Intellectual History Panels at NCBS 2016


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Many of my friends and colleagues declared this past Black History Month to be the most lit ever, but this March should also prove particularly memorable. We have our own conference #AAIHS2016 coming up in just 5 days, and the following week will see the 40th annual National Council for Black Studies Conference kick off in Charlotte. The theme for this year’s meeting is “Forty Years of Black Studies in the Local, National and Global Spaces: Past Accomplishments and New Directions.” Below is a list of panels that should be of interest to our readers attending the conference.

Black Religious and Theological Thought

Thu, March 17, 9:00 to 10:15am, Omni Charlotte Hotel, Salon A

Chair: LaTisha Oliver, Georgia Southern University

Panelists:

  • Samantha Horton, SUNY Albany–African American Spirituality and Religiosity
  • Earle Fisher, University of Memphis/Rhodes College–Black Power, Black Faith and Black Jesus: The Rhetoric and Theology of Rev. Albert Cleage, Jr.
  • Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis–“Dehonkifying Christianity”: Black Power’s Role in Shaping Black Theology

Scholarly Publishing in Africana Studies: An Introduction

Thu, March 17, 9:00 to 10:15am, Omni Charlotte Hotel, Main Floor, Willow Room

Discussants

  • V. P. Franklin, University of California, Riverside
  • Andrew Baskin, Editor, Griot: The Journal of African-American Studies

Race, Activism, and Social Movements from the 18th century to the 20th century

Thu, March 17, 10:30 to 11:45am, Omni Charlotte Hotel, Main Floor, Salon B

Chair: Felix Kumah-Abiwu, Kent State University

Panelists:

  • Casey Robert Goonan, Northwestern University–Recalibrating the Abolitionist Impulse
  • Jill E. Rowe, Western Michigan University–Self-Determination Strategies of Free Black Communities in the Antebellum Midwest
  • Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis–Respect Yourself: The Resistance Rhetoric of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner
  • Y’hoshue Murray, Edinboro University–New Women, Steel City: The Aurora Reading Club in Pittsburgh, PA, 1890-1940

Black Digital Humanities: Technology and the Information Age along the Color Line

Thu, March 17, 12:00 to 1:15pm, Omni Charlotte Hotel, Main Floor, Dogwood Room

Chair: Demetria Rougeaux Shabazz, University of Massachusetts

Panelists:

  • Ngozi Caleb Kamalu, Fayetteville State University–Bridging the Digital Divide: Internet Adoption and Diffusion among African Americans
  • Grace Gipson, University of California, Berkeley–Imagining a Black Future Digital Revolution through the #Afrofuturism hashtag
  • Leslie Gutierrez, Johnson C. Smith University–Charlotte as Teaching Canvas: Exploring and Celebrating African Diasporas through Digital Storytelling
  • Demetria Rougeaux Shabazz, University of Massachusetts–An Africanapedia Project: The Blackafication of Wikipedia

Reflections on the Promise and Power of Black Power: 50 Years Later

Thu, March 17, 1:30 to 2:45pm, Omni Charlotte Hotel, Main Floor, Dogwood Room

Chair: Ibram X. Kendi, University of Florida

Discussants

  • Charles E. Jones, University of Cincinnati
  • Quito Swan, Howard University
  • Curtis Austin, The Ohio State University
  • Tanisha Ford, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • Akinyele Umoja, Georgia State University

Taboo in the Black Literary Tradition

Thu, March 17, 4:30 to 5:45pm, Omni Charlotte Hotel, Main Floor, Juniper Room

Chair: Meredith C. Shockley-Smith, Northern Kentucky University

Panelists

  • Donovan L. Ramon, William Patterson University–“This Tortured and Uncertain Life”: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Vera Caspary’s The White Girl
  • April Letitia McCray, Florida A&M University–Marriage, Murder, and Mayhem in Alice Walker’s “The Third Life of Grange Copeland”
  • Courtney Terry, Clark Atlanta University–Trials and Trails: The African American Trickster Tradition in the Autobiographies of Maya Angelou
  • DeMointe Wesley, University of Houston–Visions from Below: The Prophetic Pariah in the Black Literary Tradition

Us, Kawaida and the Black Radical and Revolutionary Tradition: Critical Reflections on 50 Years of Righteous and Relentless Struggle

Fri, March 18, 9:00 to 10:15am, Omni Charlotte Hotel, Main Floor, Birch Room

Chair: Maulana Karenga, California State University, Long Beach

Panelists

  • James B. Stewart, Pennsylvania State University–Re-engaging Kawaida Cultural Nationalism and Political Struggle in the 21st Century: Lessons from Maulana Karenga and Us
  • Tiamoyo Karenga, Kawaida Institute of Pan-African Studies–Women of Us and the Black Power Movement: Expanding the Concept and Practice of Black Liberation
  • Maulana Karenga, California State University, Long Beach–Us, Kawaida Philosophy and the Black Liberation Movement: A Critical Reading of the Revolutionary Record

Black Women and Hip Hop

Fri, March 18, 9:00 to 10:15am, Omni Charlotte Hotel, Main Floor, Poplar Room

Chair: Donnetrice Allison, Stockton University

Panelists

  • Tasha Jones, Independent Scholar–I AM I WE ARE the WOMEN: A Call to Arms
  • Saidah K. Isoke, The Ohio State University–Let the Girls be Girls: Locating the Black Tomboy in Hip Hop Culture
  • Jasmin K. Weaver, University of Houston–Ten Hut: An Examination of Beyonce’s “Formation”
  • Emily McNair, UNC Greensboro–Vixen Activism: Bridging the Gap Between Black Female Sexuality and Respectability in Hip-Hop

Black Studies and the Black University: A Critical Reconsideration

Fri, March 18, 10:30 to 11:45am, Omni Charlotte Hotel, Salon A

Discussants

  • William Boone, Winston-Salem State University
  • Claudrena N. Harold, Department of History and Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies
  • James Pope, Winston-Salem State University
  • Corey D. B. Walker, Dean and John W. and Anna Hodgin Hanes Professor of the Humanities, Winston Salem State University

Black Religious Systems and Thought in the United States

Fri, March 18, 1:30 to 2:45pm, Omni Charlotte Hotel, Main Floor, Juniper Room

Chair: Bertin M. Louis, The University of Tennessee

Panelists

  • Delvon A. Benson, Clark Atlanta University–Black Religiosity: Utilizing W.E.B. Du Bois to explore the popularity of Black Megachurches in Atlanta, Georgia
  • Joseph Lennis Tucker Edmonds, IUPUI–Black Suffering and Black Liberation: James Cone, New Black Gods, and Theodicy
  • Danielle N. Boaz, University of North Carolina at Charlotte–Syncretism and Africana Religions in the U.S. Legal System
  • Michael Brandon McCormack, University of Louisville–Black Theologies of Liberation: A Critical Reexamination, Forty Years After James Cone’s God of the Oppressed

Black Educators, Freedom and the Intellectual Imagination in the 19th-20th Centuries

Fri, March 18, 3:00 to 4:15pm, Omni Charlotte Hotel, Main Floor, Willow Room

Chair: Kristen Reynolds, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Panelists

  • Janaka Bowman Lewis, UNC Charlotte–Lessons in Freedom from the American South
  • Jarvis Givens, University of California, Berkeley–Schooling the Race: Carter G. Woodson and the Black Educational Heritage, 1915-1950
  • Hilton Kelley, Davidson College–On Gender and Jim Crown’s Teachers: Hidden Transcripts within the Hidden Transcript
  • Sonya Ramsey, University of North Carolina at Charlotte–“Learning in the Block”: The Educational Philosophies of Dr. Bertha Maxwell Roddey during the Early Years of Black Studies at UNC-Charlotte, 1971-1975

Revitalizing the Radical Tradition through Historical Scholarship: A Roundtable on the Work of Gerald Horne

Sat, March 19, 9:00 to 10:15am, Omni Charlotte Hotel, Main Floor, Dogwood Room

Chair: Amilcar Shabazz, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Discussants

  • V. P. Franklin, University of California, Riverside
  • Charisse Burden-Stelly, Amherst College
  • Agustin Lao-Montes, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Erik McDuffie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Black Feminism in the New Millennium: From Black Feminist Methodologies to Social Justice Activism

Sat, March 19, 9:00 to 10:15am, Omni Charlotte Hotel, Main Floor, Magnolia Room

Panelists

  • Jennifer Turner, Virginia Tech–Beyond Reproductive Choice: SisterSong and Reproductive Justice for Black Women
  • Joy Thompson, Virginia Tech–Black Girl Magic: The Message and the Movement – then, now, and beyond
  • Saadia Subah Rais, Virginia Tech–Using Black Feminist Methodologies for Social Critique in the New Millennium

Black Nationalism and Organizing: Case Studies of the UNIA and Black Panther Party

Sat, March 19, 3:00 to 4:15pm, Omni Charlotte Hotel, Main Floor, Dogwood Room

Chair: Evan Wade, San Joaquin Delta College

Panelists

  • Evan Wade, San Joaquin Delta College–Marketing Strategies of the Connecticut UNIA: A Preaching of Unity, Religion and Fraternal Orders
  • J. Vern Cromartie, Contra Costa College–Reappraising the Black Panther Party, 1966-1970: Its Contributions to the Black Studies Movement at Merritt College and San Francisco State University
  • Brittney Yancy, University of Connecticut–Living Under Fire: Panther Women, Black Power, and the Elm City
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Chris Cameron

Chris Cameron is an Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research and teaching interests are in African American and early American history, especially abolitionist thought, liberal religion, and secularism. He is the author of 'To Plead Our Own Cause: African Americans in Massachusetts and the Making of the Antislavery Movement' (Kent State University Press, 2014) and 'Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism' (Northwestern University Press, 2019). Follow him on Twitter @ccamrun2.