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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE MEMBERS ........................................................ 1
GENERAL INFORMATION ........................................................................... 2
CAMPUS MAP ............................................................................................ 3
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE .................................................... 4
PLENARY SESSIONS DESCRIPTIONS ........................................................... 5
PLENARY SPEAKERS BIOGRAPHIES ........................................................... 9
FILM FESTIVAL SCHEDULE ...................................................................... 18
SCHEDULE OF SESSIONS:
THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 2011
SESSIONS 15 ................................................................................2159
FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2011
SESSIONS 68 ................................................................................6183
SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 2011
SESSIONS 910 ........................................................................... 86102
SHUTTLE SCHEDULE ............................................................................. 105
CITY BUS SCHEDULE ........................................................................ 109
LOCAL TAXI LISTING ........................................................................ 116
CAMPUS RESTAURANTS ....................................................................... 117
SPONSORS ............................................................................................ 118
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
CORE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Jodi Kim
Laura Lozon
Dylan Rodríguez
Sarita Echavez See
Andrea Smith
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Jayna Brown
Ofelia Cuevas
Mariam Beevi Lam
Sharon Heijin Lee
Nadine Naber
Michelle Raheja
Dean Itsuji Saranillio
Setsu Shigematsu
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GENERAL INFORMATION
REGISTRATION & INFORMATION
Registration will be held in the CHASS Interdisciplinary Building,
Room 1113.
ON SITE RATE
$150 Cash or Check (Sorry No Credit Cards Accepted)
REGISTRATION HOURS
Thursday, March 10 8:00 am – 8:00 pm
Friday, March 11 8:00 am – 8:00 pm
Saturday, March 12 8:00 am – 8:00 pm
*PLEASE NOTE: REGISTRATION FEES ARE NOT REFUNDABLE
BOOK EXHIBIT
The Book Exhibit will be held in the CHASS Interdisciplinary Building,
Room 1113.
BOOK EXHIBIT HOURS
Thursday, March 10 9:00 am – 7:00 pm
Friday, March 11 9:00 am – 7:00 pm
Saturday, March 12 9:00 am – 7:00 pm
BADGES
Badges must be presented for admission to all plenary sessions,
receptions and the book exhibit. Badges are obtained through the
payment of registration fees and should be picked up at the on‐site
conference registration desk.
Room Abbreviations: All of these locations are highlighted on the map in the program.
INTS = Interdisciplinary Building South
INTN = Interdisciplinary Building North
HUB = Highlander Union Building
ARTS = Arts Building
UNLH = University Lecture Hall
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CAMPUS MAP
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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE
THURSDAY, MARCH 10
9:00 am – 10:45 am Concurrent Session #1
11:00 am – 12:45 pm Concurrent Session #2
1:00 pm – 2:45 pm Concurrent Session #3
3:00 pm – 4:45 pm Concurrent Session #4
5:00 pm – 6:45 pm Concurrent Session #5
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Opening Reception
8:15 pm – 10:30 pm Opening Plenary: Professionalization and Praxis:
The Changing Trajectory of Ethnic Studies
FRIDAY, MARCH 11
9:00 am – 7:00 pm Film Festival
9:00 am – 11:15 am Plenary Two: Settler Colonialism and White Supremacy
11:30 am – 1:15 pm Concurrent Session #6
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Lunch (Ad Hoc Organizing Sessions)
2:30 pm – 4:15 pm Concurrent Session #7
4:30 pm – 6:15 pm Concurrent Session #8
7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Plenary Three: Queering Ethnic Studies
SATURDAY, MARCH 12
9:00 am – 7:00 pm Film Festival
9:00 am – 11:15 am Plenary Four: Decolonization and Empire
11:30 am – 12:30 pm Lunch (Ad Hoc Organizing Sessions)
12:30 pm – 2:15 pm Plenary Five: Forum on Social Movements and Activism
2:30 pm – 4:15 pm Concurrent Session #9
4:30 pm – 6:15 pm Concurrent Session #10
7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Closing Plenary: How Critical Ethnic Studies
Informs and Shapes Other Disciplinary Formations
10:00 pm – 11:30 pm Closing Reception and Party
Culver Center of the Arts
3834 Main Street
(Downtown Riverside, one block from Mission Inn)
SUNDAY, MARCH 13
Glen Ivy Hot Springs Spa Side Trip
25000 Glen Ivy Road
Corona, CA 92883
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PLENARY SESSIONS DESCRIPTIONS
OPENING PLENARY:
PROFESSIONALIZATION AND PRAXIS: THE CHANGING TRAJECTORY OF ETHNIC STUDIES
Thursday, March 10, 8:15 pm – 10:30 pm
HUB 302 (Overflow in UNLH)
Conference Opening Remarks by Jodi Kim, UC Riverside
This plenary explores the challenges of developing a critical ethnic studies approach that goes
beyond the politics of multiculturalism. It will explore the development of ethnic studies within
the academy and its historic relationship to social movements for racial justice in order to
contemplate possibilities for how ethnic studies can critically engage or build such movements
in the future. As Elizabeth Povinelli has so aptly explained, the liberal state depends on a
politics of multicultural recognition that includes “social difference without social
consequence,” thus underscoring the important role that ethnic studies must play in
challenging the politics of multicultural representation.
Speakers: Jack Halberstam, University of Southern California
Denise Ferreira da Silva, Queen Mary, University of London
Waziyatawin, University of Victoria
Sarita Echavez See, University of Michigan
Angela Davis, UC Santa Cruz
Chair: Jodi Kim, UC Riverside
PLENARY TWO:
SETTLER COLONIALISM AND WHITE SUPREMACY
Friday, March 11, 9:00 am – 11:15 am
GYM (Physical Education Building)
Many Native scholars have argued that Native studies has been co‐opted by broader discourses
such as ethnic studies or postcolonial studies. They contend that ethnic studies elides Native
claims to sovereignty by rendering them as ethnic groups facing racial discrimination rather
than as nations undergoing colonization. For similar reasons, many Native activists were
reluctant to engage in the UN Durban conferences on race, noting that under international law
“peoples” are seen as deserving of self‐determination whereas racial/ethnic minorities are
not. These scholars and activists are rightly pointing to this neglect within ethnic studies and
the failure to address the specific legal positions Native peoples have in the United States as
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well as the larger analytics of white supremacy. At the same time, because of this intellectual
and often political divide, there is insufficient exchange that would help us understand how
racism and settler colonialism intersect, particularly within the United States. This plenary
theme seeks to address this issue by exploring the intersecting logics of settler colonialism and
white supremacy.
Speakers: Dylan Rodríguez, UC Riverside
Dean Spade, Seattle University School of Law
Cheryl Harris, UCLA
Glen Coulthard, University of British Columbia
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, CUNY Graduate Center
Chair: Dean Itsuji Saranillio, UC Riverside
PLENARY THREE:
QUEERING ETHNIC STUDIES
Friday, March 11, 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
GYM (Physical Education Building)
Queer theory has made a critical intervention in LGBT studies by moving past simple identity
politics to interrogate the logics of heteronormativity. At the same time, many scholars who
engage queer of color critique have argued that the subjectless critique within the field of
queer studies, the claim to be “post‐identity,” often retrenches white, middle‐class identity
while disavowing it. This plenary will explore the intersections of queer theory and ethnic
studies, particularly as they relate to claims to identity. In addition, it will examine how
“queering” ethnic studies can be helpful in assessing the intersecting logics among
heteronormativity, settler colonialism, and white supremacy.
Speakers: Keith Camacho, UCLA
Gayatri Gopinath, New York University
Roderick Ferguson, University of Minnesota
José Esteban Muñoz, New York University
Nadine Naber, University of Michigan
Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago
Chair: Jayna Brown, UC Riverside
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PLENARY FOUR:
DECOLONIZATION AND EMPIRE
Saturday, March 12, 9:00 am – 11:15 am
GYM (Physical Education Building)
The transnational turn in American Studies, feminist studies, ethnic studies, and other fields has
contributed to the interrogation of the very concept of “America” itself by situating the analysis
of United States within the context of empire. At the same time, postcolonial and transnational
studies often elide the minoritizing logics within nation‐states themselves. This plenary theme
puts postcolonial and transnational studies into conversation with ethnic studies in order to
allow for the examination of the interplay of racial logics within the context of empire.
Moreover, what does it mean to speak of “decolonization” as we enter the second decade of
the 21st century? How have empire, colonial logics, and neocolonial architectures themselves
dialectically generated new productions of critical knowledge, cultural politics, and social
movements?
Speakers: Neferti Tadiar, Barnard College
Vicente Diaz, University of Michigan
Nikhil Singh, New York University
Lisa Lowe, UC San Diego
Lisa Hajjar, UC Santa Barbara
Chair: Setsu Shigematsu, UC Riverside
PLENARY FIVE:
FORUM ON SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND ACTIVISM
Saturday, March 12, 12:30 pm – 2:15 pm
GYM (Physical Education Building)
This forum will address the relationship between activism and ethnic studies. How has this
relationship evolved since the inception of ethnic studies? What are possibilities for critical
interactions between the two?
Speakers: Scott Richard Lyons, Syracuse University
Andrea Smith, UC Riverside
David Lloyd, University of Southern California
Gina Dent, UC San Diego
João Costa Vargas, University of Texas at Austin
Laura Pulido, University of Southern California
Chair: Ofelia Cuevas, UCLA
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CLOSING PLENARY:
HOW CRITICAL ETHNIC STUDIES INFORMS AND SHAPES OTHER DISCIPLINARY FORMATIONS
Saturday, March 11, 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
GYM (Physical Education Building)
Rey Chow contends that ethnic studies scholars are often entrapped within the role of
becoming self‐confessing subjects who display their ethnicity in the service of multicultural
representation. However, ethnic studies is never positioned as a field of thought that can
fundamentally question or reshape larger academic discourses. This plenary theme will explore
the significance of ethnic studies for all modes of inquiry and disciplinary fields within the
academy.
Speakers: Herman Gray, UC Santa Cruz
Audra Simpson, Columbia University
Hiram Pérez, Vassar College
Michelle Raheja, UC Riverside
Fred Moten, Duke University
Chair: Jodi Kim, UC Riverside
Conference Closing Remarks by Jodi Kim, UC Riverside
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PLENARY SPEAKERS BIOGRAPHIES
Keith L. Camacho
Keith L. Camacho is a Chamorro scholar from the Mariana Islands. He is presently an assistant
professor in the Asian American Studies Department at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Camacho is the author of Cultures of Commemoration: The Politics of War, Memory and History
in the Mariana Islands (University of Hawai'i Press, 2011) and, with Setsu Shigematsu, co‐editor
of Militarized Currents: Toward a Decolonized Future in Asia and the Pacific (University of
Minnesota Press, 2010).
Cathy J. Cohen
Cathy J. Cohen is the David and Mary Winton Green Professor of Political Science at the
University of Chicago. She is also the Deputy Provost for Graduate Education and the former
Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture. Cohen is the author of two
books: Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics (Oxford University
Press, 2010) and The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics
(University of Chicago Press, 1999). She is also, with Kathleen Jones and Joan Tronto, co‐editor
of Women Transforming Politics: An Alternative Reader (New York University Press, 1997). Her
work has been published in numerous journals and edited volumes including the American
Political Science Review, GLQ, NOMOS, and Social Text. Cohen is principal investigator of two
major projects: The Black Youth Project and the Mobilization, Change and Political and Civic
Engagement Project. Her general field of specialization is American politics, although her
research interests include African American politics, women and politics, lesbian and gay
politics, and social movements.
Glen Coulthard
Glen Coulthard is a member of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation and an assistant professor in
the First Nations Studies Program and the Department of Political Science at the University of
British Columbia, Canada. Coulthard has written and published numerous articles and chapters
in the areas of Indigenous thought and politics, contemporary political theory, and radical social
and political thought. He currently has two research projects underway. The first is a book
project on Indigenous peoples and recognition politics. The second project explores the
potentially transformative and critical character of "revenge" in relation to Indigenous anti‐
colonial struggles. Glen lives with his partner and two children in Vancouver, British Columbia,
unceded Coast Salish Territories.
Angela Y. Davis
Angela Y. Davis is Professor Emeritus of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at the
University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work as an educator – both at the university level and
in the larger public sphere – has always emphasized the importance of building communities of
struggle for economic, racial, and gender justice. In recent years a persistent theme of her
work has been the range of social problems associated with incarceration and the generalized
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criminalization of those communities that are most affected by poverty and racial
discrimination. Davis draws upon her own experiences in the early seventies as a person who
spent eighteen months in jail and on trial, after being placed on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted
List.” She is a founding member of Critical Resistance, a national organization dedicated to the
dismantling of the prison industrial complex. Her most recent books, Are Prisons Obsolete?
(Open Media, 2003) and Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture and Empire (Seven
Stories Press, 2005), are both concerned with the abolition of the prison industrial complex.
She has also edited a new critical edition of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (City
Lights, 2010).
Gina Dent
Gina Dent is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies, Legal Studies, and History of
Consciousness, as well as the Director of the Institute for Advanced Feminist Research at the
University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the editor of Black Popular Culture (Bay Press, 1992;
The New Press, 1998) and author of several articles on race, feminism, popular culture, and
visual art. Her forthcoming book, Anchored to the Real: Black Literature in the Wake of
Anthropology (Duke University Press), is a study of the consequences—both disabling and
productive—of social science’s role in translating black writers into American literature. Her
two current book projects grow out of her work as an advocate for human rights and prison
abolition: Prison as a Border is about prisons and popular culture; and her second project,
Movement in Black and Red: The Life of Charlene Mitchell, is an oral history and memoir. Her
work is also focused on cultural transformation within the university, with special attention to
the impact and interpretation of the language of diversity. In this capacity, she served as
principal investigator for UC Santa Cruz's recent climate study. She lectures widely in the US
and abroad on the topics of prisons and popular culture, African American and African Diaspora
studies, and the politics of disciplinary histories and transformations.
Vicente Diaz
Vicente Diaz is Pohnpeian (Caroline Islands, Federated States of Micronesia) and Filipino, born
and raised on Guam. He received his bachelors and masters degrees in Political Science, and a
graduate certificate in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa,
and his doctorate degree from the History of Consciousness at the University of California at
Santa Cruz. Diaz taught Pacific History and chaired the graduate program in Micronesian
Studies at the University of Guam from the early 1990s to 2001. In 2001, he moved to the
University of Michigan's Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies (A/PIA), housed in the Program
in American Culture. He is currently Associate Professor of A/PIA. Diaz is a leader in the field of
Native Pacific Cultural and Historical Studies, and has published widely on topics including
American and Spanish imperialism in the Pacific, indigenous Catholicism, anti‐colonial
historiography and narratology, Native self‐determination, traditional voyaging and seafaring
practices, and Pacific and Pacific Islander film and video. He has authored Repositioning the
Missionary: Rewriting the Histories of Colonialism, Native Catholicism, and Indigeneity in Guam
(Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2010) and co‐produced and directed Sacred Vessels:
Navigating Tradition and Identity in Micronesia, a half hour documentary about the survival and
revival of traditional canoe‐building and long distance navigation in the Marianas and the
Central Carolines.
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Roderick Ferguson
Roderick Ferguson is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Chair of the American
Studies Department at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Aberrations in Black:
Toward a Queer of Color Critique (University of Minnesota Press, 2003) and is currently
completing a manuscript entitled The Reorder of Things: On the Institutionalization of
Difference.
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the City University of
New York Graduate Center. She received a BA and MFA in Dramatic Literature and Criticism
from Yale, and a PhD in Geography from Rutgers. In addition to Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus,
Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (University of California Press, 2007), recent
publications include “Race, Prisons, and War: Scenes from the History of U.S. Violence” (in Leo
Panitch and Colin Leys, eds. Violence Today: Actually existing Barbarism, Merlin Press, 2008).
Ruthie is a founding member of the anti‐prison groups California Prison Moratorium Project
and Critical Resistance, and a founding member and past‐president of the Central California
Environmental Justice Network. She has participated in the formation and development of a
number of other grassroots organizations over the years. Awards include an NEA Grant, a Soros
Senior Justice Fellowship, the James Blaut Award for Critical Geography, the Ralph Santiago
Abascal Award for Economic and Environmental Justice, and the American Studies Association’s
Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize.
Gayatri Gopinath
Gayatri Gopinath is Associate Professor and Director of the Gender and Sexuality Studies
Program in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. She is the
author of Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (Duke University
Press, 2005), and has published articles on gender, sexuality and South Asian diasporic culture
in numerous anthologies and in journals such as GLQ, Social Text, positions, and Diaspora. She
is currently at work on a new project on critical regionalities and queer diasporic visual culture.
Her most recent essay, “Archive, Affect and the Everyday: Queer Diasporic Re‐visions,” appears
in the anthology Political Emotions (Routledge, 2010).
Herman Gray
Herman Gray is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has
written widely about cultural politics, television, and jazz. He is the author of Watching Race:
Television and the Struggle for Blackness (University of Minnesota Press, 2004) and Cultural
Moves: African Americans and the Politics of Representation (University of California Press,
2005). He has appeared in the documentary Color Adjustment (Marlon Riggs, 1991). His most
recent book, co‐edited with Macarena Gómez‐Barris, Toward a Sociology of the Trace
(University of Minnesota Press, 2010), is about memory, trauma, and identity.
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Lisa Hajjar
Lisa Hajjar is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She
has a Ph.D. in Sociology from The American University, an M.A. in Arab Studies with a
concentration in International Affairs from Georgetown, and a B.A. in International Relations
from Tufts. She is the author of Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West
Bank and Gaza (University of California Press, 2005), and serves on the editorial committees of
Middle East Report, Jadaliyya, Journal of Palestine Studies, and Sociologists Without Borders.
Her current research focuses on American torture and anti‐torture lawyering.
Jack Halberstam
Jack Halberstam is Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Gender Studies at
USC. Halberstam works in the areas of popular, visual, and queer culture with an emphasis on
subcultures. Halberstam is the author of three books: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the
Technology of Monsters (Duke University Press, 1995), Female Masculinity (Duke University
Press, 1998), and In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (New York
University Press, 2005). Halberstam was also the co‐author with Del LaGrace Volcano of a
photo/essay book, The Drag King Book (Serpent’s Tail, 1999), and with Ira Livingston of an
anthology, Posthuman Bodies (Indiana University Press, 1995). Halberstam regularly speaks on
queer culture, gender studies, and popular culture and publishes blogs at bullybloggers.com.
Halberstam just finished a book titled The Queer Art of Failure due out in 2011 from Duke
University Press.
Cheryl I. Harris
Cheryl I. Harris is the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Civil Rights and Civil
Liberties at UCLA School of Law where she teaches Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, Employment
Discrimination, Critical Race Theory, and Race Conscious Remedies. A graduate of Wellesley
College and Northwestern School of Law, Harris began her teaching career in 1990 after
working for one of Chicago’s leading criminal defense firms and later serving as a senior legal
advisor in the City Attorney’s office as part of the reform administration of Mayor Harold
Washington of Chicago. The interconnections between racial theory, civil rights practice,
politics and human rights have been important to her work. She was a key organizer of several
major conferences that helped establish a dialogue between U.S. legal scholars and South
African lawyers during the development of South Africa’s first democratic constitution. Harris is
the author of groundbreaking scholarship in the field of Critical Race Theory, including the
influential article, “Whiteness as Property” (Harvard Law Review). Her scholarship has also
engaged the issue of how racial frames shape our understanding and interpretation of
significant events like Hurricane Katrina—(“Whitewashing Race,” in California Law Review),
admissions policies (“The New Racial Preferences,” with Devon Carbado, in California Law
Review), and anti‐discrimination law (“Reading Ricci: Whitening Discrimination, Race‐ing Test
Fairness,” with West‐Faulcon, in UCLA Law Review). She has been widely recognized as a
groundbreaking teacher in the area of civil rights education and was the recipient of the ACLU
Foundation of Southern California's Distinguished Professor Award for Civil Rights Education in
2005.
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Jodi Kim
Jodi Kim is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. She is
the author of Ends of Empire: Asian American Critique and the Cold War (University of
Minnesota Press, 2010).
David Lloyd
David Lloyd, Professor of English at the University of Southern California, works primarily on
Irish culture and on postcolonial and cultural theory. He is the author of Nationalism and Minor
Literature (University of California Press, 1987); Anomalous States (Duke University Press,
1993); Ireland After History (Cork University Press, 1999) and Irish Times: Temporalities of Irish
Modernity (Field Day, 2008). He is currently at work on two further books, a study of Samuel
Beckett’s visual aesthetics and a work on aesthetics, race, and representation. He has co‐
published several other books, including The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse (Oxford
University Press, 1991) with Abdul JanMohamed; Culture and the State, co‐authored with Paul
Thomas (Routledge, 1997); The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (Duke University
Press, 1997) with Lisa Lowe; and The Black and Green Atlantic: Cross‐Currents of the African and
Irish Diasporas (Duke University Press, 2009) edited with Peter D. O’Neill. He has most recently
completed an extensive study of Irish colonial modernity and cultural resistance, Irish Culture
and Colonial Modernity, 1800‐2000: The Transformation of Oral Space (Cambridge University
Press, forthcoming). He is also a founding member of the US Campaign for the Academic and
Cultural Boycott of Israel and of the Los Angeles coalition for Boycott, Divestment, and
Sanctions on Israel (BDS‐LA).
Lisa Lowe
Lisa Lowe is Professor of Comparative Literature at UC San Diego, and an affiliated faculty in
Critical Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies there. She is the author of several books,
including Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (Duke University Press, 1996), and
coeditor of the volume The Politics of Cultural in the Shadow of Capital (Duke University Press,
1997). She coedits with Judith (Jack) Halberstam the book series Perverse Modernities, with
Duke University Press. She is completing two projects: The Intimacies of Four Continents, on
race and labor within the emergence of U.S. empire, and Metaphors of Globalization, a critique
of U.S.‐centered knowledge production within globalization.
Scott Richard Lyons
Scott Richard Lyons, Leech Lake Ojibwe, is Associate Professor of English and Director of Native
American Studies at Syracuse University. He is the author of X‐Marks: Native Signatures of
Assent (University of Minnesota Press, 2010).
Fred Moten
Fred Moten teaches at Duke University. He is author of Arkansas (Pressed Wafer, 2000), Poems
(with Jim Behrle; Pressed Wafer, 2002), In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical
Tradition (University of Minnesota Press, 2003), I ran from it but was still in it (Cusp Books,
2007), Hughson’s Tavern (Leon Works, 2008), and B Jenkins (Duke University Press, 2010).
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José Esteban Muñoz
José Esteban Muñoz is Professor and Chair of the Performance Studies Department at the Tisch
School of the Arts at New York University. His publications include the monographs
Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (University of Minnesota
Press, 1999), Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (New York University Press,
2009) and the forthcoming The Sense of Brown, as well as numerous articles. He has edited
various volumes of critical and performance theory, most recently a special issue of the journal
Women and Performance titled “Between Affect and Psychoanalysis: A Public Feelings Project”
(July, 2009). He is co‐editor of the Sexual Cultures book series at New York University Press.
Nadine Naber
Nadine Naber is an Assistant Professor in the Program in American Culture and the Department
of Women’s Studies and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of Articulating Arabness (New York
University Press, 2011). She is co‐editor with Amaney Jamal of Race and Arab Americans: From
Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects (Syracuse University Press, 2007). She is also co‐editor, with
Rabab Abdulhadi and Evelyn Alsultany, of Arab and Arab American Feminist Perspectives
(Syracuse University Press, 2011). She has served on the boards of INCITE! Women of Color
against Violence, Women of Color Resource Center, Arab Women’s Solidarity Association, Arab
Movement of Women Arising for Justice, and Racial Justice 9‐11.
Hiram Pérez
Hiram Pérez is an Assistant Professor of English at Vassar College, where he also teaches
courses in the Africana, Latin American and Latino, and Women's Studies programs. His writing
has appeared in the journals Camera Obscura, Social Text, Scholar and Feminist Online,
Transformations and Cineaste, as well as in the collections Reading Brokeback Mountain: Essays
on the Story and the Film, East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture, and Asian
American Studies Now. At present, he is completing a book on gay cosmopolitanism that traces
the instrumentalization of homosexual desire within the erotic economies of both capitalism
and the nation.
Laura Pulido
Laura Pulido is a Professor in the Department of American Studies & Ethnicity at the University
of Southern California where she studies race, political activism, Chican@ Studies and Los
Angeles. She is the author of Black, Brown, Yellow and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles
(University of California Press, 2006). Her latest book, written with Laura Barraclough and
Wendy Cheng, A People’s Guide to L.A. (forthcoming), is an alternative tour guide that
documents sites of racial, class, gender, and environmental struggle in Los Angeles County's
history and landscape.
Michelle Raheja
Michelle Raheja is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at UC Riverside. She is
the author of Reservation Reelism: Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty and Native Americans in Film
(University of Nebraska Press, 2011) and currently serves as director of the California Center for
Native Nations.
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Dylan Rodríguez
Dylan Rodríguez is Professor and Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside,
where he began his teaching career in 2001. Dr. Rodríguez is an Associate Editor of the peer‐
reviewed journal Radical Philosophy Review, and sits on the editorial boards of Social Justice: A
Journal of Crime, Conflict, and World Order, Human Architecture, and other academic journals.
Prof. Rodríguez is the author of two books: Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals
and the U.S. Prison Regime (University of Minnesota Press, 2006) and Suspended Apocalypse:
White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition (University of Minnesota Press, 2009).
His essays have appeared in such scholarly journals as Radical History Review, Social Identities:
Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture, Critical Sociology, The Review of Education,
Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict, & World Order, and
The Scholar & Feminist Online. He has also contributed chapters to edited collections including
Warfare in the American Homeland (ed. Joy James, Duke University Press, 2007), Positively No
Filipinos Allowed (eds. Tiongson, Gutierrez, and Gutierrez, Temple University Press, 2006), The
Violence of Incarceration (eds. Scraton and McCulloch, Routledge, 2008), The Revolution Will
Not Be Funded (ed. INCITE!, South End Press, 2007), and What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race, and
the State of the Nation (South End Press, 2007).
Sarita Echavez See
Sarita Echavez See is Associate Professor of Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies at the
University of Michigan. She is the author of The Decolonized Eye: Filipino American Art and
Performance (University of Minnesota Press, 2009); and she is the co‐editor with Angel Velasco
Shaw of the group exhibition catalogue Out of the Archive: Process and Progress (Asian
American Arts Center, 2009), which included essays about the artists Tomie Arai, Albert Chong,
John Yoyogi Fortes, and Swati Khurana. She currently is at work on a book‐length manuscript,
Essays against Accumulation, which is a study of accumulative and anti‐accumulative forms of
representing Filipinos in the natural history museum, the contemporary art world, the theatre,
and fiction.
Denise Ferreira da Silva
Denise Ferreira da Silva is Professor of Ethics and Director of the Center for Ethics and Politics at
Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of Toward a Global Idea of Race
(University of Minnesota Press, 2007). She writes in the fields of political theory, legal theory,
racial and cultural studies, and human rights. From a feminist theoretical perspective, her work
addresses the conceptual, political, and ethical challenges posed by the present global (juridical,
economic, and symbolic) configuration.
Audra Simpson
Audra Simpson (Mohawk) is from the Kahnawake Reserve in Quebec and is an Assistant
Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, with theoretical and ethnographic interests
in the topics of nationhood, citizenship, colonialism, borders (US‐Canada), and narrative. She is
the recipient of fellowships and awards from Fulbright, the National Aboriginal Achievement
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Foundation, Dartmouth College, the American Anthropological Association, Cornell University,
and most recently the Katrin Lamon Fellowship at the School of Advanced Research in Santa Fe,
New Mexico. Simpson's book manuscript, To the Reserve and Back Again: Kahnawake Mohawk
Narratives of Self, Home and Nation, is under contract with Duke University Press. She was the
editor of the volume “New Directions in Iroquois Studies” in Recherches Ameriendiennes au
Quebec (1999). Her work has appeared in numerous publications and volumes. Simpson holds
a Ph.D. in Anthropology from McGill University.
Nikhil Singh
Nikhil Singh is Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History, and Director of
the Graduate Program in American Studies, at New York University. He is the author of Black is
a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2004),
and editor of Climbin’ Jacob’s Ladder: The Black Freedom Movement Writings of Jack O’Dell
(University of California Press, 2010).
Andrea Smith
Andrea Smith is Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at UC Riverside. She is the
author of Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances
(Duke University Press, 2008) and Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
(South End Press, 2005).
Dean Spade
Prior to joining the faculty of Seattle University, Dean was a Williams Institute Law Teaching
Fellow at UCLA Law School and Harvard Law School, teaching classes related to sexual
orientation and gender identity law and law and social movements.
In 2002, Dean founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (www.srlp.org <http://www.srlp.org/> ), a
non‐profit law collective that provides free legal services to transgender, intersex and gender
non‐conforming people who are low‐income and/or people of color. SRLP also engages in
litigation, policy reform and public education on issues affecting these communities and
operates on a collective governance model, prioritizing the governance and leadership of trans,
intersex, and gender variant people of color. While working at SRLP, Dean taught classes
focusing on sexual orientation, gender identity and law at Columbia and Harvard Law Schools.
Dean was recently awarded a Dukeminier Award for his 2008 article "Documenting Gender"
and the 2009‐2010 Haywood Burns Chair at CUNY Law School, and was selected to give the
2009‐2010 James A. Thomas Lecture at Yale.
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Neferti Tadiar
Neferti Tadiar is Professor and Chair of Women’s Studies at Barnard College. She is the author
of Things Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization (Duke
University Press, 2009) and Fantasy‐Production: Sexual Economies and Other Philippine
Consequences for the New World Order (Hong Kong University Press/Ateneo de Manila
University Press, 2004), and co‐editor, with Angela Y. Davis, of Beyond the Frame: Women of
Color and Visual Representation (Palgrave Press, 2005). Among her recent publications are a
guest edited special issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online, “Borders on Belonging: Gender
and Immigration” [http://www.barnard.columbia.edu/sfonline/] and “Empire” in “Collective
History: Thirty Years of Social Text,” a special issue of Social Text 100, Vol. 27, no. 3 (Fall 2009).
She is currently working on a book‐project (with Jonathan L. Beller) entitled Present Senses:
Aesthetics, Affect, Asia in the Global, and beginning a new research project entitled
Remaindered Life Between Empires: Becoming Human in a Time of War. She is currently co‐
editor of the journal Social Text.
João Costa Vargas
João Costa Vargas teaches Black studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Waziyatawin
Waziyatawin is a Wahpetunwan Dakota from the Pezihutazizi Otunwe (Yellow Medicine Village)
in southwestern Minnesota. She received her Ph.D. in American history from Cornell University
in 2000. Waziyatawin currently holds the Indigenous Peoples Research Chair in the Indigenous
Governance Program at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. Her interests include the
development of liberation strategies that will support the recovery of Indigenous ways of being,
the empowerment of Indigenous women, the reclamation of Indigenous homelands, and the
eradication of colonial institutions. She is the author or co/editor of five volumes including:
Remember This!: Dakota Decolonization and the Eli Taylor Narratives; Indigenizing the
Academy: Transforming Scholarship and Empowering Communities; For Indigenous Eyes Only: A
Decolonization Handbook, In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors: The Dakota Commemorative
Marches of the 21st Century. Her most recent volume, What Does Justice Look Like? The
Struggle for Liberation in Dakota Homeland, won the 2009 Independent Publishers’ Silver Book
Award for Best Regional Non‐Fiction in the Midwest.
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FILM FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY (SAME SCHEDULE EACH DAY)
INTS 1128
9:00 – 10:00 am
The Insular Empire: America in the Mariana Islands (Vanessa Warheit)
The Insular Empire is the first film to document America's historical ‐ and ongoing ‐ role as a
colonial power. Six thousand miles west of California, the Mariana Islands are American
territory; but after generations of loyalty, the people of Guam and the Northern Marianas
remain second‐class US citizens. Following the personal stories of four indigenous island
leaders, this provocative film explores a legacy of American colonization in the Pacific.
Ultimately, it is a story of loyalty and betrayal, and a patriotic island people struggling to find
their place within the American political family.
10:00 – 11:40 am
Mountains That Take Wing – Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama: A Conversation on Life,
Struggles & Liberation (C.A. Griffith & H.L.T. Quan; QUAD Productions)
This award‐winning, inspiring, historically rich and unique documentary features conversations
between two amazing women with a profound passion for justice. Davis, an internationally
renowned scholar‐activist and Kochiyama, a revered, 88 year‐old community organizer and
2005 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, embody personal and political experiences of women doing
social justice work. Illustrated with rare footage of extraordinary speeches and events from the
late 1800’s to the 1960’s through today, the film explores the critical role women, youth and
cross‐cultural/cross‐racial alliances played in some of the 20th century’s most important social
movements.
11:45 am – 12:45 pm
Cointelpro 101 (Freedom Archives)
COINTELPRO may not be a well‐understood acronym but its meaning and continuing impact are
absolutely central to understanding the government’s wars and repression against progressive
movements. COINTELPRO represents the state’s strategy to prevent movements and
communities from overturning white supremacy and creating racial justice and is the
conspiracy among government agencies – local, state, and federal – to destroy movements for
self‐determination and liberation for Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous struggles, as well as
mount an institutionalized attack against allies of these movements and other progressive
organizations.
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12:45 – 1:30 pm
Beautiful Me(s): Finding our Revolutionary Selves (Robin J. Hayes)
This character‐driven documentary short follows a group of African American Studies students
who, as outcasts in a privileged environment, become intrigued by the revolutionary mystique
of Cuba and its contentious relationship with the United States. In Cuba, they learn that racial
inequality cannot be extinguished by silencing discussions about race. This film offers fresh
insights about how transnational relationships between black communities can help challenge
racism and how the issue of U.S. policy toward Cuba is more than a Cuban American family
affair. Beautiful Me(s) also illustrates how emerging African American Studies scholars can
learn to constructively reconcile their simultaneous privilege and marginalization within the
academy through transnational engagement, open discussions about the continuing impacts of
race and racism and the application of knowledge gained from the classroom to problems on
the ground. This documentary has been shown to enthusiastic audiences at campuses such as
Stanford, USC, and the New School and at film festivals throughout the US and in Cannes.
1:30 – 2:00 pm
Red Dust (Karin Mak)
Red Dust tells the incredible story of resistance, courage, and hope by women workers in China
battling cadmium poisoning, and demanding justice from the local government and their
employer, a multinational battery manufacturer.
2:00 – 3:00 pm
Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness (California Newsreel)
This riveting new documentary film examines the forgotten legacy of Melville J. Herskovits, the
pioneering American anthropologist of African Studies. This compelling work introduces
viewers to the life and career of the controversial American intellectual who established the
first African Studies Center at an American university and authored the seminal book, The Myth
of the Negro Past. More than a simple biography, the film explores the ethics of
representation, the myth of “objective” scholarship, and the right of a people to represent
themselves.
3:00 – 4:30 pm
Visions of Abolition (Setsu Shigematsu and Cameron Granadino)
This new documentary introduces the history, theory, and practices of the contemporary prison
abolition movement. Weaving together the voices of women entangled in the criminal justice
system, along with leading scholars on prison abolition (Angela Davis and Ruth Wilson Gilmore),
this film provides a critical analysis of the dysfunctionality and violence of the prison system.
The film focuses on the life story of Susan Burton demonstrating how her work at “A New Way
of Life” is an inspiring example of abolition in practice.
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4:30 – 5:10 pm
Vincent Who? (Curtis Chin)
In 1982, at the height of anti‐Japanese sentiments, Vincent Chin was murdered in Detroit by
two white autoworkers who said, “It’s because of you mother** that we’re out of work.” When
the judged fined the killers a mere $3,000 and three years probation, Asian Americans around
the country galvanized for the first time to form a real community and movement. This
documentary features interviews with the key players at the time, as well as a whole new
generation of activists. Vincent Who? asks how far Asian Americans have come since then and
how far we have yet to go. Featured interviews include: Helen Zia (lead activist during the Chin
trial), Renee Tajima Peña (director, Who Killed Vincent Chin?), Stewart Kwoh (Executive
Director, Asian Pacific American Legal Center), Lisa Ling (journalist), Sumi Pendakur (University
of Southern California), Dale Minami (civic rights attorney), Doua Thor (Executive Director,
Southeast Asian Resource Action Center), and a group of five diverse young APA activists whose
lives were impacted by Vincent Chin.
5:10 – 6:30 pm (Friday)
5:10 – 6:50 pm (Saturday)
Hearing Radmilla (Angela Webb)
Radmilla Cody, Miss Navajo Nation 1997, became one of the Navajo’s most polarizing pop
culture figures as the first bi‐racial Miss Navajo. During the pageant competition, Radmilla out‐
performed the others and won the title, but victory was not entirely sweet. Some argued that
she could never truly represent the Navajo people. Others contended that identity was a way
of life and not simply a matter of blood quantum. The debate played out in the local editorial
pages. Radmilla refused to be outdone. She’d grown up on the reservation with her maternal
grandmother, speaking Navajo and herding sheep. Although Radmilla had faced bigotry, her
grandmother always taught her that she was undeniably Navajo. So with her sterling silver
crown in place, Radmilla traveled around “the rez” fulfilling her duties. A brilliant vocalist, she
charmed the community with song. Eventually, Radmilla Cody became one the most popular
Miss Navajos ever. Following the pageant, Radmilla embarked on a singing career. She
released award‐winning albums of traditional Navajo songs, and became a highly sought after
local celebrity. By all indications Radmilla Cody was destined for further prominence and fame.
Then her life took an unforeseen turn. Circumstances that began before her days in the public
eye were the cause. Radmilla had become involved in an abusive relationship with a man who
would later be described in the press as a drug “kingpin.” In 2002, the man was indicted and
tried for drug trafficking. Radmilla was included in the indictment and had to face the courts as
well. That fall, she was convicted of a felony (failing to report criminal activities) and sentenced
to 21 months in a federal corrections facility. Since her release in July 2004, Radmilla Cody,
ever resilient, has put her life back together. She continues to make music and has released
two more albums. Always willing to take on new challenges, she has returned to school and is
now completing her undergraduate degree in Communications with a Minor in Sociology.
Today, Radmilla is also an active spokesperson against domestic violence. She created the
“Strong Spirit ‐ Life is Beautiful Not Abusive” campaign in efforts to raise awareness on and off
the reservations.
Radmilla Cody will take questions from the audience after the film on Saturday.
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SESSION SCHEDULE
CONCURRENT SESSIONS #1
THURSDAY, MARCH 10
9:00 AM – 10:45 AM
1.1 NEW RACIAL STUDIES HUB 367
Christy‐Dale Sims, University of Colorado at Boulder
(Re)producing U.S. Citizenship: Raced and Gendered Constructions of
American Citizenship during World War II
Jose Lopez, UC Riverside
The Consequences of Killing Ethnic Studies in Arizona and the Role of
White Supremacy
Nathaniel Coleman, University of Michigan
The Imperative of Intimate Intention
Howard Winant, UC Santa Barbara
Racial Crisis and Racial Theory in the 21st Century
1.2 WHITENESS AS PROPERTY AND EPISTEMOLOGY HUB 379
Amritjit Singh, Ohio University: Chair
Anthea Kraut, UC Riverside
Whiteness, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Crisis of Ownership
over Martha Graham’s Choreography
Philip Howard, York University
Innocence is Power: White Bodies Re‐Establishing the Colonial in
Anti‐Racist Spaces
David Kent Peterson, UC Irvine
Sophisticated Pathways to Colorblindness: Elite White College Students
Respond to Criticism of Whiteness
Stephon Scott, University of New Mexico
Whiteness: A Function of Double Unconsciousness
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Amritjit Singh, Ohio University: Respondent
1.3 POLICING THE CRISIS INTS 1109
Kevin Lam, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign
The Dialectics of U.S. Imperialism & Youth Gang Formation:
Consequences of the Colonial Conditions
Lisa Patel, Boston College
“I Didn’t Know I Was Black Until I Got Here”: The Reracialization
of Recently Arrived Immigrant Youth
Christina Heatherton, University of Southern California
Policing Skid Row/Preserving Little Tokyo
Aliyyah Abdur‐Rahman, Brandeis University
New Millennial Racism, Islam(ophobia), and Black Urban Politics
1.4 CRITICAL GENOCIDE STUDIES: CONCEPTUAL AND HUB 269
METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES
Mikal Brotnov, Clark University
Locating Lemkin: Historiography, Conceptual Issues, and the
Problem of Genocide
Maral N. Attallah, Humboldt State University
Motives for Silence: Understanding Genocide Denial
Vince Schleitwiler, Williams College
Imperialism’s Racial Justice: A Black Pacific Precedent?
Mab Segrest, Connecticut College
(In)sanity, Whiteness and Genocide: The View from the Georgia
State Hospital
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1.5 RADICAL POSSIBILITIES OF QUEER ANALYTICS: TRANS OF COLOR INTS 1111
CRITIQUE, (HOMO)COLONIALISM, AND THE
“AFTERLIFE OF SLAVERY”
C. Riley Snorton, University of Pennsylvania/Pomona College
Transgendering Ethnic Studies: Toward a Trans of Color Critique
Karisa Butler‐Wall, University of Minnesota
Inverting Empire: (Homo)colonialism and the Trouble with Sameness
Morgan Bassichis, Community United Against Violence
Dean Spade, Seattle University School of Law
Queer Politics in the Afterlife of Slavery
Reid Uratani, University of Minnesota
A Reexamination of Queerness through the Teachings of Jacques Lacan
1.6 THEORIZING INDIGENEITY, GENDER, AND VIOLENCE HUB 268
Danika Medak‐Saltzman, University of Colorado‐Boulder: Chair
Mishuana Goeman, UCLA
The Visual Terrain of Settler Colonial Spatial Violence
Aroha Harris, University of Aukland
Mary Jane McCallum, University of Winnipeg
The Maori Women’s Welfare League, the Indian Homemakers Clubs:
“Trans‐National” History and Indigenous Women’s Activism
at the Mid‐Twentieth Century
Kimberly Robertson, UCLA
Gender Out of Bounds: Urban Native Identity and Violence Against
Native Women
Dian Million, University of Washington
Therapeutic Nations: State Violence, Indigenous Community Healing,
and Governmentality in a Neoliberal World Order
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1.7 GENDERING RACE INTN 3113
Aneta Dybska, University of Warsaw
Ethnographic and Autobiographical Discourses on Black Masculinity
in the 1960s
Renée Lemus Elisaldez, UC Riverside
Toward a Decolonial Ivory Tower: Using Chicana Cultural Production
as a Means of Academic Decolonization
Malaka Wilson‐Greene, UC Riverside
Sexual Violence and Racial Motivations
Ashley Finigan, Columbia University
Policing Sexuality: The Panic over Black Women and Marriage
1.8 TRANSFORMING IDENTITIES: BEYOND RESISTANCE HUB 302A
AND COMPLICITY
Karen Pyke, UC Riverside
Moving Beyond the Model Resistor Stereotype by
“Asking the Other Question”
Anthony Christian Ocampo, UCLA
How New Racial Contexts are Changing Asian American Incorporation:
A Case Study of Filipino Americans in Los Angeles
Hyeyoung Kwon, University of Southern California
U.S. Racial Politics and Ethnic Identity Formation of Second Generation
Korean Americans
Gulzar R. Charania, University of Toronto
Tracing the Development of Racial Literacy
1.9 A TALE OF THREE CITIES: EXCAVATING POSSIBILITIES FOR PEACE, INTN 2043
FORGIVENESS, AND DIGNITY (WORKSHOP)
Deborah Fatimat Omowunmi Dauda, UCLA
Nazneen Diwan, UCLA
Patrice Torres, UCLA
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1.10 HERSKOVITS AT THE HEART OF BLACKNESS INTS 1128
(FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION)
Yolanda Moses, UC Riverside
1.11 WAR BABY LOVE CHILD: MIXED RACE ASIAN AMERICAN ART HUB 355
(WORKSHOP)
Laura Kina, DePaul University
Wei Ming Dariotis, San Francisco State University
Gina Osterloh, Silverlens Gallery
1.12 CRITICAL PEDAGOGY IN ACTION: THE POSSIBILITIES OF CRITICAL INTN 2009
HERMENEUTICS, EPISTEMOLOGY, AND DECOLONIZATION
(PANEL DISCUSSION)
Arlene Daus‐Magbual, San Francisco State University: Chair
Roderick Daus‐Magbual, PEP
Alexis Montevirgen, San Francisco State University
Melissa‐Ann Nievera, UC Santa Cruz
Allyson Tintiangco‐Cubales, San Francisco State University: Respondent
1.13 WHEN “WE ARE THE WORLD” IS MORE THAN JUST ABOUT INTN 4043
MICHAEL JACKSON: TOWARD A GLOBAL ETHNIC STUDIES
(PANEL DISCUSSION)
Rashné Limki, UC San Diego
Leslie Quintanilla, UC San Diego
Mark Leo, San Francisco State University
Joseph Ruanto‐Ramirez, UC San Diego
1.14 SPIRIT AND STRUGGLE: RELIGION, CULTURE, AND INTS 3156
INDIGENEITY AS RESOURCES FOR SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
(PANEL DISCUSSION)
Elisa Facio, University of Colorado at Boulder
Raquel Guerrero, University of Colorado at Denver
Rachel E. Harding, University of Colorado at Denver
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1.15 PRODUCING KNOWLEDGE: CRITICAL ETHNIC STUDIES AND THE INTS 3154
POLITICS OF COMMUNITYBASED RESEARCH (PANEL DISCUSSION)
Eileen Boris, UC Santa Barbara: Chair
Maylei Blackwell, UCLA
Andreana Clay, San Francisco State University
John Jota Leaños, UC Santa Cruz
Nancy Raquel Mirabal, San Francisco State University
Eileen Boris, UC Santa Barbara: Respondent
1.16 TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS OR BUSINESS AS USUAL? ARTS 215
CONSIDERING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PAST AND CURRENT
CONCEPTS FOR ETHNIC STUDIES
Kevin Fellezs, UC Merced: Chair
Sean Malloy, UC Merced
“We’re Relating Right Now to the Third World”: Lessons from the
Anticolonialism of the Black Panther Party
Fred Ho, Big Red Media
Trouble On My Mind: New Challenges for Afro Asian Ascension
Kevin Fellesz, UC Merced
Nana Ho’opili (look, imitate): Tracking Hawaiian Roots In
Pan‐Pacific Routes
1.17 ENGAGING THE BORDERS: DISSENT, DREAMS, AND RADICAL INTN 2027
TEACHING ON IMMIGRATION (PARTICIPATORY WORKSHOP)
Laurel Mei Turbin, CUNY Graduate Center
Ujju Aggarwal, CUNY Graduate Center
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1.18 AFTER 1978: NEOLIBERALISM AND THE ETHNIC STUDIES INTN 3009
Sheila Lloyd, University of Redlands: Chair
Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson, Loyola Marymount University
Ugly Betty and the Spectacle of Difference
Sheila Lloyd, University of Redlands
Push(ing) Precious: Desire and Fantasy under Neo‐liberalism
Marissa Lopez, UCLA
La una entre las muchas: Collectivity and the Individual Woman in
Alisa Valdés‐Rodríguez’s The Dirty Girls Social Club
1.19 BLACK FEMINIST ARTISTS IN THE GLOBAL CIVIL RIGHTS HUB 302B
AND B LACK POWER MOVEMENTS (P ANEL D ISCUSSION)
Soyica Colbert, Dartmouth College
Salamishah Tillet, University of Pennsylvania
Régine Michelle Jean‐Charles, Boston College
Margo Natalie Crawford, Cornell University
1.20 CRITICAL ETHNIC STUDIES APPROACHES TOWARD HUB 302C
CITIZENSHIP (PANEL DISCUSSION)
Chris Finley, University of Michigan
Violence, Genocide, and Captivity: Exploring Cultural Representations
of Sacajawea as a Universal Mother of Conquest
Kiri Sailiata, University of Michigan
American Samoa and the 1930s U.S. Citizenship Debates
Lee Ann Wang, University of Michigan
Citizenship, the Permanent Crises, and Immigration Law
Isabel A. Millan, University of Michigan
Que(e)ries in Children’s Literature & Kidizenship
Brian Chung, University of Michigan: Chair
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1.21 QUEERING RACIALIZED AND CLASSED MASCULINITIES HUB 260
AND M ANHOODS : REFLECTIONS AND RETHEORIZATIONS
OF “F E/MALE MASCULINITY” IN TRANSNATIONAL
ETHNIC STUDIES
Kale B. Fajardo, University of Minnesota: Chair
Kale B. Fajardo, University of Minnesota
City of Gulo: Reading Nice Rodriguez and a Filipino Queer Transnational
Manila Aesthetics of (Political) Disorder and (Gender) Trouble
in a Time of U.S.‐Sponsored Dictatorship
Deborah R. Vargas, UC Irvine
Brown Masculinities: Revisiting “Queer Aztlán”
Elakshi Kumar, University of Minnesota
Manjuben Truckdriver: Approximating Manhood on the Streets of India
Kiana Green, University of Southern California
Black Butches, Basketballs, and Booty/Beauty
Jack Halberstam, University of Southern California: Respondent
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CONCURRENT SESSIONS #2
THURSDAY, MARCH 10
11:00 AM – 12:45 PM
2.1 MULTICULTURALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS: DEALING WITH HUB 302A
WHITE SUPREMACY AND THE ACADEMIC INDUSTRIAL
COMPLEX IN CANADA
Adrienne Carey Hurley, McGill University: Chair
David Austin, John Abbot College
Narratives of Power: Historical Mythologies in Québec and Canada
Edward Ou Jin Lee, Sarah Malik, Mahtab Nazemi, Lena Carla Palacios
and Nikita Sunar
G‐CARE: Graduate Collective Against Racism and for Equity
Lena Carla Palacios, McGill University
The Perils & Promises of Doing Anti‐White Supremacist Work in Canada
with a Chicana Accent
Daigo Shima, McGill University
Whose Apocalypse Now? Marlon Brando and Liberal White Anti‐Racism
2.2 RESISTING IMPERIAL PEACE: LIBERATION THEOLOGY HUB 302B
PERSPECTIVES (PANEL DISCUSSION)
Michel Andraos, Catholic Theological Union
Randall Bailey, Interdenominational Theological Center
Marcus Briggs‐Cloud, Eatwot
Rita Nakashima Brock, Starr King
Andrea Smith, UC Riverside
Benny Liew Tat‐Siong, Pacific School of Religion
2.3 CRITICAL ETHNIC STUDIES AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES HUB 260
Alicia Arrizón, UC Riverside: Chair
Nadia Ellis, UC Berkeley
Out and Bad: Towards a Queer Performance Hermeneutic of Jamaican
Dancehall and Trinidad Jouvert
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Thomas F. DeFrantz, MIT
Ethnic Studies and Neoliberal Aesthetics: The Strange Case of
Black Performance
Yurika Tamura, Rutgers University
Conjunto – Intercultural Immigrants’ Disidentification as Survival
Performance
Hyun Joo Lee, New York University
Contemporary Scenes: Staging “Fictive” Ethnicity
Alicia Arrizón, UC Riverside: Respondent
2.4 THE (POST?) RACIAL PRODUCTION OF THE POPULAR CULTURAL HUB 268
Tony Tiongson, Colorado College: Chair
Irene Nexica, UC Berkeley
Colonizing Oneself through Others: Britain’s Popular Music Crisis
and Resolution
Amanda K. Healy, University of Michigan
Battlestar Galactica as Colonial History: Historicizing the Future
Mark Villegas, UC Irvine
Cipher in the Dark: Filipino American Significations of Hip Hop Culture
Damon Sajnani, Northwestern University
Post? Racialism, American Africanism and Rap Minstrelsy
Lydia Kelow‐Bennett, Georgetown University
“I Know Black People:” The Production of Racial Knowledge and Ideologies
in Mass Media
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2.5 REFUGEE/(IM)MIGRANT ANALYTICS: RIGHTS, “FREEDOM,” HUB 269
AND CITIZENSHIP
Ayako Sahara, UC San Diego
The Figure of the Transpacific Refugee as U.S. Imperial Practice
Jason Wu, UCLA
Building an Immigrant Rights Movement with Indigenous Communities
Out of Coalition
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Charles T. Lee, Arizona State University
Migrant Domestic Workers, Abject Subjects, and the Third Space
of Citizenship
Mimi Thi Nguyen, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign
The Gift of Freedom: A Transnational Feminist Critique
2.6 CHICANA/O AUTHOR/ITY: TEXT, GENRE, ARCHIVE HUB 355
Jennifer Harford Vargas, Stanford University
The TransAmerican Power of Form: Latina and Latino Dictator Novels
Maria Cotera, University of Michigan
Rethinking the Ethnic Studies Archive
Sonia Alejandra Rodriguez, UC Riverside
Finding the I in Chicana/Latina Identity Politics: A Critical Analysis
of Immigration in Chicana/Latina Literature
Michael Cucher, University of Southern California
2.7 BEAUTIFUL ME(S): FINDING OUR REVOLUTIONARY SELVES IN INTS 1128
BLACK CUBA (FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION)
Robin J . Hayes, Santa Clara University
2.8 TRANSFORMING DOMINATORS, A HOMEGIRL CONVERSATION HUB 379
(WORKSHOP)
Whisper Carpenter‐Kish, Native American Community Academy;
First Nations Community Health Source, New Mexico
Hanan Tabbara, Arab Women Active in the Arts & Media, New York City
Jessica Rucell, Institute for Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Kristin Simpson, Hip Hop Mental Health Project Brooklyn, New York
Tania Durán Eyre, Institute for Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam
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2.9 EDUCATE, ADVOCATE, AND DREAM: THE UNDOCUMENTED INTS 1109
STUDENT MOVEMENT IN CALIFORNIA
Laura E. Enriquez, UCLA: Chair
Nancy Meza, UCLA
Eder Gaona, UCLA
“Ain’t No Power Like the Power of Students”: Building Undocumented
Student Power through a Campaign for Institutional Aid
Erick Huerta, East Los Angeles College
Team Los Angeles: Organizing the Community for the DREAM Act
Andrea F. Long Chavez, Loyola Marymount University
Privilege and Its Limits: Undocumented Students at the Private College
Laura E. Enriquez, UCLA
Circumventing the Effects of Legal Status: Undocumented and Citizen
DREAM ACTivists Building Coalitions for the DREAM Act
2.10 DISRUPTING LEFTIST GATEKEEPERS IN THE MAINSTREAMS INTN 3009
OF THE ACADEMY (WORKSHOP)
Rita Kaur Dhamoon, University of the Fraser Valley
2.11 ARIZONA CALLING: RECENTERING THE ROLE OF THE INTN 3113
ORGANIC INTELLECTUAL IN ETHNIC STUDIES
Rudolfo D. Torres, UC Irvine: Chair
Victor Valle, California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo
Bert Corona: L.A.’s Most Important Public Intellectual
Kate Martin, California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo
Nicole Ventre, University of Amsterdam
Same Words, New Mouths: Valuing Traditional Knowledge Systems
Elvira Pulitano, California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo
Seeking Protection, Finding Prison: The Discourse of Haitian Refugees
in Ethnic Studies Courses
Grace Yeh, California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo
The Past and Future of Ethnic Studies at a Polytechnic University
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 33
Gini Matute‐Bianchi, UC Santa Cruz: Respondent
2.12 SITUATING RACE, GENDER, AND COLONIALISM INTN 4043
Julie Nagam, OCAD University
Colonial Space(s): Situating the Importance of Land in the
Site‐Specific Histories in the City of Toronto
Heather Dorries, University of Toronto
Unlearning the Colonial Politics of Planning
Shiri Pasternak, University of Toronto
The Necessity of Nature as Property, or Thinking “Dispossession as
Accumulation” as a Register in Colonial Histories of Property
Renee Valiquette, York University
Training Ground: Heteropatriarchal, (Neo)colonial, Humanist Spatial
Politics as University Campus
2.13 PRISON AT THE LIMITS/PRODUCTIONS OF BODILY INTEGRITY INTN 2043
Todd Honma, University of Southern California
American Black and Grey: Race, Criminality, and Tattooing in
Southern California
Michael Sutcliffe, Washington State University
Writing from the Inside Out: Prison Writing Programs in Open
and Academic Literature
Anoop Mirpuri, Drew University
“Pouring Water on a Drowning Man”: Warfare, Captivity, and
the Limits of Corporeal Integrity
Elissa Underwood, University of Texas at Austin
Cooking with Conviction: The Uses of Food in the Prison Industrial Complex
2.14 RACIALIZED ISLAM AND “THE MUSLIM” BODY/SUBJECT INTN 2027
Jasmin Zine, Wilfrid Laurier University
Racialized Islam and “the Muslim” Body/Subject Race, Religion,
and Securitization: Islamist Youth Radicalism and the Imperial
Roots of “Home Grown Terror”
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 34
Jaideep Singh, California State University, East Bay
Towards a Theoretical Understanding of the Racialization of Religious
Identity in the Post‐9/11 Era
Sushil Bodh, Guru Nanak Dev University
Islam, Nation Building, and Identity Formation in Uzbekistan
Mitra Rastegar, CUNY Graduate Center
Tolerance Talk, Cultural Racism, and the Exceptional Muslim/Arab
2.15 THE POLITICS AND PUBLICS OF EDUCATION HUB 367
Paul Green, UC Riverside: Chair
Angel Rubiel Gonzalez, UC Berkeley
The “Civilization” Gap: Reflections on the Coloniality of Education
Michael W. Simpson, University of Arizona
Tom Horn v. Ethnic Studies: The Arizona State Superintendent of
Public Instruction’s Attack on Ethnic Studies in the
Tucson School District
Ken Montgomery, University of Regina
“It Smacks of Segregation”: Public Resistance to Race‐Focused
Schools in Canada and the Reproduction of Nationalist White Supremacy
Nashwa Salem, University of Toronto
Pedagogy of Violence: A Critical Analysis of Toronto District School Board’s
Genocide Education Course
Paul Green, UC Riverside: Respondent
2.16 PEDAGOGIES OF CRITICAL ETHNIC STUDIES INTS 3156
Lisa Arrastía, University of Minnesota
Public FX: The Pedagogies of Whiteness and the Iconographies
of Multiculturalism
Susana Victoria Parras, John Muir Elementary (Santa Monica, CA)
(Re) Imagining Parent Involvement: How Schools Can Foster Parent
Involvement Using a Critical Race Studies Lens
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 35
Daniel Diaz Reyes, UC Riverside
Race Critical Evaluations of Chicana/o Education: Assessment and
Intervention via “Race” Identity (De)construction in Acts of Schooling
Zelda Lopez Haro, University of Oregon
Building a Better Teacher: Collaboratively Linking Critical Ethnic Studies
and Teacher Education
2.17 THE COLONIZER AND THE DECOLONIZED INTS 3154
Lorenzo Veracini, Swinburne University of Technology
Decolonizing Settler Colonialisms
Brandon Mills, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign
“A Poor Miserable Mockery—a Burlesque on a Government”:
African American Resistance to the Imperial Nationalism
of the Republic of Liberia, 1847‐1857
Freya Schiwy, UC Riverside
Democracy and Decolonization – Thinking the Political Through
Community Media in Southern Mexico
Cecilia Lucas, UC Berkeley
Decolonizing the Colonizer: Reparations as Philosophy and Praxis
2.18 CRITICAL ETHNIC STUDIES AS CAMPUSBASED ACTIVISM ARTS 215
Long T. Bui, UC San Diego
Rashné Limki, UC San Diego
Ethnic Studies 2.0: The Disciplinary Limits and Possibilities of
Re‐Presenting Racial Violence
Christine J. Hong, UC Santa Cruz
Revisiting “the Commitments and Resolutions of 1969”: “Karl Kang”
and the Theoretical Origins of Asian American Studies
Shelley Wong, Cornell University
The "Nervously Smiling Air": Disciplining Ethnic Studies
Brandy Jensen, Michigan State University
The Neoliberal University's Role in Perpetuating Global White Supremacy
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 36
2.19 LEGACIES OF EMPIRE: TRANSNATIONAL FILIPINO HUB 302C
(AMERICAN) COMMUNITY FORMATIONS IN THE
20TH CENTURY (PANEL DISCUSSION)
Linda España‐Maram, California State University, Long Beach: Chair
Genevieve Clutario, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign
Yaejoon Kwon, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign
Tessa Winkelmann, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign
James Zarsadiaz, Northwestern University
2.20 RACIALIZED SUBJECTIVITIES, SPACE, LAND, AND DISPOSSESSION INTS 1111
Owen Toews, CUNY Graduate Center: Chair
Colin P. Ashley, CUNY Graduate Center
Public Blackness: Affective Dispossession and the Impossible Home
Bradley Gardener, CUNY Graduate Center
Neighborhood Change: Whiteness and Jews in the Bronx
Rachel Goffe, CUNY Graduate Center
Inna Not So New Stylie: Land and Dispossession in Jamaica
Erin Siodmak, CUNY Graduate Center
Dispossessing Labor: Land Control and Collectivity in Miraflor, Nicaragua
Owen Toews, CUNY Graduate Center
Producing Aboriginal Abductability in a 21st Century Settler State
Francesca Manning, CUNY Graduate Center: Respondent
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 37
CONCURRENT SESSIONS #3
THURSDAY, MARCH 10
1:00 PM – 2:45 PM
3.1 PERFORMING RADICAL ALLIANCES: QUEER DECOLONIZATIONS HUB 268
AND NATIVE/SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN CRITIQUES
(PANEL DISCUSSION)
Andrea Smith, UC Riverside: Chair
Qwo‐Li Driskill, Texas A&M University
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna‐Samarasinha, Independent Scholar
Vanita Reddy, Texas A&M University
Chris Finley, University of Michigan
3.2 SOCIAL JUSTICE PEDAGOGIES: HOW CAN WHITE EDUCATORS HUB 302 A
TEACH ABOUT WHITE SUPREMACY AND NOT RECENTER
WHITENESS ? (WORKSHOP)
Lisa Albrecht, University of Minnesota: Facilitator
3.3 “MY REVOLUTION… WILL NOT BE GRADED” AND HUB 260
“THE BIG DISS DIARY” (PERFORMANCE/WORKSHOP)
Jason Luna Gavilan, University of Michigan
My Revolution… Will NOT Be Graded
Johanna Almiron, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Jennifer Almiron, Playwright
The Big Diss Diary
3.4 STORIES OF STRUGGLE IN ASIA/AMERICA INTS 1128
(FILM SCREENINGS AND DISCUSSION)
Karin Mak, Director of Red Dust
Eric Tandoc, Director of Sounds of the New Hope
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 38
3.5 CRITICAL MEDIA STUDIES: ON REPRESENTATION AND HUB 269
DISCURSIVE LOGICS
Arunima Paul, University of Southern California
Desperate Definitions and Discursive Consolidations: An Examination
of the Public Discourse in the English Print Media about India's
“Gravest Internal Security Threat”
Amy Adele Hasinoff, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign
“Online Predator” or “Dangerous Arab”?: The Katherine Lester
Case and the Presumed Whiteness of the Sex Offender
Bruno Cornellier, Concordia University
Settler Colonialism and the Gift of Indianness
Susana Peña, Bowling Green State University
Desiring Cuba: Eroticized Representations of Cuban Women
3.6 ANTICOLONIAL AND ANTILIBERAL IMAGINARIES HUB 355
Wilson Valentín‐Escobar, Hampshire College
Not Your Dada: Bodega Surrealism and El Puerto Rican Embassy
in “Loisada,” New York
Jenell Navarro, Claremont Graduate University
Canto para la Justicia: Revolutionary Hip Hop in Cuba
Harrod Suarez, University of Minnesota
Nevertheless: The Terms of Happiness, Justice, and Migration
in Hagedorn’s Dream Jungle
Leon J. Hilton, New York University
Queering the Colonial Imaginary: El Museo Travesti and the
Performance of “Trans” Nationalism
3.7 EDUCATION STUDIES SCHOLARSHIP ON THE FORMATION HUB 367
OF STUDENTS
Douglas S. Ishii, University of Maryland
“Culturally‐Specific, Not Culturally‐Exclusive”: The Asian American
Student Union, Visibility Politics, and Revisiting the
Academy/Community Divide
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 39
Brittany L. Collins, Texas A&M University
Black Leader or Leader Who Happens To Be Black? Racial Identity
Politics Among African American Leaders
Michael Kyle Brydge, Colorado State University
English Only in Valle Verde
Lahoma Thomas, University of Toronto
Uppala Chandrasekera, Wilfrid Laurier University
Exposing the Apathetic Ally: An Examination of Racism in Social
Work Education
3.8 ERASED STORIES, PRIVILEGED VOICES: INTERROGATING HUB 379
THE ROLE OF THE “M IDDLE EASTERN” M EMOIR IN
IMPERIALISM (WORKSHOP)
Tahereh Aghdasifar, Georgia State University
Alexander Jabbari, UC Irvine
Hoda Mitwally, Rutgers University
3.9 ALTERNATE RETELLINGS: READING THE ILLEGIBLE INTS 1109
Grace Kyungwon Hong, UCLA: Chair
Lisa Ho, UC San Diego
A Permanent Emergency: The Migration of North Korean Refugees
Chun Mei Lam, UCLA
The Haunting of Power: Tracing the Intimacy of Violence in the Lives
of Asian American Women
Albert “AJ” Lee, UCLA
The Fetish of Asian American Masculinity: Re/considering Historicities,
Metonymies, and Currencies of the “Gay,” “Asian,” “Male”
Assemblage
Wendi Yamashita, UCLA
What She Remembers: Remaking and Unmaking Japanese
American Internment
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 40
3.10 THE DIFFERENT DESIRES OF WOMEN OF COLOR THEORIZING INTS 1111
(PANEL DISCUSSION)
Juliana Hu Pegues, University of Minnesota: Chair
Juliana Hu Pegues, University of Minnesota
Unbecoming Women and Men: Queering Native and Asian Intimacies
in Alaska
Rosamond King, Brooklyn College
LOVE ME Black Queer Studies and Straight Black People
Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley, University of Minnesota
With and Against the Archive: Black Feminism and Narrative Theorizing
3.11 OBAMA’S OUR DADDY?: PRODUCING A FUTURE FOR BLACK INTN 3113
QUEERS IN A TIME OF MULTICULTURAL EUGENICS, GAY
IMPERIALISM, AND MONSTER MAKING
Rachel Gorman, University of Toronto
“Obama’s My Dad”: Multicultural Neoliberalism, Hybridity, and
The New Racialism
Onyii Udegbe, METRAC
Everyday Monsters: Rejecting A “Cure” For The Threat of The Black
Disabled Feminine Subject
Alyssa Clutterbuck, Cornell University
Futures Please: Black Queer Feminist Futurities and The “Not‐Yet”
of Black Resistance
Darcel Bullen, University of Toronto
Black Incarceration, Gay Liberation: Mapping Necro‐Erotic Power in
the Gay Liberation Movement and Prison Industrial Complex
3.12 FROM CRITICAL WHITENESS STUDIES TO CRITICAL INTN 3023
MOVEMENTBUILDING: A DISCUSSION ON THE IMPLICATIONS
OF W HITE ANTIRACIST O RGANIZING (WORKSHOP )
Jeb Middlebrook, University of Southern California
Cameron Levin, Alliance of White Anti‐Racists Everywhere
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 41
3.13 TEACHING INTRODUCTION TO ETHNIC STUDIES: HUB 302 B
DECOLONIZING UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION AND
INSPIRING SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
(PANEL DISCUSSION)
Anthony Macias, UC Riverside
Robert Perez, UC Riverside
3.14 “PARA QUE NUNCA MÁS NOS VUELVAN A BORRAR”: INTN 2009
SITING HISTORY UNBOUND, MUZZLED MEMORY AND
THE V IOLENCE OF C HICANO HETEROPATRIARCHY IN/ AND
THE IMPERIAL U NIVERSITY (PANEL DISCUSSION)
Clarissa Rojas, CSU Long Beach
Audrey Silvestre, CSU Long Beach
Nadia Zepeda, CSU Long Beach
ConFem, CSU Long Beach
3.15 SOCIAL JUSTICE WORKSHOP: RECENTERING EMANCIPATORY INTN 2027
EPISTEMOLOGIES WITHIN THE COMMUNITY
(PARTICIPATORY WORKSHOP)
Laura Harjo, University of Southern California
3.16 CRITICAL ETHNIC STUDIES AND THE INSURGENT “UNIVERSITY” INTN 2043
Tania Das Gupta, York University
The Story of the Department of Equity Studies at York University:
An Example of Critical Knowledge Production as Activism
on Campus
Craig Willse, CUNY Graduate Center
School, What Is It Good For?
Roya Rastegar, UC Santa Cruz
Women of Color Film & Video Festival: Exploding the Academy
through Radical Cultural Spaces
Jeffrey Sacks, UC Riverside
The University’s Last Word
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 42
3.17 THE MASTER’S HOUSE: ISSUES AND DEBATES IN THE INTN 4043
MATURATION OF ETHNIC STUDIES
C. Richard King, Washington State University: Chair
Aureliano Maria DeSoto, Metro State University
What Becomes a Legend Most?: Stardom and the Ethnic Studies Machine
Lisa Guerrero, Washington State University
“You Say You Want a Revolution”: The Cult of Revolution in
21st Century Ethnic Studies
Michael Hames‐Garcia, University of Oregon
Ethnic Studies and University Diversity Initiatives
David J. Leonard, Washington State University: Respondent
3.18 TOWARDS A BLACK GEOGRAPHIES (PANEL DISCUSSION) INTS 3156
Clyde Woods, UC Santa Barbara
Sharon Luk, University of Southern California
Tasneem Siddiqui, University of Southern California
3.19 GENOCIDAL MEDI(T)ATIONS: INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURES, INTS 3154
AESTHETIC REPRESENTATIONS, AND PARADIGMATIC
ANTIBLACKNESS
Cecilio S. Cooper, UC Davis
“I Have Such Doubts”: Grammars of Queer Suffering and Black
Kinlessness in Contemporary Cinema
Connie Wun, UC Berkeley
A Violent Production: Race, Discipline, and Punishment in School
Omar Ricks, UC Berkeley
Stanislavski’s Othello: Paradigms of Relationality and the
Performance of the Neoslave
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 43
3.20 THE STRANGE CAREER OF COLORBLIND RACISM: ARTS 215
MULTICULTURALISM, TOLERANCE, AND THE
NEOLIBERAL STATE
Eileen Boris, UC Santa Barbara: Chair
Kekailoa Perry, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Hawai'i’s Melting Pot: A Tale of Tolerance and Acceptance by Design
Natasha Howard, University of New Mexico
Anti‐Black Ideology in the Age of Colorblind Multiculturalism
Robert Jensen, University of Texas at Austin
Unconscious, Institutional, Unequal: Speaking to White People
about White Supremacy
Ruthann Lee, York University
Portraits of (Un)Settlement: Troubling the Production of Multicultural
Masculinities in Canada
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 44
CONCURRENT SESSIONS #4
THURSDAY, MARCH 10
3:00 PM – 4:45 PM
4.1 TURTLE ISLAND AND PALESTINE: FORGING ALLIANCES AGAINST INTN 3023
SETTLER COLONIALISM (PANEL DISCUSSION)
Nadia Elia, Antioch University at Seattle
Scott Lauria Morgensen, Queen’s University
Dana Olwan, Queen’s University
Andrea Smith, UC Riverside
4.2 MULTICULTURAL EXPERIENCES OF DIVERGENT SOCIAL HUB 302A
MOVEMENTS IN FINLAND, CHINA, AND USA
(PANEL DISCUSSION)
Paul Ilsley, University of Helsinki
Ilona Tikka, University of Helsinki
Anna‐Leena Riitaoja, University of Helsinki
Khalil Gholami, University of Helsinki
4.3 WOMEN OF COLOR WRITING COLLABORATIVE: CREATIVELY HUB 260
DISRUPTING THE ACADEMIC INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
(WORKSHOP)
Sandra Cristina Álvarez, UC Santa Cruz
Pascha Bueno‐Hansen,University of Delaware
Roya Zahra Rastegar, UC Santa Cruz
Susy Zepeda, UC Santa Cruz
4.4 CHICANO/A AND LATINO STUDIES WITHIN THE ACADEMIC HUB 268
INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AND THE STRUGGLE FOR RAZA
LIBERATION (PANEL DISCUSSION)
Jose Moreno, Michigan State University
Luis Moreno, Michigan State University
Ernesto Bustillos, Union del Barrio and Raza Press & Media Association
David Rodriguez, California State University, Northridge
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 45
4.5 OF SPACE AND SPECTERS OF LIBERATION: THREE MEDIATIONS HUB 269
ON CONFLICT AND HAUNTED M EMORY
Lisa Lowe, UC San Diego: Chair
Pahole Sookkasikon, San Francisco State University
The (Re)Versed Emotional Transnationalism of “Duen Pen”
and the Haunted Memory of Thai Freedom
Theresa Navarro, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Ethnic Studies Exhibition Education: Two Case Studies in
Critical Museum Education for Young Audiences
Josen Diaz, UC San Diego
Shirley Tan, the Global War on Terror, and Terror at the Interstices
Anthony Yooshin Kim, UC San Diego: Respondent
4.6 ETHNIC STUDIES IN THE U.S. HEARTLAND: CHALLENGES HUB 355
AND POSSIBILITIES (PANEL D ISCUSSION)
Faye Caronan, University of Colorado at Denver
JoAnna Poblete‐Cross, University of Wyoming
Nina Ha, Creighton University
Lisa Sun‐Hee Park, University of Minnesota: Respondent
4.7 THE SPATIALITIES AND SUBJECTIVITIES OF THE HUB 367
“MULTICULTURAL /MULTIRACIAL” MOMENT
Hephzibah v. Strmic‐pawl, University of Virginia
Multiracial Identity in the 21st Century
Chang‐Hee Kim, University of Minnesota
The Traumatic Subjectivity of Capitalist Multiculturalism: On the
Controversy over Lois‐Ann Yamanaka’s Blu’s Hanging
Kristin Lozanski, King’s University College
Benevolence, Tolerance, and Violence in the Canadian Colonial Project
Parastou Saberi, York University
Neo‐Colonialism and the Politics of Public Space in the “Multicultural”
City: The Case of Toronto, Canada
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 46
4.8 THE (RACIST) VIOLENCE OF (OFFICIAL) MULTICULTURALISMS: HUB 379
ADDRESSING “ANTIRACIST” IDENTITY AND
MOVEMENT FORMATIONS
Alfonso Gonzales, New York University
From Nativist Neo‐Liberalism to Multicultural Militarism: President
Barack Obama and the Migrant Social Movement in
Los Angeles and New York City
Robert O. Lopez, California State University, Northridge
Military Multiculturalism: Reconsidering the Pacifist‐Antiracist
Nexus in Ethnic Studies
Arlo Kempf, University of Toronto
Colourblind Praxis in Havana: An Anti‐colonial Interrogation of
Cuban Teacher Discourses of Race and Racelessness
4.9 ISRAELI OCCUPATION AS RACIST NATIONBUILDING (NARRATIVE) INTS 1109
Jennifer Lynn Kelly, University of Texas at Austin
The Forest for the Trees: Nostalgia as a Response to Witting
Autobiographies
Yehuda Sharim, UCLA
Questioning Race within the 1940s Jewish Community of Palestine
Magid Shihade, Lahore University of Management Science
“Mirror Images”: Palestine and the Complacent Academy: Orientalism,
Modernity, and Jewish Power
Justin Barron, San Francisco State University
You See This as a Threat: Confronting Israeli Biopolitical Narratives of Progress
4.10 CRITICAL ETHNIC STUDIES AND THE PROBLEMS OF PEDAGOGY HUB 302B
Tomomi Kinukawa, University of the Pacific
Critical Ethnic Studies Take on Science Studies in Undergraduate
General Education
Patricia Connolly, University of Minnesota
Pedagogy, Praxis, and Polyvocality: Framing the Politics of Location
in a Women’s “World” Literature Course
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 47
Huey‐Li Li, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign
Racial Ignorance in the Post‐Racial America
Martha Escobar, UC San Diego
Teaching Ethnic Studies in Times of Perpetual Racialized Warfare
4.11 QUEER ETHNIC STUDIES ACROSS TEXTS AND VIOLENCES INTN 3113
Natalie Carter, The George Washington University
“Bros Before Ho’s”: An Analysis of Homosocial Bonding,
Heteronormativity, and Violence Against Women in
Carlos Bulosan’s America is in the Heart
Natalie Kouri‐Towe, University of Toronto
What’s Queer About Palestine Solidarity?: Homonationalism,
Apartheid, and Transnational Queer Activism
Lauren Pragg, York University
Room to Stand: Creating Spaces and Navigating Silences in
Queer Indo‐Caribbean Diasporas
Ivan A. Ramos, UC Berkeley
Imagining Otherwise: Queer Relationality Beyond the Specter of Whiteness
4.12 VINCENT WHO? (FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION) INTS 1128
Curtis Chin, Asian Pacific Americans for Progress
4.13 UC BERKELEY PEOPLE OF COLOR ACTIVISM AND THE INTS 1111
CONTOURS OF ETHNIC STUDIES (PANEL DISCUSSION)
Keith Feldman, UC Berkeley: Chair
Xamuel Banales, UC Berkeley
Marcelo Garzo, UC Berkeley
Tala Khanmalek, UC Berkeley
Leece Lee, UC Berkeley
Nelson Maldonado‐Torres, Rutgers University
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 48
4.14 THE VISIONS, OPTICS, AND (RACIAL) BODIES OF A INTN 2043
RADICAL PRISON STUDIES
Bronwyn Dobchuck‐Land, CUNY Graduate Center: Chair
Jordan T. Camp, UC Santa Barbara
The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Torture and Marionization
of Neoliberal Racial Regimes of Security
Micol Seigel, Indiana University
Racialization in the Era of Mass Incarceration
Mercy Romero, UC Santa Cruz
Still Life: Black Radical Movement and Courtroom Drawings, 1971
Kurt Kaaekuahiwi, San Francisco State University
Islam Behind Bars: Race, Black Masculinities and Carceral Spatiality
4.15 RACEPRODUCTIONCONSUMPTION: THE CIRCUITS OF INTN 2027
CAPITALISM IN THE (RACIAL) CONTEXTS OF
LATENEOLIBERALISM
Pawan Dhingra, Oberlin College
Seeking Liberation, Navigating Hierarchies: Deconstructing
Immigrant Entrepreneurs’ Success within U.S. Hyper‐Capitalism
MJ Rwigema, Community and Family Support Services, Y‐Connect, Griffin Centre
Race, Knowledge Production, and the Rwandan Genocide
Nicole Brown, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign
Consumer Experiences in Black and White
Amanda Bertana, Humboldt State University
Camaraderie or Exploitation?: Sino‐African Relations in Regards to Oil
4.16 BEYOND THEORY: TOWARD A REVOLUTIONARY BLACK INTN 2009
STUDIES IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM
Austin Jackson, Michigan State University
“Move the Crowd”: Reclaiming the Rhetoric of Black Revolution in
African American Studies
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 49
Kyle Mays, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign
African Americans, Native Americans, and History: A Coalition for Liberation?
AJ Rice, New School for Social Research
Black Studies and Neoliberalism: Investigating the Political Economy of the
Black Diaspora
4.17 SETTLERS, STATES, AND “VANISHING” PEOPLES: DIFFERING INTN 4043
GENOCIDES IN COLONIAL CONTEXTS
Norbert Finzsch, University of Cologne: Chair
Björn Beyen, Free University of Berlin
Hanno Scheerer, Free University of Berlin
Towards an Analytical Framework of Genocide: Governance and
Settler Imperialism in North America and Australia
Dörte Lerp, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt
Negotiating Whiteness and Settler Colonialism: Land Policies and the
Moving Frontiers of Race and Class in Twentieth‐Century
South West Africa
4.18 OCCUPATION IN THE AGE OF OBAMA INTS 3156
Lee Ann Wang, University of Michigan: Chair
Anita Nitu Jain, California State Polytechnic University
The Good War
Jocelyn Pacleb, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
“Oh, Say Can You See”: Soldiering Immigrants in Times of War
Trisha Barua, UC Davis
The Elisions of Inclusion: Empire and the White House Initiative on AA/PIs
Rana Sharif, UCLA
Cartographies of Occupation: Gender, Power, and the Everyday
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 50
4.19 WHAT'S EATING GILBERTO GIL (PERFORMANCE) INTS 3154
Sumugan Sivanesan, University of Technology, Sydney
4.20 QUEERING IDENTITY POLITICS: RETHINKING MOVEMENT ARTS 215
AND COMMUNITY BUILDING
Lourdes Torres, DePaul University
Queering the Immigration Movement
Francesca Royster, DePaul University
This is What Genderqueer Sounds Like: Queering Afrofuturism
Ann Russo, DePaul University
Queering Movement Building and Solidarity in the Antiviolence Movement
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 51
CONCURRENT SESSIONS #5
THURSDAY, MARCH 10
5:00 PM – 6:45 PM
5.1 MULTIRACIAL HISTORIES OF STRUGGLE IN A TIME OF HUB 379
U.S. EXCEPTIONALISM
Laura Pulido, University of Southern California: Chair
Susan Chen, UC San Diego
The Story of a Model City on the U.S.‐Canada Border: Analyzing the
Postwar Transformation of Seattle’s Chinatown
Jason Kim, UC Berkeley
Dirty Clothes on the Color Line: Intersections of Race, Gender and
Class in the US & Canada
Justin Leroy, New York University
Global Visions of the Nineteenth‐Century Black Pacific
Steve Ruiz, UC San Diego
The Contested Terrains of Intimacy and Empire in Southern
California’s Multiracial History
Maki Smith, UC San Diego
For Mutual Consideration: Race, Gender and Dignity in Late 1960s
and Early 1970s Seattle
5.2 RACE, NATION, AND DIASPORA: THE DISRUPTIONS OF INTS 1109
CULTURAL PRODUCTION
Jigna Desai, University of Minnesota: Chair
Celia Weiss Bambara, University of Illinois at Chicago
Transforming Diaspora: Travel and Politics in Contemporary
Haitian and Burkinabé Dancemaking
Yu‐Fang Cho, Miami University
Immigration, Diaspora, and the Uses of History
Kulvinder Arora, University of Illinois at Chicago
Funk in that Desi
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 52
5.3 LETTING THE DEAD SPEAK: COUNTERNARRATIVES OF INTS 1111
HETEROPATRIARCHY, WHITE SUPREMACY, AND ITS
GENOCIDAL PROJECT
Luciane de Oliveira Rocha, University of Texas at Austin: Chair
Haile Eshe Cole, University of Texas at Austin
Black Motherhood and the Prison System in Texas
Elvia Mendoza, University of Texas at Austin
Policing the Queer Body
Luciane de Oliveira Rocha, University of Texas at Austin
Black Women’s Narratives of Genocide in Urban Rio de Janeiro
Jaime Amparo‐Alves, University of Texas at Austin
Living in the Necropolis: Homo Sacer as the Black Inhuman Urban
Condition in São Paulo
5.4 ACTIVISTSCHOLARSHIP AND SUBJUGATED KNOWLEDGES: INTN 3113
THEORIES, METHODS, CRITIQUE (PANEL DISCUSSION)
Dan Berger, University of Pennsylvania
Anthony Rodriguez, University of Southern California
David Stein, University of Southern California
5.5 WHEN AND WHERE WE ENTER: DETROIT AND THE PRACTICE INTN 3023
OF CRITICAL ETHNIC STUDIES (PANEL DISCUSSION )
Stephanie Greenlea, Yale University
Sarah Haley, Princeton University
Shana Redmond, University of Southern California
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 53
5.6 “CANVAS OF DESIRE”: A ROUNDTABLE BY WOMEN OF COLOR HUB 367
ON P EDAGOGY AND D IFFERENCE (P ANEL DISCUSSION)
Tamara Ho, UC Riverside
Sujey Vega, Sam Houston State University
Aimee Carrillo Rowe, University of Iowa
Simone Drake, Ohio State University
Aisha Durham, Texas A&M University
Lynn Itagaki, Ohio State University
Nan Ma, Grinnell College
Courtney Marshall, University of New Hampshire
Ariana Vigil, University of Nebraska‐Lincoln
5.7 COLLUSION OF JAPANESE AND U.S. EMPIRE AND THE POLITICS HUB 302A
OF TRANSNATIONAL ZAINICHI KOREAN RESISTANCE
John Lie, UC Berkeley: Chair
Haruki Eda, San Francisco State University
“We Lost the War, But Who’s We?”: Deconstructing Japan’s
Anti‐War Education Discourse
Kyung Hee Ha, UC San Diego
Zainichi Koreans (Koreans from Japan) in the U.S.: Multiple
Displacement, Statelessness and Home Making
Kei Fischer, San Francisco State University
Zainichi Korean Social Activism
5.8 DISCONTINUOUS EPISTEMES: IMPERIALIST CULTURE, HUB 269
DECOLONIZATION, AND THE ANALYTICS OF RACE
(PANEL DISCUSSION)
Denise Ferreira da Silva, Queen Mary, University of London: Chair
Sandra Angeleri, Universidad Central de Venezuela
Helen Heran Jun, University of Illinois at Chicago
Randall Willliams, Independent Scholar
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 54
5.9 COLONIZING PALESTINE?: THE SPATIAL AND DISCURSIVE HUB 355
CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE UNDER
ISRAELI MILITARY OCCUPATION (PANEL DISCUSSION)
Thomas Abowd, Tufts University
Vanessa Saldivar, UC San Diego
Mohammed Abed, California State University, Los Angeles
Steven Salaita, Virginia Tech University
5.10 HOW HOLLYWOOD REPRESENTS AND RACE PERFORMS: INTN 2043
ZOE SALDAÑA, LUPE VELÉZ, AND ANTHROPOLLYWOOD
Isabel Molina‐Guzmán, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign: Chair
Vanessa Diaz, University of Michigan
A Deeper Look into “Anthropollywood”: An Examination of Practice
and Representation in Anthropology and Hollywood
Kristy Rawson, University of Michigan
Imitation is the Highest Form: Lupe Vélez and the Performance of “Purity”
Rachel Afi Quinn, University of Michigan
Brown, Black and Blue? Zoe Saldaña and the Transnational
Remixing of Dominican Women’s Representations
5.11 THINKING BEYOND SETTLER EPISTEMES INTN 2027
Renisa Mawani, University of British Columbia
Colonial Proximities
Larissa Lai, University of British Columbia
The Look of Like: Fields of Vision in Asian/Indigenous Relation
Chris Lee, University of British Columbia
Asian, Not Human
Christine Kim, Simon Frazier University
Intimate Publics: Asian Canadian Studies and Changing Cultural Grammars
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 55
5.12 “TRUST ME”: THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL POTENTIAL OF INTN 4043
MINORITIZED MATERIALITY (PANEL DISCUSSION)
Juliana Hu Pegues, University of Minnesota
Karla Padrón, University of Minnesota
Thomas X. Sarmiento, University of Minnesota
5.13 SETTLER COLONIALISM AND NATIONAL IDENTITY INTS 3156
Bronwyn Dobchuck‐Land, CUNY Graduate Center: Chair
Gaia Giuliani, University of Technology, Sydney
Coloring Geographies of Power: The Color Line in Settler Colonialism
John Mark French
The Settlement of Self
Beenash Jafri, York University
Absolving Settler Colonialism and White Supremacy: Revisionist Histories
Eve Haque, York University
Mary Jo Nadeau, Wilfrid Laurier University
Disenchanting Royal Commissions: The Making of Canada as a
Dual White Settler Nation
5.14 SETTLER COLONIALISM, RACIAL APARTHEID, AND INTS 3154
PEOPLE OF COLOR POLITICS
Cynthia Wright, University of Toronto
“Nearing Its South Africa Moment”: Some Considerations on “Apartheid”
Malissa Phung, McMaster University
Doubly “Invasive” Chinese Settlers in Nineteenth Century Canada
Sylvester Johnson, University of Indiana
Internal Colonialism, Citizenship, and American Empire
Shaista Patel, University of Toronto
Investing in a Multicultural Genocide: Settlers of Color Race to Innocence
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 56
5.15 SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THE LIMITS OF IDENTITY POLITICS ARTS 215
OmiSoore H. Dryden, University of Toronto
Reproducing the State: Decolonizing Queer Activism in Canada
Rashné Limki, UC San Diego
Acts of Witnessing: Re‐thinking Social Justice Organizing in a
“Post‐racial Era”
Megan Downey, UC Berkeley
Toward a Gendered Approach to White Abolitionism: The Unique
Potential of White Women as Agents of Resistance
Dalton Anthony Jones, Bowling Green State University
Defending Tribalism: Race and Civil Society in the New World Order
5.16 SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND HISTORICAL/CULTURAL ANALYSIS HUB 302B
Erik McDuffie, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign: Chair
Roland Sintos Coloma, University of Toronto
From Grief to Grievance: Affect, Subjectivity, and Social Movement
Robin Garcia, Claremont Graduate University
Negotiating Democracy and Socialism: Cultural Activism in
Contemporary Venezuela
Erica Edwards, UC Riverside
Rebel Resurrection: New African American Narrative and the Cultural
Production of War
Heather Ashby, University of Southern California
The Geographies of Struggle: Mapping Encounters between
Black and Red, 1919‐1939
5.17 TRAVELING RACIALIZATIONS INTN 2009
Gabriela Spears‐Rico, UC Berkeley
Consuming the Native “Other” Before the Mestiza/o Norm: The
Touristic Commodification of Four P’urhepecha Cultural/Spiritual
Performances in Michoacan
Teresa Irene Gonzales, UC Berkeley
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 57
Urban Safari: Tourism as Local Economic Development
Alisha Ticku, York University
Growing Pains: (Un)mapping Imperial Geographies of Citizenship,
Labour and Migration in Dubai
Punam Khosla, York University
Towards a Historical Materialist Biopolitics of Gender, Race and
Sexual Dispossession: A Theoretical and Political Study
5.18 HAWAI'I AND THE POLITICS OF SOVEREIGNTY HUB 302C
Dina Gilio‐Whitaker, University of New Mexico
Comparative Indigenous Nationalisms in America: Can Native
Hawaiians Become Indians?
Bianca Isaki, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
HB 645, Asian Settler Colonialism, and the Awkward Politics of the
Local in Hawai'i
5.19 WHITE EMPIRE IN POST/COLONIAL IMAGINARIES: HUB 268
MESTIZA/O CHILDREN, NATIONAL SECURITY,
AND MODERN SOUND
Grace Hong, UCLA: Chair
Gladys Nubla, UC Berkeley
Protecting (White) American Blood: Mestiza/o Children and
American Colonialism in the Philippines
Anjali Nath, University of Southern California
Post‐9/11 in the Post‐Colony: Kashmir and Indian Exceptionalism
Jih‐Fei Cheng, University of Southern California
Blackness and Modern Sound: Theories in (R)Evolution
Grace Hong, UCLA: Respondent
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 58
5.20 INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND SETTLER COLONIAL DISPLACEMENTS HUB 260
Renya Ramirez, UC Santa Cruz: Chair
Jennifer Denetdale, University of New Mexico
American Settler Colonialism and Diné/Navajo Patterns of
Tradition and Gender
Elizabeth Archuleta, Arizona State University
Knowing Your Place: Law, Boundaries, and Indigenous Women’s
Heretical Geographies
Alyosha Goldstein, University of New Mexico
Eminent Domains, Sovereign Immunity, and Colonial Dispensation
Renya Ramirez, UC Santa Cruz: Respondent
5.21 MOUNTAINS THAT TAKE WING: INTS 1128
ANGELA DAVIS & YURI KOCHIYAMA
(FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION)
C.A. (Crystal) Griffith, QUAD Productions & Arizona State University
H.L.T. Quan, QUAD Productions & Arizona State University
Suran K. Thrift, Quad Productions
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 59
OPENING RECEPTION INTN
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM 4TH FLOOR
OPENING PLENARY HUB 302
8:15 PM – 10:30 PM OVERFLOW –
UNLH
CONFERENCE WELCOME:
Stephen Cullenberg, Dean of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, UC Riverside
CONFERENCE OPENING REMARKS:
Jodi Kim, UC Riverside
PROFESSIONALIZATION AND PRAXIS: THE CHANGING TRAJECTORY OF ETHNIC STUDIES
Speakers: Jack Halberstam, University of Southern California
Denise Ferreira da Silva, Queen Mary, University of London
Waziyatawin, University of Victoria
Sarita Echavez See, University of Michigan
Angela Y. Davis, UC Santa Cruz
Chair: Jodi Kim, UC Riverside
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 60
FRIDAY, MARCH 11
PLENARY TWO: GYM
9:00 AM – 11:15 AM
SETTLER COLONIALISM AND WHITE SUPREMACY
Speakers: Dylan Rodríguez, UC Riverside
Dean Spade, Seattle University School of Law
Cheryl Harris, UCLA
Glen Coulthard, University of British Columbia
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, CUNY Graduate Center
Chair: Dean Itsuji Saranillio, UC Riverside
CONCURRENT SESSIONS #6
FRIDAY, MARCH 11
11:30 AM – 1:15 PM
6.1 DECOLONIZING ENVIRONMENTALISM INTN 3023
Diana Pei Wu, Antioch University, Los Angeles: Chair
Diana Pei Wu, Antioch University, Los Angeles
The Radical, Decolonial, and Prophetic in US Environmental Movements
Robin Turner, Butler University
History Matters: Colonization, Dispossession, and Contemporary
Nature Tourism in Rural Southern Africa
Beth Rose Middleton, UC Davis
Private Conservation in the Northern Sierra: Colonization and
Decolonization in Indian Country
Michael Dorsey, Dartmouth College
Global Ecological Apartheid: Reframing Natures, Resistance,
Revolution, and Liberation
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 61
6.2 VISIONS OF ABOLITION: THE STATE AND THE FUTURE OF INTN 4043
PRISON ABOLITION (WORKSHOP)
Setsu Shigematsu, UC Riverside
Jolie Chea, University of Southern California
Kiana Green, University of Southern California
Patrice Douglass, UC Riverside
Cameron Granadino, UC Riverside
Craig Gilmore, California Prison Moratorium Project
Analena Hope, University of Southern California
Treva Ellison, University of Southern California
Rachel Herzing, Creative Interventions
Melissa Burch, Critical Resistance
6.3 HEARING RADMILLA (FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION) HUB 269
Angela Webb, Filmmaker
6.4 ETHNIC STUDIES IN TIMES OF CRISES: THE EMERGING INTN 3113
CHALLENGES FOR SCHOLAR ACTIVISM IN THE NEORACIST
UNIVERSITY OF TOMORROW (PANEL DISCUSSION)
Kyung Hee Ha, UC San Diego
Stevie Ruiz, UC San Diego
Angelica Yanez, UC San Diego
Long Bui, UC San Diego
Maria T. Ceseña, UC San Diego
6.5 DECOLONIZING SOLIDARITY: INTERSECTIONAL SCHOLARSHIP, INTN 2031
COALITION BUILDING, AND THE DESTABILIZING POTENTIAL
OF A CRITICAL ETHNIC S TUDIES (PANEL DISCUSSION)
Sophia Azeb, University at Buffalo
Josh Cerretti, University at Buffalo
T.J. Tallie, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign
Theresa Warburton, University at Buffalo
6.6 PRESENT/FUTURE RELATIONS: ALTERNATIVE POETICS OF RACE, HUB 355
WAR, AND INTERNATIONALISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND
SOUTH ASIA
Sunaina Maira, UC Davis: Chair
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Keith Feldman, UC Berkeley
June Jordan’s Palestine
Manijeh Moradian, New York University
The Clash of Internationalisms: Iranian American “Green” Solidarity
and the “War on Terror”
Ronak Kapadia, New York University
How to Shoot An Iraqi: Wafaa Bilal’s Queer Calculus of Pain
Sylvia Chan‐Malik, UC Santa Cruz
“Love for All Hatred for None”: The Transnational Blackness of
African American Ahmadi Muslim Women, 1947‐1975
6.7 UNSUSTAINABLE EMPIRE: (RE)IMAGINING ALTERNATIVES TO HUB 367
THE S ETTLER STATE AND ITS CONDITIONS OF G ENOCIDE
Dean Itsuji Saranillio, UC Riverside: Chair
Noelani Goodyear‐Ka'ōpua, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
“It’s Our Destiny to Set the Water Free”: Rebuilding Indigenous
Educational, Economic, and Ecological systems
Candace Fujikane, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Empire Eroded by Whispers: Anticolonial Cartography and the Fragile
Fictions of Empire
Dean Itsuji Saranillio, UC Riverside
Settler States as Unfit for Self‐Government: Liberal Multiculturalism
as an Imperative of Genocide
Roderick Labrador, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Erin Kahunawaika'ala Wright, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Ma Ka Hana Ka 'Ike: Praxis, Critical Race Theory, and U.S. Empire
Dylan Rodríguez, UC Riverside: Respondent
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 63
6.8 QUEER/LGBT POLITICS AND DE/TERRITORIALIZATION HUB 379
Erica Edwards, UC Riverside: Chair
Scott Lauria Morgensen, Queen’s University
Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization
Cindy Holmes, University of British Columbia
Contested Geographies of Belonging: Examining Discourses of
Tolerance, Gay Rights, and Whiteness in a Western Canadian City
Christina B. Hanhardt, University of Maryland
Unjust Grounds
6.9 IMAGINING LIBERATION: POETRY AND NARRATIVE INTN 2043
Andrew Uzendoski, University of Texas at Austin
Communal Chicano Narrative: Performing The Road to Tamazunchale
Ian Rhodewalt
What Role Nonviolence and Poetry in the Dismantling of the State?
Chantal Nadeau, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign
White Niggers of Queer America
Stephen Hong Sohn, Stanford University
The Perils and Productivities of Comparative Colonialisms: Reading
Sabina Murray’s The Caprices
6.10 THE WORK OF MEMORY AND THE MEMORY OF WORK INTN 2027
IN ASIAN NORTH AMERICA
Alexander Chang, UC San Diego
Traumas of Production: Contemporary Re‐Presentations of the
Chinese Coolie
Eliza Noh, California State University, Fullerton
Asian American Suicide Folklore
Laura J. Kwak, University of Toronto
The Rise of Asian Conservatism: A Transnational and Comparative
Study of Koreans in the Diasporas
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 64
Vivian Wong, UCLA
Considering History and Identity: (Re)Imagining Asian Diasporic
Community Narratives through Digital Mediations and Meditations
6.11 BOROUGH, CITY, CONTINENT, PLANET: MAPPING THE INTN 2009
ECOLOGIES OF NECROPOWER AND BIOPOWER
Neel Ahuja, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Toward a Planetary Concept of Mass Death
Sabrina Squires, Lancaster University
Saving Queer Subjects from Queer Populations: Homophobia and
Racism in East London
Arifa Elizabeth Raza, UC Riverside
Genealogy of Necropolitics in the Southwest: An Analysis of AZ SB1070
Zenia Kish, New York University
The New Land Grab: International Security, Food Sovereignty,
and the Logic of Scarcity
6.12 PALESTINIAN LIBERATION AND THE CONCEPTUAL HUB 260
LIMITS/PROBLEMATICS OF ETHNIC STUDIES
Dana Olwan, Queen’s University
Gaza, “Racial Palestinianization” and the Politics of Naming
Humanitarian Crises
Abigail B. Bakan, Queen’s University
Yasmeen Abu‐Laban, University of Alberta
The Idea of Israel and the Absence of Palestine: Conceptual Limits
and Possibilities of “Ethnic Studies” in North America
Nada Elia, Antioch University at Seattle
From the Belly of the Beast to the Brain of the Monster
Mary‐Jo Nadeau, Wilfrid Laurier University
Alan Sears, Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid; Faculty4Palestine
The Palestine Test: Countering the Silencing Campaign
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 65
6.13 RACIAL CRIMINALIZATION, GENDERED REHABILITATION, INTS 4111
AND THE EMERGENCE OF PENAL D EMOCRACY
Jenna Loyd, CUNY Graduate Center
Penal Democracy, Abolition & Right to the City
Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Indiana University
Where Did All the White Criminals Go?: The Remapping of Racial
Criminalities on the Road to Mass Incarceration
Sheri‐Lynn Kurisu, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign
Constructing Race: Desegregation in Prison
Tera Eva Agyepong, Northwestern University
The Illinois Industrial School for Girls at Geneva, 1896‐1935: How the
“Rehabilitative Ideal” Was Never Intended to Apply to Black Children
6.14 CRITICAL BLACK STUDIES: OLD QUESTIONS, NEW DIRECTIONS INTN 4023
Ronald K. Porter, UC Berkeley
Between Authentic Blackness and Disputed Humanity: The
Philosophical Contributions of Black Gay Men
David Green, University of Michigan
“A Revolutionary Act?”: Sex, Life, Love, and Freedom in Assoto
Saint’s New Love Song
Regis Mann, UC Riverside
Advancing Lina: Theorizing the Domestication of Native Trauma
in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy
Stephen Dillon, University of Minnesota
Possessed by Death: Black Feminism, the Neoliberal Carceral State,
and the Afterlife of Slavery
6.15 INTIMATE INVESTMENTS: EROTIC AUTONOMIES IN THE HUB 302
WAKE OF SEDUCTION (PANEL DISCUSSION)
Anna M. Agathangelou, York University
Morgan Bassichis, Communities United Against Violence
Tamara Lea Spira, UC Davis
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 66
6.16 NOT SO DISCIPLINED: CHALLENGING ETHNIC AND AREA HUB 268
STUDIES THROUGH QUEER, ARAB/SWANA SCHOLARSHIP
(PANEL DISCUSSION)
Charlotte Karem Albrecht, University of Minnesota: Chair
Sarah Gualtieri, University of Southern California
Charlotte Karem Albrecht, University of Minnesota
Umayyah Cable, University of Southern California
Mejdulene Shomali, University of Michigan
6.17 CONSPIRACIES AND MENACE: CRITICAL CONSIDERATIONS OF HUB 265
EARLY 20TH CENTURY SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN RADICALISM
Chandan Reddy, University of Washington: Chair
Seema Sohi, University of Colorado at Boulder
Exclusion and Antiradicalism Across the Pacific: Indian Anticolonialism
and the Consolidation of White Supremacy
S. Ani Mukherji, UCLA
Asian American Anticolonialism in Exile: Katayama Sen and M.N.
Roy’s Moscow Years
Vivek Bald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Plotter” and “Traitor”: Chandra Chakraverty, Masculinity, and
Constructions of National(ist) Identity
6.18 NATURALIZING HAOLES, CRIMINALIZING NATIVE HAWAIIANS: INTS 3156
SOCIAL VIOLENCE, CULTURAL APPROPRIATION, AND THE
COMMODIFICATION OF NATIVE BODIES
Dorrie Mazzonem, Diablo Valley College: Chair
Judy Rohrer, UC Berkeley
Naturalizing the Haole: Colorblind Ideology, Cultural Practice,
and the Racialization of Hawaiians
RaeDeen Kehiolalo‐Karasuda
Kanaka Maoli Criminalization and Incarceration: The Prison as a
Site of Colonial Subjugation
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 67
Carrie Ann Shirota, Soros Justice Fellow
Banishing Kanaka Maoli: Penal Transfers, Private Profits and Mass
Incarceration in Hawai'i
Asafa Jalata, University of Tennessee
Impacts of Capitalist Incorporation and Colonial Terrorism on
Indigenous American Peoples
6.19 REPRODUCING THE BODY POLITIC INTS 1109
Mrinalini Chakravorty, University of Virginia: Chair
Sara Clarke Kaplan, UC San Diego
“A Picture of Me and My Mother”: Black Reproductive Surplus in
the (Trans)national Imaginary
Asha Nadkarni, University of Massachusetts
Narratives of the Emergency
Kalindi Vora, UC San Diego
Reproducing the US Middle‐Class: Biopolitics and Indian Labor
Mrinalini Chakravorty, University of Virginia: Respondent
6.20 LIBERATION THEORY, RADICAL THOUGHT, AND INTS 1111
POLITICAL FREEDOM
H. L. T. Quan, Arizona State University
Liberationist Subjectivity, Critical Black Studies & the Scholarship
of Cedric J. Robinson
Kaveh Landsverk, Columbia University
A Struggle for Freedom: Fanonian Political Freedom and Prison Abolition
Tiffany Willoughby‐Herard, UC Irvine
Thinking about Race, Class, and Gender under Slavery and Colonialism
Jacqueline B. Husary, San Francisco State University
(Sub)Versing Hegemony: The Poetry of Palestinian Women as Projects
of Solidarity and Liberation
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 68
6.21 KILLING CALIFORNIA INDIANS: INTS 3154
THE SILENCED GENOCIDE, 18501870
Clifford E. Trafzer, UC Riverside: Chair
James Fenelon, California State University, San Bernardino
Euro‐American Genocide on Native Nations in California: Comparative
Analysis and Staged Models
Brendan Lindsay, Cal Poly Pomona
Genocide as a Grass Roots Democratic Movement
Thomas Maxwell Long, California State University, San Bernardino
Legalized Acts of Genocide: The Bloody Island Pomo Massacre
6.22 TRANSNATIONAL ISLAMOPHOBIA IN RELATION TO SETTLER ARTS 213
COLONIALISM/HETEROPATRIARCHY/WHITE SUPREMACY:
CRITICAL ETHNIC STUDIES AND THE FUTURE OF GENOCIDE
WITH THIS AT THE FOREFRONT (PANEL DISCUSSION)
Paola Bacchetta, UC Berkeley: Chair
Dina Omar, Columbia University
Huma Dar, UC Berkeley
Tala Khanmalek, UC Berkeley
LUNCH (AD HOC ORGANIZING SESSIONS)
1:30 PM 2:30 PM
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 69
CONCURRENT SESSIONS #7
FRIDAY, MARCH 11
2:30 PM – 4:15 PM
7.1 ENVIRONMENTAL APARTHEID AND JUSTICE IN THE INTN 3023
INLAND VALLEY (PANEL DISCUSSION)
Brinda Sarathy, Pitzer College
Penny Newman, CCAEJ
Francisco Donez, US EPA
7.2 RACIAL NEOLIBERALISM, NECROPOLITICS, AND THE HUB 269
QUESTION OF VIOLENCE
Jodi Kim, UC Riverside: Chair
Grace Kyungwon Hong, UCLA
Neoliberalism and Necropolitics: Capitalism’s Irrationality
Jodi Melamed, Marquette University
Normative Violence and the Material Politics of Anti‐Racist Knowledges
Chandan Reddy, University of Washington
Primitive Accumulation, Racial Cruelty, and the Politics of Violence
Jodi Kim, UC Riverside: Respondent
7.3 CRITICAL RECONFIGURATIONS OF ENVIRONMENT, INTS 1109
LANDSCAPE, AND SPACE
Priscilla Settee, University of Saskatchewan
Dana M. Greene, North Carolina Central University
Wading Through the Debris and Oily Muck: Struggles for Solidarity
Against Capitalist and Environmentally Racist Practices
Impacting Communities of Colour
Arun Nedra Rodrigo, York University
IndigNation: Some Thoughts on the Work of Kent Monkman
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 70
William R. Kramer, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Extraterrestrial Exploration: New Beginnings or Perpetuation of
Colonial Models?
Ryan Heryford, UC San Diego
Preservation and the Production of Bare Life: Settler Colonialism and
the late 19th Century National Park
7.4 FICTION, FILM, AND FOLK FETISHISM: GENEALOGIES OF INTS 1111
EUROPE’S RACIAL IMAGINARY
Ashwani Sharma, University of East London
Decolonizing the Subject: The Poetics of Race in Black British Visual Culture
Claudia Garcia‐Rojas, Depaul University
La Haine: Disrupting Illusions of Racism and Imagined Social/Political
Geography in (Contemporary) France
Barbara Bush, UC San Diego
Switzerland – Folk Fetishism and the Construction of the Other
Susana Martinez‐Guillem, University of Colorado
Theorizing Race in the Context of the “New Europe”: Opportunities
and Challenges
7.5 TANGLED ECONOMIES OF RACE, VALUE, AND VIOLENCE INTN 3113
Bill Hunt, Duke University
The Birth[s] of A Nation at the Treaty of Versailles: The Clansman,
The Birth of a Nation, and the Nation‐Building Ideologies
of Woodrow Wilson
Balbir K. Singh, University of Washington
Reproductive Futures: Violence and the Neo‐Slave Mother in Cuaron’s
Children of Men
Letrell Crittenden, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign
Mapping the Black Public Sphere: Racial Discourse within the Age of Obama
Eva Hageman, New York University
Realty TV: Reality Television and the Value of “Lifestyle”
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 71
7.6 THE RACIAL POLITICS OF RELIGION INTN 4023
Margaret Denike, Carleton University
Religions of Perversion: Religious “Fanaticism” and the Racial
Formations of Queer Human Rights
Thien‐Huong Ninh, University of Southern California
“Re‐Centering the Religious Center”: Caodai Temples Negotiate
Homeland Ties and Transnational Networks in Cambodia and Vietnam
R. Sophie Statzel, CUNY Graduate Center
Sexuality and Power in the Heart of Evangelical America
Stephanie Wilms, UC Riverside
Crafting Ideology: The Circle Seven Koran and Culture on Chicago’s South Side
7.7 SETTLER COLONIALISM, GENDER, AND BIOPOWER HUB 260
Robert Nichols, University of Alberta
Severely Abnormal in the Settler‐Colony
Joshua Mitchell, UC Riverside
Settler Rurality: Queer Non‐Urban Geographies and Settler Colonialism
Margaret Little, Queen’s University
Active Colonialism Embedded in Feminist Practices
Stephanie Clare, Rutgers University
Geopower, Settler Colonialism, and the Canadian Pacific Railroad
7.8 DECONSTRUCTING NORMATIVE SUBJECTIVITIES IN HAWAI'I INTN 2031
Dominika Ferens, University of Wroclaw,
Grievable Lives: Queer Textual Strategies in Hawaiian Literature
about Disability
Linda Ikeda, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Impossible Sorrow: Losing Transdaughters
Susan Y. Najita, University of Michigan
Settling
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 72
7.9 “WHO/WHAT WE ARE”: THOUGHTS ON MOBILITY, HUB 265
SETTLEMENT, BELONGING, AND COLONIALITY
Rinaldo Walcott, University of Toronto: Chair
Dina Georgis, University of Toronto
Two Stories in One and the Perils of Group Belonging in Palestine and Israel
Katherine McKittrick, Queen’s University
Plantation‐Life‐Urbicide‐Operation‐Remove‐Trash
Nandita Sharma, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Indigeneity, Migration, and Postcolonial Movements For and Against
Nation/State/Sovereignty
Rinaldo Walcott, University of Toronto
How “We” Became “We”: Within and Beyond The Master Categories
of Coloniality
7.10 WHAT IS DECOLONIAL ABOUT FILIPINO STUDIES/ HUB 268
FILIPINOAMERICAN STUDIES? (PANEL DISCUSSION)
Kimberly Alidio, Independent Scholar/Artist
Nerissa Balce, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Melisa S.L. Casumbal‐Salazar, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Vicente Diaz, University of Michigan
Kale Fajardo, University of Minnesota
Vernadette Gonzalez, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Maiana Minahal, Writer/ Artist
Dylan Rodríguez, UC Riverside
Dean Itsuji Saranillio, UC Riverside
Sarita Echavez See, University of Michigan
7.11 SEDUCTIVE NARRATIVES, SERENADES, AND DISCOURSE: HUB 302A
INTERPRETING HISTORIES OF CONFORMITY AND
CONFLICT IN THE NEAR AND FAR WEST (PANEL DISCUSSION)
Christopher Waldrep, San Francisco State University
James Buss, Oklahoma City University
Helen McLure, Southern Methodist University
Erik Wade, Purdue University
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 73
7.12 DECONSTRUCTING OR REIFYING RACIAL HIERARCHY? HUB 302B
THE MULTIRACIAL IDEA AND CRITICAL ETHNIC STUDIES
(PANEL DISCUSSION)
Paul Spickard, UC Santa Barbara: Chair
G. Reginald Daniel, UC Santa Barbara
Rudy Guevarra, Arizona State University
Jeffrey Moniz, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Lily Anne Yumi Welty, UC Santa Barbara
Ingrid Dineen‐Wimberly, UC Santa Barbara
7.13 WHAT ISN’T AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES? INTN 2043
(PANEL DISCUSSION)
Mary Barr, Pomona College
Robin J. Hayes, Santa Clara University
Leigh Raiford, UC Berkeley
Selamawit D. Terrefe, UC Irvine
7.14 THE UNIVERSITY IN CRISIS: PROTESTS, MOVEMENTS, INTN 2027
AND ALTERNATIVES
Michelle Fine, CUNY Graduate Center: Chair
Wen Liu, CUNY Graduate Center
Cindy Gorn, CUNY Graduate Center
Immigrant Labor Struggle against Privatization of the University in Seattle
Patrick Sweeney, CUNY Graduate Center
Multiplicity and Identity in Student Organizing
Justin Myers, CUNY Graduate Center
Decolonizing the University: An Ethic, Logic, and Practice of Care,
Gift and Commons
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 74
7.15 TRANSNATIONALIZING QUEER ETHNIC STUDIES PANEL HUB 355
(PANEL DISCUSSION)
Roshanak Kheshti, UC San Diego
Nayan Shah, UC San Diego
Todd Henry, UC San Diego
Fatima El‐Tayeb, UC San Diego
Meg Wesling, UC San Diego
7.16 INDIGENOUS, FEMINIST, AND QUEER CRITIQUES OF HUB 367
COLONIAL POWER
Benita Bunjun, University of British Columbia
The (Un)Making of “Home” and “Nation”: Discourses of Entitlement
and Power Relations
Michelle Erai, UCLA
A Queer Caste to Redemption: Miscegenation in Colonial
Aotearoa/New Zealand
Joanne R. DiNova, Ryerson University
The Last of the Two‐Spirits?: Identity Politics and the Queering
of Indigeneity
Reid Uratani, University of Minnesota
Desiring Disciplinarity: Mastery and the Future of Teaching
7.17 A POETRY READING ON COLONIAL VIOLENCE AND INTN 2009
THE BODY (PERFORMANCE)
Shaunga Tagore, York University
7.18 COINTELPRO 101: A DOCUMENTARY BY FREEDOM HUB 379
ARCHIVES (FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION)
Claude Marks, Freedom Archives
Roxanne Dunbar‐Ortiz, Native Activist
Hank Jones, Black Panthers
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 75
7.19 HISTORIES OF WHITENESS INTS 4111
Matt Horton, UC Berkeley
The Irish‐American Contract: Genocide and Whiteness
Lara Trubowitz, University of Iowa
“Made from the Finest Jewish Fat”: Race and Religion in America’s
New Far Right, or Confessions of a Jewish Nazi
Chris Hayashida‐Knight, George Washington University
“Fatal to the Publick Safety”: American Patriarchs Interpret Lord
Dunmore’s Proclamation
Eric Larson, Brown University
Labor and the Limits of Populism: Race, Identity, and Union
Reform in the 1980s and 1990s
7.20 YOUTH ORGANIZING AND COMMUNITY ACTIVISM INTN 4043
David Alberto Quijada, St. Mary’s College of California
What’s Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) Got To
Do With Ethnic Studies? Mapping Cultural Citizenship,
New Ethnicities, and Youth Activism
Soo Ah Kwon, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign
Youth of Color Organize against Super Jail: Grassroots Political
Organizing and Identity in Neoliberal and Multicultural Times
Ruth H. Kim, UC Santa Cruz
In the Making: Youth Spoken Word as Arts Education Movement
& Differential Pedagogy
Marisol Ruiz, New Mexico State University
Lilia Chavez, Berkeley City College
The Internal Power of Chican@/Latin@ Students: A Critical
Ethnographic Study of Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR)
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 76
7.21 INTERROGATIONS FROM WITHIN THE ACADEMIC INDUSTRIAL INTS 3156
COMPLEX
Karen Mara Davalos, Loyola Marymount University
Latina/o Studies Journals and the Politics of the Academic Industrial Complex
Josie Méndez‐Negrete, University of Texas, San Antonio
Editorial Conocimientos as Narrative: Voicing Ways of Knowing
Tiffany Ana López, UC Riverside
Questioning Any Emphasis on Professionalism that Does Not Include Programs
for Material Change
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 77
CONCURRENT SESSIONS #8
FRIDAY, MARCH 11
4:30 PM – 6:15 PM
8.1 BRINGING CRITICAL ETHNIC STUDIES TO ENVIRONMENTAL ARTS 215
STUDIES (PANEL DISCUSSION)
Diana Pei Wu, Antioch University, Los Angeles
Brinda Sarathy, Pitzer College
Michael Starkey
Michael Dorsey, Dartmouth College
8.2 RACIALIZING VISUAL CULTURES HUB 367
Edward Lee, McGill University
Visualizing the Margins: Experiences of Queer People of Colour
Living in Montreal
Chuong‐Dai Vo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Theorizing Dissonance and Marginalized Discourses in the
Vietnamese Diaspora
Wail Qattan, York University
Race Dressings: Haitian Images that Reset Modernity
Jessica Lee Horton, University of Rochester
Beyond the (First) Nation: Native American Painting in Europe in
the 1920s and 1930s
8.3 TOWARDS A CRITICAL GENEALOGY OF ETHNIC STUDIES HUB 379
Alexander G. Weheliye, Northwestern University
Habeas Viscus: Critical Ethnic Studies as Relational Totality
Ellen‐Rae Cachola, UCLA
Ethnic Studies as a “Boundary Object”: Remembering Colonialism
and Militarism to Transform the Corporate University
Patrice D. Douglass, UC Riverside
Blackness as Institutional Object: Anti‐Blackness and the Genealogy
of Ethnic Studies
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 78
Crystal Parikh, New York University
The Good Life: Ethnic Studies and the Minor Subjects of Human Rights
8.4 INSTITUTIONAL DIFFERENCE: ON NAVIGATING ASYMMETRIES HUB 269
BETWEEN F IELD AND INSTITUTION (PANEL D ISCUSSION)
Roderick Ferguson, University of Minnesota: Chair
Kandice Chuh, CUNY Graduate Center
Siobhan Somerville, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign
Martin Manalansan, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign: Respondent
8.5 BLACKNESS IN THE WORLD: CRITIQUES OF COLONIAL, STATE, INTS 1109
AND I NSTITUTIONAL VIOLENCE
Ana Flauzina, Washington College of Law
Almost Brothers: Embracing Dictatorship To Dismiss Genocide
Corey Capers, University of Illinois at Chicago
Reading Bobalition: Toward a Genealogy of Satiric Public Blackness
Cynthia Marasigan, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign
Living Dreams of Reconstruction through Colonial Settlement in
the Philippines: African American Veterans and Land Ownership
in the Aftermath of the Philippine‐American War
Tiffany Lethabo King, University of Maryland
The Production and Regulation of Black Female Subjects within Settler
Colonial Logics
8.6 A QUESTION OF POWER: NEW HISTORIES OF BLACK AND BROWN INTS 1111
RADICAL MOVEMENTS
Amy Abugo Ongiri, University of Florida
Death Proof: Trauma and Memory in Black Power Era Images
Joel Olson, Northern Arizona University
Black Power and the Victims of Americanism
Shana Russell, Rutgers University, Newark
Black Radicals, “Mother Country” Radicals, and the Revolution:
Negotiating Race Between the Antiwar and Black Liberation
Movements, 1967‐68
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 79
Darrel Enck‐Wanzer, University of North Texas
Revolutionary Nationalism as Radical Democracy: The Case of the New
York Young Lords
8.7 DETERRITORIALIZING KNOWLEDGE IN CANADIAN STUDIES TODAY INTN 3113
Chandni Desai, University of Toronto
Suppression of Palestine Solidarity by the Academic Industrial Complex
and the Nation State
Darryl Leroux, University of Ottawa
The Contemporary French Atlantic: Understanding Transnational Forms
of White Supremacy
Janey Lew, UC Berkeley
Towards Commitment: Outlining Asian Canadian Literature’s Institutional
Possibilities
8.8 INVASIVE MANEUVERS: MEDIA, ASIAN BODIES, AND INTN 3023
WHITE SUPREMACY
Dai Kojima, University of British Columbia: Chair
Vanessa Au, University of Washington
Commodifying the Oriental, Then Selling It Back
Dai Kojima, University of British Columbia
Unruly Arrivals: Networked Media and Mobilities of Queer Asian Migrants
Vincent Pham, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign
Sporting Race: Racial/Academic Triangulations of Asian American Basketball Prospects
Alexander Cho, University of Texas at Austin
Mixed‐Race Mimic Meme: Magibon’s Impossible Referent
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 80
8.9 THE STATE OF EXCEPTION: THE HISTORICAL LOCALIZATION INTN 2031
OF B ARE L IFE FOR N ATIVE AND JAPANESE AMERICANS ON
THE C OLORADO RIVER I NDIAN RESERVATION
Michelle Raheja, UC Riverside: Chair
Michael Tsosie, Colorado River Indian Tribes
Bare Life: An Indian Tribe and Its Racial Proscription for a Perpetual
State of Exception
Noriko Ishiyama, Meiji University
Spatial Reproduction of Racism: Historical Geographies of a Japanese
Internment Camp on the Colorado River Indian Tribes Reservation
Jun Kamata, UC Berkeley
Erasure of Colonialism in Indian Country in the Federal Narratives
of Japanese‐American Internment: A Comparative Study
Traise Yamamoto, UC Riverside: Respondent
8.10 NATIVE PACIFIC STUDIES AT THE EDGE OF US EMPIRE INTN 2043
(PANEL DISCUSSION)
Maile Arvin, UC San Diego
Christine Delisle, University of Michigan
Kiri Sailiata, University of Michigan
Lani Teves, University of Michigan
Lisa Uperesa, Columbia University
8.11 AMERICAN NARRATIVES, HYPERPATRIOTISM, MILITARISM, INTN 2027
AND THE CURRICULUM: WHITE SUPREMACY IN THE L IVES
OF STUDENTS OF COLOR
Tracy Lachica Buenavista, California State University, Northridge: Chair
Dolores Calderón, University of Utah
Settler Meaning‐Making: Mapping Epistemologies of Ignorance in
Social Studies Curriculum
Suzie Abajian, UCLA
From Students to Soldiers: Militarism, Schooling, and the Recruitment
of Students of Color in Los Angeles
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 81
Tracy Lachica Buenavista, California State University, Northridge
Angela Chuan‐Ru Chen, UCLA
Hyperpatriotism and the “Lawful Undocumented”: The Emergence of the
New Model Minority in Undocumented Student Discourse
Arshad I. Ali, Teachers College, Columbia University
Quelling Dissent: Disciplining Liberalism Upon Muslim College Student’s
Speech and Action
Daniel Solorzano, UCLA: Respondent
8.12 UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY WHITE SUPREMACY AND INTN 2009
GENOCIDE IN LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: RESPONSES AND
ANALYSIS FROM BELOW
Pablo Garcia, University of Texas at Austin: Chair
Juli Grigsby, University of Texas at Austin
Up The River: Sustaining Black Women’s Political Organizations
through Policy Work, A Question of Activist Models
Pablo Garcia, University of Texas at Austin
Contesting Autonomies and Commons: Chicana/o Urban Zapatismo
and the Rise of Neoliberal White Supremacy in Los Angeles, California
Damien Michael Schnyder, UC Santa Barbara
Walls, Gates, and Divides
Yusef Omowale, Southern California Library
Tangibility of Dreams: Youth, Resistance, and Power
João Costa‐Vargas, University of Texas at Austin: Respondent
8.13 DISORIENTING DESIRE: TRANSNATIONAL QUEER READINGS INTS 4111
OF POST 9/11 ASIAN AMERICA
Amy Brandzel, University of New Mexico: Chair
Paul Lai, University of St. Thomas
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Think
Jigna Desai, University of Minnesota
Harold and Kumar Go to the White House
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 82
Amy Brandzel, University of New Mexico
The Question Mark Kid: Queering the Violence of Asian American Citizenship
8.14 INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY AND THE LEGACIES OF EMPIRE: HUB 260
THE U.S., SOUTHERN MEXICO, AND THE POLITICS OF LIBERATION
(WORKSHOP)
Eric Larson, Brown University
Marisol Catellanos López, Section 22, SNTE/CNTE
Joaquin Cienfuegos, Cop Watch
Orland Serrano, USC: Respondent
8.15 LIVING ALONG THE FACELINE HUB 265
(FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION)
Lina Hoshino, Filmmaker
Ellen‐Rae Cachola, UCLA
8.16 THEORIZING THE GLOBAL CONDITIONS OF THE “MULTIRACIAL”: INTN 4023
FROM “POSTRACIALITY” AND QUEER “HALFINDIANS”
TO “INTERSTITIALITY ” AND THE KENYAN POSTCOLONY
Tina R. Majkowski, New York University
Half Indian, All Queer, or Multiplicity vs. the Multiple: (Queer) Native
American Ethic Studies and Kent Monkman’s Landscape Portraiture
Falguni A. Sheth, Hampshire College
Interstitiality and the Subaltern Cosmopolitan: Punjabi‐Mexicans
and Other Migrants at the Crossroads
8.17 MODEL MINORITY IN THE SHADOW OF BANDUNG: RACE, HUB 268
SPACE, AND ASIAN AMERICAN RADICALISM IN THE
1960S AND 1970S
Karen J. Leong, Arizona State University: Chair
Diane C. Fujino, UC Santa Barbara
Marxism, Black Power, and Asian American Radicalism: Richard Aoki
and the Asian American Political Alliance on Early Asian American Studies
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 83
Daryl J. Maeda, University of Colorado
Beyond the Asian Nation: Rethinking the Global and the Local in
1970s Asian American Radicalism
Judy Tzu‐Chun Wu, Ohio State University
Thich Nhat Hanh and the U.S. Peace Movement: Rethinking
Asian American Identity and Rethinking Radicalism
Wesley Ueunten, San Francisco State University
Rising from a Sea of Discontent: The 1970 Koza Uprising in U.S.‐Occupied Okinawa
Karen J. Leong, Arizona State University: Respondent
8.18 MODERNITY, SOVEREIGNTY, AND THE LIMITS OF THE HUMAN INTN 4043
(PANEL DISCUSSION)
Terry K. Park, UC Davis
Anthony Yooshin Kim, UC San Diego
Diana Leong, UC Irvine
Margaret Rhee, UC Berkeley
Jodi Kim, UC Riverside: Respondent
8.19 LEGAL VIOLENCE AND COLONIAL LEGACIES INTS 3156
(PANEL DISCUSSION)
Sara Benson, UC Santa Cruz
Soma de Bourbon, UC Santa Cruz
Susy Zepeda, UC Santa Cruz
8.20 DECOLONIZING QUEER: ASIAN AMERICAN QUEER CRITIQUE HUB 355
(PANEL DISCUSSION)
Gayatri Gopinath, New York University: Chair
Caroline Yang, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign
Victor Romàn Mendoza, University of Michigan
Robert G. Diaz, Wayne State University
Martin Joe Ponce, Ohio State University
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 84
8.21 DIFFERING VERACITIES & EFFECTS IN RALLIES, (POST) INTS 3154
RACISM, AND ETHNOGRAPHIES
Silvia Luna Ventura, UC Riverside
The Rhetoric of Social Movement: Alienating the Other to Present a
Homogenous Front
Jenny Banh, UC Riverside
Barack Obama or B. Hussein: The Post Racial Debate in Boston Legal
Bianca Torres, Cornell University
Can Academic Knowledge Formulated through Ethnographic Research
be Truly Decolonizing without Practical Implications?
PLENARY THREE: GYM
7:00 PM – 9:30 PM
QUEERING ETHNIC STUDIES
Speakers: Keith Camacho, UCLA
Gayatri Gopinath, New York University
Roderick Ferguson, University of Minnesota
José Esteban Muñoz, New York University
Nadine Naber, University of Michigan
Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago
Chair: Jayna Brown, UC Riverside
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 85
SATURDAY, MARCH 12
PLENARY FOUR: GYM
9:00 AM – 11:15 AM
DECOLONIZATION AND EMPIRE
Speakers: Neferti Tadiar, Barnard College
Vicente Diaz, University of Michigan
Nikhil Singh, New York University
Lisa Lowe, UC San Diego
Lisa Hajjar, UC Santa Barbara
Chair: Setsu Shigematsu, UC Riverside
LUNCH (AD HOC ORGANIZING SESSIONS)
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
PLENARY FIVE: GYM
12:30 PM – 2:15 PM
FORUM ON SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND ACTIVISM
Speakers: Scott Richard Lyons, Syracuse University
Andrea Smith, UC Riverside
David Lloyd, University of Southern California
Gina Dent, UC San Diego
João Costa Vargas, University of Texas‐Austin
Laura Pulido, University of Southern California
Chair: Ofelia Cuevas, UCLA
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 86
CONCURRENT SESSIONS #9
SATURDAY, MARCH 12
2:30 PM – 4:15 PM
9.1 CRITICAL ETHNIC AND FEMINIST STUDIES, PART 1: HUB 379
AREA STUDIES BEFORE ETHNIC STUDIES: EPISTEMIC JUNCTURES,
(ANTI) DISCIPLINARITY, AND THE POLITICS OF DIVISION
(TWO PART PANEL DISCUSSION)
José I. Fusté, UC San Diego
Nick Mitchell, UC Santa Cruz
Thea Quiray, UC San Diego
9.2 AGAINST DISPOSSESSION: LAND, LAW, AND INDIGENOUS AUTONOMY HUB 260
Nicole M. Guidotti‐Hernández, University of Arizona
Yaqui Autonomy and the Centennial of the Mexican Revolution
Bernadette Atuahene, Chicago‐Kent College of Law
Czarina Faith Aggabao Thelen, University of Texas at Austin
Theorizing A Third Current of Maya Politics Through the San Jorge Land
Struggle in Guatemala
George Hartley, Ohio University
Demands for Autonomy in Indigenous Mexico: A Critique of Radical
Indigenismo, the Nation State, and the Politics of Recognition
9.3 THE FIRE THIS TIME: EXPERIMENTS IN CREATIVE WRITING, HUB 265
PERFORMANCE, AND CRITICAL PEDAGOGY (PERFORMANCE)
Vejea Jennings, Antelope Valley College
Denise Pacheco, UCLA
Jason Magabo Perez, University of San Diego
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 87
9.4 GENDERED FICTIONS OF SPACE, NATION, AND EMPIRE INTN 2009
Julie Fiorelli, University of Illinois at Chicago
Raced Noir: A Spatial Comparison of John Okada’s No‐No Boy and
Chester Himes’s If He Hollers, Let Him Go
Corie Elizabeth Hardy, Arizona State University
Revisiting Vietnam: Euro‐American Masculinity, Interracial Desire,
and the Paternalist “Rescue" Mission
S.A.M. Vásquez, Dartmouth College
Sex, Sexuality, and Violence: Understanding the Historical Implications
of Jamaica’s Civil War in The Book of Night Women and The
True History of Paradise
Sharlee Reimer, McMaster University
Gender and Geopolitical Space: Imagined Possibilities in Contemporary
Canadian Science Fiction
9.5 PROJECTS OF GENOCIDE: ABDUCTABILITY, EUGENICS, AND INTS 4111
GENTRIFICATION
John Armenta, UC San Diego
The Settler‐Native Question in Serbian Genocidal Propaganda and
Anti‐Immigrant Discourse in the US
Owen Toews, CUNY Graduate Center
Producing Aboriginal Abductability in a 21st Century Settler State
Sean Springer, Trent University
Eugenics, Land Claims and Recognition: Maintaining Vermont’s White
Yankee Hegemony at Abenaki Expense
Tane Ward, University of Texas at Austin
Gentrification as Genocide: A Study of Displacement and Resistance
in East Austin
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 88
9.6 INVENTING BODIES, PRODUCING KNOWLEDGE: RACIALIZED INTS 1109
DISCOURSES OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE
Jessi Gan, University of Michigan
“Cultured Aberrations”: Homosexuals and Racial Meaning in 1880s
U.S. Medical Journals
Elias Vitulli, University of Minnesota
Racialized Normativity and The Invention of the Transsexual Body
Lorraine Halinka Malcoe, Simon Fraser University
Knowledge Production in Research on “Racial”/”Ethnic” Health
Inequalities: Interrogating Logics of White Supremacy
Meredith Raimondo, Oberlin College
Stay Home!: Scaling the Racialized Border in H1N1 Influenza Discourse
9.7 TRANSNATIONAL CIRCUITS: THE SUBJECTS OF DIASPORA INTS 1111
AND M IGRANCY
Crystal Baik, University of Southern California
Cristiana Baik, New York University
The Politics of Diaspora, Migration, and Narrative
Maria Vargas, University of Maryland
Disavowing the Invisible Other: Exploring Non‐Normative
Sexualities of Female Salvadoran Migrants
Linh Nguyen, UC San Diego
The Impossibility of the Refugee Subject: Following the Trace
in Daughter From Danang
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 89
9.8 CRITICAL BORDER STUDIES, IMMIGRATION, AND THE INTN 3113
POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE
Rachel Ida Buff, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Militarism, Deportation, and Migrant Solidarity in the 1950s
Gerardo N. Arellano, UC Berkeley
Rethinking Latinity: Americanity, Corridos, and Immigration
Reform in the 21st Century
Gilberto Rosas, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign
Against Affirmation: The Delinquent Refusals and Alien Abandonments
of the New Frontier
Emma Kreyche, New York University
Indigenous Knowledge Production and Social Change in Latin
America: Critical Ethnic Studies in Comparative Perspective
9.9 DECOLONIZATION, THE POLITICS OF LANGUAGE, AND ALTERNATIVE INTN 3023
CRITICAL VOCABULARIES
Carlos Ulises Decena, Rutgers University
Razón de estar: Rodolfo Kusch, Decolonization, and the Future of
Queer Critique
Yomaira Catherine Figueroa, UC Berkeley
Toward a Reclaimed Humanity: Decolonization and the Politics of
Language in Afro‐Diasporic Literature
Gabriela Alejandra Veronelli, SUNY Binghamton
Language, Knowledge, Violence: Making a Decolonial Turn in Linguistic
Discrimination in the Academy
Fiona I. B. Ngô, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign
Sense and Subjectivity: War, Genocide, and Blindness
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 90
9.10 RACIAL STATECRAFT, THE LAW, AND CRITICAL JURISPRUDENCE HUB 355
Neil Gotanda, Western State University College of Law
Three Narratives and Five Tropes – not including Azerbaijan or
Tajikistan: A Short Introduction to Asian American Jurisprudence
Naomi Paik, University of Texas at Austin
Refining U.S. Racial Statecraft through the Redress of Japanese
American Internment
Jacob Lau, UCLA
Bo Luengsuraswat, UCLA
Now You See Me, But You Don’t: On Neoliberal Exceptionals, Transgender
Citizenship, and the Politics of Counting
Daragh Grant, University of Chicago
Law and Disorder in Proprietary South Carolina
9.11 REPATRIATING DESIRE WITHIN COLONIAL CARTOGRAPHIES OF HUB 269
KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION
Mishuana Goeman, UCLA: Chair
Eve Tuck, State University of New York at New Paltz
Colonial Fetishes in a Flat World: Damage‐centered and
Desire‐based Research
Laura Beebe, UC San Diego
Re‐framing Boarding Schools: Interrogating Heteropatriarchy
through Sovereignty
Maile Arvin, UC San Diego
Towards a Politics of Regeneration: Intervening in Scientific
Samplings of Indigeneity
Angie Morrill, UC San Diego
Not Yet and Not Anymore: Reading Desire and Hope in the
Figure of the Native Mother
La Paperson, UC San Diego
Orphans and Robots: Stranded, Saved, Enslaved, and Sovereign in
the Post+Colonial Ghetto
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 91
9.12 TRACING SOCIAL AFFECTS: METHODS TOWARDS A CRITICAL INTN 2031
ETHNIC STUDIES (PANEL DISCUSSION)
Valerie Francisco, CUNY Graduate Center: Chair
Theresa Navarro, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Christopher Patterson, University of Washington
Akemi Nishida, CUNY Graduate Center
Michael Hodges, University of Washington
9.13 DECOLONIAL/INTERCULTURAL FEMINISMS INTN 2043
Pascha Bueno‐Hansen, University of Delaware: Chair
Pascha Bueno‐Hansen, University of Delaware
Finding Each Other’s Hearts: Intercultural Relations and the Drive to
Prosecute Sexual Violence During the Internal Armed Conflict in Peru
Rosa Linda Fregoso, UC Santa Cruz
Rethinking Feminicide and the Right to Name Suffering
Laura Perez, UC Berkeley
US Women of Color Thought, the Decolonial, and Decolonizing Feminisms
Cindy Cruz, UC Santa Cruz
The Legacy of Colonial Violence with LGBTQ Youth
9.14 REMEMBERING COMIDA: TESTIMONIOS FROM OUR INTN 2027
ANCESTRAL GARDENS, COCINAS Y CEREMONIAS
(PANEL DISCUSSION)
Carolina Prado, San Diego State University
Marcelo Garzo, UC Berkeley
Claudia Serrato, California State Polytechnic University
Elisa Oceguera, UC Davis
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 92
9.15 THE SEVEN SISTERS, SEVEN STRUGGLES, SEVEN STORIES HUB 268
CAMPAIGN: AN ACTIVIST PROJECT OF ELLA’S DAUGHTERS,
EXPLORING A FEMINIST OF COLOR PRAXIS (PANEL DISCUSSION)
Barbara Ransby, University of Illinois at Chicago
Premilla Nadasen, Queens College
Christi Ketchum, Project South
Sanah Yasmin, Palestinian Activist
Dara Cooper, RISA
Reyna Wences, Immigrant Youth Justice League
Alice Kim, Anti‐Death Penalty Activist
Leena Odeh, Palestinian Rights Activist
9.16 ARTICULATING ARAB AND SOUTH ASIAN AMERICA: INTN 4023
CONTEMPORARY AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
Swati Rana, UC Berkeley: Chair
Maryam Griffin, UC Santa Barbara
“Check It Right”: Southwest Asian Undergraduates Strike Back
at Empire through Identity Politics
Swati Rana, UC Berkeley
Syrian Prophets, Indian Pilgrims: The Literary Americanisms of
Ameen Rihani and Dhan Gopal Mukerji
Sunaina Maira, UC Davis
Asian/Arab Americas: Alliances, Movements, and Borders
Elizabeth Robinson, UC Santa Barbara: Respondent
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 93
9.17 TRANSRACIAL ADOPTION: IMPERIALISM, IDENTITY, INTN 4043
AND HETERONORMATIVITY
Soojin Pate, University of Minnesota
The Queer Foundations of Korean Adoption
Jessica Petocz, University of Minnesota
Movin’ On Up? Transracial Adoption, Biopolitics, and Affective Economies
Jenny Wills, Wilfrid Laurier University
Claiming America by Claiming Asia(n Children): Immigrant Adoptive
Parentage in Chang‐rae Lee’s A Gesture Life
Megan McCabe, UC Irvine
Property, Personhood, and International Adoption: Thoughts on Haiti
9.18 RACE AND URBAN SPACES INTS 3156
John Munro, Simon Fraser University
When Neoliberalism Met Settler Colonialism at the St. Alice Hotel
Michelle Billies, CUNY Graduate Center
The Shelter as Paradoxical Space of Competing Gendered Ontologies
Neil Maclean, Ohlone Profiles Project
Indigenous Renewal In San Francisco
Clement Lai, Cornell University
Saving Urban Planning from Itself: Critical Reflections on Ethnic Studies
and Urban Planning
9.19 CRITICAL ETHNIC STUDIES AND ZIONISM (PANEL DISCUSSION) INTS 3154
Kinneret Alexander, City College of San Francisco
Amy Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania
Keith Feldman, UC Berkeley
Hilton Obenzinger, Stanford University
Tamara Lea Spira, UC Davis
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 94
9.20 MOVEMENT, SPACE, AND FREEDOM IN UNEXPECTED PLACES HUB 367
(PANEL DISCUSSION)
Aisha Finch, UCLA
Kendra Taira Field, UC Riverside
Rashuana Johnson, New York University
9.21 BREAKING LIBERAL MULTICULTURAL HABITS: DESIRES, ARTS 215
NEGOTIATIONS AND CONTESTATIONS
K. Wayne Yang, UC San Diego: Chair
Mark Padoongpatt, USC
Serving Thai Town: The Politics of Cultural Exchange and Liberal
Multiculturalism in Thai Los Angeles, 1994‐2008
Ma Vang, UC San Diego
Beyond Multiculturalism?: The Politics of an “Arts and Culture Initiative”
Thuy Vo Dang, UCLA
Diasporic Desires for a “Free Vietnam”: Human Rights Organizing
in Little Saigon
Kit Myers, UC San Diego
Desire and Family‐making: The Re‐imagining of Space in a Unique
Adoptee Camp
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 95
CONCURRENT SESSIONS #10
SATURDAY, MARCH 12
4:30 PM – 6:15 PM
10.1 CRITICAL ETHNIC AND FEMINIST STUDIES, PART 2: HUB 379
CRITICAL ETHNIC, FEMINIST, AND QUEER STUDIES
IN A TIME OF CRISIS / RUPTURE / REPETITION
(PANEL DISCUSSION)
Anna M. Agathangelou, York University
Tamara Lea Spira, UC Davis
Heather M. Turcotte, University of Connecticut
10.2 INDIGENOUS DEPARTURES: THE STATE, DISCIPLINARITY, HUB 265
AND I NCARCERATION
Bronwyn Dobchuck‐Land, CUNY Graduate Center: Chair
Damien Lee, Trent University
The Non‐Profit Industrial Complex in Canada: How Environmental
Non‐Governmental Organizations Neutralize Indigenous
Resurgence for the State, and for Themselves
Shana Siegel, CUNY Graduate Center
The Everyday, Taken for Granted “Given” of Denying, Justifying,
and Perpetuating Ongoing Colonialism in Southern Ontario
Erich Steinman, Pitzer College
Recognizing Indigenous Nationhood and Identifying Settler Colonialism:
Critiquing Ethnicity Approaches to American Indians within the
Field of Sociology and Beyond
Lila Pine, Ryerson University
Closing performance
10.3 BUILDING ALTERNATIVES TO THE ACADEMIC INDUSTRIAL INTS 1109
COMPLEX (STRATEGY SESSION)
Andrea Smith, UC Riverside
Rebecca Solomon, LA COIL & Progressive Educators for Action
Robert Jensen, University of Texas at Austin
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Page 96
10.4 PINTO PEDAGOGY: THE LIBERATION PRAXIS OF RAÚLRSALINAS HUB 355
(PERFORMANCE/WORKSHOP)
Rene Valdez, Red Salmon Arts
Tañia Rivera, Ex‐Pinta Support Alliance
Czarina Aggabao Thelen, Save Our Youth
João Costas Vargas, Save Our Youth
Alan Gómez, Arizona State University
10.5 INTERROGATING THE RACIAL MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC INTS 1111
HEALTH, MEDICINE, AND AID
Tania Hammidi, UC Riverside
Hospital/Prison Collapse & the Neo‐Liberal Framework of Rehab
Adam Geary, University of Arizona
States of Risk: Theorizing the Racial State in AIDS Prevention and Politics
Amy Zhou, UCLA
The “Asian Problem”: Racialization and De‐Racialization of Public
Health Services
Stephanie Rieder, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
Medical Humanitarian Aid as a Racial Project: The Intersection of Race
and the Politics of Life in Rural Ethiopia
10.6 RACE AND REBEL MUSIC: CHICANO ROCK, AURAL THIRD INTN 3113
WORLDISM, AND MAORI RAPUMENTARY (PANEL DISCUSSION)
Anthony Macias, UC Riverside
Daniel Widener, UC San Diego
Luis Alvarez, UC San Diego
10.7 GENTRIFICATION, THE RIGHT TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING, INTN 3023
AND HETEROPATRIARCHY: A QUEER OF COLOR ANALYSIS
(WORKSHOP)
Treva Ellison, University of Southern California
Amee Chew, University of Southern California
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10.8 “BLACK GIRLS ARE FROM THE FUTURE”: ON OCTAVIA HUB 268
BUTLER'S PROPHETIC VISIONS, THEIR SURVIVAL, AND PROGENY
Moya Bailey, Emory University: Chair
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, BrokenBeautiful Press
“Never Meant to Survive”: Genealogy for a Lost Text
Remina Jarmon, University of Maryland
Erykah Badu and Octavia Butler on the Narrative of Black Women’s
Sexuality, “Will We Be Ho’s in the Future Too?”
Moya Bailey, Emory University
Vampires and Cyborgs: Transhuman Identity and Ableist Arcs in the
Work of Octavia Butler and Janelle Monáe
Summer McDonald, University of Chicago
Hotel California: Octavia Butler, Lauren Olamina, and the
Future (of Blackness)
10.9 DISTURBING BODIES: CULTURE, RACISMS, AND WARS BOTH HUB 260
INTIMATE AND REMOTE
Rosa‐Linda Fregoso, UC Santa Cruz: Chair
Macarena Gómez‐Barris, University of Southern California
Faceless Witnesses, Burning and the Decolonial
Jayna Brown, UC Riverside
“Let’s Get Electrified”: Music, War and the Rehabitation of Injured Bodies
Paul Amar, UC Santa Barbara
Saving Rio’s “Cradle of Samba”: Outlaw Uprisings, Racial Security and
the Progressive State in Brazil
10.10 CRITICAL DANCE STUDIES AND CRITICAL ETHNIC STUDIES HUB 367
(PANEL DISCUSSION)
Jacqueline Shea Murphy, UC Riverside: Chair
Jacqueline Shea Murphy, UC Riverside
“Still Hot”: Indigenous Dance and Fantasies of Colonial Encounter
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Gabriela Mendoza‐Garcia, UC Riverside
Indigeneity within the Jarabe Tapatio
Angeline Shaka, UCLA
Queering the “Hula Girl” Kanaka Maoli Style
Elizabeth Kurien, UC Riverside
Intellectual Property and Kutiyattam
Cristina Rosa, CalArts: Pride‐and‐Shame
The Presence of Ginga within Choreographies of Identification in Brazil
Adanna Jones, UC Riverside
Take a Wine and Roll “It”: Breaking Through the Circumscriptive
Politics of the Trinbagonian Dancing Body
Megan Jenkins, UC Riverside
Un/Masking JabbaWockeeZ: How Dance Plays with Race
Melissa Templeton, UC Riverside
Les Ballets Africains and Québec’s “Jiggle” Law
10.11 HOMONATION, HOMOREPUBLIC, HOMOEMPIRE: INTN 2031
“QUEER” ASSIMILATIONS AND DISPOSABLE OTHERS
Paola Bacchetta, UC Berkeley: Chair
Paola Bacchetta, UC Berkeley
Homo‐Republicanism, Xenophobic Queerphobia, and Queerphobic
Xenophobia in France
Jin Haritaworn, University of Helsinki
The Ghetto as Mobile (Hate) Crime Scene: On the Racialization of
Homophobia and Transphobia, Berlin and Beyond
Gina Velasco, Portland State University
Performing the Filipina “Mail Order Bride”: Queer Neoliberalism,
Affective Labor, and Homonationalism
Ronak Kapadia, New York University: Respondent
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10.12 THE LIMITS OF CITIZENSHIP INTN 2043
Priya Kandaswamy, Mills College: Chair
Sudarat Musikawong, Siena College
The Trafficking Victims Protection Act & The Invisibility of the Thai
Noncitizen Migrant Worker
Elizabeth Lee, University of British Columbia
The Intimate Public Sphere: Military Families and the Privatization
of Citizenship
Priya Kandaswamy, Mills College
Domesticating Labor: Immigrant Women Workers and the U.S. Nation‐State
Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, Rutgers University: Respondent
10.13 UNSETTLING ALLIANCES: TEACHING, THEORY, AND ACTIVISM INTN 2027
AT ARIZONA STATE (PANEL D ISCUSSION)
Wendy Cheng, Arizona State University: Chair
Wendy Cheng, Arizona State University
Michelle Tellez, Arizona State University
Karen J. Leong, Arizona State University
Myla Vicenti Carpio, Arizona State University
10.14 DISCOURSES OF SPACE, RACE, AND SEXUALITY: NEGOTIATING INTN 2009
(TRANS)NATIONAL BOUNDARIES AND PERFORMING
REPRESENTATIONS OF THE RURAL (PANEL DISCUSSION)
Ayisha Ashley Al‐Sayyad, Emory University
Carly Thomsen, UC Santa Barbara
Annika Speer, UC Santa Barbara
10.15 CHICANA/O RHETORICS AND COUNTERCULTURES INTS 4111
Jose Navarro, University of Southern California
Machos y Malinchistas: Reconfiguring Chicano Masculinity
Elias Serna, UC Riverside
Nascent Epistemologies: Studying the Rhetoric of Militant Student
Activism In California
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Tomas Avila Carrasco, UC Santa Barbara
Days of Troy: Oppositional Performance As Cultural Production in
Los Angeles, 1990‐1995
Lee Bebout, Sam Houston State University
Troubling White Benevolence: Giant and its Chicano Legacy
10.16 TECHNOLOGIES AND PERFORMANCES OF CITIZENSHIP INTN 4023
Wayne Lalicon, UC Irvine
Amending and Endorsing the U.S. Nation Through Its Passport
Emily Hue, New York University
Mapping Critical Bodies: Challenging Vulnerable Cartographies of
Southeast Asian (America)
Lisa Marie Cacho, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign
“Dismembering Value”: From Comparative and Relational to Illegible
Eser Selen, New York University
Rethinking Ethno‐Racist Fictions, Nationalist Myths: Turkish Variations
10.17 THE POLITICS OF SOLIDARITY, COALITION, AND INTN 4043
STRATEGIC ALLIANCES
Jeehyun Lim, Denison University
Black in Korea, 1953: Rethinking Koreans as Middleman
Minority in the U.S.
Leland Saito, University of Southern California
Economic Development, Politics, and a Community Benefits
Agreement in Los Angeles
Michael Schulze‐Oechtering Castañeda, UC Berkeley
Towards a Politics of Solidarity: Thinking Comparatively about Black
and Filipino Liberation Struggles
Rachel Herzing, Critical Resistance
Isaac Ontiveros, Critical Resistance
Resisting Policing: On Campus and Off
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10.18 NEW DIRECTIONS IN COMMUNITY STUDIES INTS 3156
Celia Lacayo, UC Berkeley
“Ask a Mexican?!” A Dialectical Understanding of Latino Racialization
Michael Eissinger, UC Merced
Kern County: California’s Deep South
Bradley Gardener, CUNY Graduate Center
Conceptualizing Neighborhood Change: Transformations in Race and
Class in the Bronx, New York
Pensri Ho, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Critical Ethnic Studies Praxis as Engaged Scholarship through
Community Partnerships
10.19 NEW CONJUNCTURES AND THE POLITICS OF INTS 3154
KNOWLEDGE/POWER PRODUCTION
Kadji Amin, Columbia College Chicago
Genet at the Transnational Intersection of Race and Empire
Kelly Fong, UCLA
Reimagining the Material Past, Crafting New Social Histories:
Building Interdisciplinary Collaboration Between Ethnic
Studies and Historical Archaeology
Keith M. Harris, UC Riverside
Now What?: Considerations of the Queer of Color Critique,
Ethnic Studies, and Minoritarian Discourse(s)
Biju Mathew, Rider University; New York Taxi Workers Alliance
Market Myopias? Multiculturalism and Post Colonial Treatments
of Diasporic Right Wing Power
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10.20 MILITARISM, DEATH, AND DIFFERENCE: APPREHENDING THE ARTS 215
U.S. MILITARY THROUGH THE ANALYTICS OF EMPIRE,
NEOCOLONIALISM, AND RACIAL GENOCIDE
Simeon Man, Yale University
From “One Brownskin to Another”: Racialized Intimacy and
Counterinsurgency, 1954‐1964
Kimberly Juanita Brown, Northeastern University
Sites of Projection: Visual Culture and the Politics of the Dead
Elizabeth Mesok, New York University
The Recuperation of National, Racial and Ethnic Differences in the
Service of Neocolonial Wars
Leece M. Lee, UC Berkeley
Interrogating Native America, Genocide and Survival: Living Testimonials
on the Roots of U.S. Militarism
10.21 BLACK IS, BLACK AIN’T: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON ARTS 214
PRESCRIPTIVE BLACKNESS (PANEL DISCUSSION)
Victor Bascara, UCLA
Michelle Gordon, University of Southern California
Tracy Curtis, University of Wisconsin‐Madison
Leah Mirakhor, University of Wisconsin‐Madison
10.22 THE IRVINE 11 (RIVERSIDE 3) AND THE CRIMINALIZATION OF ARTS 335
POLITICAL DISSENT: A TEACHIN
Summer Hararah, Asian Law Caucus
David Lloyd, University of Southern California
Sunaina Maira, UC Davis
Devra Weber, UC Riverside
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Audra Simpson, Columbia University
Hiram Pérez, Vassar College
Michelle Raheja, UC Riverside
Fred Moten, Duke University
Chair: Jodi Kim, UC Riverside
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