All Events will be held on this day
at the Africana Studies and Research Center
310 Triphammer Road,
Ithaca,
New York

7:30 a.m. — 4:00 p.m. Registration

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7:30 a.m. — 8:15 a.m. Continental Breakfast

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8:30 a.m. — 8:55 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks

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9:00 a.m. — 10:30 a.m • Concurrent Panels

• Panel A

African-American Literature
(Don Ohadike Room-B01)

Presenters:

"Crossing Over: Appropriation and Acculturation in Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day"

Philathia Bolton, Purdue University

"Is there no place like home?: A response to Eddie S. Glaude’s account of ‘Africa’ in African American stories"

Tim Lake, Ph.D., Wabash College

"Asserting Ourselves as Agents of Knowledge: Reconstructing the Self in Meridian by Alice Walker and Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara"

Billye Smith, Cornell University

"The Gift and Contract of Violence in Walker’s The Color Purple"

Frederick Staidum, Cornell University

• Panel B

Culture and Evolution
(James Turner Room-111)

Presenters:

"From Cherokee Nation to Jose Padilla: The Evolution of the Universal "NIGGER" in American Jurisprudence"

Robert Johnson, Jr., Esq., University of Massachusetts Boston

"Critical Perspectives on the Contemporary Woman"

John Marah, Ph.D., State University of New York at Brockport

"The Evolution of Africana Cultures and Policy Studies"

Zachery R. Williams, Ph.D. University of Akron

• Panel C

Crime, Law and Justice in Society
(Congress Mbata Room-B07)

Presenters:

"Law and Community Activism: Toward a Critical Race Praxis"

Shelly Alexander, Cornell University

"Islam: A Rehabilitative Factor on Incarcerated Black Men in America"

Daly Guilamo, Cornell University

"Substance Abuse among African-American Women"

Carla Miller, Virginia Tech University

"The Nature of Property Crime vs. Violent Crime"

Laquana Young, Virginia Tech University

• Panel D

Historical and Cultural Translations
(Hoyt Fuller Room-101)

Presenters:

"The Theory of Offense Mechanisms"

Jimmy Kirby, Jr., Cornell University

"Only a Movie: The Impact of Hotel Rwanda and Sometimes in April on Popular Conceptions of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide"

Jamicia Lackey, Cornell University

"Culturally Responsive Styles for African-American Students"

Serie McDougal, Temple University

"Black Memorabilia as Storytellers of African American History"

Philip Merrill, Collector of Black Memorabilia

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11:00 a.m. — 12:15 p.m. • Concurrent Panels

• Panel E

Exploring the Politics of Gender, Culture and Sexuality
(Hoyt Fuller Room-101)

Presenters:

"Sexism and Leadership: Women in the Black Panther Party"

Tenisha Howard, Cornell University

"Sisters Gon’ Work it Out: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Black Counterpublic"

Michael Jeffries, Harvard University

"Investigating Gender Roles: Jamaican Women’s Political Participation"

Jody-Anne Jones, Cornell University

"All the Gay Men are White, All the Black Men are Straight: Black Male Homosexual Identity Formation within a Racialized and Gendered Sex Role Society"

K. Terrence Oliver, Cornell University

• Panel F

Issues and Concerns in African-American Studies
(Don Ohadike Room-B01)

Presenters:

"Culturally Relevant Education: Its Definition, Function and Significance for African American Studies"

Efua Akoma, Virginia Tech University

"African Academics and African American Studies in the U.S.: Academic "Imperialism" or a Modern Version of Pan-Africanism?"

Y. Lulat, Ph.D., Buffalo University

"From the Intercultural Boardroom to the College Classroom: Encouraging Dialogue about African American Students’ Success in Higher Education Institutions"

Tammy Holmes, Northern Illinois University

"This is Our Thing!": The Black Student Movement in the State of Wisconsin, 1968-1969"

Matt Stofflet, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

• Panel G

Charting the Pathway to Fraternity for African and Latino Descendant Males through Africana Helping Theory and Practice
(J. Congress Mbata Room-B07)

Chair: Gerald G. Jackson, Medgar Evers College

Panelists: Medgar Evers College

John Bruno,
junior, pre-med, Bronx, New York

Richard Freeman,
junior, hotel administration, Pittsburgh, PA

Roland Pinkney, Jr.,
junior, pre-med, Atlanta, GA

Olakunle Saliu,
junior, industrial relations, Brooklyn, NY

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12:15 p.m. — 1:25 p.m. • Lunch on Your Own

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1:30 p.m. — 2:45 p.m. • Concurrent Panels

• Panel H

The Future of Africana Studies and Independent Education
(Hoyt Fuller Room-101)

Presenters:

"Ancestral Logic or Whispers in the Tale: A Parabolic Comment on the State of African Diaspora Studies"

Niyi Afolabi, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

"Africana Studies in the 21^st Century"

Leslie Alexander, Ph.D., Ohio State University

"Beyond these Walls: African(a) Studies and Independent Education"

Kwasi Konadu, Ph.D., Winston-Salem State University

"Maintaining Vigilance Against the Attack on Afrocentric Theory"

Michael Tillotson, Temple University

• Panel I

Literary Expressions in Africana Studies
(Don Ohadike Room-B01)

Presenters:

"Petty Particularities: The Legitimacy of an African American Political Identity"

Danielle C. Heard, Cornell University

"Zora Mounted, Cheval ou Ch’wal? The Hypocrisy and Hegemony of the Empowered"

Natalie Leger, Cornell University

"Moral Motives, Idealization,, and Representation: An Analysis of Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Carl Pollard’s 1927 Film Version"

Diana Louis, Cornell University

• Panel J

Reconceptualizing the Complexities, Strangeness as Contradictions of the Post-Colonial Order in Africa
(J. Congress Mbata Room B-07)

Panelists: Binghamton University

Ademoyo Adeolu

Benyam A.

Patrick Dikirr

George Mbego

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3:00 p.m. — 4:30 p.m. Concurrent Panels

• Panel K

The Politics of Hip Hop
(Hoyt Fuller Room-101)

Presenters:

"FreeMix Radio: The Mixtape as Emancipatory Journalism

Jared Ball, University of Maryland

"Re: Definitions: The Name and GAme of Hip Hop Feminism"

Michael Jeffries, Harvard University

"Situating Virginia Hip Hop: Politics of Identity and Place"

Casey Johnson, Virginia Tech University

"Demagogy and the Problematics of Representation in Negro Criticism of Hip Hop"

James A. Worley, Cornell University

• Panel L

Issues of Political and Economic Empowerment within the African Diaspora
(Don Ohadike Room-B01)

Presenters:

"In My Own Words: A Practical, Culturally Reflective, Womanist Based Approach to Community Organizing and Movement Building in Urban Areas"

Melanie Hart

"Race, Geography and Land Inheritance: The Economic and Political Benefits of the Spread of People of Black African Descent in the World"

Amadu Jacky Kaba, Ph.D., Binghamton University

"The Black Ivy Alumni League, Inc.: Institution Building Inside and Outside of the Academy"

Russel Malbrough, Columbia University

"Forty-Acres and a Cotton Contract II: An Overlooked Strategy for African Economic Empowerment"

Kevin Roberts

• Panel M

Colonial and Post-Colonial Discourses in Africa and the Caribbean
(J. Congress Mbata Room-B07)

Presenters:

"History Revisited: Colonization, War, Genocide and Hope in the Sudan"

Leon Gbee, University of Wisconsin

"Crafting the Colony: Aesthetics, Education, and Culture in Mid-20^th Century West Africa"

Amanda Gilvin, Cornell University

"‘The White Wife Problem’: Sex, Race, Riots and Inter-War Repatriations to West Africa"

Carina Ray, Cornell University

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4:30 p.m.- 6:00 p.m. • Africana Reception

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