AAIHS

African American Intellectual History Society

SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE

EXPANDING THE BOUNDARIES OF BLACK INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
MARCH 24-25, 2017
NASHVILLE, TN
 Welcome!

The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is pleased to welcome you to our Second
Annual Conference. Since AAIHS began in January 2014, it has quickly become one of the leading
organizations for the study, teaching, and discussion of the black intellectual tradition.

This is especially evident in the success of our blog, Black Perspectives. Hundreds of thousands of
visitors come to the blog each month to enjoy original articles on black intellectual history by our team of
dynamic bloggers, interviews with emerging and award-winning scholars, roundtables on and reviews of
new and foundational works in our field, and insightful commentary on current events. Indeed, Black
Perspectives and AAIHS have fostered conversations that are not only changing the academy but
extending far beyond it.

With our second annual conference, we seek to build on the tremendous success of our inaugural
conference and continue to advance the online conversations about black life, thought, and history.
Accordingly, the theme of the conference is Expanding the Boundaries of Black Intellectual History.
Over the course of two days, we will assess what it means and what it has meant to do black intellectual
history. We will define what is a black intellectual and clarify who have been the producers of black
intellectual history. We will explore the boundaries of black intellectual history in the United States and
across the African Diaspora.

With a diverse set of presentations on a wide-range of topics including religion, internationalism, slavery,
sexuality, popular culture, and political thought, the conference will push the field of black intellectual
history in new and exciting directions. Certainly, the keynote address by professor Davarian L. Baldwin
promises compelling insights into this growing field of historical inquiry.

Moreover, in the spirit in which AAIHS was founded, we are pleased to welcome everyone to the
conference. Regardless of scholarly background or interests, the conference offers a space to develop
personal and professional relationships, collaborate on teaching and research, and explore new and
collective approaches to the study of black intellectual history. In short, it offers a space for community.

Finally, we would like to extend our sincere thanks to all of you for joining us for our second annual
conference. Your perspectives and expertise, participation and engagement have made AAIHS into an
internationally recognized organization. We are excited about the promise of future growth stimulated by
your excellence.

2017 Conference Planning Committee

Brandon R. Byrd, Chair
Christopher Cameron
Kami Fletcher
Christopher Bonner
Nathan H. Dize

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 Maria Stewart Journal Article Prize

This year, the African American Intellectual History Society established the Maria Stewart Prize. Named
after pioneering abolitionist and womens rights activist-intellectual Maria Stewart, the inaugural prize
recognizes the best journal article concerning black intellectual history published between January 2015
and December 2016. In addition to a monetary prize, the winner receives an award certificate and a
featured spot at Black Perspectives. We are pleased to announce David Stein as this years winner.

Winner: David Stein, This Nation Has Never Honestly Dealt with the Question of a Peacetime
Economy: Coretta Scott King and the Struggle for a Nonviolent Economy in the 1970s.

David Stein is a Lecturer in the Departments of History and African American Studies at University of
California-Los Angeles. From 2014-2016, he was the Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Place,
Culture, and Politics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He received his PhD
from University of Southern Californias Department of American Studies and Ethnicity in 2014. He
received his BA in African American Studies and Sociology from Wesleyan University, and his MA in
African American Studies and American Studies from Yale University. His research focuses on the
interconnection between social movements and economic and social policy in post-1865 U.S. history. His
book manuscript, Fearing Inflation, Inflating Fears: The Civil Rights Struggle for Full Employment and
the Rise of the Carceral State, 1929-1986, is under contract with University of North Carolina Press for
their Justice, Power and Politics series. Fearing Inflation focuses on the politics and economics of
unemployment. It details the efforts of Black freedom movement organizers to create governmental
guarantees to a job or income, and how such efforts were stifled. In so doing, Fearing Inflation describes
the long history and aftermath of the campaign designed by civil rights activist Bayard Rustin and
prominent economist Leon Keyserling for a Freedom Budget for All Americans, in the mid-1960s, and
the subsequent attempts to achieve legislation to guarantee employment led by Coretta Scott King and the
Full Employment Action Council in the 1970s. He also co-hosts and produces Who Makes Cents?: A
History of Capitalism Podcast with Betsy Beasley.

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 C. L. R. James Research Fellowship

This year, the African American Intellectual History Society established the C.L.R. James Research
Fellowship to support research towards the completion of a dissertation or publication of a book.
Named after Afro-Trinidadian theorist C.L.R. James, the research fellowships are intended to
promote research in black intellectual history by graduate students, independent scholars, and
faculty members at any rank. Four fellowships of $1000 were awarded this year to help cover the
costs of domestic or international travel necessary to conduct research.

Winners:

Garrett Felber received his Ph.D. in American Culture from the University of Michigan. He received
a C.L.R. James research fellowship to support the publication of his edited collection, entitled We
Are All Political Prisoners: The Prison Writings of Martin Gonzalez Sostre.

Crystal Eddins is a Ph.D. candidate in African American and African Studies and Sociology at
Michigan State University. She received a C.L.R. James Research Fellowship to support revisions of
her dissertation, entitled African Diaspora Collective Action: Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian
Revolution.

Brian Lefresne is a Ph.D. candidate in Literary Studies at the University of Guelph. He received a
C.L.R. James Research Fellowship to support the completion of his dissertation, entitled Saturns
Ark: The Improvised Archives, Politics, and Performances of Sun Ra.

Merve Fejzula is a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of Cambridge. She received a C.L.R.
James Research Fellowship to support the completion of her dissertation, entitled Black
Internationalism, Prsence africaine, and the Postwar Future: 1945-1975.

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 Du Bois-Wells Graduate Student Paper Prize

In its second year, this prize, named for W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells, honors the most outstanding paper
written by a graduate student at the annual conference. In addition to a monetary prize, the winner receives a
plague, a one-year membership to the AAIHS, and a featured spot at Black Perspectives. We are pleased to present
this years winner, Andrew Pope, and runner-up, Natalie Shibley.

Winner: Andrew Pope, Less Spelling, More Mathematics: Model Neighborhood, Inc. & the Remaking of Black
Power in Atlanta, 1966-1974.

Andrew Pope is a graduate student in the Department of History at Harvard University. His dissertation is titled
Living in the Struggle: Black Power, Gay Liberation, and Womens Liberation Movements in Atlanta, 1964-1996.
Previously, he graduated from the University of Rochester with degrees in African & African American Studies and
history. Before beginning graduate school, he worked for three years as a tenants' rights advocate at the Legal Aid
Society of Rochester.

Honorable Mention: Natalie Shibley, Peanuts, Protein, and Polio: George Washington Carvers Ideas about
Health Care.

Natalie Shibley is a Benjamin Franklin Fellow and joint-degree Ph.D. candidate in Africana Studies and History at
the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation, "Sexual Contagion: The Politics of Sexuality and Public Health in
the U.S. Military, 1941-1993," examines U.S. military policy regarding sexually transmitted diseases and medical
approaches to homosexuality. She has been awarded fellowships or grants from, among other sources, the U.S.
Army Military History Institute, the Society for the History of Navy Medicine, the Gender, Sexuality & Womens
Studies Program at Penn, and the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences.

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 African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)
March 24-25, 2017

Expanding the Boundaries of Black Intellectual History

#AAIHS2017

Friday, March 24, 2017

8:00am-5:45pm - On-site Registration

Location: Sarratt 308 Skylight

7:30am- 8:20 am - AAIHS Business Meeting

Location: Sarratt 363
All current members of AAIHS are invited to attend

**8:30-10:15am- Session 1 (Concurrent Panels)

Roundtable--The Black Intellectual in Academia

Location: Sarratt 216/220
Moderator: Ashley Farmer, Boston University
Discussants
Christopher Cameron, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Daina Ramey Berry, University of Texas, Austin
Kami Fletcher, Delaware State University
Corey D. B. Walker, Winston-Salem State University

Freedom in Motion: Theorizing Black Liberation in the Long Nineteenth Century

Location: Sarratt 331
Chair: Sharon Harley, University of Maryland, College Park
Presenter 1: Julia Bernier, The College of Wooster
To Lay up Money Enough: Capital Accumulation, Family, and
Buying Freedom in 19th Century African American Communities
Presenter 2: Johanna Ortner, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Reform has her seed-time and her harvest: Frances E.W. Harper and the Social, Civil, and
Statistical Association of the Colored People of Philadelphias Postbellum Lecture Circuit
Presenter 3: Nneka D. Dennie, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Civilization and Subversion: Ida B. Wells, Anna Julia Cooper, and Jim Crow Respectability
Presenter 4: Don S. Polite Jr., University of South Carolina
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg & Flix Crdova Dvila: The Divergent Paths of Freedom for
Racialized Puerto-Ricans under US Racial Empire

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Literature and Black Intellectual History
Location: Sarratt 325
Chair: Lori Leavell, University of Central Arkansas
Presenter 1: Danielle Procope, Vanderbilt University
The Neo Slave Narrative as the Panacea of Authenticity: On Rethinking True Black
Womanhood, Violence, and Resistance in Marlon James The Book of Night Women
Presenter 2: Andrew Lester, Rutgers University, Newark
Satisfying Pagan Thirst for Beauty Unadorned: Expanding the Boundaries of Black
Intellectual Expression with FIRE!!
Presenter 3: Calvin Walds, University of California, San Diego
The Only Black Man in Bern, Switzerland: Fugitivity and Existentialism in Vincent Carters
The Bern Book
Presenter 4: Andy Hines, Vanderbilt University
Culture is a powerful weapon: Reading Literature at the Jefferson School of Social Science

Lost Histories and Ghosts of African American Intellectual Thought: Case Studies from Science
and Technology
Location: Sarratt 327
Chair: Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University
Presenter 1: Lisa D. Cook, Michigan State University
The Idea Gap in Black and Pink
Presenter 2: Kara W. Swanson, Northeastern University
Historicizing the Black Inventor as a Political Resource
Presenter 3: Patrick R. Grzanka, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
W.E.B. Du Bois, Intersectionality, and the Future of the History of Sociology
Commentator: Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University

Integrated Dystopia: Subversive Spatial Modalities and Black Survival at Sites of Racial
Contestation
Location: Sarratt 363
Chair: Thadious Davis, University of Pennsylvania
Presenter 1: Anthony Pratcher II, University of Pennsylvania
Trouble Ground: Violence, Civic (dis)Integration, and Racial Integration in the Suburban
Sunbelt
Presenter 2: Leslie Jones, University of Pennsylvania
#onhere: Naming and Claiming Black Digital Space
Presenter 3: Clayton Colmon, University of Delaware
Afrofuturist Histotext: Zone One and the Utopic Potential of Embodied Black Space
Commentator: Julius Fleming, University of Maryland College Park

10:15-10:30AM: Break

**10:30AM-12:15PM Session 2 (Concurrent Panels)

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Seminar--Digital Humanities Professional Development
Location: Buttrick 344
Moderator: Madaleine Casad, Vanderbilt University
Participants
Angel David Nieves, Hamilton College
Kim Gallon, Purdue University
Pier Gabrielle Foreman, University of Delaware

Expanding the Boundaries of Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism

Location: Sarratt 216
Chair: Brandon R. Byrd, Vanderbilt University
Presenter 1: Leslie M. Alexander, The Ohio State University
A United and Valiant People: Black Visions of Haiti in the Early Nineteenth Century
Presenter 2: Brandon R. Byrd, Vanderbilt University
Haiti for the Haitians
Presenter 3: Asia Leeds, Spelman College
Garveyism, Diaspora, and Black Womens Internationalism in Latin America
Presenter 4: Russell Rickford, Cornell University
Paradise Lost: Jonestown, Guyana, & African-American Expatriation in the 1970s
Commentator: Michael O. West, Binghamton University

Contemporary Black Thought in Museums

Location: Sarratt 220
Chair: Ashley Bouknight, The Hermitage
Presenter 1: Janell Ajani, New York University
Franklin Sirmans: A Black Thought Leader for the Museum Age
Presenter 2: Aleia Brown, Michigan State University
War and Redemption in the Cloth: Quilting the Black Freedom Struggle, 1960-Present
Presenter 3: Adrienne Russell, Independent Scholar
The Black Museum Experience: Are We Still Building With the Masters Tools?

Black Women Writers and the Limits of Intellectual History

Location: Sarratt 325
Chair: Ifeoma Nwankwo, Vanderbilt University
Presenter 1: Destiny Birdsong, Vanderbilt University
Transgressing Boundaries: The Politics of Identity and Knowledge Transmission in Emily
Raboteaus The Professors Daughter
Presenter 2: Petal Samuel, University of Virginia
Michelle Cliff, Quiet Development, and the Acoustics of Decolonization
Presenter 3: Nicole A. Spigner, Columbia College Chicago
Echoes of Niobe: H. Cordelia Ray and Phillis Wheatley Rewrite Ovid
Commentator: Ifeoma Nwankwo, Vanderbilt University

The Radical King

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Location: Sarratt 327
Chair: TBD
Presenter 1: Andrew J. Douglas, Morehouse College/Yale University
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Theory of Racial Capitalism
Presenter 2: Samuel T. Livingston, Morehouse College
An Unbroken Bond: The African Circle of Culture in Martin Luther King, Jr.s Liberation
Thought and Praxis
Presenter 3: Jared Loggins, University of California, Los Angeles
Martin Luther King Jr. as Critical Theorist
Presenter 4: Justin Rose, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
The Drum Major Instinct: Service as the New Norm of Greatness

W. E. B. Du Bois and the Production of Black History

Location: Sarratt 331
Chair: Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Vanderbilt University
Presenter 1: Stephen G. Hall, Alcorn State University
The Most Romantic and Tragic of Continents: Revisioning Africa in W. E. B. Du Boiss The
Negro
Presenter 2: Lavelle Porter, New York City College of Technology, CUNY
W. E. B. Du Bois, The Black Flame, and the Art of the Novel
Presenter 3: Phillip Luke Sinitiere, College of Biblical Studies
W. E. B. Du Bois and Negro History Week, 1934-1962
Presenter 4: Robert W. Williams, Bennett College
W. E. B. Du Bois at the Horizon of History and Sociology
Commentator: Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Vanderbilt University

Nineteenth-Century Haitian Intellectuals and Narrations of Black History

Location: Sarratt 363
Chair: Erin Zavitz, University of Montana Western
Presenter 1: Erin Zavitz, University of Montana Western
Le Rpublicain and LUnion: The Role of the Haitian Press in the Creation of a National
Literary Tradition
Presenter 2: Chelsea Stieber, Catholic University of America
Counterfeit History: Louis Joseph Janviers Revisionist Approach to the Liberal Bourgeois
Narrative of Haiti
Presenter 3: Nathan H. Dize, Vanderbilt University
Performing History in Vendenesse Ducasses Theater of the Haitian Revolution
Commentator: Audience

Lunch Break--12:15-1:30PM

**1:30-3:15PM Session 3 (Concurrent Panels)

The Intellectual Histories of Slaverys Sexualities

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Location: Sarratt 216
Chair: Thavolia Glymph, Duke University
Presenter 1: Alexis Broderick, University of Pennsylvania
Beastly Incest: Freedwomen, the Freedmans Bureau, and Paternity in the Post-
Emancipation South
Presenter 2: Shannon C. Eaves, University of North Florida
Constructions of a Culture of Rape and Sexual Exploitation within Enslaved Communities in
the Antebellum South
Presenter 3: Deirdre Cooper Owens, Queens College, CUNY
From Soul Murder to Soul Care: A Praxis for Understanding Bondwomens History
Presenter 4: Emily Owens, Brown University
As His Wife: Redefining Wifeliness in the Face of Unfreedom

Roundtable--The Nuts and Bolts of Publishing

Location: Sarratt 220
Moderator: Ibram X. Kendi, University of Florida
Discussants
Robert Lockhart, University of Pennsylvania Press
Jill Petty, Beacon Press
Walter Biggins, University of Georgia Press
Dawn Durante, University of Illinois Press

Archives and Artifacts: New Approaches to Arturo Schomburgs Intellectual Praxis

Location: Sarratt 325
Chair: Pier Gabrielle Foreman, University of Delaware
Presenter 1: Myra Young Armstead, Bard College
Arturo Schomburg: Avatar of Black Progressive Public History
Presenter 2: Laura E. Helton, Pennsylvania State University
The Price of Black History
Presenter 3: Rafia Zafar, Washington University in St Louis
The Negro Cooks Up His Past: Arturo Schomburgs Gastronomica

The Varieties of the Black Radical Tradition (Sponsored by the Society for U.S. Intellectual History)
Location: Sarratt 327
Chair: Zandria Robinson, Rhodes College
Presenter 1: Andrew Hartman, Illinois State University
Black Marxism from W.E.B. Du Bois to Cedric Robinson
Presenter 2: Robert Greene II, University of South Carolina
Where Did We Go from Here: Black Radicalism and Southern Identity, 1968-2008
Commentator: Zandria Robinson, Rhodes College

Jim Crow, Fascism, and Freedom: Black Radicals Reinterpret the Politics of the 1930s
Location: Sarratt 331
Chair: Jordan T. Camp, Brown University
Presenter 1: Christina Heatherton, Trinity College

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 If Culture Respects No Borders: Elizabeth Catlett and Transnational Struggles Against
Fascism
Presenter 2: Ani Mukherji, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
From Slavery to Slavery: I.T.A. Wallace-Johnsons Lost Moscow Manuscript, Black Radical
Traditions, and Opposition to the Segregationist International
Presenter 3: Leslie James, University of Birmingham
The Face of Fascism: Features of a Fascist Repertoire from the Interwar Caribbean
Commentator: Jordan T. Camp, Brown University

Afroeuropeans Rewriting the Nation

Location: Sarratt 363
Chair: Kennetta Hammond Perry, East Carolina University
Presenter 1: Priscilla D. Layne, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Implications of James Sneads Legacy for Black German Literature
Presenter 2: Celeste Day Moore, Hamilton College
Rooting Jazz: Black Francophone Audiences and the Global Circulation of African-American
Culture
Presenter 3: Nicole M. Jackson, Bowling Green State University
In Defense of their Children: The Black Parents Movement in Post-Imperial England
Commentator: Kennetta Hammond Perry, East Carolina University

3:15-3:30PM: Break

**3:30-5:15PM Session 4 (Concurrent Panels)

Digital Tools Workshop

Location: Buttrick 344
Participants
Jessica Marie Johnson, Johns Hopkins University
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Independent Scholar
Julia Wallace, Independent Scholar

Roundtable--Self-Care and Black Intellectual Labor

Location: Sarratt 220
Discussants
Claire Oberon Garcia, Colorado College
Charles Bowie, Tennessee State University
Commentator: Audience

Black Political Thought in the Black Power City

Location: Sarratt 216
Chair: George Derek Musgrove, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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Presenter 1: Andrew Pope, Harvard University
Less Spelling, More Mathematics: Model Neighborhood, Inc. & the Remaking of Black
Power in Atlanta, 1966-1974
Presenter 2: Jessica Ann Levy, Johns Hopkins University
We Must Now Also PREPARE and PRODUCE!: Opportunities Industrialization Center,
Inc. and Racial Uplift in the Time of Black Power
Presenter 3: Danielle L. Wiggins, Emory University
Contesting the Things Not Seen: Ideas of Crime and Community in Atlanta during the Atlanta
Youth Murders, 1979-1981
Commentator: George Derek Musgrove, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Migration, Travel, and Black Identity

Location: Sarratt 325
Chair: Adebayo Oyebade, Tennessee State University
Presenter 1: Caree Banton, University of Arkansas
Barbadians Encounter the African Coast: Settlement, Identity, and Stratification in Liberia
Presenter 2: Theodore Francis, Huston-Tillotson University
Fair weather friends?: Black Tourists, Diaspora and Desegregation in Bermuda
Presenter 3: Kerstin Rudolph, Catawba College
Intellectual Journeys: Exploring Berlin in Mary Church Terrells German Diaries
Presenter 4: Ira Dworkin, Texas A&M University
Patrice Lumumba Comes to America

Black Internationalism and Diasporic Politics

Location: Sarratt 327
Chair: Quito Swan, Howard University
Presenter 1: Zakiya Adair, The College of New Jersey
To Thee We Sing: Global Visions in Black Opera, Classical and Gospel Music
Presenter 2: Hillina Seife, University of Michigan
David A. Talbot and the Politics of Visibility in 20th Century Black Intellectual History
Presenter 3: Peter Cole, Western Illinois University
Black Dockworkers by the Bay: Working Class Intellectuals and the Struggle Against
Apartheid
Commentator: Quito Swan, Howard University

Strength in Numbers: African American Activists and the Promise of Statistical Discourses, 1840-
1890
Location: Sarratt 331
Chair: Mia Bay, Rutgers University
Presenter 1: Meagan Wierda, Rutgers University
Figures and Fanaticism: The Census of 1840 and the Rise of Empirical Abolitionism
Presenter 2: Tauheeda Yasin Martin, George Mason University/Northern Virginia Community
College
Listening to the Dead Speak Their Names: Data and Mapping Death
Presenter 3: Caitlin Wiesner, Rutgers University

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 Philadelphia Black Feminists and Statistical Discourses of Rape and Race, 1976-1980
Commentator: Mia Bay, Rutgers University

Black Poetry as Intellectual History

Location: Sarratt 363
Chair: Shaundra Myers, Northwestern University
Presenter 1: Tiana Clark, Vanderbilt University
The Rime of Nina Simone: Using the Masters Tools to Dismantle the Masters Canon
Presenter 2: Tara Betts, University of Illinois, Chicago
Marilyn Nelson Opening a Historic Lens for Young Readers
Presenter 3: Isaac Ginsberg Miller, Northwestern University
Re-siting If We Must Die: Claude McKay and Winston Churchill
Presenter 4: Tyrone S. Palmer, Northwestern University
The Weight of Nonexistence: Citizen, Affect and Lyric Form

5:30pm-7:00pm Keynote Address

Davarian L. Baldwin, Trinity College

Title: Ideas in Unexpected Places: Making Sense of a Marketplace Intellectual Life
Location: Sarratt Cinema

5:30-5:50pm Award Announcements: Du Bois-Wells Graduate Student Paper Prize, C.L.R. James
Fellowships, and Maria Stewart Journal Article Prize

7:30-8:30pm: Reception
Location: Sarratt Gallery

Saturday, March 25, 2017

8:00-11:45am - On-site Registration
Location: Sarratt 308 Skylight

**8:00-9:45AMSession 1 (Concurrent Panels)

Heroic Women: 19th Century Black Women in a Mans (Intellectual) World

Location: Sarratt 361
Chair: Mia Bay, Rutgers University
Presenter 1: Kaisha Esty, Rutgers University
I wanted to keep myself pure I tried hard to preserve my self-respect: Black Women,
Virtue and the Struggle for Sexual Self-Sovereignty
Presenter 2: Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders, Rutgers University

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 "These things should be kept in history before the people: Black Women and the Creation of
Civil War Memory
Presenter 3: Jasmin A. Young, Rutgers University
Almost Advised Murder, Violence, Resistance and Black Women
Commentator: Mia Bay, Rutgers University

Old Starting Points, New Paradigms: Reconsidering the Archive as a Cornerstone in African
American Intellectual History
Location: Sarratt 325
Chair: Carla L. Peterson, University of Maryland, College Park
Presenter 1: Sarah Elizabeth Calise, Middle Tennessee State University
Deconstructing Whiteness in the Archive: Documenting Black Student Protest at Middle
Tennessee State University
Presenter 2: Melanie Chambliss, Northwestern University
An Inter-Related Whole: Understanding the Fragments, Frameworks, and Framed Works in
the Arthur Schomburg Collection
Presenter 3: Jennifer C. James, The George Washington University
Beyond Roots: Genealogical Archives and Black Historical Production
Commentator: Cynthia Greenlee, Independent Scholar

Race and Nation in the Caribbean

Location: Sarratt 327
Chair: Brandon R. Byrd, Vanderbilt University
Presenter 1: Donette Francis, University of Miami
Refusals at its Intimate Limits: Stuart Hall and the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition
Presenter 2: Kristina Lee, Vanderbilt University
Theories and their Logical Consequences: Antnor Firmin as a Locus for Theoretical
Reform in Anthropological Thought
Presenter 3: Natasha Howard, University of New Mexico
The Intersection of U.S. Colorblind Racial Ideology, Latin American Mestizaje Ideology and
Black Annihilation
Presenter 4: Alexander Eastman, Dartmouth College
Cubas Independent Party of Color: Civil Rights, Popular Politics and Emancipatory Reading
Practices

Transnationalism and Diasporic Connections

Location: Sarratt 331
Chair: Alicia Monroe, Vanderbilt University
Presenter 1: Merve Fejzula, University of Cambridge
Prsence Africaine and the Cultural Politics of the Black Intellectual Tradition
Presenter 2: Laura Rene Chandler, South Dakota State University
Critical Regionalism in Anna Julia Coopers A Voice from the South
Presenter 3: Luciana Brito, Universidade Federal do Recncavo da Bahia Brazil
We are Africo-American People: Black Abolitionists Building Transnational Identities
between United States and Brazil

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Presenter 4: Anne Margaret Castro, University of Oxford
Staging the Historical Narrative in C.L.R. James Dramas

Biography: An Evolving and Innovative Methodology for African American Intellectual History
Location: Sarratt 216/220
Chair: Martha Jones, University of Michigan
Presenter 1: Anyabwile Love, Community College of Philadelphia
John Coltrane and Soft Black Power: The Black Musicians Cry for a Corrected Narrative
Presenter 2: Lauren L. Anderson, Luther College
Juliette Derricotte: Ecumenism, Interracialism, and Same-Sex Love
Presenter 3: Douglas H. Brown Clark, Vanderbilt University
Interplay of Radical Thought and Activism in the Civil Rights Work of Gayraud Wilmore
Commentator: Martha Jones, University of Michigan

Leila Amos Pendleton: Narratives of Black Identity, Representation, and Internationalism

Location: Sarratt 363
Chair: Mitch Kachun, Western Michigan University
Presenter 1: LaGarret Jariel King, University of Missouri, Columbia
A Narrative to the Colored Children in America: Leila Amos Pendleton, African American
History Textbooks, and Challenging Personhood
Presenter 2: Stephen G. Hall, Alcorn State University
Leila Amos Pendleton, Black Internationalism and the Politics of Representation
Commentator: Mitch Kachun, Western Michigan University

9:45-10AM: Break

**10:00-11:45AMSession 2 (Concurrent Panels)

Beyond the Atlantic: Black Internationalism in the Philippines

Location: Sarratt 325
Chair: Paul Kramer, Vanderbilt University
Presenter 1: Guy Emerson Mount, University of Chicago
The Last Reconstruction: Race, Nation, and Empire during the Black Colonization of the
Philippines
Presenter 2: Vance Schleitwiler, University of Washington
Mapping Black Histories from the Philippines Outward
Presenter 3: Angelica Allen, University of Texas, Austin
Blackness in the Philippine Imaginary
Commentator: Paul Kramer, Vanderbilt University

Perspectives on Carter G. Woodson and Vindicationism in African American Historical Thought

Location: Sarratt 361
Chair: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Harvard University
Presenter 1: Pero G. Dagbovie, Michigan State University
In Defense of Black America: Carter G. Woodson and the Tradition of Race Vindication

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Presenter 2: Jarvis R. Givens, Harvard University
Pictured as a human being of the lower order: Blackness, Education, and Ideas of the Human
in Carter G. Woodsons Philosophy
Presenter 3: Azmar K. Williams, Harvard University
Out of Love of Country: Albert Bushnell Hart, Carter G. Woodson, and the Making of
Negro History
Commentator: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Harvard University

Anthropology and/as African American Intellectual History

Location: Sarratt 327
Chair: Yarimar Bonilla, Rutgers University
Presenter 1: Aimee Meredith Cox, Fordham University
Hurston, Dunham, and Black Feminist Interdisciplinarity
Presenter 2: Adia Benton, Northwestern University
The running dogs of imperialism? Notes on Whiteness and the Legacy of Black Africanist
Anthropology
Presenter 3: Christien Tompkins, UCLA
Anthropology and the Study of Black Synthetic Intellectuals
Presenter 4: Ryan Cecil Jobson and Jafari Sinclaire Allen, Yale University and the University of
Miami
Anthropology will be decolonized or it will be nothing at all: Reading The Decolonizing
Generation Toward Radical Black Futures

James Baldwin, Howard Thurman, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Visions of Black Liberation
Location: Sarratt 331
Chair: Mari N. Crabtree, College of Charleston
Presenter 1: Clifton Granby, Yale Divinity School
Beyond Resistance: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Howard Thurman, and the Politics of Impiety
Presenter 2: Vernon Mitchell, Jr., Washington University in St. Louis
Is there a Balm in Gilead?: Making Sense of James Baldwins Hope and Ta-Nehisi Coatess
Nihilistic Despair
Presenter 3: Mari N. Crabtree, College of Charleston
Liberating the Spirit, Securing the Body: James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Discourses of
National Redemption
Commentator: Russell Rickford, Cornell University

Malcolm, Ms. Baker, and Milwaukee Mothers: Black Freedom Activists as Intellectual Producers
Location: Sarratt 363
Chair: Michael O. West, Binghamton University
Presenter 1: Laura Warren Hill, Bloomfield College
You Left Your Mind in Africa: Malcolm X as Public Historian
Presenter 2: Kris Burrell, Hostos Community College
Ella Baker: A Life of Intellectual Praxis
Presenter 3: Crystal Moten, Macalester College

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 What the Mothers Have to Say: Storytelling and Knowledge Production in the Milwaukee
Welfare Rights Movement
Commentator: Michael O. West, Binghamton University

Roundtable--Honoring the Life and Legacy of Cedric Robinson

Location: Sarratt 216/220
Chair: Stephen G. Hall, Alcorn State University
Discussants
Damien Sojoyner, University of California, Irvine
Minkah Makalani, The University of Texas at Austin
Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Vanderbilt University
Stephen M. Ward, University of Michigan

Lunch Break--11:45-1PM (Poster Presentations and first-come, first-served complimentary lunch

for registered conference participants)
Location: Sarratt 216/220
Presenter 1: Caitlin S. Reeves, DeKalb County Public Library
Atlantas Auburn Avenue Library and the Intersection of Gender, Identity, and Pragmatic
Civil Rights
Presenter 2: Callista Regis and Alaine Johnson, University of Pennsylvania
Porous Boundaries: Black Caribbean Intellectual Traditions in the U.S. K-12 Classroom

**1:00-2:45PMPlenary: Abolitionism and Black Intellectual History

Location: Sarratt 216/220
Chair: Chernoh Sesay Jr., Depaul University
Discussants
Richard Blackett, Vanderbilt University
Marlene Daut, University of Virginia
Yesenia Barragan, Dartmouth College
Vincent Carretta, University of Maryland, College Park

2:45-3PM: Break

**3:00-4:45PMSession 3 (Concurrent Panels)

Black Women, Slavery, and the Archive (Sponsored by the Association of Black Women Historians)
Location: Sarratt 216/220
Chair: Jessica Marie Johnson, Johns Hopkins University
Presenter 1: Marisa Fuentes, Rutgers University
Archival Dispossession: The Violence of History on Enslaved Womens Bodies
Presenter 2: Stephanie Jones-Rogers, University of California, Berkeley
The (In)Visibility of Sexual Violence in the Archives of Slavery
Presenter 3: Jessica Marie Johnson, Johns Hopkins University
Intimacy, Service, and the Legal Culture of Manumission in the French Atlantic

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Black Thought during the Harlem Renaissance and Interwar Period
Location: Sarratt 361
Chair: Gabriel Mendes, Vanderbilt University
Presenter 1: Errol Anthony Henderson, Pennsylvania State University
Fusing Revolutionary Views: Alain Locke, WEB Du Bois and Black Cultural Revolution in
the US
Presenter 2: Charles Chavis, Morgan State University
Watchmen Upon Thy Wall: Radical Pulpiteers and Social Justice in Maryland during the
Interwar Era
Presenter 3: Anthony C. Siracusa, Vanderbilt University
Howard Thurman and the Politics of Being
Presenter 4: Tony Frazier, North Carolina Central University
The Negro Liberator: Nat Turners Rebellion and the Black Masses

Black-Jewish Relations in Transnational Context

Location: Sarratt 325
Chair: Adam Meyer, Vanderbilt University
Presenter 1: David Weinfeld, Virginia Commonwealth University
Kelly Miller and the Jews: An African American Looks at European Antisemitism, 1905-
1939
Presenter 2: Bryan Roby, University of Michigan
Du Boisian Double-Consciousness in the Case of Afro-Asian Jewish Struggles for Equality in
Israel
Presenter 3: Sarah Casteel, Carleton University
Black Holocaust Fiction: Esi Edugyan's Half-Blood Blues
Commentator: Adam Meyer, Vanderbilt University

Radio, Resistance, and the Sonic Archive in the Caribbean and Caribbean Diasporas
Location: Sarratt 327
Chair: Laura Wagner, Duke University
Presenter 1: Alejandra Bronfman, University of British Columbia
Eusebia Cosm and the Sounded Atlantic
Presenter 2: Jennifer Garcon, University of Miami
Radical Sound: Recovering Anti-Government Radio Activism in Haitis Diaspora
Presenter 3: Laura Wagner, Duke University
Radio Haiti, Vwa Pp La (The Peoples Voice): Democratizing Discourse, Democratizing the
Archive

Race, Gender, and Black Formations in the Atlantic World

Location: Sarratt 331
Chair: Celso Thomas Castilho, Vanderbilt University
Presenter 1: Katherine Marino, The Ohio State University
Felicia Santizo: Local and Transnational Activist
Presenter 2: Celso Thomas Castilho, Vanderbilt University

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 The Press and the Making of a Black Public in Late-Imperial Brazil
Presenter 3: Dalia Muller, SUNY Buffalo
On Not Becoming Cuban: Africans in Twentieth-Century Cuba
Presenter 4: Rachel Jean-Baptiste, University of California, Davis
We Will Remain Mtis: Multiracial Personhoods and French Citizenship in Twentieth
Century Colonial French Africa
Commentator: Paul Kramer, Vanderbilt University

Religion and Politics in the Black Intellectual Tradition from the Civil War to the 1970s
Location: Sarratt 363
Chair: Matt J. Harper, Mercer University
Presenter 1: Benjamin J. Wetzel, University of Notre Dame
Heavy is the Guilt that Hangs upon the Neck of this Nation: The African Methodist
Episcopal Church and the Civil War
Presenter 2: Kelisha Graves, Independent Scholar
God Will Give Us Credit for Trying: Revolutionary Christianity and the Urgency of Nation-
ist Politics in the Thought of Nannie Helen Burroughs
Presenter 3: David P. Withun, Faulkner University
American Archias: The Influence of Ciceros Pro Archia Poeta in W. E. B. Du Boiss The
Souls of Black Folk
Presenter 4: Lilian Calles Barger, Independent Scholar
James Cone and Reconstructing a Revolutionary Religion in the Age of Black Power

4:45-5PM: Break

**5:00-6:45PMSession 4 (Concurrent Panels)

Decolonizing the Social Sciences in Africa

Location: Sarratt 325
Chair: Garry Bertholf, Clemson University
Presenter 1: Alden Young, Drexel University
Shifting Sudan: An Economic Region between Interwar Imperialism and the Age of
Development
Presenter 2: Elleni Zeleke, Whitman College
Nationalist Thought and the Ethiopian Student Movement, 1964-1974
Presenter 3: Wendell Marsh, Columbia University
The Disciplining of Islam in Senegal: Amar Sambs Islamologie
Commentator: Garry Bertholf, Clemson University

African American Intellectuals in the Atlantic World: Challenging Social, Political, and Intellectual
Boundaries
Location: Sarratt 216/220
Chair: Martha Jones, University of Michigan
Presenter 1: Arlette Frund, University of Tours

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 Anna Julia Cooper: The Occupation of Intellectual Space and the Dissensus of Historical
Narration
Presenter 2: Dlide Joseph, University of Hati
What Did It Mean to be a Haitian Intellectual during the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Presenter 3: Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, University of Paris-Diderot
William Wells Brown : the African-American Intellectual as Global Radical and
Provocateur
Commentator: Martha Jones, University of Michigan

Global Civil Rights and Black Power

Location: Sarratt 327
Chair: Dennis C. Dickerson, Vanderbilt University
Presenter 1: Hettie Williams, Monmouth University
Ernest Thompson, Black Labor-Left Coalition Politics, and the Civil Rights Movement in the
North
Presenter 2: John Narayan, University of Warwick
The Global Politics of British Black Power
Presenter 3: Jo-Ann Morgan, Western Illinois University
Artist as Visual Theorist: Emory Douglas and the Black Panther Party Agenda
Presenter 4: Yin Wang, National Cheng Kung University
Trans-Atlantic Articulation of Black Precarity: James Baldwins Engagement with the
American War in Vietnam, 1965-1975
Commentator: Gregory Mixon, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Southern Black Intellectuals in Slavery and Freedom

Location: Sarratt 331
Chair: Learotha Williams, Jr., Tennessee State University
Presenter 1: Jerome Dotson, University of Arizona
Contesting Diet: Enslaved Provisions, Black Abolitionists and Anti-Slavery Politics
Presenter 2: Cynthia Hawkins, SUNY Buffalo
The Curiosity Room, William Sheppard and the Object dArt
Presenter 3: Anelise Shrout, California State University, Fullerton
Antebellum Black Philanthropy as Foreign Engagement
Presenter 4: Natalie Shibley, University of Pennsylvania
Peanuts, Protein, and Polio: George Washington Carvers Ideas about Health Care

Black Women, Democratic Theory, and Radical Politics

Location: Sarratt 363
Chair: Rebecca K. VanDiver, Vanderbilt University
Presenter 1: Zifeng Liu, Cornell University
The Long-Planned Dream Unfolds in Socialist China: Claudia Jones and the Making of
Afro-Chinese Solidarity
Presenter 2: Courtney Thompson, The University of the South
Black Womens Intellectual History and the Democratic Project
Presenter 3: Sean Gerrity, The Graduate Center, CUNY

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 Harriet Jacobs, Marronage, and the Politics of Fugitive Freedom

Black Space: Vulnerability and Possibility from Cartographies at the Margins

Location: Sarratt 361
Chair: Julius Fleming, Jr., University of Maryland, College Park
Presenter 1: Justin Hosbey, University of Florida
Charter Schools, Black Social Life, and the Refusal of Death in Post-
Katrina New Orleans
Presenter 2: Darius Scott, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Narrated Black Communities in Nowhere At All, North Carolina
Presenter 3: Tracey D. Johnson, Rutgers University
Opposition to Exclusion in New York City: African Americans and Artistic
Community Building 1965-1986
Presenter 4: J.T. Roane, Smith College
Beyond Dominant Environmentalism: Black Vitality and the Choreography of GoGo, Forging
Life Across Two Geographies of Disaccumulation
Commentator: Julius Fleming, Jr., University of Maryland, College Park

7:30-10:00 pm: Closing Social

Location: TBD

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The African American Intellectual Historical Society is pleased to thank the
following donors and conference sponsors:

Donors

Sharon Leon Margaret O'Mara

Mathieu Hocquelet Anne DeAcetis
Martha Fischer Torian Black
J Curtis McMillen Katherine Crowe
Lonnie Wall Keith Byerman
Jelani Cobb Thomas Smith
Jim Glanville Marilyn Richardson
Sharon Carson John Swansburg
Devra Weber Christine Graziano
Sharon Leon Omni Development Inc.
Jennifer J Dellner In memory of Cedric J. Robinson

Sponsors

Vanderbilt University (VU) College of Arts & Sciences

Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities
VU African American & Diaspora Studies (AADS) Research Center
AADS Callie House Center for the Study of Global Black Culture and Politics

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