PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Race and Inequality in the
Obama Era and Beyond
Chicago
Millennium Knickerbocker
August 20 – 22, 2015
This preliminary program is subject to
change. We apologize in advance, but few
scheduling request can be accommodated.
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Thursday, August 20, 2015
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2015
Opening Executive Committee Meeting
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Executive Boardroom
THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 2015
REGISTRATION
8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
LOCATION
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
OPENING PLENARY
Featuring Guest Speaker Eduardo Bonilla Silva
Professor of Sociology, Duke University
LOCATION
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM
1.
The Impact of the Obama Years on Black Reality
Presider: Meagan Sylvester, The University of the West Indies
Perceptions of Police Use of Excessive Force and Race Futurology Among Black Male College
Students
Ray V. Robertson, University of Louisiana, Lafayette
Addressing Racial Inequality in the “Age of Obama”
Darrick Hamilton, The New School
William Darity, Jr., Duke University
The Honeymoon is Over: The Obama Presidency and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the
U.S.
Jessica Welburn, AFFILIATION
“We Aren’t Problems!” Black Men’s Perceptions of Race, Stereotyping, and Profiling
Derrick R. Brooms, University of Louisville
2.
Political Attitudes and Beliefs in “Post-Racial” America
Presider: TBD
Thursday, August 20, 2015
Paradoxical Ebullience: Discordance Between Changing Black Racial Attitudes
Lessie Branch, The New School
On the Asymmetry of Black-White Racial Relations in America: The Case of the Racial Attitudes
of “Obama Haters” Versus “Romney Haters”
Algernon Austin, Independent Scholar and Consultant
Managing the Skeptical Embrace: The Importance of Race, Meaning, and White Anxiety for
African-American Republicans
Corey D. Fields, Stanford University
Collective Memories of the War on Drugs in NYC: Toward a Discourse of Responsibility and
Victimhood
Vanessa Lynn, Stony Brook University
3.
Skin Tone Stratification: Institutional, Interpersonal, and Measurement Issues
Presider: Verna M. Keith, Texas A&M University
Place Matters: Black Women and the Counternarratives of Everyday Colorism
JeffriAnne Wilder, University of North Florida
The Color of Punishment: African Americans, Skin Tone, and the Criminal Justice System
Ellis Monk, University of Chicago
Skin Tone, Interracial Networks, and Color Blind Attitudes in the Contemporary U.S.
Vanessa Gonlin and Mary E. Campbell, Texas A&M University
Skin Color of Interviewer: Effects on the Measurement of Blacks’ Skin Color?
Ryon Cobb, University of Southern California
4.
Professional Workshop • Stories From the Front of the Room
Organizer: Sherrill L. Sellers, Miami University of Ohio
Diversifying the professoriate has been a long-term project for many research universities and
liberal arts colleges across the country. Despite some advances in minority faculty recruitment,
studies demonstrate that faculty of color in predominantly white institutions experience higher
levels of discrimination, cultural taxation, and emotional labor than their white colleagues, all of
which undermines their scholarship, pedagogy and social experiences. This professional
development panel will present a more complete picture of life in the academy—one that
documents how faculty of color are tested, but also how they can overcome and thrive in their
respective educational institutions.
Panelists:
Orly Clerge, Tufts University
Frederick W. Gooding, Jr., Northern Arizona University
Michelle Harris, Northern Arizona University
Thursday, August 20, 2015
Sherrill L. Sellers, Miami University of Ohio
5.
The Promises and Limits of Diversity
Presider: TBD
Diversity and Organizational Productivity: Examining the Role of Race and Gender in U.S.
Olympic Team Success at the 2012 London Games
Jomills Henry Braddock II, University of Miami
Racism or Colorblindness? Diverse Attitudes Among Black Students in a Stratified School
Melanie J. Gast, DePaul University
The Dividends of Diversity? Linking Work Group Racial Composition, Minority Status, and
Within-Race Inequality
Corey D. Fields, Stanford University
The Power of Giving: Social Deficits in Interracial Resource Exchange
Christopher Munn, Ohio State University
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
6.
Aspirations, Motivations, and Outcomes: Disparities in Educational Achievement
Presider: TBD
The Effects of School Finance on the High School Graduation Rate of Black Males
Emily Persons, Duke University
Achievement Gaps and the Doubly Disadvantaged: The Intersection of Socioeconomic Status and
Race/Ethnicity on Math and Reading Trajectories
Littisha A. Bates, University of Cincinnati
When Motives Matter: An Analysis of Career Motivations among Law School Students
Daryl McAdoo, University of California - Los Angeles
7.
Racialized Representations of Violence in the Media
Presider: TBD
Representation in Major Newspapers of Black Men Killed by Police
Tanarra Anthony, American University
Portrayals of Suicide in Ebony Magazine from 1960-2008
Kamesha Spates, Kent State University
Juvenile Crime & Media in North Carolina: 1986-2001
Zimife Umeh, Duke University
Thursday, August 20, 2015
8.
Professional Workshop • Preparing for the Academic Job Market: Interviewing and the
Job Talk
Organizer: Ciera Graham, University of Cincinnati
Presider: Joey Brown, University of Maryland
Workshop Leader: Ervin (Maliq) R. Matthew, University of Cincinnati
The job talk can be a stressful part of the job interview process. This interactive workshop is
designed to provide PhD candidates and recent graduates with essential information about the
campus interview and the job talk. Participants will learn strategies to successfully manage each
stage of the interview process, as well as gain interview practice and feedback in real time.
9.
Race and Recognition: Civic and Political Engagement in the Age of Obama
Organizer: C. Shawn McGuffey, Boston College
Mediated Love: The Impact of Media-Based Cultural Consumption and Cultural Production on
Black Queer Women’s Sexual Identities
Calista Ross, Boston College
New Black or Old White? Black LGBT Views on Gay Marriage
C. Shawn McGuffey, Boston College
Colorblind Responses: Microaggressions, Racism, and Faculty and Administrator Accountability
on Predominately White Campuses
Cedrick-Michael Simmons, Boston College
Residential Mobility Research and the Civic Engagement Gap
Reuel Rogers, Northwestern University
10.
Who Makes It to the Top of the Academic Ladder? Constraints and Enablers for Black and
Hispanic PhDs
Organizer: Roberta Spalter-Roth, George Mason University
Recent literature suggests that higher education is not only built upon, but works to reinforce, nonHispanic white, male, middle-class rules and practices. Combined, blacks and Hispanics represent
nearly 30 percent of the U.S. population, but only 9.6 percent of all full-time faculty members in
degree-granting institutions. The NSF-funded research we present in this session seeks to better
understand the experiences of underrepresented minorities (URMs), especially black and Hispanic
scholars in higher education, in sociology and economics. We hope to use this research to increase
the likelihood of successful career trajectories through the development of successful
interventions.
Presenters:
Roberta Spalter-Roth, George Mason University
Jean Shin, American Sociological Association
Thursday, August 20, 2015
Discussant:
Darrick Hamilton, New School for Social Research
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM
11.
Race, Gender, and Masculinity
Presider: TBD
Two Sides of the Same Coin: How Black and White Men Define Masculinity
Myron Strong, Community College of Baltimore County
Between Class Lines: Politics of Respectability and the Ghetto Allure in the Intimate Lives of
Middle-Class Black Men
Joy Hightower, University of California, Berkeley
Power, Promise, or Ploys? Black Megachurches and Gender Inclusivity
Sandra L. Barnes, Vanderbilt University
Coaching Through Inequality: Chicago Public Football Coaches and the Racial Mountain
Lawrence Johnson, Brooklyn College
12.
Connecting Critical Research and Activism: A Panel in Honor of Juan Flores
Sponsored by the AfroLatin@ Forum
Presider: Zaire Dinzey-Flores, Rutgers University
The AfroLatin@ Forum is dedicated to making the Black Latin@ experience visible through
research, dialogue, and action. This panel features Afro-Latin@ scholars and forum members
discussing the mission of the Forum, the work of Juan Flores, and the relevance and implication of
his work for understanding race in the 21st century.
Panelists:
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University
Kwami Coleman, New York University
Zaire Dinzey-Flores, Rutgers University
Miriam Jiménez-Román, AfroLatin@ Forum
13.
Film Screening • Living Thinkers: An Autobiography of Black Women in the Ivory Tower
Filmmaker: Roxana Walker-Canton
Organizer: Women Make Movies
Though more than 100 years have passed since the doors to higher education opened for Black
women, their numbers as faculty members are woefully low and for many still, the image of Black
women as intellectuals is incomprehensible. Through the diverse narratives of Black women
academics, this documentary interrogates notions of education for girls and women and the
stereotypes and traditions that affect the status of Black women both in and out of the Academy.
Thursday, August 20, 2015
14.
Gender, Ethnicity, and Inequality in Health: East and Southern African Contexts
Organizer: Assata Zerai, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Ethnicity, Inequality, and Health Differentials in Selected African Countries
Assata Zerai, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
HIV Among Married Women in Zimbabwe: The Role of Spousal Violence and Husband
Characteristics
Loren Henderson, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Gender As Social Structure and Its Potential Impact on Safe Water Sanitation Technologies in East
Africa: An Africana Feminist Analysis
Rebecca Morrow, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
East African Women’s Perspectives on Health and Environment
Arianna Jenkins, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
15.
Racial Dynamics in Schools: How Race Gets Produced and Negotiated in Post-Racial
America
Organizer: Amanda Lewis, University of Illinois, Chicago
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John B. Diamond, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Margaret Hagerman, Mississippi State University
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L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy, City University of New York
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Linn Posey-Maddox, University of Wisconsin, Madison
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
16.
Professional Workshop • How to Get a Grant When You Study Diversity-Related Topics
Organizers and Panelists: Roberta Spalter-Roth, George Mason University
Jean H. Shin, American Sociological Association
What do successful grant proposals look like? This workshop will present time-tested hints for
writing and submitting proposals, especially for those scholars that study diversity-related topics.
This workshop touches on the importance of concepts, style, bolstering arguments with data, and
touching hearts as well as minds. We will also touch on our own experiences in developing
successful grants such as participating in networks and creating a division of labor. Our success in
getting grants related to diversity-related topics shows the value of persistence in this enterprise.
Thursday, August 20, 2015
We will entertain participants’ ideas on proposals they have in the works, and there will be plenty
of time for discussion.
17.
Author-Meets-Critics
This Ain’t Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South
Author: Zandria F. Robinson
Critics:
Patricia Hill Collins, University of Maryland
TBA
TBA
18.
Race, Place, and Environmental Inequality
Organizer: Kristen Cooksey Stowers, Duke University
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Naa Oyo A. Kwate, Rutgers University
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Jay Pearson, Duke University
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Danielle Purifoy, Duke University
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Keshia Pollack, Johns Hopkins University
19.
Access To What, For Whom and At What Cost?
Organizer: Carolyn Ash, Ash Consulting Group
For two terms, President Barack Obama has called on Americans to once again lead the world in
educational attainment, offering a functional argument about educational access as a panacea for a
host of social ills. But what does expanded educational access mean when persistent wealth and
employment disparities persist and expansion has been concentrated in open access and for-profit
colleges? This panel will address this question from several perspectives with a particular focus on
race and inequality.
Panelists:
Carolyn Ash, Ash Consulting Group
Tressie McMillan Cottom, Virginia Commonwealth University
Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe, Bucknell University
20.
The Impact of Social Phenomena on Universities: From Eisenhower to Obama
Presider: Torica Webb, University of Illinois, Chicago
Historical and Contemporary Policies and Practices That Influence Practices That Influence
Access to Higher Education: A Black Graduate School Experience
Thursday, August 20, 2015
June Parrott, St. Cloud State University
The Triple Alienation of HBCUs
Leslie Richards, University of District Columbia
American Presidential and British Prime Ministerial Policies on Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics: Public Portrays on American and English Graduate STEM
Programs
Beverly Lindsay, University College of London
Continuing the Dialogue: Shared Governance Practices at a Selected HBCU for Faculty
Productivity
CoSandra McNeil, Jackson State University
5:15 PM – 6:30 PM
Townhall Meeting
LOCATION
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Reception
Location
The Association of Black Sociologists Reception
is generously sponsored by:
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Friday, August 21, 2015
FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 2015
REGISTRATION
8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
LOCATION
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
21.
Exploring Wealth Inequality in Metropolitan Boston
Organizer: Regine O. Jackson, Agnes Scott College
This panel presents new data from the National Asset Scorecard and Communities of Color Project
(NASCC), a five-metropolitan area study designed to reveal socioeconomic differences between
specific racial and ethnic groups, many of whom are overlooked by existing studies of inequality.
The NASCC project offers rich, in-depth, and contextualized representations of wealth and the
persistence of asset poverty in the United States.
Panelists:
William Darity, Jr., Duke University
Darrick Hamilton, The New School of Social Research
Regine O. Jackson, Agnes Scott College
Yunju Nam, University of Buffalo
Ana Patricia Muñoz, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
22.
Pedagogical Tools for Millennial Teaching and Learning:
Tricks of the Trade
Organizer: Carla Brailey, Texas Southern University
This working panel features practical applications of effective teaching models for the
contemporary classroom. Topics include cooperative learning, service learning, critical thinking,
and diverse learning styles.
Panelists:
Carla Brailey, Texas Southern University
Olivia Perlow, Northeastern Illinois University
Sheldon Applewhite, Borough of Manhattan Community College
Karen Sears, Denison University
23.
Professional Workshop • Accomplishing Teaching While Acquiring Tenure:
Strategies for Successfully Negotiating the Demands of Teaching and Research
Workshop Leader: Juan Battle, City University of New York, Graduate Center
Friday, August 21, 2015
Far too often, faculty members who are from underrepresented groups (e.g., racial minorities,
gender minorities, and sexual minorities) are pulled upon by a variety of constituencies within an
academic setting. Though these invitations are personally flattering, they can also be professionally
fatal. Designed for graduate students and nontenured faculty, this professional development
workshop will provide participants with specific tools to successfully navigate these competing
demands.
24.
Sociology of Race and Health
Presider: TBD
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Among Rural Georgia Populations
Roman Johnson, Georgia State University
African American Health in Family Context
Shirley Hill, University of Kansas
Soda or Seltzer? Race, Sex, Disease Diagnosis and Healthy Living
Alexandrea J. Ravenelle, CUNY Graduate Center
25.
Racial Disparities in Wealth
Presider: TBD
The Sources of Racial Differences in Wealth
Cedric Herring, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Hayward Derrick Horton, University of Albany, SUNY
Melvin Thomas, North Carolina State University
Race and Wealth Follow-Up: What Happened to Kinloch, Missouri’s First All-Black Town?
Sharon Squires, Prairie View A&M University
A Tale of Two Cities, Race and Wealth Inequality in the New South
Lori Latrice Martin, Louisiana State University
Kenneth Fasching-Varner, Louisiana State University
The Increasing Income and Wealth Gap: What’s Marital Status Got to Do With It?
Lynda Dickson, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM
26.
From Ferguson and Baltimore to London and Birmingham: Connecting Black British and
American Scholar-Activists in the Struggle Against Racial Inequality
Organizer: Jennifer Patrice Sims, University of Wisconsin, River Falls
Rooting Black Studies in the Struggles for Liberation
Kehinde Andrews, Birmingham City University
Beyond the Black-Mixed Dichotomy: The Black-Mixed Race Male in U.S. and British Education
Friday, August 21, 2015
Remi Joseph-Salibury, The University of Leeds
School Exclusions for Urban Black Male Youth: Community-Based Activism to Resist Official Policy
Ian Joseph, Middlesex University
27.
SPOTLIGHT ON CHICAGO • Black Placemaking: Celebration, Play, and Poetry
Organizer: Mary Pattillo, Northwestern University
The Urban Commons of Black Lesbian and Gay Nightlife
Marcus Anthony Hunter, University of California, Los Angeles
Still Rising: Black Public Housing Reunions Reclaiming Place
Mary Pattillo, Northwestern University
Poetic Resistance in Black Chicago’s Digital Commons
Zandria F. Robinson, University of Memphis
Play and the Jackie Robinson Little-League All-Stars
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Princeton University
28.
The Sociology of Black Diasporic Aesthetics
Presider: TBD
The Politics of Black Hair: Good Hair vs. Bad Hair - Creamed (Relaxed) Hair vs. Natural Hair for
Black Women in the Americas
Michael Barnett, University of the West Indies
Socio-geography of Hip Hop and Inequality
Jessica Ayo Alabi, Orange Coast College
“Los Hoyos del Africa” as a Diasporic Community of Consciousness: Music, Religion, and
Tradition in Santiago de Cuba
Alexandra P. Gelbard, AFFILIATION
Bling Addiction and Language Use in the Musical Rhetoric of Two Trinidadian Performers
Meagan Sylvester, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
29.
The Trayvon Martin in US: An American Tragedy
Organizer: Sandra L. Barnes, Vanderbilt University
Trayvon Martin has become a symbol of the history of US racial politics regarding Blackness, and
specifically the Black male of America’s regard for Black bodies, as well as a metonym, a name
that has become a contemporary substitute for terrorist attacks targeting Black bodies. This panel
Friday, August 21, 2015
uses the edited volume of The Trayvon Martin in US: An American Tragedy as a springboard for a
conversation about this history of violence.
Panelists:
Emmanuel Harris II, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Antonio D. Tillis, College of Charleston
30.
Professional Workshop • The Balancing Act: Successfully Navigating the Roles of
Scholar and Activist
Presider: Celeste Watkins-Hayes, Northwestern University
In this panel, leading scholars who channel their investments and passions for both academic work
and community engagement will discuss their careers as both scholars and activists. Topics will
include how they created a vision for their careers, how they successfully positioned themselves
for tenure and promotion, and how they balance the multiple and competing pulls on their time.
Scholars who work heavily with non-profits, have created social justice initiatives, and/or write
and speak for broad audiences will be featured.
Panelists:
Celeste Watkins-Hayes, Northwestern University
David Stovall, University of Illinois at Chicago
Janice Johnson-Dias, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Foster Pinkney, Union Theological Seminary
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Awards Luncheon
LOCATION
2:15 PM – 3:45 PM
31.
Author-Meets-Critic
The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. DuBois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
Aldon Morris, Northwestern University
Panelists:
William A. Darity, Jr., Duke University
Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Darlene Clark Hine, Northwestern University
Tukufu Zuberi, University of Pennsylvania
32.
Race, Gender, Family Support and Inequality
Presider: TBD
Friday, August 21, 2015
How Well Does the “Safety Net” Work for Family Safety Nets? Economic Survival Strategies
among Grandmother Caregivers in Severe Deprivation
LaShawnDa Pittman, University of Washington
A Sociological Analysis from the Second-Shift to the Unidentified Shifts of Working Women
Carla Brailey, Texas Southern University
Navigating the Influence of Class on Black Kin Support
Jasmine Hill, AFFILIATION
The Role of Spirituality in the Social Work Profession
Dorcas Bowles, Kennesaw State University
33.
Sexual Violence and College Campuses: Student Perceptions of Safety and Assault at
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Presider: Sandra E. Taylor, Clark Atlanta University
Panelists:
Sandra E. Taylor, Clark Atlanta University
Celeste White, Clark Atlanta University
Tayler J. Mathews, Clark Atlanta University
Idaishe Zhou, Clark Atlanta University
This panel addresses recent research on sexual violence on college campuses throughout the
United States with a particular focus on student perceptions at HBCUs. The research also
addresses resources for the prevention of campus sexual violence and how specific campuses have
implemented policies to curtail the prevalence of sexual assault. This panel also examines
discrepancies between campus sexual assault policies and procedures, as well as student reporting
of incidents, sexual violence response, and mediation.
34.
Race and Education: Exploring Student Experiences
Organizer: Derrick Brooms, University of Louisville
Racial Discourse on the School-to-Prison Pipeline: A Lesson in Color Blind Ideology
Jelisa Clark, University of Louisville
Examining African American High School Students’ Academic Aspirations: The Role of Family and
Guidance Counselors
Veronica A. Newton, University of Missouri
Black Males, Urban Schooling, and Resilience: Assessing Their Persistence Efforts and Resilience
Strategies
Derrick R. Brooms, University of Louisville
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Friday, August 21, 2015
36.
#BlackLivesMatter: Black Bodies Out of Place
Presider: Noel King, Marketplace
Hands Up... Don’t Shoot: Deconstructing Double Consciousness to Class Consciousness in the Era
of Obama
Keadrick Peters, Howard University
Blackout: Theorizing the Continuing Assault Against Bodies of Color
Barbara Harris Combs, Clark Atlanta University
The Mistake of Being Black
Karmen Williams, Georgia Southern University
The Dialectics of White Violence Against Blacks in America
Rajesh Sampath, Brandeis University
BYP 100 Panelist
37.
Film Screening • Gary, Indiana: A Tale of Two Cities
Creator and Executive Producer: Sandra L. Barnes, Vanderbilt University
Poverty, crime, and urban blight are words often used to describe Gary, Indiana. But do these
words accurately reflect the present city or its promise? Do they capture the legacy and the lives of
its residents? Does a focus on the city’s trials overshadow its triumphs? This 60-minute
documentary candidly depicts the two faces of Gary, Indiana—the current problems facing this
once thriving rust-belt metropolis as well as the progress and possibilities evident among its
people, churches, and communities. The film also shows some of the tensions Gary faces as it
reconciles its past, transforms its present, and charts its future.
38.
Diverse Diasporic Black Experiences
Presider: TBD
Does Racism Discriminate? African Americans, Jamaicans and Nigerians Experiences and
Reactions to Racial Discrimination in Houston, Texas
Caralee Jones, Indiana University, Bloomington
Emerging Identities: Place, Race, and Belonging Through the Eyes of Refugee Youth
Oluchi Nwosu-Randolph, Vanderbilt University
Labor Migration and Inequality in Brazil
Terry-Ann Jones, Fairfield University
Global Hierarchies of Mixing: An Ethnographic Look at Attitudes toward Intermarriage around the
World
Erica Chito Childs, Hunter College and The CUNY Graduate Center
Friday, August 21, 2015
39.
Afro-Latino in the American Diaspora
Organizer: Tomás E. Encarnación, U.S. Census Bureau
With the rapid evolution of digitalization and social media, an analysis of the Afro-Latino
Diaspora and our common history with African Americans in the United States is more important
than ever. Panelists will engage in a dynamic discussion rooted in a historical analysis of the
present reality of class and social differences in the Afro-Latino Diaspora with attention to shared
history with African Americans and a vision of our collective future.
Panelists:
Nancy Lopez, University of New Mexico
Norma Fuentes, Princeton University
40.
#BlackLivesMatter: Microaggressions on College Campuses
Presider: Regina Dixon-Reeves, University of Chicago
“You Make Me Wanna Holler and Throw Up Both My Hands!” Campus Culture, Black Misandric
Microaggressions, and Racial Battle Fatigue
William A. Smith, University of Utah
Anti-Black Microaggressions on College Campuses
Charisse Levchak, St. Norbert College
Elite or Oppressed? A Study on the Variations of Inequality within the Black Greek Experience
Shaonta Allen, University of Cincinnati
Do You Step Like They Do on That Movie? Recent (Mis)Representations of Black Greek Letter
Organizations in Film
Stacey Houston II, Vanderbilt University
5:45 PM – 7:00 PM
41.
Film Screening: Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights
Filmmaker: Nevline Nnaji
Where do black women activists fit into the epochal struggles for equality and liberation during the
1960s and 70s? This feature-length documentary unearths the story of black women’s political
marginalization—between the male-dominated Black Power movement and second wave
feminism, which was largely white and middle class—showing how each failed to recognize black
women’s overlapping racial and gender identities.
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Friday, August 21, 2015
Chicago Bus Tour
Tickets required. See the registration desk
for more information.
9:00 PM – MIDNIGHT
ABS HOUSE PARTY
BARBARA SCOTT’S SOUTHSIDE ABODE
Saturday, August 22, 2015
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 2015
REGISTRATION
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
42.
ABS-SWS Student Paper Session
Presider: Joey Brown, University of Maryland
TBA
43.
Blacks and Latinos: Identity, Intergroup Relations, and Linked Fate
Organizer: Jennifer A. Jones, University of Notre Dame
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Sylvia Zamora, University of Chicago
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Jennifer Jones, University of Notre Dame
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Julie Dowling, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Laura Lopez-Sanders, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Claudia Sandoval, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
44.
Race, Theory, and Knowledge
Presider: TBD
To Be, or Not to Be . . . That Is the Question: The Legacy of the Atlanta Sociological
Laboratory in American Sociology
Earl Wright II, University of Cincinnati
The Dance Between DuBois and Addams
Dorcas Bowles, Kennesaw State University
The Post-Racial Past: Race, Politics, and the Conservative Rebellion against AP-History
in Public Education
Marcus Bell, Syracuse University
Saturday, August 22, 2015
45.
Professional Workshop • It’s Just Two Pages. How Hard Could It Be?
Writing a Scholarly Book Review for Publication
Organizers and Panelists: Regina Dixon-Reeves, University of Chicago
Derrick Brooms, University of Louisville
Writing a scholarly book review is a great way to begin a publishing career, hone your
analytical writing skills, and become familiar with the academic publishing process. This
workshop, designed for graduate students and junior faculty with limited publishing
experience, will review the component parts of a well written scholarly book review,
explain how to select a text and read it critically, provide tips on ways to structure the
review for readability, and prepare the finished product for submission.
46.
Leadership, Engagement, and Activism in the Age of Obama
Presider: TBD
Racial Violence, New Media, and Political Engagement
Steven Jefferson, Duke University
The Revolution is Being Tweeted: An Examination of Bridge Leadership on Twitter
Aisha Upton, University of Pittsburgh
Black Religious Leaders on President Obama: Implications for Social Mobilization
Korie Edwards, Ohio State University
Post Shelby: Revisiting Old and New Paths for Civic Engagement
June Hopps, University of Georgia
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
47.
Can We Talk? Sociology, Economics, and Racial Identity
Organizer: Patrick L. Mason, Florida State University
Presider: Michael Jeffries, Wellesley College
This panel will discuss the sociology and economics of racial identity norms. Specially,
we will discuss the theoretical and empirical factors that explain the development and
persistence of racial identity norms and the manner in which racial identity influences
social and economic outcomes.
Panelists:
Verna Keith, Texas A&M University
Patrick L. Mason, Florida State University
Aldon D. Morris, Northwestern University
James B. Stewart, Pennsylvania State University
Saturday, August 22, 2015
48.
Race, Stratification, and Demography
Presider: Tod G. Hamilton, Princeton University
Race and Homeownership: The Role of Bankruptcy on Home Preservation During the Great
Recession
Fenaba R. Addo, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Michael Collins, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Segregation and Lynching
Trevon D. Logan, Ohio State University
Lisa Cook, Michigan State University
John M. Parman, College of William and Mary
So Bad Its Good: Do Poor Health Behaviors Amplify or Diminish the Association Between Stress
and Mental Health?
Andrea Henderson, University of South Carolina
Katrina M. Walsemann, University of South Carolina
Adrianna Dues, University of South Carolina
Calley Fisk, University of South Carolina
Black Locational Attainment in the U.S. and the Role of Middle Class Neighborhoods in the PostCivil Rights Era 1970-2010
D. Augustus Anderson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
49.
Race, Aesthetics, and Neighborhood Composition and Change
Presider: TBD
There Were Children Here: Race, School Closings, and Public Housing on Chicago’s
South Side
Eve L. Ewing, Harvard University
Black Bodies, Diverse Spaces: Neoliberal Aesthetics of Cool in a Post-Chocolate City
Brandi Summers, Virginia Commonwealth University
Neighborhood Racial Composition and Intra-Racial Feelings of Closeness among Black
Americans
Antwan Jones, The George Washington University
White Entry into Black Neighborhoods: Gentrification or Advent of an Integrationist
Era?
Lance Freeman, Columbia University
50.
Race, Politics, and Power in the Age of Obama
Presider: TBD
State Violence, Precarity and Dispossession in the “Era of Obama”
Saturday, August 22, 2015
Shaneda Destine, Howard University
Jamaica After Barack Obama: Examining the Impact of President Barack Obama's Visit
to Jamaica
Michael Barnett, University of the West Indies
Racial Formation in the Obama Era
Natalie P. Byfield, St. John’s University
White Spaces and White Power: Congress As a Raced Political Institution
James Jones, Columbia University
51.
New Millennium Pedagogies
Presider: TBD
#BlackLivesMatter in the Classroom and Beyond
Rachelle Brunn-Bevel, Fairfield University
Teaching in the 21st Century Classroom
Makeda Ayana Parker, Independent Scholar
“You Gonna Get this Work!” The Sociology Classroom as a Stage for Battle
Don C. Sawyer III, Quinnipiac University
Dismantle Racism: Rehumanize Cross-Cultural Curriculum with Historical,
Constructivist and Structural Concepts
Sharae Kalian, NuWay Thinking
52.
Poster Presentations
Reducing Inequity Reduces American Indian and Alaska Native Suicide
Carmela M. Roybal, Robert Wood Johnson Center at the University of New Mexico
Black Lives Matter: Lynching, Police Killings, and Black Progress from Reconstruction
to the Obama Era
Raja Staggers-Hakim, Sacred Heart University
Occupational Segregation and the Decline of Black Educators in New York City
Johanna S. Quinn, University of Wisconsin, Madison
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
CLOSING PLENARY
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Saturday, August 22, 2015
Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Los
Angeles
LOCATION
2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Closing Executive Committee Meeting
LOCATION
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Program Transition Committee Meeting
LOCATION