AAAD Senior Research Experience Presentations

Moderator/Zoom Coordinator: Erin Phillippi, James Madison University, USA

Hannah Vanlandingham, “Spotlighting the Heteronormative, Whitewashed Nature of Psychology”
John Paine, “Critical Race Theory and its Application to the ‘Myth’ of Wild Africa”

Official Opening – 12th AAAD Conference:
Voices of Race, Modes of Advocacy

Presiding: Robert Aguirre, Dean, College of Arts and Letters, James Madison University, USA

Panel 1a. Organizing Potentialities

Moderator: Besi Muhonja, James Madison University, USA
Zoom Coordinator: Juhong Christie Liu, James Madison University, USA

Upasana Banerjee, Independent Scholar, India
“Dissecting the Eurocentric Concept of Modernity: Tracing the Position of East African Consumerism in Global Economy”

Adebayo Ogundipe, James Madison University, USA
“Reappropriating Technology: On Lived Experiences and Cultural Empathy”

Stephen Magu, Norfolk State University, USA
“Conceptual Paradigms in Understanding African RECs: A Communitarian, Humanist African Theory of Regional Integration (Ubuntu)”

Egbule Philip Onyekachukwu, University of Delta, Agbor, Nigeria
“Women Voices in Shaping the Narrative of Sovereign Peoples and Negotiations in Violent States: Findings from Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) Protest Movement in Nigeria”

Panel 1b. The Potential of Virtual Exchange in Kenya and Virginia: Does Sharing Narratives in Online Context Lead to Greater Advocacy?

Moderator: Michelle Cude, James Madison University, USA
Zoom Coordinator: Modjadji Choshi, James Madison University, USA

Florence Kisirkoi, Maasai Mara University, Kenya
Michelle Cude, James Madison University, USA
Michele Estes, James Madison University, USA
Dana L. Haraway, James Madison University, USA
Robbie Higdon, James Madison University, USA
John Hulsey, James Madison University, USA
Kris Wiley, James Madison University, USA

Panel 1c. Priorities in Education and Leadership Training

Moderator: Amy Lewis, James Madison University, USA
Zoom coordinator: Melissa Alemán, James Madison University, USA

Angela W. Webb and Joi D. Merritt, James Madison University, USA
“Situating the Teacher-Scholar in Course-Based Equity Work”

Hannah Kim Sions, James Madison University, USA
“Schools and Incarceration: Another Case for Anti-Racist/Anti-Bias Education”

Kennedy Musyoka, James Madison University, USA
“Historical and Emergent Leadership Models in the North-West and South-East”

Zenobia Lee-Nelson, James Madison University, USA
“Holistic Living and Music Therapy in Overcoming and Healing from Trauma as Black First Gen College Students at a PWI”

Panel 1d. The Value of Genuine Partnership: JMU in Rwanda
Panel sponsored by Rwanda Working Group, James Madison University

Moderator: Mike Davis, James Madison University, USA
Zoom coordinator: B. Rae Perryman, James Madison University, USA

Mike Davis, James Madison University, USA
Neil Marrin, James Madison University, USA
Nelson Girinshuti, James Madison University, USA
Clemence Mbabazi, African Leadership University, Rwanda
Cara Meixner, James Madison University, USA

Andrea Ritchie, In Our Names Network, USA

Moderator: Taimi Castle, James Madison University, USA
Zoom Coordinator: David Babcock, James Madison University, USA

AYA: Black Women in Higher Education 
A plenary panel produced by the Sisters in Session Caucus, and co-sponsored by the Office of Access & Inclusion and the Office of the Provost, James Madison University

Moderator: Sofia Samatar, James Madison University, USA
Zoom Coordinator: B.J. Bryson, James Madison University, USA

Panelists:
Narketta M. Sparkman-Key, Old Dominion University, USA
Associate Professor, Academic Affairs Director of Faculty Diversity and Retention

Menah Pratt-Clarke, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, USA
Professor of Education, Vice President for Strategic Affairs and Diversity

Panel 2a. Formations in Mass Media and Culture

Moderator: Stephen C. Poulson, James Madison University, USA
Zoom coordinator: Melissa Alemán, James Madison University, USA

Elizabeth Gritter, Indiana University Southeast, USA
“New Frontiers: The Role of Black Memphians in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Campaign and Administration”

Timothy Riggio Quevillon, Kansas State University, USA
“Neutrality, not Equality: The Atlanta Daily World and Acquiescence to White Hegemony in Georgia’s Desegregation and Prayer in School Movements”

Liam Buckley, James Madison University, USA
“Black Experiences with Yoga in the USA, 1893-1929”

Panel 2b. Grassroots Voices of the Crescent City: Social Justice and Nonprofit Advocacy

Moderator: D. Caleb Smith, Tulane University, USA
Zoom coordinator: Case Watkins, James Madison University, USA

Lexi Peterson-Burge, Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition (OPPRC), USA
Ernest Johnson, Ubuntu Village NOLA, USA
Vedisia “Dee Dee” Green, Peace by Piece New Orleans, USA

Panel 2c. Activist Veins within Pop Culture

Moderator: Liana Bayne, James Madison University, USA
Zoom coordinator: Juhong Christie Liu, James Madison University, USA

Tatiana Konrad, University of Vienna, Austria
“Black Women’s Lives Matter: Revisiting The Bodyguard Thirty Years Later”

Iris Reddick Manburg, University of Chicago, USA
“Toward a Womanist Pneumatology: A Theomusicological Analysis of Prophetic Rhetoric in Mary’s Magnificat and Beyoncé’s Black is King”

Tyler Bunzey, Johnson C. Smith University, USA
“The Politics of Hip-Hop Writing: Resisting an Ideology of Literacy”

Moderator: Rubén Graciani, James Madison University, USA
Zoom Coordinator: Wren Stevens, James Madison University, USA

Featuring:

Panel 3a. Bidirectional Exchange between Educators in Kenya and the US on Innovations in Higher Education during COVID-19

Moderator: Justin Henriques, James Madison University, USA
Zoom coordinator: Jennifer PeeksMease, James Madison University, USA

Edel Churu, Tangaza University College, Kenya
Jonas Yawovi Dzinekou, Institute for Social Transformation, Togo
Justin Henriques, James Madison University, USA

Panel 3b. Political Movements in Print

Moderator: Allison Fagan, James Madison University, USA
Zoom coordinator: Bailey McInturff, James Madison University, USA

Dzifa Peters, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
“Independence, Resistance and the Postcolonial Invention of Self”

Lynette Mills, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
“Trinidad’s Black Power Movement in the Nexus of British, Caribbean and the US Black Press from the Late 1800s to Late 1900s”

Jeslyn Pool, James Madison University, USA
“Robbert Wedderburn and the African American Jeremiad”

Panel 3c. Advocating Democracy in Africa

Moderators: Joanne Gabbin and Carah Ong Whaley, James Madison University, USA
Zoom coordinator: Jody Condit Fagan, James Madison University, USA

Melinda Adams, James Madison University, USA
Tamara White, Brookings Institution, USA
Deprose Muchena, Amnesty International, South Africa

Silences and Silencing: Empowering Voices, Championing Diversity, and Promoting Acceptance
A plenary roundtable sponsored by the Department of History, James Madison University

Moderator: Maura Hametz, James Madison University, USA
Zoom Coordinator: Savannah Brown, James Madison University, USA

Narketta Sparkman-Key, Old Dominion University, USA
Lesa Clark, Old Dominion University, USA
Bridget Anderson, Old Dominion University, USA
Delores Phillips, Old Dominion University, USA
Shuntay Tarver, Old Dominion University, USA

Panel 4a. Slavery across Deep Time

Moderator: Becca Paulisch, James Madison University, USA
Zoom coordinator: Bailey McInturff, James Madison University, USA

Ken Rutherford, James Madison University, USA
Village on the Hill: History, Slavery and Memory in Mauritania”

Maria Elena Indelicato, The University of Coimbra, Portugal
“Seeing Slavery through the Lenses of Sensibility: Hosea Easton and Black Abolitionists’ Engagement with Racial Sciences”

Grace Thomsen, James Madison University, USA
“Obeah Criminalization and Black Resistance in Romantic-Era Literature about Jamaica”

Panel 4b. Africana Digital Pedagogy: Cultural Exchange, Learning, and Innovation

Moderator: Ja’La J. Wourman, James Madison University, USA
Zoom coordinator: Paul Mabrey, James Madison University, USA

Ja’La J. Wourman, James Madison University, USA
Shingi Mavima, University of Toledo, USA
Clarence George III, California State University, Sacramento, USA

Panel 4c. Geographies of Race, Power, and Environments in the African Diaspora I

Moderator: Case Watkins, James Madison University, USA
Zoom coordinator: Alleyn Harned, James Madison University, USA

Lucas Santa Cruz de Assis Brasil, Pontifícia Universidade Católica – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“More than Just Pastures: Cattle Raising in Colonial Brazil and the African Knowledge Embedded in African Grasses”

John C. Finn, Christopher Newport University, USA
“Climate Change, Social Murder, and the Violence of Urban Redevelopment in Norfolk, Virginia”

Alex A. Moulton, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
“Black Skins, Red Masks: Ancestrality, Indigeneity, and Rights in Contemporary Jamaican Maroon Struggle”

Panel 5a. Multivocal Histories

Moderator: D. Caleb Smith, Tulane University, USA
Zoom coordinator: Mary Beth Cancienne, James Madison University, USA

Mark Metzler Sawin, Eastern Mennonite University, USA
“The 1939 Gay St. Mission Photograph: Newtown, Mennonites, and the Life of Doris Harper Allen”

Alli Crandell, Coastal Carolina University, USA
“Gullah Geechee Digital Project: Voices and Silences”

Nilgun Anadolu Okur, Temple University, USA
“Life, Liberty and the Language of the Unheard: James Baldwin”

Panel 5b. Power in Performance

Moderator: Nicole Jenkins, James Madison University, USA
Zoom coordinator: Kara Kavanagh, James Madison University, USA

Brittney S. Harris, Old Dominion University, USA
“Personifying Resistance through Theatre: Performing Pedigree”

Miracle Ogbor, James Madison University, USA
“Decolonizing and Enriching Opera”

Panel 5c. Geographies of Race, Power, and Environments in the African Diaspora II

Moderator: Case Watkins, James Madison University, USA
Zoom coordinator: Talé Mitchell, James Madison University, USA

Levi Van Sant, George Mason University, USA
“The Invisibility of Black Shenandoah: Methodological Reflections on Property and Power”

Case Watkins, James Madison University, USA, co-authored with Judith A. Carney, University of California, Los Angeles, USA 
“Amplifying the Archive: Methodological Plurality and Geographies of the Black Atlantic”

Brian Williams, Mississippi State University, USA, co-authored with Carrie Freshour, University of Washington, USA
“Cotton Chemicals and Poultry Speedups: Carceral Geographies of Agricultural Productivity”

Panel 5d. Afro-Latinx Revolution: Puerto Rico
Panel sponsored by Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies, James Madison University

Moderator: Jaimee Swift, Emory University, USA
Zoom coordinator: Allison Fagan, James Madison University, USA

Marisol LeBrón, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Mónica Jiménez, University of Texas, Austin, USA

Celebrating the Life and Legacy of
Mary Awkard Fairfax

Join us for the unveiling of a new exhibit honoring the life, work, and legacy of beloved Lucy F. Simms and Waterman Elementary school teacher and community leader Mary Awkard Fairfax, now available in the very room where she taught for decades.

Moderator: Justin Attas, James Madison University
Zoom Coordinator: Megan Medeiros, James Madison University

Deanna Reed, Mayor of Harrisonburg, Virginia
Stephanie Howard, Simms Center Supervisor
Billo Harper, Producer/Documentarian
Mary Ann Smith-Tucker, Richmond, Virginia
Joanne Gabbin, James Madison University
Mollie Godfrey, James Madison University
Seán McCarthy, James Madison University

Special Musical Guest: David Berry III, Eastern Mennonite University

The exhibit, located in the conference room of the Lucy F. Simms Continuing Education Center, will be open for viewing daily from February 14, 8-5pm.

Panel 6a. Transformative Politics: Social Activism, Advocacy, and Immigrant Justice

Moderator: Tatiana Benjamin, James Madison University, USA
Zoom coordinator: Melissa Alemán, James Madison University, USA

Tatiana Benjamin, James Madison University, USA
Tiffany Gonzalez, James Madison University, USA
Graciela Perez, James Madison University, USA
Rachel Torres, James Madison University, USA

Moderator: Miriam Jerotich Kilimo, Emory University, USA
Zoom coordinator: Melinda Adams, James Madison University, USA

Miriam Jerotich Kilimo, Emory University, USA
“Laying Grounds for Feminist Advocacy: The Impact of Training Seminars for Female Politicians and Aspirants in Kenya”

Sombo Muzata, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
“Understanding the Salient Barriers to Women’s Political Participation in Zambia”

Maureen Malomba, James Madison University, USA
“The Curse of My Gender”

Panel 6c. The Power of the Visual

Moderator: Maura Hametz, James Madison University, USA
Zoom coordinator: Juhong Christie Liu, James Madison University, USA

Adetola Abatan, Seattle University, USA
“Let the Artifacts Speak – Contemporary Considerations in African Art Collections”

Hannah Jeffery, University of Edinburgh, UK
“Knowing Your Name Only After You’re Gone: Murals and Black Lives Matter”

Donna Banks, University of Barcelona, Spain
“Disrupting the Status Quo: The Visual Politics of Jasmine Thompson”

Dorothy Roberts, University of Pennsylvania, USA

“Policing Black Families”

Moderator: Deborwah Faulk, James Madison University, USA
Zoom Coordinator: David Babcock, James Madison University, USA

Panel 7a. Reproduction and Parenting

Moderator: Melissa Alemán, James Madison University, USA
Zoom coordinator: Courtney R. C. Swartzentruber, James Madison University, USA

Tayon R. Swafford, Indiana University, USA
“​​Daddying 2.0: Using Role and Relational-Cultural Theories to Reimagine Black Fathers and Fathering in the United States”

Alysia Davis, James Madison University, USA
“Learning from the History of Poor Mothers: Critically Examining Race, Gender, Poverty & Policy”

Rose Archer, Florida State University, USA
“The Politics of Birthing Space: The Historical and Contemporary Formations of Black Birthing Hush Harbors”

Lisa E. Wright, Oklahoma State University, USA
“Gems for the Fire: A VBAC for a Queen”

Panel 7b. Scholar Activism on Campus: Academic Study and Programs of Racial Justice at Universities

Moderator: Stephen C. Poulson, James Madison University, USA
Zoom coordinator: Mary Beth Cancienne, James Madison University, USA

Gianluca De Fazio, James Madison University, USA
“Racial Terror: Lynching in Virginia”

Stephen C. Poulson, James Madison University, USA
“Racism on Campus: A History of Prominent Virginia Colleges and Howard University”

Franklin Dukes, University of Virginia, USA
“The University and Community Action for Racial Equity (UCARE)”

Deborwah Faulk, James Madison University, USA
“An HBCU Praxis and Promise: Black Advantaged Parents Views and College Selection”

Discussant: Michael Hill, Washington and Lee University, USA

Panel 7c. Student Panel: African and African Diaspora Artists’ “Glo-cal” Dialogues and Monologues

Moderator: Aderonke Adesanya, James Madison University, USA
Zoom coordinator: Cara Meixner, James Madison University, USA

Emma Stover, James Madison University, USA
“Performing Feminism, Resisting Race: The Art of Tracey Rose”

Steven Phan, James Madison University, USA
“Billie Zangewa-One in the Same”

Hannah Kibler, James Madison University, USA
“Gay Gelede: Gender and Queer Identity in Adejoke Tugbiyile’s Art”

Kaylee Kline, James Madison University, USA
“Mental Health Seen through the Art of Abi Salami”

Panel 7d. Round Table: Book discussion, More Than Our Pain: Affect and Emotion in the Era of Black Lives Matter

Moderator: Beth Hinderliter, James Madison University, USA
Zoom coordinator: David Babcock, James Madison University, USA

Beth Hinderliter, James Madison University, USA
“Emotional Work and Care Labor in the Art and Politics of Black Lives Matter”

Steve Peraza, SUNY Buffalo State, USA
“The New Nadir: Despair and Decline in U.S. Race Relations”

Siona Wilson, CUNY College of Staten Island, USA
“I Can’t Breathe: Resistance between Body, Word and Image”

Lauren Alleyne, James Madison University, USA
“The Hoodie Stands Witness and other poems”

Panel 8a. Researching, Remembering and Honoring Lynching Victims in Virginia

Moderator: Gianluca De Fazio, James Madison University, USA
Zoom coordinator: Carlos Alemán, James Madison University, USA

Bessida Cauthorne White, Middle Peninsula African-American Genealogical and Historical Society, USA
“Lynchings in Two Middle Peninsula Virginia Counties: Essex and King and Queen”

Andrea Douglas, Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, USA
“Public History as Activism: Creating Community Knowledge”

Christopher Milko, Alexandria Community Remembrance Project Research Group, USA
“Restoring History: Writing the Narratives of Alexandria’s Two Documented Lynchings”

Discussant: Steve Reich, James Madison University, USA

Panel 8b. The Agencies of Narrative

Moderator: Sofia Samatar, James Madison University, USA
Zoom coordinator: Liana Bayne, James Madison University, USA

Omotoyosi Odukomaiya, Southern Illinois University, USA
“Destruction Begets Creation: Wholeness and Healing in Dystopian Narratives”

Massa Lemu, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
“Chewanese Films and the Poetics of Disenclosure”

Jessica Carter, James Madison University, USA
“It’s In the Bones: Reclaiming Black Agency from a White Cishetero Historical Tradition”

Panel 8c. Communities in Formation

Moderator: D. Caleb Smith, Tulane University, USA
Zoom coordinator: Erica Cavanagh, James Madison University, USA

Christopher Ndubuizu, University of Texas at Austin, USA
“To be Black or Not to be Black: The Navigation of U.S. Racial Politics among Black African Immigrants”

Megan Medeiros, James Madison University, USA
“Two Sides of the Same Coin: Analyzing Community-Building and Vulnerability in Virtual BIPOC Spaces”

Elizabeth Peprah, Queen’s University, Canada
“On Creating Africana Communities of Care: Exploring Reconciliation and Shared Responsibility with Our Africana Sister-Survivors Through Ubuntu”

Panel 8d. Decolonial Methodologies

Moderator: Beth Hinderliter, James Madison University, USA
Zoom Coordinator: Amanda Gerber, James Madison University, USA

Amsale Alemu, Harvard University, USA
“‘Maps of Spring:’ Anti-colonialism, Secular Studies, and Black Alter-Humanism”

Khedidja Chergui, L’Ecole Normale Supérieure de Bouzaréah, Algiers, Algeria
“Disseminating/Decolonizing Knowledge about Africa: Research Networks as Modes of Advocacy”

Esther Sánchez-Pardo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
“Finding Ceremony: Remembering, Repeating, Re-writing History in Alexis P. Gumbs’ Dub”

Nikitah Imani, University of Nebraska, Omaha, USA
“Reconstituting Africana Agency in the Postcolonial World”

Panel 8e. Intersectional Approaches to Understanding US Inequality
Panel sponsored by the Department of Political Science and the Working Group on Racial Justice, James Madison University

Moderator: Hakseon Lee, James Madison University, USA
Zoom coordinator: Kristin Wylie, James Madison University, USA

Jared Clemons, Duke University, USA
Jake Grumbach, University of Washington, USA
Jamila Michener, Cornell University, USA

Conference Reception & Faculty Book Party

Organizers: Gianluca De Fazio and Erica Cavanagh, James Madison University, USA
Moderator: Lauren Alleyne and Joanne Gabbin, James Madison University, USA
Zoom Coordinator: Collin Bright, James Madison University, USA

Remarks by:
Heather Coltman, Provost and Senior Vice President, James Madison University
David Owusu-Ansah, Associate Provost for Diversity, James Madison University
Besi Muhonja, Associate Vice Provost for Scholarship, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (AVPSDEI), James Madison University

Panel 9a. Reading Voices of Race in Science Fiction and Fantasy

Moderator: Sofia Samatar, James Madison University, USA
Zoom coordinator: Becca Paulisch, James Madison University, USA

Sreelakshmy M, University of Hyderabad, India
“Negotiating Life and Redefining Identities: A Study of Octavia E. Butler’s Black Heroines”

Juyoun Jang, University of Mississippi, USA
“Black Women’s Spiritual Migration and Fugitive Expressions in Assata Shakur’s Assata: An Autobiography and Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred”

Austin Anderson, Howard University, USA
“‘Yes It Begins’ – Race and Black Sacrifice in Watchmen”

Panel 9b. Giving Voice to Trauma

Moderator: Etana Dinka, James Madison University, USA
Zoom coordinator: Megan Medeiros, James Madison University, USA

Angela Ramsoondur, University of Mauritius, Mauritius
“Bodies and Fractures: Igbo Cosmology and African Voice in Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater”

Lillie Jacob, University of Florida, USA
“Traumas of the Body: Representations of Dissociative Identity Disorder in Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater”

Harismita Vaideswaran, University of Delhi, India
“A Civil War in Fragments: Recollecting and Writing Trauma in Buchi Emecheta’s Destination Biafra and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun”

Stephanie Diane Tsakeu Mazan, University of Virginia, USA
“Post-War. The Question of Trauma and the Meaning of Death in African Literature and Music”

Panel 9c. Project RECRUIT – Phase 1

Moderator: Tiara Brown, James Madison University, USA
Zoom coordinator: Joi Merritt, James Madison University, USA

Tiara Brown, James Madison University, USA
Benjamin Riden, James Madison University, USA
Mira Williams, James Madison University, USA

Panel 9d. Exhibiting African American Art and History: Race, Culture and Advocacy

Moderators: Beth Hinderliter and Sarah Brooks, James Madison University, USA
Zoom coordinator: Telena Turner, James Madison University, USA

Richard Frumess, Independent Artist, USA, and Drew Thompson, Bard College, USA
“The 2022 Exhibition: Printmaker Benjamin Wigfall and Communications Village”

Beth Hinderliter, James Madison University, USA
“Exuberance: An Exhibition of African American Abstract Painting”

Sarah Brooks, James Madison University, USA
“The 2021 American Rescue Plan and Preserving African American Heritage”

Africana Studies Workshop
A plenary workshop featuring this year’s AAAD Studies Fellows, sponsored by the AAAD Center and JMU Libraries

Moderator: Besi Muhonja, James Madison University, USA
Zoom Coordinator: Becca Paulisch, James Madison University, USA

Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang, University of Ghana, Ghana
“Beyond Oral/Digital: Ghanaian Electronic Literature as a Paradigm for African Digital Textuality”

Mshai Mwangola, African Leadership Centre, Kenya
“The Fabric of our Lives: Leso as Document”

Jane Mutune, University of Nairobi, Kenya
“Can On-Farm Wood Meet Global Wood Supply and Save Tropical Forests? A Review”

Panel 10a. Literary Interventions

Moderator: Lauren K. Alleyne, James Madison University, USA
Zoom coordinator: Courtney R. C. Swartzentruber, James Madison University, USA

Anthony Salazar, Northern Illinois University, USA
“Poetry as a Mode of HIV Advocacy in Danez Smith’s Don’t Call Us Dead and Homie”

Leah Delaney, Florida State University, USA
“Performances of Radical Black Feminist Masculinity in Hari Ziyad’s Black Boy Out of Time and Kenneth Rogers Jr.’s Raped Black Male”

Marietta Kosma, Oxford University, UK
“Queer Diasporic Knowledge through Shailja Patel’s Migritude”

Amanda González Izquierdo, Rutgers University, USA
“At the End of the Alphabet are These Tender Anatomies: Grief as Decolonial Ethics”

Panel 10b. Peer Support Programs for First-Generation Immigrant and Refugee Youth: A Dialogue between Students, Scholars, and Practitioners

Moderator: Daniel Beers, James Madison University, USA
Zoom coordinator: Megan Medeiros, James Madison University, USA

Daniel Beers, James Madison University, USA
Carlos Alemán, James Madison University, USA
Kajungu Mturi, Harrisonburg City Public Schools, USA
Laura Fiechtinger-McGrath, Harrisonburg City Public Schools, USA
Rebecca Sprague, Church World Service, Harrisonburg, USA
Muna Shamisalla, Harrisonburg City Public Schools, USA
Suzanne Fiederlein, James Madison University, USA
Katherine Clayton, James Madison University, USA

Panel 10c. The Social Signification of Labor

Moderator: Talé Mitchell, James Madison University, USA
Zoom Coordinator: David Babcock, James Madison University, USA

Robert Mendoza, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
“Chicago’s Mecca Flats as a Structure of Laboring Feeling: Gwendolyn Brooks’s Critique of Gendered Labor in In the Mecca”
Julian Windhövel, University of Cologne, Germany
“‘The Only Laboring Class We Have’ – The Efficacy of Federal Support of and Violent White Opposition to the Black Socio-Economic Struggle in Reconstruction Era Louisiana”
D. Caleb Smith, Tulane University, USA
“Race, Law, and Aluminum: Harris A. Parson and Twenty Years of Workplace Struggle”

Panel 10d. The Struggle Goes On

Moderator: Joi Merritt, James Madison University, USA
Zoom Coordinator: Jody Condit Fagan, James Madison University, USA

Rosemary Emordi, University of Kansas, USA
“Relationship among Everyday Discrimination, Hope, Racial Identity, and Somatic Symptoms within the Black Community”

Niia Bishop, Allen University, USA
“Toward an Erasure of Whiteness: Dismantling the Master’s House by Destroying the Key”

​​Tiersa Lené Curry, Independent Scholar, USA
“A Hypocritical Annexation: Black Culture in the LGBTQ+ Community”

Rhea E. Nesbitt, James Madison University, USA
“Reassessing the Framework for Racial Reckoning: A Psychological Mindedness Approach to Anti-Racism”