Session Subject Index
SESSION SUBJECT INDEX
African American Studies Alternative Models of Civil Rights Citizenship: Racial Storytelling and Aesthetic Belonging...... 214 American Quarterly Editorial Board Panel II: Between Life and Death: Race, Social Death, Necropolitics, Disposability...... 186 Birth, Belonging, and Rights...... 201 Black Man, White Man, Commander-in-Chief: Barack Obama in Popular Visual Culture...... 148 Black Sexual Citizenship: Queering Diasporic Performances, Practices, and Productions...... 221 Blackness in Musical Performance...... 111 Claiming Housing Rights...... 152 Claiming Urban Space and Citizenship: The Underground Railroad, East St . Louis, and Skid Row, LA ...... 160 Colloquy with Stephanie Smallwood on Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora...... 130 Color Lines and Crossings...... 146 The Color of Whiteness Studies: Studying Whiteness from an Ethnic Studies Perspective ...... 212 The Cool of Barack Obama...... 125 Cultures of African American Commodity Consumption...... 150 Exporting American Dreams...... 171 Fictions of Freedom: Blood, Labor, Law, and Bondage...... 158 Framing America’s Hard Edges: Photographs, Health Imagery, and the (De)construction of Racialized Belonging...... 162 Friends, Neighbors, and Social Capital in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature ...... 147 Genealogies of U .S . Empire...... 171 Haiti as Icon in Transnational Discourse...... 119 In Memoriam: John Hope Franklin...... 216 Interpreting Images, Icons, and Intent: The White House Residence as Cultural Sphere...... 99 James Baldwin and Devil’s Work: Screening Citizenship and National Belonging in Harlem, London, and Istanbul...... 207 Living for the City...... 137 Michelle Obama as Subject and Citizen: Mass Culture and the “First” Lady...... 199 The New Black/American: The Cultural Politics of National/ Racial Identity in the Obama Era ...... 183 New Depression Studies in the New New Deal...... 219 Nineteenth-Century Geographies of Race and Freedom...... 228 Pasts That Refuse to Go Away ...... 136 Performing Anti-essentialisms ...... 113 Performing Indian Identities...... 144 Poetic Visions in the Wake of Katrina...... 116 Race After Obama...... 192
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Race, Labor, and Incarceration in Early Twentieth-Century American Society and Culture...... 197 Race, Music, and Performance in the Civil Rights Era...... 196 Revolution ’67 in Newark, New Jersey: Documentary Film in the K–16 American Studies Classroom ...... 204 Selling Soul: Publics and Markets, Grooves and Revolution...... 188 Signals and Noise: The Cultural Politics of Sound Technologies. . . . .182 Sporting Bodies...... 135 Sustaining Ecological Citizenship in a Transcultural World: From Colonial History and Literature to Contemporary Film (I and II) ...... 183 Sustaining Ecological Citizenship in a Transcultural World: From Colonial History and Literature to Contemporary Film II...... 192 Talkin’ ’bout a Revolution...... 191 Theorizing Prison/Space/Resistance in Post–World War II America. . . .115 There Was a Time: Local and Global Perspectives on the End of Black Power...... 157 Tools for Teachers: American Studies Resources for the K–16 Classroom...... 179 Transnational Imagined Communities...... 119 Visions of Antiracism, 1880–1930...... 145 Visualizing Color...... 200 Visualizing Difference, Consuming Identity...... 230 Weather and Disaster and Social Belonging...... 225 We Need the Funk? Folklore, Fiction, and Humor...... 144 We the People Under Stairs: Musical Responses to Katrina...... 189 Why Walk When You Can Fly? The Living Stage Praxis of Community Engagement and Mobilization, 1956–1992...... 109
Anthropology On the Unlikely Queer Subject ...... 225
Asian American Studies America and Transnational Belonging in Asian American Literature and Film ...... 167 Citizen Alien: Asian Americans on the Outer Limits of Television and Nation...... 159 Contested Subjects, Contesting Citizenship: Asian Americans and Latinos in the Post-1955 Discourse of Citizenship...... 139 Cultural Citizenship and Sustainable Communities in Post-1955 Asian American Narrative Practice ...... 147 Cultural Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging: South Asian Americans as a Multicultural Case Study ...... 132 Exporting American Dreams...... 171 Genres of Citizenship...... 103 Grace Lee Boggs: Radical Activism and Revolutionary Theory for the Twenty-first Century ...... 167
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Intersections of Native American and Japanese American Scholarship: Dispossession, Citizenship, Belonging, and the State. . . 109 Negotiations over Belonging: Figuring Hmong American Citizenship through Cultural Production...... 208 Racial Inbetweeness: Subtle Constructions of Asian Americanness. . . .216 Racial Narratives of Belonging and Practices of Cultural Citizenship for Asian America...... 175 Racial Productions of the Borderlands...... 127 Strategically Subjectless: Is “Asian American” Sustainable? ...... 161 Sustaining Transpacific Studies: Empire, Desert, and Circuit...... 189 Transnational Adoption between the United States and Asia: Racial and Gendered Violence and Communities of Resistance. . . . 230 Transnational Imagined Communities...... 119
Border Studies Borders and Circuits: Performative Geographies, Translation, and the Sustainability of Belonging...... 224 Citizenship and Humanitarian Discourse...... 145 Citizenship and Modernity in the U .S .-Mexico Borderlands...... 151 Framing America’s Hard Edges: Photographs, Health Imagery, and the (De)construction of Racialized Belonging...... 162 Frontier Encounters: Citizenship and Belonging in Western Photographic Portraits...... 160 Musical Geographies of Belonging...... 170 Pressing the Borders: A Roundtable on Transhemispheric Latino/a Studies...... 164 Racial Productions of the Borderlands...... 127 Representation and Resistance in Assimilationist Spaces...... 214 Transnational Bodies, Performances, and Enactments...... 111 War, Citizenship, and Latino Identity ...... 135
Chicano/Latino Studies Borders and Circuits: Performative Geographies, Translation, and the Sustainability of Belonging...... 224 Citizenship and Modernity in the U .S .-Mexico Borderlands...... 151 Contested Subjects, Contesting Citizenship: Asian Americans and Latinos in the Post-1955 Discourse of Citizenship...... 139 Countercitizenships in Latino Music...... 165 Going Hollywood: Dance Floor Democracy, Social Mixing, and Cultural Citizenship...... 143 Laboring Citizens...... 191 Latinidad, Comparative Social Movements, and the Politics of the Possible ...... 227 Locating Latina/o Studies in the East Coast ...... 205 The May Day Protests, Grassroots Mobilization, and the Politics of Citizenship...... 166 Mexicans, Indians, and Crises of Conquest and Belonging...... 199
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Pressing the Borders: A Roundtable on Transhemispheric Latino/a Studies...... 164 Queer Belongings: Alternative Modes of Citizenship and Community...... 174 Queer Transnationalisms, Queer Mexico City...... Racial Productions of the Borderlands...... 127 Salseras, Tortilleras, and Alien Invaders: Practices of Queer Latina Belonging...... 134 Something to Declare: Latina/o and Caribbean Place-Making Performances...... 180 Sporting Bodies...... 135 Transnational Bodies, Performances, and Enactments...... 111 Visions of Imperial Hegemony...... 110 War, Citizenship, and Latino Identity ...... 135
Communication and Film and Media Studies Citizenship and Aesthetics...... 155 The City as History...... 202 Contemporary Displacements of Humanitarianisms...... 136 Envisioning a Sustainable Transnational Cultural Policy: Lessons and Inspirations from Across the Hemisphere...... 126 Fat Fictions and the Culture of Consumption: Citizenship in the Era of Obesity...... 152 iAm: The Work of Self in the Age of Digital Replication ...... 100 Laboring Citizens...... 191 Media Society=Media Citizenship? Postwar Activism Pushing the Limits of the National Public Sphere...... 203 Michelle Obama as Subject and Citizen: Mass Culture and the “First” Lady...... 199 Neoliberalism, Multiculturalism, and the Means of Digital Humanities Production ...... 220 Old/New Technologies of Belonging: Books, YouTube, Mobile Devices, and the Sensuousness of Sustainable Futures...... 195 Photography: Imaging the Future of Race in America...... 106 Roundtable: What Can We Learn from the Sciences? National Science Foundation Funding (sponsored by the Science and Technology Caucus)...... 187 Signals and Noise: The Cultural Politics of Sound Technologies. . . . .182 Theorizing Prison/Space/Resistance in Post–World War II America. . . .115 Violent Belonging...... 103 Visual Distortions of the Environment ...... 143 Visualizing Color...... 200
Comparative Native Studies Colonialism, Sovereignty, (In)commensurability ...... 134 Indigeneity and Sustainability ...... 154 Mexicans, Indians, and Crises of Conquest and Belonging...... 199
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Noho Hewa: The Wrongful Occupation of Hawai‘i (a film screening and dialogue with the director) ...... 154 Performing Indian Identities...... 144 Thinking Outside the Academy: Making Spaces for Indigenous Women’s Work...... 221
Contemporary Culture Biocapitalism, Sustainability, and the Reproduction of Value...... 224 Citizenship and Humanitarian Discourse...... 145 The City in Ruins? Arguing the Case for the “Other America” in The Wire ...... 170 Combating Inequalities in Higher Education: An Agenda for Tough Times (sponsored by the Minority Scholars’ Committee). . . .153 Contemporary Displacements of Humanitarianisms...... 136 The Cultural Productions of Oil in the Americas ...... 122 Food Politics, Sustainability, and Citizenship: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue ...... 141 Genres of Citizenship...... 103 Grotesque Masculinities in Contemporary American Art and Culture...... 176 iAm: The Work of Self in the Age of Digital Replication ...... 100 It Ain’t Easy Living in the City: HBO’s The Wire, Labor, and Political Economy at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century. . . . . 187 Laboring Citizens...... 191 Musical Geographies of Belonging...... 170 The New Black/American: The Cultural Politics of National/ Racial Identity in the Obama Era ...... 183 Patriotic Investments in Victimhood, Vengeance, and Violence. . . . . 114 Reading the (USA PAT-)RIOT Act...... 168 Reality of Belonging...... 231 Rethinking “Therapeutic Culture”...... 186 Roundtable: Redefinitions of Citizenship and Revisions of Cosmopolitanism: Transatlantic Perspectives...... 194 Studying War and Peace through American Studies / Studying America by Studying War and Peace...... 203 Sustaining Everyday Democracy: New Interdisciplinary Approaches ...... 205 Thinking Outside the Academy: Making Spaces for Indigenous Women’s Work...... 221 Transnational Bodies, Performances, and Enactments...... 111 Transnational Imagined Communities...... 119 Universalism and Its Discontents...... 128 Violent Belonging...... 103 Visualizing Color...... 200 Voluntary Communities...... 104 Weather and Disaster and Social Belonging...... 225 We Need the Funk? Folklore, Fiction, and Humor...... 144
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We the People Under Stairs: Musical Responses to Katrina...... 189 Where Do American Jews Belong? Jewish Ethno-Racial Liminality in the Postwar United States ...... 229 Zombies and Vampires: Identifying American Anxieties over Alterity and Belonging...... 218
Cultural Geography Claiming Housing Rights...... 152 Color Lines and Crossings...... 146 Cultural Spaces of Neoliberalism and Modes of Belonging...... 141 Living for the City...... 137 Musical Geographies of Belonging...... 170 Nineteenth-Century Geographies of Race and Freedom...... 228 Reframing American Studies: Hemispheric Citizenship and Transnational Affiliation in the Americas ...... 185 Representation and Resistance in Assimilationist Spaces...... 214 Something to Declare: Latina/o and Caribbean Place-Making Performances...... 180 The State(s) of American Studies...... 220
Disability Studies Drugs, Death, and Belonging...... 118 Embodiments of Progress: Technology, Machines, and Belonging in Normalcy...... 222 Everybody’s Disabled Nowadays: Reconfiguring American Studies through Disability ...... 124 A Nation of Bodies, or Embodying the Nation...... 154 Psychiatric Biopower and Practices of Resistance ...... 205 Signals and Noise: The Cultural Politics of Sound Technologies. . . . .182 Sporting Bodies...... 135
Early America Education Expanding God’s Country: Religious Education in Early American Empires...... 142 Sustaining Ecological Citizenship in a Transcultural World: From Colonial History and Literature to Contemporary Film II...... 192
Early American Studies Birth, Belonging, and Rights...... 201 Citizenship in Sickness and in Death...... 162 Colloquy with Stephanie Smallwood on Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora...... 130 Early America, Asia, and the Pacific (sponsored by the Early American Matters Caucus) ...... 105 Friends, Neighbors, and Social Capital in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature ...... 147
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Performing Publics and Counterpublics: Belonging and Boundaries in Early American Theater Culture...... 122 The State(s) of American Studies...... 220 Sustaining Ecological Citizenship in a Transcultural World: From Colonial History and Literature to Contemporary Film (I and II) ...... 183 Universalism and Its Discontents...... 128 Visions of Imperial Hegemony...... 110
English The Assault of Laughter: The Meanings of Humor in Mark Twain’s America...... 169 Genres of Citizenship...... 103 The Intimate Bonds of Citizenship: The Citizen as Neighbor and Friend...... 108 Limits of Belonging in Nineteenth-Century Literature...... 231 Representation and Resistance in Assimilationist Spaces...... 214
Environmental Studies Citizenship in Sickness and in Death...... 162 The Contradictions of Environmentality...... 179 Domestic Environmentalism: Home, Nation, Globe, Planet...... 98 Food’s Inedible Products: Machines, Labor, and Men...... 158 High-Tech Sustainability and Socioeconomic Justice...... 97 Indigeneity and Sustainability ...... 154 New Ethics of Ecological Care and Citizenship...... 98 Noho Hewa: The Wrongful Occupation of Hawai‘i (a film screening and dialogue with the director) ...... 154 Oil Culture: Representations of the Petroleum Industry ...... 97 Race, Class, and Urban Environmentalism...... 211 Reality of Belonging...... 231 Vulnerable Bodies, Ecological Citizenship, and the Making of Environmental Publics (sponsored by the Environment and Culture Caucus)...... 121 Sustaining Ecological Citizenship in a Transcultural World: From Colonial History and Literature to Contemporary Film (I and II) ...... 183 Sustaining Ecological Citizenship in a Transcultural World: From Colonial History and Literature to Contemporary Film II...... 192 Thinking Globally: American Environmentalism and Global Society in the Postwar Era...... 107 Visual Distortions of the Environment ...... 143 Visualizing the Urban Jungle and the Urban Oasis: Cities in the American Environmental Imaginary (sponsored by the Visual Culture Caucus)...... 100 Weather and Disaster and Social Belonging...... 225
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Ethnography Barbecue Eating, Gospel Singing, and Bridge Building: Perspectives on Collaborative Scholarship in the U S. . South. . . . . 121 Citizen Historian: Multiple Perspectives on Studs Terkel...... 227 Cultural Spaces of Neoliberalism and Modes of Belonging...... 141 Drugs, Death, and Belonging...... 118 Exporting American Dreams...... 171 Girls of Color and Performance Ethnography: Imagining New Spaces of Empowerment and Inclusion...... 117 Red Light, Green Light: Same-Sex Marriage, Family Policy, and the Rights of Citizenship...... 188 Voluntary Communities...... 104
Folklore We Need the Funk? Folklore, Fiction, and Humor...... 144
Foodways Barbecue Eating, Gospel Singing, and Bridge Building: Perspectives on Collaborative Scholarship in the U S. . South. . . . . 121 Fat Fictions and the Culture of Consumption: Citizenship in the Era of Obesity...... 152 Food Politics, Sustainability, and Citizenship: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue ...... 141 Food’s Inedible Products: Machines, Labor, and Men...... 158
Gender and Sexuality Aging Citizen: Queer Belonging in the Post–Baby Boomer State. . . . .184 Biocapitalism, Sustainability, and the Reproduction of Value...... 224 Black Sexual Citizenship: Queering Diasporic Performances, Practices, and Productions...... 221 Born in the U .S .A .: Native-Born Americans and Second-Class Citizenship in the Early Twentieth Century...... 228 Color Lines and Crossings...... 146 Contemporary Displacements of Humanitarianisms...... 136 Countercitizenships in Latino Music...... 165 Drugs, Death, and Belonging...... 118 En-gendering U .S . Diasporic Visions of Caribbean Migration...... 112 Exploring the Unsustainable: Feminist, Radical, Queer Politics. . . . . 102 Found in Translation: Anti-imperialism and Global Solidarity in the Long Sixties...... 133 GLBT Policy and Movement Building after Proposition 8...... 138 Grotesque Masculinities in Contemporary American Art and Culture...... 176 Intimacy, Race, and Global Citizenship...... 206 Intimate Responses to Empire...... 137 Michelle Obama as Subject and Citizen: Mass Culture and the “First” Lady...... 199
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Mothering the State...... 118 A Nation of Bodies, or Embodying the Nation...... 154 On the Unlikely Queer Subject ...... 225 Perverting Nationalisms: Discourses of Security and the Crafting of Geopolitics...... 99 Pressing Herself into the National Conversation: Race, Class, and the Power of Women’s Writing in the Early Twentieth Century . . . .150 Promesa y Peligro: Dominican Narrations of Representation, Identity, and (Trans)national Belonging...... 197 Psychiatric Biopower and Practices of Resistance ...... 205 Queer Belongings: Alternative Modes of Citizenship and Community...... 174 Reading the (USA PAT-)RIOT Act...... 168 Reality of Belonging...... 231 Salseras, Tortilleras, and Alien Invaders: Practices of Queer Latina Belonging ...... 134 Sexual Citizenship and Racialized (Un)belonging ...... 194 Sexuality, Psychology and Normativity...... 215 Speculative Sexualities: Nineteenth-Century Theories of Time, Affinity, and Desire ...... 123 Stepping On and Across Boundaries: Everyday Dance and Belonging ...... 148 Thinking Outside the Academy: Making Spaces for Indigenous Women’s Work...... 221 Transnational Bodies, Performances, and Enactments...... 111 The U .S . Nonprofit Industrial Complex and Its Discontents...... 101 U .S . Reproductive Citizenship in a Global Context...... 104 Violent Belonging...... 103 Visualizing Difference, Consuming Identity...... 230 War, Citizenship, and Latino Identity ...... 135 Women and Belonging: Gender and Citizenship in the Realm of Public Memory (sponsored by the Women’s Committee)...... 226 Work and Family in Grad School (sponsored by the Students’ Committee)...... 198
Geography Breakfast Forum: Transnational Methodologies: Toward a Substantive Practice of Transnational American Studies (sponsored by the Students’ Committee)...... 180 Denying Citizenship...... 215 Roundtable: Bridging Humanities and Social Sciences within American Studies (sponsored by the Committee on American Studies Centers and Programs)...... 227
Global/Transnational/Cross-Cultural Studies Against Citizenship ...... 101 America and Transnational Belonging in Asian American Literature and Film ...... 167
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America in the Middle East, Area Studies in American Studies. . . . . 138 America’s Middle East: Cultural Enunciations...... 156 American Missionaries as Transnational Cultural Critics (sponsored by the Religion and American Culture Caucus)...... 184 Ballads for Post-Americans: Revisiting the Nationalism of the U .S . Popular Front...... 213 Baseball and Belonging: Practices of Citizenship on the Diamond and Beyond ...... 185 Black Internationalism and Caribbean Radical Thought in the Americas ...... 209 Children and Youth in History: Belonging in the Past and the Present (sponsored by the Childhood and Youth Studies Caucus)...... 114 Citizen Alien: Asian Americans on the Outer Limits of Television and Nation...... 159 Citizenship and Humanitarian Discourse...... 145 Colonialism, Sovereignty, (In)commensurability ...... 134 Commodity Cultures, Contested Citizenships, and Transnational American Studies...... 166 The Courts of Public Memory: Trauma, Nation, and Reconciliation...... 178 Cultural Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging: South Asian Americans as a Multicultural Case Study ...... 132 The Cultural Productions of Oil in the Americas ...... 122 Danger and Beauty: Affect, Aesthetics, and Belonging in Filipino America...... 161 Domestic Environmentalism: Home, Nation, Globe, Planet...... 98 Early America, Asia, and the Pacific (sponsored by the Early American Matters Caucus)...... 105 Embodiments of Progress: Technology, Machines, and Belonging in Normalcy...... 222 En-gendering U .S . Diasporic Visions of Caribbean Migration...... 112 Envisioning a Sustainable Transnational Cultural Policy: Lessons and Inspirations from Across the Hemisphere ...... 126 Exporting American Dreams...... 171 Food Politics, Sustainability, and Citizenship: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue ...... 141 Food’s Inedible Products: Machines, Labor, and Men...... 158 Found in Translation: Anti-imperialism and Global Solidarity in the Long Sixties...... 133 Genealogies of U .S . Empire...... 171 Genres of Citizenship...... 103 Haiti as Icon in Transnational Discourse...... 119 Indigeneity and Sustainability ...... 154 International Committee Talkshop I: The United States Is Not Enough: International Research and Teaching Opportunities in American Studies...... 142
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International Committee Talkshop II: Presidential Politics, Administrative Change, and Teaching American Studies Overseas...... 151 International Committee Talkshop III: “Only in America Is My Story Possible”: Teaching Race and American Studies Overseas, with Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye as a Case Study ...... 159 Internment, Redress, and Reparations...... 110 Intimacy, Race, and Global Citizenship...... 206 Intimate Responses to Empire...... 137 Latinidad, Comparative Social Movements, and the Politics of the Possible ...... 227 Living for the City...... 137 The May Day Protests, Grassroots Mobilization, and the Politics of Citizenship...... 166 Misrecognizing Islam: Transnational Identity Politics, Global Citizenship, and Muslims...... 169 Musical Geographies of Belonging...... 170 Neocitizenship...... 176 Neoliberalism, Multiculturalism, and the Means of Digital Humanities Production ...... 220 Palestine in Crisis...... 149 Palimpsestic Belonging: Anticolonialisms of That Day and Neocolonialisms of Today in the Asia/Pacific/Caribbean Nexus . . . .133 Pasts That Refuse to Go Away ...... 136 Performance Re/Visions: American Theater and National Identity. . . .109 Perverting Nationalisms: Discourses of Security and the Crafting of Geopolitics...... 99 Practices of Alienation, Extinction, and Exclusion: Prison as a Problem in American Studies...... 182 Pressing the Borders: A Roundtable on Transhemispheric Latino/a Studies...... 164 Promesa y Peligro: Dominican Narrations of Representation, Identity, and (Trans)national Belonging...... 197 Racial Inbetweeness: Subtle Constructions of Asian Americanness. . . .216 Racial Narratives of Belonging and Practices of Cultural Citizenship for Asian America...... 175 Reframing American Studies: Hemispheric Citizenship and Transnational Affiliation in the Americas ...... 185 Representation and Resistance in Assimilationist Spaces...... 214 Roundtable: Redefinitions of Citizenship and Revisions of Cosmopolitanism: Transatlantic Perspectives...... 194 Routes to Emancipation: The Politics of Transnational Antiracist Activism...... 212 Speculative Science, Future Communities, and the Production of Belonging...... 213 The State(s) of American Studies...... 220 Sustaining Transpacific Studies: Empire, Desert, and Circuit...... 189
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Talkin’ ’bout a Revolution...... 191 There Was a Time: Local and Global Perspectives on the End of Black Power...... 157 Thinking Globally: American Environmentalism and Global Society in the Postwar Era...... 107 Transnational Adoption between U .S . and Asia: Racial and Gendered Violence and Communities of Resistance...... 230 Transnational Markets and Communities: Comparative Cultural Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging...... 125 U .S . Reproductive Citizenship in a Global Context...... 104 Visions of Antiracism, 1880–1930...... 145 Visions of Imperial Hegemony...... 110 Visual Culture in the Americas ...... 105 Visual Distortions of the Environment ...... 143 War, Citizenship, and Latino Identity ...... 135 Yes We Did? Symbolic Racial Victories from the Cold War to Barack Obama...... 226
History Blackness in Musical Performance...... 111 Born in the U .S .A .: Native-Born Americans and Second-Class Citizenship in the Early Twentieth Century...... 228 Children and Youth in History: Belonging in the Past and the Present (sponsored by the Childhood and Youth Studies Caucus)...... 114 Citizen Historian: Multiple Perspectives on Studs Terkel...... 227 Claiming Urban Space and Citizenship: The Underground Railroad, East St . Louis, and Skid Row, LA ...... 160 Contemporary Displacements of Humanitarianisms...... 136 The Contradictions of Environmentality...... 179 Cultural Assimilation, Criminal Codes, and Nativism: Visions of Early American Citizenship...... 163 Death, Destruction, and Ruin in Nineteenth-Century America. . . . . 140 Dramas of Belonging...... 127 Freedom and Free Enterprise: Minority Entrepreneurship in Twentieth-Century America...... 140 Genres of Citizenship...... 103 Hollywood in the 1940s: The Spectacle of Cold War Citizenry . . . . .117 In Memoriam: Emory Elliot...... 172 Internment, Redress, and Reparations...... 110 Interpreting Images, Icons, and Intent: The White House Residence as Cultural Sphere...... 99 The Intimate Bonds of Citizenship: The Citizen as Neighbor and Friend...... 108 Literature as Cultural Sustenance: Practicing Citizenship in Childhood Texts...... 210 Longing to Belong: Sexuality and Queer Citizenship in San Francisco...... 198
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Pasts That Refuse to Go Away ...... 136 Psychiatric Biopower and Practices of Resistance ...... 205 Race, Labor, and Incarceration in Early Twentieth-Century American Society and Culture...... 197 Roundtable: Belonging and Culture: Making a New Literary History of America ...... 211 Sexuality, Psychology, and Normativity...... 215 Studying War and Peace through American Studies / Studying America by Studying War and Peace...... 203 Sustaining Everyday Democracy: New Interdisciplinary Approaches ...... 205 Talkin’ ’bout a Revolution...... 191 Technologies of War ...... 174 There Was a Time: Local and Global Perspectives on the End of Black Power...... 157 Thinking Globally: American Environmentalism and Global Society in the Postwar Era...... 107 Three Perspectives on Citizenship and Belonging: African Americans, Conquered Mexicans, and Immigrant Chinese...... 106 Under the Influence: Affective Historiographies of Queer Nightlife . . . 115 Universalism and Its Discontents...... 128 Visions of Antiracism, 1880–1930...... 145 Visions of Imperial Hegemony...... 110 Visual Distortions of the Environment ...... 143 The Visual West and American Identity: Constructing Nationalism through the Western Landscape, 1850–1975...... 229 Voluntary Communities...... 104 Waging War, Shaping Identity: Exploring Ethnic and Racial Formation during the First and Second World Wars...... 113 Women and Belonging: Gender and Citizenship in the Realm of Public Memory (sponsored by the Women’s Committee)...... 226
Landscape and the Built Environment Circulatory Systems: Affects and Economies...... 108 The City as History...... 202 Cultural Spaces of Neoliberalism and Modes of Belonging...... 141 Death, Destruction, and Ruin in Nineteenth-Century America. . . . . 140 High-Tech Sustainability and Socioeconomic Justice...... 97 Race, Class, and Urban Environmentalism...... 211 Roundtable: What Can We Learn from the Sciences? National Science Foundation Funding (sponsored by the Science and Technology Caucus)...... 187 Spatializing Culture: The Production of Difference in the Built Environment...... 175 Staging Citizenship in the Progressive Era...... 132 Visual Distortions of the Environment ...... 143 The Visual West and American Identity: Constructing Nationalism through the Western Landscape, 1850–1975...... 229
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Legal Studies Cultural Assimilation, Criminal Codes, and Nativism: Visions of Early American Citizenship...... 163 Denying Citizenship...... 215 Drugs, Death, and Belonging...... 118 Fictions of Freedom: Blood, Labor, Law, and Bondage...... 158 Internment, Redress, and Reparations...... 110 Mothering the State...... 118 Working the Citizen: Law, Labor, and American Citizenship ...... 219
Literary Studies Alternative Models of Civil Rights Citizenship: Racial Storytelling and Aesthetic Belonging...... 214 America and Transnational Belonging in Asian American Literature and Film ...... 167 American Literature as Political Theory: Reimagining Citizenship, Bodies, and Belonging...... 121 Color Lines and Crossings...... 146 Denying Citizenship...... 215 En-gendering U .S . Diasporic Visions of Caribbean Migration...... 112 Genealogies of U .S . Empire...... 171 Haiti as Icon in Transnational Discourse...... 119 Hip-Hop, Poetry, and Belonging: Citizenship and the Cultural Politics of Rhyming...... 126 Indigeneity and Sustainability ...... 154 Internment, Redress, and Reparations...... 110 Intimate Responses to Empire...... 137 Limits of Belonging in Nineteenth-Century Literature...... 231 Literature as Cultural Sustenance: Practicing Citizenship in Childhood Texts...... 210 Living for the City...... 137 Mexicans, Indians, and Crises of Conquest and Belonging...... 199 Precarious Belonging: Place, Community, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century U .S . Literature...... 152 Queer (Be)longings: Sex, Race, and Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Literature on the Left ...... 201 Racial Inbetweeness: Subtle Constructions of Asian Americanness. . . .216 Racial Productions of the Borderlands...... 127 Reframing American Studies: Hemispheric Citizenship and Transnational Affiliation in the Americas ...... 185 Roundtable: Belonging and Culture: Making a New Literary History of America ...... 211 Speculative Science, Future Communities, and the Production of Belonging...... 213 Strategically Subjectless: Is “Asian American” Sustainable? ...... 161 Visions of Antiracism, 1880–1930...... 145 Visions of Imperial Hegemony...... 110
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Weather and Disaster and Social Belonging...... 225 We Need the Funk? Folklore, Fiction, and Humor...... 144 Zombies and Vampires: Identifying American Anxieties over Alterity and Belonging...... 218
Material Culture The Citadel of All Truths: Museum Staff and Academics Offer New Approaches to Domesticity and Citizenship (sponsored by the Material Culture Caucus)...... 195 Commodity Cultures, Contested Citizenships, and Transnational American Studies...... 166 Cultures of African American Commodity Consumption...... 150 Feeling Like You Belong: Sensory Perception, Experience, and Group Identity...... 157 Haiti as Icon in Transnational Discourse...... 119 Pasts That Refuse to Go Away ...... 136 Visual Citizenship: A Roundtable Discussion ...... 165 Visualizing Difference, Consuming Identity...... 230
Middle East American Studies Academic Freedom and the Right to Education: The Question of Palestine (sponsored by the Program Committee) ...... 200 America in the Middle East, Area Studies in American Studies. . . . . 138 America’s Middle East: Cultural Enunciations...... 156 American Missionaries as Transnational Cultural Critics (sponsored by the Religion and American Culture Caucus)...... 184 Citizenship and Humanitarian Discourse...... 145 The Color of Whiteness Studies: Studying Whiteness from an Ethnic Studies Perspective ...... 212 Exporting American Dreams...... 171 Misrecognizing Islam: Transnational Identity Politics, Global Citizenship, and Muslims...... 169 Musical Geographies of Belonging...... 170 Palestine in Crisis...... 149
Music Blackness in Musical Performance...... 111 Countercitizenships in Latino Music...... 165 Fictions of Freedom: Blood, Labor, Law, and Bondage...... 158 Hip-Hop, Poetry, and Belonging: Citizenship and the Cultural Politics of Rhyming...... 126 Michael Jackson and the Contradictions of Belonging ...... 209 Musical Geographies of Belonging...... 170 Open the Door: Race and Citizenship in Popular Music...... 117 Race, Music, and Performance in the Civil Rights Era...... 196 Selling Soul: Publics and Markets, Grooves and Revolution...... 188 Singing Southern, Sounding Sovereign: Alternative Countries and Country Alternatives...... 194
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Talkin’ ’bout a Revolution...... 191 We Need the Funk? Folklore, Fiction, and Humor...... 144 We the People Under Stairs: Musical Responses to Katrina...... 189
Native American Studies Birth, Belonging, and Rights...... 201 Indigeneity and Sustainability ...... 154 Intersections of Native American and Japanese American Scholarship: Dispossession, Citizenship, Belonging, and the State...... 109 New Ethics of Ecological Care and Citizenship...... 98 Performing Indian Identities...... 144 Representation and Resistance in Assimilationist Spaces...... 214 Transnational Bodies, Performances, and Enactments...... 111 Universalism and Its Discontents...... 128
Nineteenth Century The Assault of Laughter: The Meanings of Humor in Mark Twain’s America...... 169 Color Lines and Crossings...... 146 Cultural Assimilation, Criminal Codes, and Nativism: Visions of Early American Citizenship...... 163 Death, Destruction, and Ruin in Nineteenth-Century America. . . . . 140 Genealogies of U .S . Empire...... 171 Limits of Belonging in Nineteenth-Century Literature...... 231 Mothering the State...... 118 A Nation of Bodies, or Embodying the Nation...... 154 Nineteenth-Century Geographies of Race and Freedom...... 228 Performing Indian Identities...... 144 Precarious Belonging: Place, Community, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century U .S . Literature...... 152 Racial Productions of the Borderlands...... 127 Republic in Fragments: Identity, Belonging, and Nationhood after Loughran...... 177 Speculative Sexualities: Nineteenth-Century Theories of Time, Affinity, and Desire ...... 123 Three Perspectives on Citizenship and Belonging: African Americans, Conquered Mexicans, and Immigrant Chinese...... 106 Tools for Teachers: American Studies Resources for the K–16 Classroom...... 179 Visualizing Difference, Consuming Identity...... 230 Weather and Disaster and Social Belonging...... 225
Pacific Islander American Studies A Critical View from Hawai‘i: Pedagogy and Curriculum Workshop...... 123 Genealogies of U .S . Empire...... 171
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Noho Hewa: The Wrongful Occupation of Hawai‘i (a film screening and dialogue with the director) ...... 154
Pedagogy Balancing Civic Engagement and Graduate Education (sponsored by the Students’ Committee and the Graduate Education Committee)...... 204 Breakfast Forum: Transnational Methodologies: Toward a Substantive Practice of Transnational American Studies (sponsored by the Students’ Committee)...... 180 Challenging Citizenship: Historical Discussions, Enduring Debates (sponsored by the K–16 Collaboration Committee)...... 190 Encyclopedias and the Organization of Knowledge in American Studies...... 210 Finding the Fit and Leading the Way: Aligning Undergraduate American Studies Programs with Institutional Initiatives and Demonstrating Relevance at a Critical Time...... 130 Humor Studies as American Studies (sponsored by the Humor Studies Caucus)...... 162 Mock Job Interview Workshop (sponsored by the Students’ Committee)...... 188 On the Virtues of Academic Citizenship: Pedagogy and Practice in the American Studies College Classroom...... 107 Pedagogical and Story Circle Workshop with Students at the Center, New Orleans...... 102 Practices of Community and Belonging: Teaching Graphic Narratives in a Post-9/11 World ...... 223 Revolution ’67 in Newark, New Jersey: Documentary Film in the K–16 American Studies Classroom ...... 204 Roundtable: Bridging Humanities and Social Sciences within American Studies (sponsored by the Committee on American Studies Centers and Programs)...... 227 Why Walk When You Can Fly? The Living Stage Praxis of Community Engagement and Mobilization, 1956–1992...... 109
Performance Studies Blackness in Musical Performance...... 111 Borders and Circuits: Performative Geographies, Translation, and the Sustainability of Belonging...... 224 Circulatory Systems: Affects and Economies...... 108 Danger and Beauty: Affect, Aesthetics, and Belonging in Filipino America ...... 161 Dramas of Belonging...... 127 Girls of Color and Performance Ethnography: Imagining New Spaces of Empowerment and Inclusion...... 117 Humor Studies as American Studies (sponsored by the Humor Studies Caucus)...... 162
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Pasts That Refuse to Go Away ...... 136 Performance Re/Visions: American Theater and National Identity. . . .109 Performing Anti-essentialisms ...... 113 Performing Health, Narrativizing Racialized Bodies: AIDS, Cancer, and Medical “Knowledge”...... 124 Performing Publics and Counterpublics: Belonging and Boundaries in Early American Theater Culture...... 122 Queer Transnationalisms, Queer Mexico City...... 222 Race, Music, and Performance in the Civil Rights Era...... 196 Shades of Masculinities and Queer Options: Re/dressing Citizenship ...... 190 Stepping On and Across Boundaries: Everyday Dance and Belonging ...... 148 Why Walk When You Can Fly? The Living Stage Praxis of Community Engagement and Mobilization, 1956–1992...... 109
Philosophy Encyclopedias and the Organization of Knowledge in American Studies...... 210 Grace Lee Boggs: Radical Activism and Revolutionary Theory for the Twenty-first Century ...... 167 A New Exceptionalism? Citizenship, Identity, and Belonging in Obama’s America...... 116 Patriotic Investments in Victimhood, Vengeance, and Violence. . . . . 114 Sexuality, Psychology, and Normativity...... 215 Visual Distortions of the Environment ...... 143
Political Culture/Government Alternative Models of Civil Rights Citizenship: Racial Storytelling and Aesthetic Belonging...... 214 American Literature as Political Theory: Reimagining Citizenship, Bodies, and Belonging...... 121 Black Internationalism and Caribbean Radical Thought in the Americas ...... 209 Blackness in Musical Performance...... 111 Citizenship and Humanitarian Discourse...... 145 Citizenship in Sickness and in Death...... 162 The City in Ruins? Arguing the Case for the “Other America” in The Wire ...... 170 Color Lines and Crossings...... 146 The Courts of Public Memory: Trauma, Nation, and Reconciliation...... 178 Denying Citizenship...... 215 Envisioning a Sustainable Transnational Cultural Policy: Lessons and Inspirations from Across the Hemisphere...... 126 Genres of Citizenship...... 103 GLBT Policy and Movement Building after Proposition 8...... 138
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International Committee Talkshop II: Presidential Politics, Administrative Change, and Teaching American Studies Overseas...... 151 The Intimate Bonds of Citizenship: The Citizen as Neighbor and Friend...... 108 Intimate Responses to Empire...... 137 Limits of Belonging in Nineteenth-Century Literature...... 231 A Nation of Bodies, or Embodying the Nation...... 154 Neocitizenship...... 176 A New Exceptionalism? Citizenship, Identity, and Belonging in Obama’s America...... 116 Palestine in Crisis...... 149 Pasts That Refuse to Go Away ...... 136 Patriotic Investments in Victimhood, Vengeance, and Violence. . . . . 114 Popular Fronts: Artists and Activism in the 1920s ...... 139 Practices of Alienation, Extinction, and Exclusion: Prison as a Problem in American Studies...... 182 Producing and Protecting Citizens: The Nexus of Culture, Policy, and Affect ...... 149 Race After Obama...... 192 Race, Empire, and Migratory Radicalisms: Considerations on American Anticolonialism...... 181 Race, Neoliberalism, and Citizenship ...... 206 Regimes of Memory and the Power of Forgetting...... 204 Republic in Fragments: Identity, Belonging, and Nationhood after Loughran...... 177 Roundtable: Redefinitions of Citizenship and Revisions of Cosmopolitanism: Transatlantic Perspectives...... 194 Sexuality, Psychology, and Normativity...... 215 Sustaining Everyday Democracy: New Interdisciplinary Approaches ...... 205 The U .S . Nonprofit Industrial Complex and Its Discontents...... 101 Violent Belonging...... 103 Visual Distortions of the Environment ...... 143 Visualizing Color...... 200 Visualizing Difference, Consuming Identity...... 230 Voluntary Communities...... 104 Vulnerable Bodies, Ecological Citizenship, and the Making of Environmental Publics (sponsored by the Environment and Culture Caucus)...... 121 Yes We Did? Symbolic Racial Victories from the Cold War to Barack Obama...... 226
Popular Culture America’s Middle East: Cultural Enunciations...... 156 The Assault of Laughter: The Meanings of Humor in Mark Twain’s America...... 169
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Breakfast Forum: Ethno-Racial Representation/Popular Culture Scholarship: Practices, Politics, and Positioning in the Academy (sponsored by the Students’ Committee)...... 131 Contemporary Displacements of Humanitarianisms...... 136 The Cool of Barack Obama...... 125 Going Hollywood: Dance Floor Democracy, Social Mixing, and Cultural Citizenship...... 143 Hip-Hop, Poetry, and Belonging: Citizenship and the Cultural Politics of Rhyming...... 126 Humor Studies as American Studies (sponsored by the Humor Studies Caucus)...... 162 iAm: The Work of Self in the Age of Digital Replication ...... 100 Laboring Citizens...... 191 Limits of Belonging in Nineteenth-Century Literature...... 231 Musical Geographies of Belonging...... 170 Negotiations over Belonging: Figuring Hmong American Citizenship through Cultural Production...... 208 Old/New Technologies of Belonging: Books, YouTube, Mobile Devices, and the Sensuousness of Sustainable Futures...... 195 Poetic Visions in the Wake of Katrina...... 116 Practices of Community and Belonging: Teaching Graphic Narratives in a Post-9/11 World ...... 223 Producing and Protecting Citizens: The Nexus of Culture, Policy, and Affect ...... 149 Race and the Beauty Industry...... 208 Reality of Belonging...... 231 Rethinking “Therapeutic Culture”...... 186 Selling Soul: Publics and Markets, Grooves and Revolution...... 188 Sporting Bodies...... 135 Transnational Bodies, Performances, and Enactments...... 111 Transnational Imagined Communities...... 119 Transnational Markets and Communities: Comparative Cultural Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging...... 125 Under the Influence: Affective Historiographies of Queer Nightlife . . . 115 Violent Belonging...... 103 Visual Citizenship: A Roundtable Discussion ...... 165 Visualizing Color...... 200 We Need the Funk? Folklore, Fiction, and Humor...... 144 Zombies and Vampires: Identifying American Anxieties over Alterity and Belonging...... 218
Postcolonial Studies American Quarterly Editorial Board Panel II: Between Life and Death: Race, Social Death, Necropolitics, Disposability...... 186 Citizenship in Sickness and in Death...... 162 Palimpsestic Belonging: Anticolonialisms of That Day and Neocolonialisms of Today in the Asia/Pacific/Caribbean Nexus . . . .133
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Routes to Emancipation: The Politics of Transnational Antiracist Activism...... 212 Transnational Imagined Communities...... 119
Print Culture Citizenship and Aesthetics...... 155 Commies, Christians, and Queers: Subcultures of Letters in Twentieth-Century America (sponsored the affiliate organization SHARP)...... 156 Friends, Neighbors, and Social Capital in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature ...... 147 Literature as Cultural Sustenance: Practicing Citizenship in Childhood Texts...... 210 Performing Indian Identities...... 144 Representation and Resistance in Assimilationist Spaces...... 214 Republic in Fragments: Identity, Belonging, and Nationhood after Loughran...... 177
Public Practice Aging Citizen: Queer Belonging in the Post–Baby Boomer State. . . . .184 Balancing Civic Engagement and Graduate Education (sponsored by the Students’ Committee and the Graduate Education Committee)...... 204 Challenging Citizenship: Historical Discussions, Enduring Debates (sponsored by K–16 Collaboration Committee)...... 190 Demystifying Publishing: A Discussion with Writers and Editors. . . . 153 Dramas of Belonging...... 127 Drugs, Death, and Belonging...... 118 Finding the Fit and Leading the Way: Aligning Undergraduate American Studies Programs with Institutional Initiatives and Demonstrating Relevance at a Critical Time...... 130 Graduate Student Sustainability? Graduate Student Unionization and the Casualization of Academic Labor...... 142 The Practice of Labor Photography: A Conversation with Earl Dotter and Mark Rogovin...... 192
Public Practice/Museum Studies The Citadel of All Truths: Museum Staff and Academics Offer New Approaches to Domesticity and Citizenship (sponsored by the Material Culture Caucus)...... 195 Claiming Urban Space and Citizenship: The Underground Railroad, East St . Louis, and Skid Row, LA ...... 160 Photography: Imaging the Future of Race in America...... 106
Public Scholarship American Studies 2 .0: Student Learning through Documentary Video Production in the American Studies Classroom...... 221
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Barbecue Eating, Gospel Singing, and Bridge Building: Perspectives on Collaborative Scholarship in the U S. . South. . . . . 121 Combating Inequalities in Higher Education: An Agenda for Tough Times (sponsored by the Minority Scholars’ Committee). . . .153 Encyclopedias and the Organization of Knowledge in American Studies...... 210 New Depression Studies in the New New Deal...... 219 Poetic Visions in the Wake of Katrina...... 116 Red Light, Green Light: Same-Sex Marriage, Family Policy, and the Rights of Citizenship...... 188
Queer Studies Against Citizenship ...... 101 Black Sexual Citizenship: Queering Diasporic Performances, Practices, and Productions...... 221 Exploring the Unsustainable: Feminist, Radical, Queer Politics. . . . . 102 Exporting American Dreams...... 171 GLBT Policy and Movement Building after Proposition 8...... 138 James Baldwin and Devil’s Work: Screening Citizenship and National Belonging in Harlem, London, and Istanbul...... 207 Longing to Belong: Sexuality and Queer Citizenship in San Francisco...... 198 Mothering the State...... 118 Queer Belongings: Alternative Modes of Citizenship and Community...... 174 Queer (Be)longings: Sex, Race, and Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Literature on the Left ...... 201 Queer Transnationalisms, Queer Mexico City...... 222 Red Light, Green Light: Same-Sex Marriage, Family Policy, and the Rights of Citizenship...... 188 Salseras, Tortilleras, and Alien Invaders: Practices of Queer Latina Belonging ...... 134 Sexual Citizenship and Racialized (Un)belonging ...... 194 Sexuality, Psychology, and Normativity...... 215 Shades of Masculinities and Queer Options: Re/dressing Citizenship ...... 190 Speculative Sexualities: Nineteenth-Century Theories of Time, Affinity, and Desire ...... 123 Talkin’ ’bout a Revolution...... 191 Under the Influence: Affective Historiographies of Queer Nightlife . . . 115 Universalism and Its Discontents...... 128
Race and Ethnicity A Critical View from Hawai‘i: Pedagogy and Curriculum Workshop...... 123 American Quarterly Editorial Board Panel I: Between Life and Death: Race, Social Death, Necropolitics, Disposability...... 177
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American Quarterly Editorial Board Panel II: Between Life and Death: Race, Social Death, Necropolitics, Disposability...... 186 American Quarterly Editorial Board Panel III: Between Life and Death: Race, Social Death, Necropolitics, Disposability...... 196 Ballads for Post-Americans: Revisiting the Nationalism of the U .S . Popular Front...... 213 Baseball and Belonging: Practices of Citizenship on the Diamond and Beyond ...... 185 Black Internationalism and Caribbean Radical Thought in the Americas ...... 209 Black Man, White Man, Commander-in-Chief: Barack Obama in Popular Visual Culture...... 148 Born in the U .S .A .: Native-Born Americans and Second-Class Citizenship in the Early Twentieth Century...... 228 Breakfast Forum: Ethno-Racial Representation/Popular Culture Scholarship: Practices, Politics, and Positioning in the Academy (sponsored by the Students’ Committee)...... 131 The Citadel of All Truths: Museum Staff and Academics Offer New Approaches to Domesticity and Citizenship (sponsored by the Material Culture Caucus)...... 195 Citizenship in Sickness and in Death...... 162 Colloquy with Stephanie Smallwood on Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora...... 130 Color Lines and Crossings...... 146 Combating Inequalities in Higher Education: An Agenda for Tough Times (sponsored by the Minority Scholars’ Committee). . . .153 Cultural Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging: South Asian Americans as a Multicultural Case Study ...... 132 Cultures of African American Commodity Consumption...... 150 Denying Citizenship...... 215 Drugs, Death, and Belonging...... 118 Exploring the Unsustainable: Feminist, Radical, Queer Politics. . . . . 102 Freedom and Free Enterprise: Minority Entrepreneurship in Twentieth-Century America...... 140 Frontier Encounters: Citizenship and Belonging in Western Photographic Portraits...... 160 Genres of Citizenship...... 103 Going Hollywood: Dance Floor Democracy, Social Mixing, and Cultural Citizenship...... 143 Grace Lee Boggs: Radical Activism and Revolutionary Theory for the Twenty-first Century ...... 167 International Committee Talkshop III: “Only in America Is My Story Possible”: Teaching Race and American Studies Overseas, with Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye as a Case Study ...... 159 Internment, Redress, and Reparations...... 110 Intimacy, Race, and Global Citizenship...... 206 Intimate Responses to Empire...... 137
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It Ain’t Easy Living in the City: HBO’s The Wire, Labor, and Political Economy at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century. . . . . 187 Laboring Citizens...... 191 Latinidad, Comparative Social Movements, and the Politics of the Possible ...... 227 Locating Latina/o Studies in the East Coast ...... 205 Longing to Belong: Sexuality and Queer Citizenship in San Francisco...... 198 The May Day Protests, Grassroots Mobilization, and the Politics of Citizenship...... 166 Migration, Science, and Technology ...... 178 Mothering the State...... 118 Negotiations over Belonging: Figuring Hmong American Citizenship through Cultural Production...... 208 Neoliberalism, Multiculturalism, and the Means of Digital Humanities Production ...... 220 The New Black/American: The Cultural Politics of National/ Racial Identity in the Obama Era ...... 183 Open the Door: Race and Citizenship in Popular Music...... 117 Pasts That Refuse to Go Away ...... 136 Performing Anti-essentialisms ...... 113 Performing Health, Narrativizing Racialized Bodies: AIDS, Cancer, and Medical “Knowledge”...... 124 Performing Publics and Counterpublics: Belonging and Boundaries in Early American Theatre Culture...... 122 Photography: Imaging the Future of Race in America...... 106 Practices of Alienation, Extinction, and Exclusion: Prison as a Problem in American Studies...... 182 Pressing Herself into the National Conversation: Race, Class, and the Power of Women’s Writing in the Early Twentieth Century . . . .150 Queer (Be)longings: Sex, Race, and Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Literature on the Left ...... 201 Race After Obama...... 192 Race and the Beauty Industry...... 208 Race, Class, and Urban Environmentalism...... 211 Race, Empire, and Migratory Radicalisms: Considerations on American Anticolonialism...... 181 Race, Neoliberalism, and Citizenship ...... 206 Racial Narratives of Belonging and Practices of Cultural Citizenship for Asian America...... 175 Racial Productions of the Borderlands...... 127 Reading the (USA PAT-)RIOT Act...... 168 Representation and Resistance in Assimilationist Spaces...... 214 Routes to Emancipation: The Politics of Transnational Antiracist Activism...... 212 Sexual Citizenship and Racialized (Un)belonging ...... 194 Sexuality, Psychology, and Normativity...... 215
88 SESSION SUBJECT INDEX
Shades of Masculinities and Queer Options: Re/dressing Citizenship ...... 190 Singing Southern, Sounding Sovereign: Alternative Countries and Country Alternatives...... 194 Spatializing Culture: The Production of Difference in the Built Environment...... 175 Staging Citizenship in the Progressive Era...... 132 Stepping On and Across Boundaries: Everyday Dance and Belonging ...... 148 Strategically Subjectless: Is “Asian American” Sustainable? ...... 161 Sustaining Happiness: Commercial and Personal Pleasure during the Great Depression...... 181 Talkin’ ’bout a Revolution...... 191 Theorizing Prison/Space/Resistance in Post–World War II America. . . .115 Three Perspectives on Citizenship and Belonging: African Americans, Conquered Mexicans, and Immigrant Chinese...... 106 Transnational Adoption between the United States and Asia: Racial and Gendered Violence and Communities of Resistance. . . . 230 Transnational Markets and Communities: Comparative Cultural Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging...... 125 Universalism and Its Discontents...... 128 The U .S . Nonprofit Industrial Complex and Its Discontents...... 101 Visions of Imperial Hegemony...... 110 Visual Culture in the Americas ...... 105 Visual Distortions of the Environment ...... 143 Visualizing Color...... 200 Voluntary Communities...... 104 Waging War, Shaping Identity: Exploring Ethnic and Racial Formation during the First and Second World Wars...... 113 War, Citizenship, and Latino Identity ...... 135 Weather and Disaster and Social Belonging...... 225 We Need the Funk? Folklore, Fiction, and Humor...... 144 Where Do American Jews Belong? Jewish Ethno-Racial Liminality in the Postwar United States ...... 229 Yes We Did? Symbolic Racial Victories from the Cold War to Barack Obama...... 226
Regionalism Dramas of Belonging...... 127 Singing Southern, Sounding Sovereign: Alternative Countries and Country Alternatives...... 194
Religion American Missionaries as Transnational Cultural Critics (sponsored by the Religion and American Culture Caucus)...... 184 Citizenship and Belonging: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in Representations of American Catholicism...... 131
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Citizenship in Sickness and in Death...... 162 Expanding God’s Country: Religious Education in Early American Empires...... 142 Haiti as Icon in Transnational Discourse...... 119 Misrecognizing Islam: Transnational Identity Politics, Global Citizenship, and Muslims...... 169 Perverting Nationalisms: Discourses of Security and the Crafting of Geopolitics...... 99 Universalism and Its Discontents...... 128 Voluntary Communities...... 104
Rhetoric American Literature as Political Theory: Reimagining Citizenship, Bodies, and Belonging...... 121 Limits of Belonging in Nineteenth-Century Literature...... 231 Roundtable: Belonging and Culture: Making a New Literary History of America ...... 211 Transnational Bodies, Performances, and Enactments...... 111
Science and Technology Biocapitalism, Sustainability, and the Reproduction of Value...... 224 Circulatory Systems: Affects and Economies...... 108 Citizenship in Sickness and in Death...... 162 Darwin in America: A Keywords Approach to the Darwin Bicentennial...... 164 Domestic Environmentalism: Home, Nation, Globe, Planet...... 98 Embodiments of Progress: Technology, Machines, and Belonging in Normalcy...... 222 Fat Fictions and the Culture of Consumption: Citizenship in the Era of Obesity...... 152 Genealogies of U .S . Empire...... 171 High-Tech Sustainability and Socioeconomic Justice...... 97 Migration, Science, and Technology ...... 178 Mothering the State...... 118 A Nation of Bodies, or Embodying the Nation...... 154 Old/New Technologies of Belonging: Books, YouTube, Mobile Devices, and the Sensuousness of Sustainable Futures...... 195 Performing Health, Narrativizing Racialized Bodies: AIDS, Cancer, and Medical “Knowledge”...... 124 Roundtable: What Can We Learn from the Sciences? National Science Foundation Funding (sponsored by the Science and Technology Caucus)...... 187 Speculative Science, Future Communities, and the Production of Belonging...... 213 Technologies of War ...... 174 U .S . Reproductive Citizenship in a Global Context...... 104
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Sociology Denying Citizenship...... 215 Feeling Like You Belong: Sensory Perception, Experience, and Group Identity...... 157 Mothering the State...... 118 Race, Neoliberalism, and Citizenship ...... 206 Roundtable: Bridging Humanities and Social Sciences within American Studies (sponsored by the Committee on American Studies Centers and Programs)...... 227 Sexuality, Psychology, and Normativity...... 215 Sporting Bodies...... 135 Voluntary Communities...... 104
Sports Studies Baseball and Belonging: Practices of Citizenship on the Diamond and Beyond ...... 185 A Nation of Bodies, or Embodying the Nation...... 154 Sporting Bodies...... 135
Teaching and K–16 Collaboration Challenging Citizenship: Historical Discussions, Enduring Debates (sponsored by the K–16 Collaboration Committee)...... 190 Children and Youth in History: Belonging in the Past and the Present (sponsored by the Childhood and Youth Studies Caucus)...... 114 A Critical View from Hawai‘i: Pedagogy and Curriculum Workshop...... 123 Finding the Fit and Leading the Way: Aligning Undergraduate American Studies Programs with Institutional Initiatives and Demonstrating Relevance at a Critical Time...... 130 Pedagogical and Story Circle Workshop with Students at the Center, New Orleans...... 102
Television and Media Studies American Studies 2 .0: Student Learning through Documentary Video Production in the American Studies Classroom...... 221 Bad Citizenship and Good Games: Video Gaming, Criminality, and Citizenship ...... 202 Breakfast Forum: Ethno-Racial Representation/Popular Culture Scholarship: Practices, Politics, and Positioning in the Academy (sponsored by the Students’ Committee)...... 131 Citizen Alien: Asian Americans on the Outer Limits of Television and Nation...... 159 The City in Ruins? Arguing the Case for the “Other America” in The Wire ...... 170 The Cool of Barack Obama...... 125 Hollywood in the 1940s: The Spectacle of Cold War Citizenry . . . . .117
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Reality of Belonging...... 231 Visualizing Color...... 200
Transgender Studies On the Unlikely Queer Subject ...... 225 Sexuality, Psychology, and Normativity...... 215 Sporting Bodies...... 135
Trauma Studies Contemporary Displacements of Humanitarianisms...... 136 The Courts of Public Memory: Trauma, Nation, and Reconciliation. . . 178 Regimes of Memory and the Power of Forgetting...... 204
Twentieth Century Aging Citizen: Queer Belonging in the Post–Baby Boomer State. . . . .184 Bad Citizenship and Good Games: Video Gaming, Criminality, and Citizenship ...... 202 Breakfast Forum: Transnational Methodologies: Toward a Substantive Practice of Transnational American Studies (sponsored by the Students’ Committee)...... 180 Citizen Historian: Multiple Perspectives on Studs Terkel...... 227 Citizenship and Aesthetics...... 155 Claiming Housing Rights...... 152 Color Lines and Crossings...... 146 Commies, Christians, and Queers: Subcultures of Letters in Twentieth-Century America (sponsored by the affiliate organization SHARP)...... 156 The Contradictions of Environmentality...... 179 The Cultural Productions of Oil in the Americas ...... 122 Dramas of Belonging...... 127 Everybody’s Disabled Nowadays: Reconfiguring American Studies through Disability ...... 124 Exporting American Dreams...... 171 Found in Translation: Anti-imperialism and Global Solidarity in the Long Sixties...... 133 Freedom and Free Enterprise: Minority Entrepreneurship in Twentieth-Century America...... 140 Haiti as Icon in Transnational Discourse...... 119 Hollywood in the 1940s: The Spectacle of Cold War Citizenry . . . . .117 International Committee Talkshop III: “Only in America Is My Story Possible”: Teaching Race and American Studies Overseas, with Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye as a Case Study ...... 159 Intersections of Native American and Japanese American Scholarship: Dispossession, Citizenship, Belonging, and the State ...... 109 Living for the City...... 137 Media Society=Media Citizenship? Postwar Activism Pushing the Limits of the National Public Sphere...... 203
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Migration, Science, and Technology ...... 178 Musical Geographies of Belonging...... 170 New Ethics of Ecological Care and Citizenship...... 98 Oil Culture: Representations of the Petroleum Industry ...... 97 Open the Door: Race and Citizenship in Popular Music...... 117 Performance Re/Visions: American Theater and National Identity. . . .109 Performing Indian Identities...... 144 Popular Fronts: Artists and Activism in the 1920s ...... 139 Pressing Herself into the National Conversation: Race, Class, and the Power of Women’s Writing in the Early Twentieth Century . . . .150 Producing and Protecting Citizens: The Nexus of Culture, Policy, and Affect ...... 149 Promesa y Peligro: Dominican Narrations of Representation, Identity, and (Trans)national Belonging...... 197 Racial Inbetweeness: Subtle Constructions of Asian Americanness. . . .216 Reality of Belonging...... 231 Representation and Resistance in Assimilationist Spaces...... 214 Rethinking “Therapeutic Culture”...... 186 Revolution ’67 in Newark, New Jersey: Documentary Film in the K–16 American Studies Classroom ...... 204 Sexuality, Psychology, and Normativity...... 215 Spotlight on Student ASA Regional Award Winners (sponsored by the Students’ Committee and Regional Chapters’ Committee) . . . . 168 Studying War and Peace through American Studies / Studying America by Studying War and Peace...... 203 Sustaining Happiness: Commercial and Personal Pleasure during the Great Depression...... 181 Talkin’ ’bout a Revolution...... 191 Technologies of War ...... 174 Tenure and Promotion in American Studies: Guidelines and Issues (Directors’ Breakfast Workshop)...... 218 Tools for Teachers: American Studies Resources for the K–16 Classroom...... 179 Universalism and Its Discontents...... 128 Visions of Antiracism, 1880–1930...... 145 We Need the Funk? Folklore, Fiction, and Humor...... 144 Where Do American Jews Belong? Jewish Ethno-Racial Liminality in the Postwar United States ...... 229
U.S. Colonialism America in the Middle East, Area Studies in American Studies. . . . . 138 Ballads for Post-Americans: Revisiting the Nationalism of the U .S . Popular Front...... 213 Citizenship and Humanitarian Discourse...... 145 Colonialism, Sovereignty, (In)commensurability ...... 134 Contested Subjects, Contesting Citizenship: Asian Americans and Latinos in the Post-1955 Discourse of Citizenship...... 139
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Denying Citizenship...... 215 Expanding God’s Country: Religious Education in Early American Empires...... 142 Exporting American Dreams...... 171 Genealogies of U .S . Empire...... 171 Haiti as Icon in Transnational Discourse...... 119 Intimate Responses to Empire...... 137 Neocitizenship...... 176 Palimpsestic Belonging: Anticolonialisms of That Day and Neocolonialisms of Today in the Asia/Pacific/Caribbean Nexus . . . .133 Performing Indian Identities...... 144 Race, Empire, and Migratory Radicalisms: Considerations on American Anticolonialism...... 181 Racial Productions of the Borderlands...... 127 Violent Belonging...... 103 Visions of Imperial Hegemony...... 110
Visual Culture Studies American Studies 2 .0: Student Learning through Documentary Video Production in the American Studies Classroom...... 221 Bad Citizenship and Good Games: Video Gaming, Criminality, and Citizenship ...... 202 Black Man, White Man, Commander-in-Chief: Barack Obama in Popular Visual Culture...... 148 The City as History...... 202 Contemporary Displacements of Humanitarianisms...... 136 Danger and Beauty: Affect, Aesthetics, and Belonging in Filipino America...... 161 Everybody’s Disabled Nowadays: Reconfiguring American Studies through Disability ...... 124 Exporting American Dreams...... 171 Feeling Like You Belong: Sensory Perception, Experience, and Group Identity...... 157 Framing America’s Hard Edges: Photographs, Health Imagery, and the (De)construction of Racialized Belonging...... 162 Frontier Encounters: Citizenship and Belonging in Western Photographic Portraits...... 160 Grotesque Masculinities in Contemporary American Art and Culture...... 176 Haiti as Icon in Transnational Discourse...... 119 Internment, Redress, and Reparations...... 110 Interpreting Images, Icons, and Intent: The White House Residence as Cultural Sphere...... 99 Intimate Responses to Empire...... 137 James Baldwin and Devil’s Work: Screening Citizenship and National Belonging in Harlem, London, and Istanbul...... 207 Laboring Citizens...... 191
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Mothering the State...... 118 A Nation of Bodies, or Embodying the Nation...... 154 Oil Culture: Representations of the Petroleum Industry ...... 97 Pasts That Refuse to Go Away ...... 136 Performing Indian Identities...... 144 Popular Fronts: Artists and Activism in the 1920s ...... 139 The Practice of Labor Photography: A Conversation with Earl Dotter and Mark Rogovin...... 192 Practices of Community and Belonging: Teaching Graphic Narratives in a Post-9/11 World ...... 223 Racial Inbetweeness: Subtle Constructions of Asian Americanness. . . .216 Regimes of Memory and the Power of Forgetting...... 204 Something to Declare: Latina/o and Caribbean Place-Making Performances...... 180 Spatializing Culture: The Production of Difference in the Built Environment...... 175 Staging Citizenship in the Progressive Era...... 132 Sustaining Transpacific Studies: Empire, Desert, and Circuit...... 189 Training Sights: The Visual Pedagogies of American Citizenship. . . . .102 Transnational Imagined Communities...... 119 Violent Belonging...... 103 Visions of Antiracism, 1880–1930...... 145 Visual Citizenship: A Roundtable Discussion ...... 165 Visual Culture in the Americas ...... 105 Visual Distortions of the Environment ...... 143 The Visual West and American Identity: Constructing Nationalism through the Western Landscape, 1850–1975...... 229 Visualizing Difference, Consuming Identity...... 230 Visualizing the Urban Jungle and the Urban Oasis: Cities in the American Environmental Imaginary (sponsored by the Visual Culture Caucus) ...... 100 Vulnerable Bodies, Ecological Citizenship, and the Making of Environmental Publics (sponsored by the Environment and Culture Caucus)...... 121 Women and Belonging: Gender and Citizenship in the Realm of Public Memory (sponsored by the Women’s Committee)...... 226
Women’s Studies Against Citizenship ...... 101 The Color of Whiteness Studies: Studying Whiteness from an Ethnic Studies Perspective ...... 212 Girls of Color and Performance Ethnography: Imagining New Spaces of Empowerment and Inclusion...... 117 Race and the Beauty Industry...... 208 Visualizing Difference, Consuming Identity...... 230
95 SESSION SUBJECT INDEX
Working-Class Studies Commodity Cultures, Contested Citizenships, and Transnational American Studies...... 166 Institutional Strategies of Empowerment and Belonging: Intersections of Union, Community, and Philanthropic Organizing...... 120 It Ain’t Easy Living in the City: HBO’s The Wire, Labor, and Political Economy at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century. . . . . 187 Laboring Citizens...... 191 New Depression Studies in the New New Deal...... 219 The Practice of Labor Photography: A Conversation with Earl Dotter and Mark Rogovin...... 192 Working the Citizen: Law, Labor, and American Citizenship ...... 219
96