu Kid" and Valdez' Zoot SuitChantal Nadeau, Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University Petit traité du poil colonial: The Prince, Nanook and BB: Fur, Skin and the Colonial Space Henry Yu, Asian American Studies Program, University of California, Los Angeles How Tiger Woods Lost His Stripes: Multicultural Icon for Global Capitalism and American Black Male Body Laura Kuo, History of Consciousness Board, University of California, Santa Cruz "Who is [cK] one ?": The Commoditization of Hybridity in 90s U.S. Fashion Advertising
COMMENT:Alice Kessler-Harris, Department of History, Rutgers University
8:00 - 9:45 AM
WEST BALLROOM A
CHAIR:Danielle Taylor-Guthrie, Minority Studies, Indiana University Northwest
PANELISTS:Gaspar Gonzalez, American Studies Program, Yale University Making Work for Ourselves: Minority Scholars, Non-Traditional Scholarship, and the Academy Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Department of English, Howard University Practicing a New Field in American Studies Chela Sandoval, Department of Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara The Apartheid of Theory
COMMENT:Angela Winand, Department of History, Spelman College
9:00 - 11:00 AM
MADRONA
10:00 - 11:45 AM
GRAND BALLROOM SECTION C
CHAIR:Angel Kwolek-Folland, Department of History, University of Kansas
PANELISTS:Thomas Frank, Free-lance Journalist, Editor-in-Chief, The Baffler Eric Guthey, Department of Law, History and Communication, University of Michigan Business School Doug Henwood, Free-lance Journalist, Editor, The Left Business Observer Chris Newfield, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara Judy B. Rosener, School of Management, University of California, Irvine Thomas Streeter, Department of Sociology, University of Vermont
10:00 - 11:45 AM
WEST BALLROOM B
CHAIR:Susan Glenn, Department of History, University of Washington
PAPERS:Jane Kuenz, Department of English, University of Southern Maine The Cowboy Businessman and "The Course of Empire": Owen Wister's The Virginian Joni Adamson, Department of English, University of Arizona Encounter with a Mexican Jaguar: Nature, Narrative, and the Legacy of Environmental Conquest in the U.S./Mexican Borderlands John Ott, Department of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles Missionary Work: Labor, Nostalgia, Philanthropy and the California Mission Revival, 1883-1920
COMMENT:Susan Armitage, Department of History, Washington State University
10:00 - 11:45 AM
EAST BALLROOM B
CHAIR:Regina Blaszczyk, Department of History, Boston University
PAPERS:Elspeth Brown, American Studies Program, Yale University The Fit and the Unfit: Photography, Scientific Racism, and Vocational Placement in the Progressive Era Christine Holbo, Department of English, Stanford University "Engineering the Ethical: On the Contexts and Implications of Ellen H. Richards's Theory of Euthenics Claudia Stokes, Department of English, Columbia University To Make Carpenters Men: Dubois and Liberal Arts Education as Vocational Education
COMMENT:Nina Lerman, Department of History, Whitman College
10:00 - 11:45 AM
ASPEN
CHAIR:Kevin R. McNarma, Program in Literature, University of Houston, Clear Lake
PAPERS:Jeffery Shandler, Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University Reading the Streets: Ethnic Walking Tours in Contemporary American Urban Culture Mario A. Cubas, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison South Beach, Florida: Liminality and the Carnivalesque in Cuban Miami Robert Alexander González, Department of Architecture, University of California, Berkley Colonial Trappings and the George Washington Parade in Laredo, Texas Suzanne K. Arakawa, Department of English, Claremont Graduate School Mapping Metropolitan Asian Enclaves: "Chan is Missing," "Crimson Kimono," and "Blade Runner" Joseph S. Wood, Department of Geography, George Mason University Eden Center: Vietnamese American Place Making in a Northern Virginia Shopping Plaza
COMMENT:Kevin R. McNamara
10:00 - 11:45 AM
DOUGLAS
CHAIR:Elliot J. Gorn, Department of History, Miami University
PAPERS:Kirsten Fischer, Department of History, University of South Florida "Brutes . . . Whose Natures Seem Made to Bear It": Violence and Racism in the Enlightenment South Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley "It will trouble the American government and the American conscience": Charles W. Chesnutt and the Political Economy of Racial Violence Kali Tal, Department of Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies, University of Arizona Panthers and Monsters: Reading Black Men with Guns Lee Bernstein, American Studies Program, University of Colorado Give Me Death: Patriotism, Capital Punishment and the Spirit of '76
COMMENT:Hortense Spillers, Department of English, Cornell University
10:00 - 11:45 AM
METROPOLITAN BALLROOM
CHAIR:Patricia Herrera, Department of Theater, City University of New York
PAPERS:Douglas Eisner, Department of English, Fullerton College War, Sex, and the Masculine Collectivity in John Rechy's Numbers Tiffany Ana López, Department of English, University of California, Riverside Luis Alfaro and the Cult of Chicanismo C. Ondine Chavoya, School of Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University Homo-Cartographies: The Spatial Aesthetics of Desire in Contemporary Chicano Performance
COMMENT:Alma Rosa Alvarez, Department of English, Southern Oregon University
10:00 - 11:45 AM
SUITE 422/424
CHAIR:Craig E. Waters, Maxwell School of Communication, Syracuse University
PAPERS:Gaye Theresa Marie Johnson, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota Oye Como Va: Tracing the Musical and Grassroots Political Dialogue Between Latina/os and African Americans, from Chano Pozo to Carlos Santana Maureen Mahon, Department of Anthropology, Wesleyan University A "Postliberated" Generation Emerges: Getting Educated in the Post-civil Rights Era Ryan Maximillian Moore, Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego Working Stiffs and Retro Punks: Hybridity and Memory in Post-Punk Subcultures
COMMENT:Robert Walser, Department of Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles
10:00 - 11:45 AM
SUITE 428/430
CHAIR:Mark Franko, Theatre Arts Board, University of California, Santa Cruz
PAPERS:Susan Leigh Foster, Department of Dance History and Theory, University of California, Riverside Racing the Closet of Merce Cunningham's Modern Dance Jacqueline Shea Murphy, Department of Dance History and Theory, University of California, Riverside Masculinity and Modern Dance: Men Dancing "Indian" Kate Ramsey, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University Melville J. Herskovits, Katherine Dunham, and the Politics of African Diasporic Dance Anthropology
COMMENT:Susan Manning, Department of English, Northwestern University
10:00 - 11:45 AM
SUITE 416
CHAIR:Louise Spence, Media Studies, Sacred Heart University
PAPERS:Lynne Jackson, Communications Arts, St. Francis College Image-driven Cultural Contact: Representation to Mediation Gilberto M. Blasini, Critical Studies in Film and TV, University of California, Los Angeles Afro-Caribbean Diasporic Cultures in American Independent Film Agustin Laó-Montes, Fernand Braudel Center, State University of New York, Binghamton Pan Caribbean Cultural Circuits: Mambo and the Erotics of Translocality
COMMENT:Louise Spence
10:00 - 11:45 AM
WEST BALLROOM A
CHAIR:Robert Weyeneth, Department of History, University of South Carolina
PAPERS:Ayanna Yonemura, Department of Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles Racism and U.S. National Policies: Rexford Tugwell during World War II Marita Sturken, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California Desiring the Weather: El Niño and California Identity Marilyn Wyman, Department of Humanities and American Studies, San José State University Riding into the Sunset: Southern Pacific and the Creation of a Western Landscape
COMMENT:Dean MacCannell, Department of Environmental Design, University of California, Davis