NCOBPS
39TH Annual Meeting
March 19 – 22, 2008
Chicago, Illinois
Identity Politics in the US
and Abroad:
Race, the Black Diaspora, and Electoral Politics
Program Line-Up
Program Co-Chairs
Lisa Aubrey, Arizona State
University
Michael Mitchell, Arizona State
University
Student Assistants
Tabitha Sarabo, Arizona State University
Jaewook Chung, Arizona State University
Ashlie West, Arizona State University
Program at-a-glance
Daily Schedule of Events
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 2008
12:00NOON - 5:00PM NCOBPS EXECUTIVE
COUNCIL MEETING
editing room, 3rd floor
6:00PM - 7:00PM EARLY BIRD RECEPTION
GREEN ROOM, MEZZANINE LEVEL
THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2008
8:00AM - 5:00PM CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
MUSIC ROOM, LOBBY LEVEL
8:00AM - 9:00PM GAP BOARD MEETING TBA
8:15AM - 10:00AM PLENARY I WALNUT
BALLROOM, LOBBY LEVEL
TITLE: Governance in Africa and the Diaspora:
The Challenges of Leadership and the Promise and
Limits of Electoral Politics
Discussion to follow film, California Newsreel
2006 Documentary “Thomas Sankara: The Upright
Man”
10:15AM -11:45AM CONCURRENT
PANELS
SECTION III. COMPARATIVE POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS AND TRANSNATIONAL RELATIONS
WALNUT ROOM, LOBBY LEVEL
Panel: Africa’s International and Transnational
Relations: Querying Perceptions and the Roles of
China and the Diaspora
SECTION IV. IDENTITY POLITICS:
GENDER, CLASS, ETHNICITY, SEXUALITY, AND RELIGION
PRESS ROOM I, 3RD FLOOR
Panel: Beyond Black and White?
A Closer Look at Leadership and Black/Latino Politics
SECTION VI. UNDERGRADUATE
RESEARCH
PRESS ROOM II, 3RD FLOOR
Panel: Nationalism, Protest,
Revolution: Spaces of Political Expression
SECTION IV. IDENTITY POLITICS:
GENDER, CLASS, ETHNICITY, SEXUALITY, AND RELIGION
EDITING ROOM, 3RD FLOOR
Panel: Intersections, Interests, Issues: The
Role of Race, Gender, and Party in State Legislatures
SECTION VIII. POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND PUBLIC
POLICY
GREEN ROOM, MEZZANINE LEVEL
ROUNDTABLE: Leading up to the 2010 Census:
Timeline of Major Operations
Presenter: Barbara Harris, U.S. Census Bureau
12:00pm-1:15pm
ON YOUR OWN
LUNCH
1:30PM - 3:00PM CONCURRENT
PANELS
SECTION VI. UNDERGRADUATE
RESEARCH
PRESS ROOM I, 3RD FLOOR
Panel: From the March On Washington
to the “Road Home” to New Orleans: Can
We Put Our Trust in Government to Get Things Right?
SECTION I. AFRICAN AND
DIASPORA POLITICS
PRESS ROOM II, 3RD FLOOR
Panel: African Descendant
Politics in the Western Hemisphere
SECTION I. AFRICAN AND DIASPORA
POLITICS
EDITING ROOM, 3RD FLOOR
Panel: Untangling
Identities: Politics, Rights, and Representation
SECTION V. TEACHING, SCHOLARLY
RESEARCH, AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
GREEN ROOM, MEZZANINE LEVEL
ROUNDTABLE: Enhancing Minority
Participation in the Advanced Placement Program
SECTION X. PUBLIC OPINION AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
ROOM UNKNOWN
Leadership Styles and Electoral
Offices: Are There Winds of Change?
3:15PM-4:45PM CONCURRENT
PANELS
SECTION VI. UNDERGRADUATE
RESEARCH
PRESS ROOM I, 3RD FLOOR
Panel: Politics and
Identity: Interrogating the Impact of Race,
Gender, and Ethnicity
SECTION II. POLITICS,
INEQUALITY, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
PRESS ROOM II, 3RD FLOOR
Panel: Citizen Participation
and Public Policy: Voice, Agency, and Action
SECTION VI. UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH
GREEN ROOM, MEZZANINE LEVEL
Panel: Race Specificity in Public Policy and
Judicial Interpretation
SECTION X. PUBLIC OPINION AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
EDITING ROOM, 3RD FLOOR
Panel: Leadership and Nationalism: Diversity,
Dynamics, Divergence
SECTION III. COMPARATIVE POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS, AND TRANSNATIONAL RELATIONS
WALNUT BALLROOM, LOBBY LEVEL
Panel: Elections, Conflicts, (Under)development,
and Rights: Exploring the Interconnections
and Their Links to Neo-liberalism
5:00PM- 6:30PM SPECIAL
SESSION
DIASPORA TOWNHALL MEETING:
The Social Meaning and Political Significance of
the Barack Obama US Presidential Campaign and An
Obama White House"
WALNUT BALLROOM, LOBBY LEVEL
6:45PM-7:45PM BUSINESS
MEETING
WALNUT BALLROOM, LOBBY LEVEL
FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 2008
8:45AM - 5:00PM CONFERENCE
REGISTRATION
WALNUT BALLROOM, LOBBY LEVEL
8:30AM – 10:00AM PLENARY
II WALNUT
BALLROOM, LOBBY LEVEL
TITLE: The Katrina Task Force Report: The
Case of New Orleans
10:15AM -11:45AM CONCURRENT
PANELS
SECTION II. POLITICS,
INEQUALITY, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
PRESS ROOM I, 3RD FLOOR
Panel: The Quagmire of Race
and (In)Justice
SECTION VII.POLITICAL THEORY,
PHILOSOPHY, AND METHODOLOGY
PRESS ROOM II, 3RD FLOOR
Panel: Capitalism, Black Entrepreneurship
in the Age of Identity Politics and Supercapitalism
SECTION VIII. POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS
AND PUBLIC POLICY
EDITING ROOM, 3RD FLOOR
Panel: Deconstructing Katrina
SECTION V. TEACHING, SCHOLARLY RESEARCH, AND
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
GREEN ROOM, MEZZANINE LEVEL
ROUNDTABLE: Scholarship and Activism in Academia
12:00NOON – 1:15PM
ON YOUR OWN
LUNCH
1:30PM - 3:00PM CONCURRENT
PANELS
SECTION VII.POLITICAL THEORY,
PHILOSOPHY, AND METHODOLOGY
GREEN ROOM, MEZZANINE LEVEL
ROUNDTABLE: An Assessment
of the Scholarly Contributions of Adolph Reed Jr.
to the Study and Practice of Black Politics
SECTION I. AFRICAN AND
DIASPORA POLITICS
PRESS ROOM I, 3RD FLOOR
Panel: The Worldwide Paradox of Black Political
Leadership
SECTION VIII. POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS
AND PUBLIC POLICY
PRESS ROOM II, 3RD FLOOR
Panel: Race, the Death Penalty,
and Black Politics
SECTION IV. IDENTITY POLITICS: GENDER, CLASS,
ETHNICITY, SEXUALITY, AND RELIGION
EDITING ROOM, 3RD FLOOR
Panel: Race, Sexuality, and
the Understanding of Citizenship
SECTION I. AFRICAN AND DIASPORA
POLITICS
WALNUT BALLROOM, LOBBY LEVEL
Panel: Problematizing Development in Africa
and the Diaspora in the 21st Century
3:15PM -4:45PM CONCURRENT
PANELS
SECTION IV. IDENTITY POLITICS:
GENDER, CLASS, ETHNICITY, SEXUALITY, AND RELIGION
PRESS ROOM I, 3RD FLOOR
Panel: Cultural Productions
in the Face of Difference: The Functioning of Race
and Gender Images
SECTION VII.POLITICAL THEORY,
PHILOSOPHY, AND METHODOLOGY
PRESS ROOM II, 3RD FLOOR
Panel: Identity, Race, and
Hermeneutics: What’s Theory Got To Do
With It?
SECTION VI. UNDERGRADUATE
RESEARCH
GREEN ROOM, MEZZANINE LEVEL
ROUNDTABLE: The Obama Factor:
Its Impact, Results, and Significance
SECTION VIII. POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS
AND PUBLIC POLICY
WALNUT BALLROOM, LOBBY LEVEL
ROUNDTABLE: Who’s Cleaning Up the Dirty
South? Gulf Coast Organizers Share A Vision for Rebuilding
the Region
SECTION VIII. POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND PUBLIC
POLICY
EDITING ROOM, 3RD FLOOR
Panel: Race and the Public Agenda: Agitations
Within, Across, and Against Institutions
7:00PM - 10:00PM BANQUET
WALNUT BALLROOM, LOBBY LEVEL
SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 2008
8:30AM -10:00AM PLENARY
III WALNUT
BALLROOM, LOBBY LEVEL
TITLE: Madame Presidents and the Historic
Moment: Honoring Our Female Political Science Presidents
10:15AM -11:45AM CONCURRENT
PANELS
SECTION I. AFRICAN AND DIASPORA
POLITICS
GREEN ROOM, MEZZANINE LEVEL
ROUNDTABLE: Presidential Politics
and African American Leadership: The Work of Ronald
Walters
SECTION II. POLITICS,
INEQUALITY, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
PRESS ROOM I, 3RD FLOOR
ROUNDTABLE: Racializing Justice,
Disenfranchising Lives
SECTION I. AFRICAN AND DIASPORA
POLITICS
PRESS ROOM II, 3RD FLOOR
ROUNDTABLE: Commemoration
of the 200th Anniversary
of the US Abolition of the TransAtlantic Slave
SECTION X. PUBLIC OPINION AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
EDITING ROOM, 3RD FLOOR
Panel: African American Electoral Leadership
in the Early 21st Century:
Has Partisanship Trumped Race?
12:00NOON-- 1:30PM
WALNUT BALLROOM, LOBBY LEVEL
LUNCHEON
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 2008
Editing Room, 3rd Floor
12:00NOON - 5:00PM NCOBPS EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
MEETING
Green Room, Mezzanine Level
6:00PM - 7:00PM EARLY BIRD RECEPTION
THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2008
Music Room, Lobby Level
8:00AM - 5:00PM CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
NO ROOM ASSIGNED (This will be in the Foyer)
8:00AM - 9:00PM GAP BOARD MEETING
Walnut Ballroom, Lobby Level
8:15AM - 10:00AM PLENARY I
TITLE, Governance in Africa and the Diaspora:
The Challenges of Leadership and the Promise and
Limits of Electoral Politics
Discussion to follow film, California Newsreel
2006 Documentary “Thomas Sankara: The Upright
Man”
Panelists
Moderator: Lisa Aubrey, Arizona State University
Craig Wilkins, University of Michigan
Edgard Sankara, University of Delaware (tentative)
David Hinds, Arizona State University
Shadrack Nasong’o, Rhodes College
10:15AM -11:45AM CONCURRENT
PANELS
Walnut Room, Lobby Level
SECTION III. COMPARATIVE
POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND TRANSNATIONAL
RELATIONS
Panel. Africa’s International
and Transnational Relations: Querying Perceptions
and the Roles of China and the Diaspora
Chair: Fatemeh Shafiei, Spelman College
“Returning to the Source: Pan-Africanism
from the Ground”
Kurt B. Young, University of Central
Florida
“Comparing the Right to Return
vs. the Right to Abode: Views of African American Repatriates
in Ghana”
Lisa Aubrey, Arizona State University
“The Struggle for Brotherhood:
China’s Foreign Relations with African States The
Case of Zambia”
Vera Leigh Fenell, University of Minnesota
Critique of Film, “Africa is
Not a Zoo”
Ife Williams, Delaware County Community
College
Press Room I, 3rd Floor
SECTION IV. IDENTITY POLITICS:
GENDER, CLASS, ETHNICITY, SEXUALITY, AND RELIGION
Panel. Beyond
Black and White? A Closer Look at Leadership and
Black/Latino Politics
Chair: Teri Fair, Suffolk University CONFLICT
“United We Stand, Divided We
Fall: The Role of Economic and Racial Contexts on Black-Latino
Conflict”
Tony Carey, Jr., University of Notre
Dame
“Black-Latino Electoral Coalitions: Lessons
from Mayoral Races”
Andrea Benjamin, University of Michigan
“The Oprah Effect: An Analysis
Oprah Winfrey’s Endorsement of the Barack Obama
Presidential Campaign”
Harwood McClerking, Ohio State University
Chryl Laird, Ohio State University
“Framing Black Interests: Campaign
Ads and the Representation of Electoral Leadership”
Tyson King-Meadows, Princeton University
Discussant: Adolphus Belk, Winthrop
University (AWAITING CONFIRMATION)
Press Room II, 3rd Floor
SECTION VI. UNDERGRADUATE
RESEARCH
Panel. Nationalism, Protest,
Revolution: Spaces of Political Expression
Chair: KC Morrison, University of
Missouri
“Black Empowerment and the Outcomes
of the Protest Era”
Vincent Ingram, University of South
Carolina
“The Influence of Malcolm X
and Black Nationalism on the Development and Evolution
of Hip Hop Music”
Robyn-Claire Atherly, University of
Central Florida
“Assessing the Impact of Malcolm
X on Today’s College Students”
Jennifer Ngoie, University of Central
Florida
“Black Nationalism and Revolution
in Reggae and Calypso”
Savannah Carroll, Arizona State University
Discussant: David Hinds, Arizona State
University
Editing Room, 3rd Floor
SECTION IV. IDENTITY POLITICS:
GENDER, CLASS, ETHNICITY, SEXUALITY, AND RELIGION
Panel. Intersections, Interests, Issues: The
Role of Race, Gender, and Party in State Legislatures
Chair: D’Andra Orey, University
of Nebraska
The Case of New Jersey
Keesha Middlemass, Rutgers University
The Case of California
Boris Ricks, University of Missouri-Kansas
City
The Case of Ohio
Teri Fair, Suffolk University
The Case of Mississippi
D’Andra Orey, University of
Nebraska
Discussant: D’Andra Orey, University
of Nebraska
Green Room, Mezzanine Level
SECTION VIII. POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS
AND PUBLIC POLICY
ROUNDTABLE, Leading up to the 2010 Census:
Timeline of Major Operations
Presenter: Barbara Harris, U.S Census Bureau.
12:00pm-1:15pm
ON YOUR OWN
LUNCH
1:30PM - 3:00PM CONCURRENT
PANELS
Press Room I, 3rd Floor
SECTION VI. UNDERGRADUATE
RESEARCH
Panel. From the March On Washington
to the “Road Home” to New Orleans: Can
We Put Our Trust in Government to Get Things Right?
Chair: Anthony Ploncyznski, University
of Rochester
“Bridging the Divide: Tackling
African American Socio-Economic Disparity as a Means
of Political Incorporation”
Michael Jackson, California State
University, East Bay
“The Impact of Social Movements
and Public Policy: an Analysis of the March on Washington
of 1963 and the Passage of the Civil Rights Act of
1964”
Jahi Wise, Morehouse College
“The Influence of Hurricane
Katrina on Levels of Public Trust in Government”
Leslee Mcknight, University of Connecticut
Discussant: Tiffany Howard, George
Mason University
Press Room II, 3rd Floor
SECTION I. AFRICAN AND DIASPORA
POLITICS
Panel. African
Descendant Politics in the Western Hemisphere
Chair: David Covin, California State
University, Sacramento
“Conceptualizing Black Politics”
Ricky Green, California State University,
Sacramento
“A Brazilian Dilemma: Race Theory
and Public Opinion in the U.S and Brazil”
Roneka Matheny, Ohio State University.
“Shifting Discourses: Affirmative
Action and Black Political Mobilization in Brazil”
Raquel DeSouza, University of Texas
“Exploring Factors that Contribute
to Preference Formation of Afro-Brazilian Identities”
Gladys Mitchell, University of Chicago
Dominick Wright, University of Michigan
Editing Room, 3rd Floor
SECTION I. AFRICAN AND DIASPORA
POLITICS
Panel. Untangling Identities: Politics,
Rights, and Representation
Chair: Richard Iton, Northwestern
University
“Black Power, Black Dictatorship, and Black-Brown
Ethno-Politics: Problems of Black Nationalism in Guyana”
David Hinds, Arizona State University
“Using a Black Feminist Framework in Understanding
Political Economy in the Caribbean”
Caroline Hossein, University of Toronto
“Diaspora Politics and Perspectives in an Ethnic-Federalist
State: Future Prospects for Peace and Democracy in
Ethiopia”
Menna Demessie, University of Michigan
“We are Citizens and We Demand a Voice!: Challenges
of Political Representation in Ghana”
Bernard Forjwuor, Ohio University
Discussant: Shadrack Nasong’o, Rhodes
College
Green Room, Mezzanine Level
SECTION V. TEACHING, SCHOLARLY RESEARCH, AND
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
ROUNDTABLE: Enhancing Minority
Participation in the Advanced Placement Program
Moderator, Vinod Menon, Educational Testing Service,
Assessment Specialist
Gary Copeland, University of Oklahoma and Chief Reader,
AP US Government & Politics
D’Andra Orey, University of Nebraska and AP
Test Development Committee Member
Keesha Middlemass, Rutgers University and Question
Leader AP US Government & Politics
Room Unknown
SECTION X. PUBLIC OPINION AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
Leadership Styles and Electoral
Offices: Are There Winds of Change?
Chair, TBA
“Black Leadership Styles and Types in the Post-Politics
Era”
Theodore J. Davis Jr., University of Delaware
“21st Century Black Mayors, Non-Majority Black
Cities, and the Representation of Black Interests”
Ravi Perry, Brown University
"Knocking on the President's Door: Changing
the Way We Understand Presidential Responsiveness"
Daniel Gillion, University of Rochester
Discussant, TBA
3:15PM-4:45PM CONCURRENT
PANELS
Press Room I, 3rd Floor
SECTION VI. UNDERGRADUATE
RESEARCH
Panel. Politics and Identity: Interrogating
the Impact of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity
Chair: Shiela Harmon-Martin, University
of District of Columbia
“The Role of Consciousness in
Latino Political Efficacy”
Porshea Lewis, University of Rochester
“A Comparative Analysis of Africana
Womanism and Black Feminism as They Relate to the Fecundity
of Decolonization of the Black Female Mind”
Charisse Burden-Stelly, Arizona State
University
“United We Stand, Divided We…? Examining
Black Legislative Connections and Its’ Impact
on South Carolina”
Courtney Denia Edwards, University
of South Carolina
Discussant: Megan Francis,
Princeton University
Discussant: Menna Demessie, University of Michigan
Press Room II, 3rd Floor
SECTION II. POLITICS, INEQUALITY,
AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Panel. Citizen
Participation and Public Policy: Voice, Agency,
and Action
Chair, Russell Benjamin, Northeastern
Illinois University
“How Do Local Forces and National
Networks Work in Tandem to Make Progressive Housing
Policies a Reality in Philadelphia, PA?”
Carla Jackson, Ohio State University
“The Origin of Affirmative Action
and A System of Protection for the Minorities in a
Democratic Society”
J Owens Smith, California State University,
Fullerton
“The Struggle for Vieques an
International Grassroots Victory for Environmental
Justice”
Modibo M. Kadalie, Fayetteville State
University
“When Citizens Speak: Analysis
of Public Participation Measures and Outcomes in Atlanta,
Georgia”
Jacqueline Echols, Benedict College
“Students Using Diplomacy to Articulate African
American Concerns”
Kelly Harris, Johnson C. Smith University
Carmen Walker-Harris, Johnson C. Smith University
Green Room, Mezzanine Level
SECTION VI. UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH
Panel. Race Specificity in Public Policy and
Judicial Interpretation
Chair: Lorenzo Morris, Howard University
“The Racial Attitudes of the Supreme Court: Retrenchment
on Race and Equity in 1990s”
Kareem R. Redmond, Howard University
“Constitutional Evolution and Racial Identity
in Pennsylvania”
Jordan T. Ford, Howard University
“Demographic Change: Threat or Opportunity
for Black Voting Rights and Legislative Influence”
Nyron Crawford, Howard University
Discussant: Richard Iton, Northwestern University
Editing Room, 3rd Floor
SECTION X. PUBLIC OPINION AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
Panel. Leadership and Nationalism: Diversity,
Dynamics, Divergence
Chair: Chris Martin, Ohio University
“Multifaceted Ideology: Explaining the Dynamics
of African-American Conservatism”
Tasha Philpot, University of Connecticut
“One Nation Under A Groove?' Black
Nationalist Divergence, Civil Society, and Beliefs
About American Opportunity”
Todd C. Shaw, University of South Carolina
Lester Spence, Johns Hopkins University
Robert Brown, Emory University
“‘Black Educated’ and ‘Educated
Blacks’: The Participatory Consequences of Different
Racial College Environments”
Christopher Towler, University of Colorado
Discussant. Chris Martin, Ohio University
Walnut Ballroom, Lobby Level
SECTION III. COMPARATIVE POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS, AND TRANSNATIONAL RELATIONS
Panel. Elections, Conflicts, (Under)development,
and Rights: Exploring the Interconnections
and Their Links to Neo-liberalism
Chair: Fatemeh Shafiei, Spelman College
“The Impact of Multiparty Elections on Human
Rights and the Prospects of Democratization in Africa”
Timothy Adivilah, Ohio University
“No Solution in Sight? Abstract
Violence and African Development”
Kelly L. Harris, Johnson C. Smith
University
The Peripheral Capitalist State and
Civil Wars in Africa”
George Klay Kieh Jr., Grand Valley
State University
Discussant: Lisa Aubrey, Arizona State University
Walnut Ballroom, Lobby Level
5:00PM- 6:30PM SPECIAL
SESSION
DIASPORA TOWNHALL MEETING: The
Social Meaning and Political Significance of the
Barack Obama US Presidential Campaign and An Obama
White House"
Panelists
Moderator: James Taylor, University
of San Francisco
Tim Black, Chicago, Independent Scholar
Michael Dawson, University of Chicago
Njeri Jackson, Virginia Commonwealth University
Adolph Reed, Jr., University of Pennsylvania
Ronald Walters, University of Maryland
(TBA)
Walnut Ballroom, Lobby Level
6:45PM-7:45PM BUSINESS
MEETING
FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 2008
Walnut Ballroom, Lobby Level
8:45AM - 5:00PM CONFERENCE
REGISTRATION
Walnut Ballroom, Lobby Level
8:30AM - 10:00AM PLENARY
II
TITLE, The Katrina Task Force Report: The
Case of New Orleans
Panelists
Moderator, Shelby Lewis, Co-Chair:
The Katrina Task Force
Malcolm Suber, Director, Peoples Hurricane
Relief Fund
Mae C. King, Howard University
Peter Dangerfield, Co-Chair: The Katrina
Task Force
Dorothy Smith, Dillard University
10:15AM -11:45AM CONCURRENT
PANELS
Press Room I, 3rd Floor
SECTION II. POLITICS, INEQUALITY,
AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Panel. The Quagmire of Race
and (In)Justice
Chair, Fatemeh Shafiei, Spelman College
“The Politics of Racial Domination
and the Criminalization of Young Black Males: Contextualization
and the Case of Jenna 6”
Rickey Hill and Tazinski P. Lee, Mississippi
Valley State University
“Once Sentenced, Twice Punished”
Keesha M. Middlemass, Rutgers University
“Before the Jena 6 Protest:
The Juvenile Justice Reform Movement in the 1990s and
2000s”
Sekou Franklin, Middle Tennessee.
“Conspiracy of Non-conspiratorial
Forces: Dr. The Holistic Impact of Race on African
America”
Anthony Neal, Buffalo State College
Discussant: Melynda Price, University
of Kentucky, College of Law
Press Room II, 3rd Floor
SECTION VII.POLITICAL THEORY,
PHILOSOPHY, AND METHODOLOGY
Panel. Capitalism, Black Entrepreneurship
in the Age of Identity Politics and Supercapitalism
Chair: Lindah Mhando, Pennsylvania
State University
“Black Capitalism and White
Wealth: Race, Community, and Capital Formation”
H. L. T. Quan, Arizona State University
“Between ‘Bling Bling,
Hip Hop and the American Dream:’ Wealth, Gendered
Personal Responsibility, and Premature Death”
Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, San Francisco
State University
“From W.E.B. DuBois, Booker
T. Washington, Oliver Cox to Harold Washington: Black
Entrepreneurship and Black Capital Formation During
the Long 20th Century”
Darryl Thomas, Pennsylvania State
University
“The Role of Black Capital and
Political Leadership”
Marcus Allen, Wheaton College
Discussant: Lindah Mhando, Pennsylvania
State University
Editing Room, 3rd Floor
SECTION VIII. POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS
AND PUBLIC POLICY
Panel. Deconstructing Katrina
Chair: Shelby Lewis, Co-Chair: Katrina
Task Force
“An Analysis of Katrina-Related
Public Policy: The Case of New Orleans”
Mary Nell Morgan, Empire State University
Ife Williams, Delaware County Community
College
“Lessons From Katrina: Pre-Collegiate
Curriculum Modules”
Marvin Haire, Mississippi Valley State
University
“Katrina and Black Political
Leadership”
William Nelson, Ohio State University
“Katrina and Environmental Justice
in New Orleans”
Beverly Wright, Deep South Center
for Environmental Justice
Green Room, Mezzanine Level
SECTION V. TEACHING, SCHOLARLY RESEARCH, AND
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
ROUNDTABLE, Scholarship and
Activism in Academia
Moderator: Valeria Sinclair-Chapman,
University of Rochester
Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago
Errol Henderson, Pennsylvania State
University
Cedric Johnson, Hobart and William
Smith Colleges
James Taylor, University of San Francisco
12:00NOON – 1:15PM
ON YOUR OWN
LUNCH
1:30PM - 3:00PM CONCURRENT
PANELS
Green Room, Mezzanine Level
SECTION VII.POLITICAL THEORY,
PHILOSOPHY, AND METHODOLOGY
ROUNDTABLE: An Assessment
of the Scholarly Contributions of Adolph Reed Jr.
to the Study and Practice of Black Politics
Panelists
Moderator, James Taylor, University
of San Francisco
Dean Robinson, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst
Kenneth Warren, University of Chicago
Michelle Boyd, University of Illinois-Chicago
Robert C. Smith, San Francisco University
Respondent: Adolph Reed, University
of Pennsylvania
Press Room I, 3rd Floor
SECTION I. AFRICAN AND DIASPORA
POLITICS
Panel. The Worldwide Paradox of Black Political
Leadership
Chair: David Covin, California State University, Sacramento.
“DuBois’s Revenge, or Why We Need a Revolutionary
Black Research Agenda in the 21st Century”
William Strickland, University of Massachusetts
“A Discussion of Relations Between Brazil and
African Countries”
Carlos Moore, Center for Advanced International Studies
on Africa, Brazil, and the Diaspora
“The Praxis of Black Leadership in the 21st
Century”
David Covin, California State University, Sacramento
Press Room II, 3rd Floor
SECTION VIII. POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS
AND PUBLIC POLICY
Panel: Race,
the Death Penalty, and Black Politics
Chair: Tyson King-Meadows, Princeton
University
“Persuasion and Resistance:
Race and the Death Penalty in America”
Mark Peffley, University of Kentucky
Jon Hurwitz, University of Pittsburgh
“The Decline of the Death Penalty
and the Discovery of Innocence”
Frank R. Baumgartner, Suzanna De Boef,
and Amber Boydstun, Pennsylvania State University
“The Death Penalty as Metric
of the Meaning of Citizenship for African Americans”
Melynda Price, University of Kentucky,
College of Law
Discussant: Keesha Middlemass, Rutgers
University
Editing Room, 3rd Floor
SECTION IV. IDENTITY POLITICS: GENDER, CLASS,
ETHNICITY, SEXUALITY, AND RELIGION
Panel: Race, Sexuality, and
the Understanding of Citizenship
Chair: Kathie Stromile Golden, Mississippi Valley
State University
“Evangelicalism as a Political Theology in the
African American and Anglo-White Communities: Towards
an Understanding of the Ways in Which Race Mediates
Religion and Politics”
Paula Nicole Booke, University of Chicago
“Mirror to America: How John Hope Franklin's
Autobiography Could Influence the 2008 Presidential
Election”
Mary Nell Morgan, Empire State College
“Inversing Freud: Sexuality, “Commandment” and
Homosexuality in Political Discourse in Cameroon”
Sybille N Nyeck, University of California, Los Angeles
“Taboos in African Sexuality: Investigating
Conflicts over Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender Identities
and Rights in Africa and the Diaspora”
Maurice N Amutabi, Central Washington University
Discussant: Adrian Wallace, Rutgers
University
Walnut Ballroom, Lobby Level
SECTION I. AFRICAN AND DIASPORA
POLITICS
Panel. Problematizing Development in Africa
and the Diaspora in the 21st Century
Chair: Ife Williams, Delaware County Community College
“Congress and Africa’s Constituency:
The Development of the Africa Growth and Opportunity
Act and the Intersection of African American Interests
and Business Interests”
Will Jones, Howard University
“The Effect of Image on Business Networks:
Will America Help Africa to Develop Where it Counts?”
Kelli Moore, James Madison University
“Identity and Space in Ibadan Politics, Western
Nigeria”
Aderemi S. Ajala, University of Ibadan
“Black Business, Black Nation”
Russell Benjamin, Northeastern Illinois University
Discussant: Lisa Aubrey, Arizona State University
3:15PM -4:45PM CONCURRENT
PANELS
Press Room I, 3rd Floor
SECTION IV. IDENTITY POLITICS:
GENDER, CLASS, ETHNICITY, SEXUALITY, AND RELIGION
Panel. Cultural Productions
in the Face of Difference: The Functioning of Race
and Gender Images
Chair: James Taylor, University of
San Francisco
“Stereotyping as a Cultural
Border-Guard:Ethnicity and Electoral Politics in Kenya
Shadrack Wanjala Nasong’o, Rhodes
College
“Do Differences Matter? A Critical
Discourse Analysis of Gender Equity Polices”
Julia Jordan-Zachary, Howard University
Salida Wilson, Howard University
Framing Condi(licious): Condeleezza
Rice and the Storyline of 'Closeness’ in U.S.
National Community Formation
Nikol Alexander-Floyd, Rutgers University
“Feminisms in Globalizing Economies:
Investigating Relationships between African, Western
and Global Feminist Scholarship in Africa”
Elinami Veraeli Swai, University of
Toledo
Discussant: Melanye Price, Wesleyan
University
Press Room II, 3rd Floor
SECTION VII.POLITICAL THEORY,
PHILOSOPHY, AND METHODOLOGY
Panel. Identity, Race, and
Hermeneutics: What’s Theory Got To Do
With It?
Chair: Rickey Hill, Mississippi Valley
State University
“African Women on My Mind: A Reflection
on African Male Thinkers and Women”
Abi Awomolo, Clark Atlanta University
Terza A. S. Lima-Neves, Clark Atlanta University
“Progressive History and the Problem of Anachronism
in Kant and Mill”
Brandon Terry, Yale University
“Black Folks Don’t Do Theory, We Do Practice: An
Examination of the Theoretical State of Black Politics”
Diarra Robertson, Bowie State University
Discussant: Rickey Hill, Mississippi Valley State
University
Green Room, Mezzanine Level
SECTION VI. UNDERGRADUATE
RESEARCH
ROUNDTABLE, The Obama Factor:
Its Impact, Results, and Significance
Panelists
Chair: Jeffrey M. Elliot, North Carolina
Central University
Amreh Hopkins, North Carolina Central
University
Kate Sturdivant, North Carolina Central
University
Telvin Debnam, North Carolina Central
University
Najja Baptist, North Carolina Central
University
Bobby Rice-Bey, North Carolina Central
University
Khadijah Mosely. North Carolina Central
University
Michael Morman, North Carolina Central
University
Walnut Ballroom, Lobby Level
SECTION VIII. POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS
AND PUBLIC POLICY
ROUNDTABLE, Who’s Cleaning Up the Dirty
South? Gulf Coast Organizers Share A Vision for Rebuilding
the Region
Panelists
Moderator, Latosha Brown, Saving Our-Selves
Coalition and National Coalition on Black Civic Participation
Derrick Evans, Turkey Creek Community
Initiative
Angela Winfrey-Bowman, People’s
Institute for Survival and Beyond
Sou Chanthapaseth, Community Organizer
LaTosha Brown, Saving Our-Selves Coalition
and National Coalition on Black Civic Participation
Editing Room, 3rd Floor
SECTION VIII. POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND PUBLIC
POLICY
Panel. Race and the Public Agenda: Agitations
Within, Across, and Against Institutions
Chair: Joe McCormick, Pennsylvania State University,
York
“HPV Vaccination and the Public Agenda: From
FDA Approval to School Mandates”
Erica K. Taylor, University of Maryland Baltimore
County
“Creating a Gifted Class: How Restructuring
Parent-District Relationships Affects Access to Elite
Educational Opportunities”
Kenyatha V. Loftis, University of Michigan
“A Change Narrative of the Black Agenda”
Matthew B. Platt, University of Rochester
“City-County Consolidation: Black Opinions from
a Rural Georgia County”
Willie Green, Clark Atlanta University
“The Birth of the Modern Criminal Procedure
Revolution: Moore v. Dempsey”
Meagan Francis, Princeton University
Walnut Ballroom, Lobby Level
7:00PM - 10:00PM BANQUET
SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 2008
Walnut Ballroom, Lobby Level
8:30AM -10:00AM PLENARY III
TITLE. Madame Presidents and the Historic
Moment: Honoring Our Female Political Science Presidents
Panelists
Moderator, K C Morrison, University
of Missouri
Desiree Pedescleaux, Spelman College,
National Conference of Black Political Scientists,
President 2007-2008
Dianne Pinderhughes, University of
Notre Dame, American Political Science Association,
President 2007-2008
Andrea Y. Simpson, University of Richmond,
Western Political Science Association, President Elect
2008-2009
Pearl Robinson, Tufts University,
African Studies Association, President 2007
10:15AM -11:45AM CONCURRENT
PANELS
Green Room, Mezzanine Level
SECTION I. AFRICAN AND DIASPORA
POLITICS
ROUNDTABLE, Presidential Politics
and African American Leadership: The Work of Ronald
Walters
Panelists
Moderator, Cedric Johnson, Hobart
and William Smith Colleges
Dianne Pinderhughes, University of
Notre Dame
Cedric Johnson, Hobart and William
Smith Colleges
Adolphus Belk, Winthrop University
Robert C. Smith, San Francisco State
University
Press Room I, 3rd Floor
SECTION II. POLITICS, INEQUALITY,
AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
ROUNDTABLE, Racializing Justice,
Disenfranchising Lives
Panelists
Moderator: Desiree Pedescleaux, Spelman
College
Manning Marable, Columbia University
Keesha Middlemass, Rutgers University
Lorenzo Morris, Howard University
Donn Davis, Howard University
Julia Jordan-Zachary, Howard University
Press Room II, 3rd Floor
SECTION I. AFRICAN AND DIASPORA
POLITICS
ROUNDTABLE, Commemoration
of the 200th Anniversary
of the US Abolition of the TransAtlantic Slave
Panelists
Moderator: Ife Williams, Delaware
County Community College
Lisa Aubrey, Arizona State University
(TBA)
Editing Room, 3rd Floor
SECTION X. PUBLIC OPINION AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
Panel. African American Electoral Leadership
in the Early 21st Century:
Has Partisanship Trumped Race?
Chair: Joseph McCormick, Pennsylvania State University,
York
“Minstrels, Messiahs, and Monolithic Blackness:
Race, Class and Black Politics In a Multicultural Era”
Andra Gillespie, Emory University
“Did the Republicans Really Carry 25 percent
of the Black Vote in Maryland? The Enigmatic 2006 Michael
Steele Vote”
Walter Hill, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
“Cannon Fodder or Viable Options: African American
Republican Congressional Candidates”
Michael Fauntroy, George Mason University
“The ‘Steele Problem’ and the
New Republican Battle for Black Votes: Legacy, Loyalty,
and Lexicon in Maryland’s 2006 Senate Contest”
Tyson King-Meadows, Princeton University
“Anatomy of a Sacrificial Lamb: Lynn Swann’s
2006 Campaign for Governor of Pennsylvania”
Joseph McCormick, Pennsylvania State University, York
12:00NOON- 1:30PM
Walnut Ballroom, Lobby Level
LUNCHEON
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