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African American StudiesThe Animal Nature of Human Social Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119At the Crossroads of Children’s Studies and American Studies:

Intersections, Possibilities, Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190Back Down To the Ground: Race, Structural Inequality, and the

Violence of Everyday Queer Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142Biopolitics and Transnationalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217Black Fiction in the Atlantic World from Clotel to Tar Baby . . . . . . . . 172Black Native Race/Identity from the Eighteenth Century to the

Twentieth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114Black Poetry Matters: Black Poetry at the Crossroads of

Subalternity and Cultural Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182The Black Press in the Twentieth Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145Black Rights and Citizenship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192Bodies and Spirits: Reconsidering the American Occult . . . . . . . . . . . . 123Cosmopolitan Humanitarianism in the Progressive-Era Settlement

Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198Crossroads in New Orleans: Storytelling and Counterhegemonic

Geographies in Pre- and Post-Katrina New Orleans . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104Culture and Consumption in the American City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224The Day that Martin Died: The Politics and Poetics of Loss . . . . . . . . . 156Diasporic Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184Ghost Notes and Spirit Moves: What Jazz Studies Doesn’t Hear . . . . . 198King of the Crossroads: Theorizing the Art and Impact of

Jean-Michel Basquiat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Labor and Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146Looking for Home in Unexpected Places: James Baldwin and the

Politics of Return . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109Maneuvering Race, Labor, and Place in America’s Cities: Tactical

Survival in an Urban Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202Maps and Geographies of Malleable Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145Middle Passages: Resisting Forced Migration in the Atlantic,

Chinese, and U .S . Internal Slave Trades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149Migration, Racialization, and Resistance: African Americans,

Mexicanos, and Mexican Americans in Comparative Urban Experience (Sponsored by the Committee on Ethnic Studies) . . . . . . 165

Musical Cross-Pollination in Rhythm, Blues, and Rap . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217No Laughing Matter: Race and American Visual Humor . . . . . . . . . . . 132On Location: Film Histories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164Photography in Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154Picturing Culture: The Politics of Image and Illustration . . . . . . . . . . . . 192Power and Public Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144Print, Publics, and Racial Feeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222Public Art and Historic Preservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183Radio: Medium and Metaphor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173Scandalous Selves: Properties of Early Black Personhood . . . . . . . . . . . 123“See-Saw”: A Performance by Jeffrey Q . McCune . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

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Slavery, Sexuality, and the Shape of Public Memory in the United States, 1888–1985 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Techno-Aesthetic Strategies in Black Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143Theorizing Race, Gender, and Sexuality at the Crossroads of the

Popular and the Profane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132Thinking Big about American Studies: From Case Studies to

Field Imaginaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144Thinking with W . E . B . Du Bois at the Crossroads of Theory

and Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116Trafficking in Folklore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193Visualizing Racial Violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136Writers and Migrancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

AnthropologyAmerican Studies and Anthropology: The Road Less Traveled . . . . . . . 168Museums and the Politics of Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210Rereading American Studies Origins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Asian American StudiesActivists and Movements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200Asia/Pacific/America: Contact Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201Asian Bodies, American Mediation, Transnational Movements . . . . . . . 215Cross-Bodies: Filipina/os in Transnational Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131Labor and Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146Law and Cultural Studies: Understanding Asian/American and

Latino/a Racial and Gendered Subjects across Spatialities . . . . . . . . . 107Negotiating Asian/Native Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1379/11 Vernaculars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120On Location: Film Histories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164Photography, Power, and the Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225Race and Gender in American Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184Reexamining Early Twentieth-Century South Asian

American Histories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181Theorizing Race, Gender, and Sexuality at the Crossroads of the

Popular and the Profane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132Thinking Big about American Studies: From Case Studies to

Field Imaginaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144Transpacific Cultural Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153Visualizing Racial Violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Border StudiesAlternative Contact II: Contesting American (Indian) Lands and

Nations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186Black Native Race/Identity from the Eighteenth Century to the

Twentieth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

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Brokering Borders: The Transnational Makings of Mexican American Citizenship Across the U .S .-Mexico Borderlands, 1935–1980 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Crossroads, Borderlands, Diaspora: Remapping the Terrains of Native American Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Cultural Crossroads: Middlebrow and the (Re)making of American Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Debating Public Art in New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137Diasporic Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184International Committee Talkshop II: Crossroad Adventures:

The Practice of International American Studies Since the “Transnational Turn” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Legal Borderlands: The Uses of Race, Gender, and Aesthetics in the Making of American Imperial Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Life Is Complicated: Coming to Terms with Seething Pasts, Haunting Memories, and Economies of Inequity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Mutual Contamination at the Limits: Becoming Human/Artist . . . . . . . 160National, International, Planetary? American Studies Meets

Comparative Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159National Identities, Transnational Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112No Somos Criminales/We Are Not Criminals: Latina/o Music and

Performance as Decolonizing Practices in the (neo) Colonial Borderlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Origin Stories: National Identities and Hegemonic Memories in the American Southwest, 1898–1940 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Places of Critical Thinking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172Post-Border Mexico? The Paradigmatic Drama of the Border in

and for Inter-American Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134Public Art and Historic Preservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183Race, Nature, and Nation at the Crossroads II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205Sculpting Model Americanness: The Intersecting Regulatory

Regimes of Normative Citizenship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222Self-Locating in Academe and Activism: Identity Politics at the

Crossroads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118Troubling Citizenship: Belonging, Community, and Resistance in

an Age of Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171Walls, Borders, and Militarization: A Comparative Dialogue on

U .S ./Mexico and Israel/Palestine (Sponsored by the Committee on Ethnic Studies) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

The Western Frontier as International Metaphor: Mapping Morphing Cultural Boundaries since 1945 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Where Is “America” in Transnational American Studies? . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Chicano/Latino StudiesBrokering Borders: The Transnational Makings of Mexican

American Citizenship Across the U .S .-Mexico Borderlands, 1935–1980 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

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Coloring America: (Dis)Identifying Hues and Shades of Latinidad(es) through Diverse Approaches to U .S . Latina/o Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Critical Regionalism and American Studies: The Comparative Case of Chicana/o Regionalisms (Sponsored by the Site Resource Committee) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

The Crossroads of the Americas: Revolutionary Hispanophone Writers in the Nineteenth-Century United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Culture and Consumption in the American City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Homeland, Heartland: Creating and Remembering People and Place . . 117Imagineering Public History: Contradictions, Gentrification, and

Counterstorytelling in Northern New Mexico Public Spaces . . . . . . . 142The Julian Samora Legacy Project: A Model for the Reclamation

and Mining of Historical Archives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167Latino/a Resistance in L .A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191Law and Cultural Studies: Understanding Asian/American and

Latino/a Racial and Gendered Subjects across Spatialities . . . . . . . . . 107Mexican Americans and Whiteness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116Migration, Racialization, and Resistance: African Americans,


National Identities, Transnational Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112No Somos Criminales/We Are Not Criminals: Latina/o Music and

Performance as Decolonizing Practices in the (neo) Colonial Borderlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Not in Isolation: Solidarity, Responsibility, and Sacrifice throughout the U .S . Southwest, 1900–2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Picturing Culture: The Politics of Image and Illustration . . . . . . . . . . . . 192Post-Border Mexico? The Paradigmatic Drama of the Border in

and for Inter-American Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134Race, Identity, and Educational Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Remapping Latina/o Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180Rights, Knowledge, Activism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138Saints, Sacrifice, and Sovereignty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225Screening Crossroads: A Transatlantic Dialogue on America

and Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130Theory Meets Practice: “American Sabor: U .S . Latinos in Popular

Music” and the Possibilities of Public Scholarship in the Museum Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Urban Crossings: Interethnic Encounters in Cultural Practice . . . . . . . . 216U .S . Latinos/as at War: Identity and Citizenship at the Crossroads

and in the Cross Hairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Communication and Film and Media StudiesAmerican Antipodes: Transnational Culture/National Identity in

Australia and New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126American Humor in Theory and Practice: A Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

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American Studies at the Digital Crossroads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148Art, Craft, and Film in Native America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163Asia/Pacific/America: Contact Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201At the Crossroads of Representation and Use: Negotiating

Conflict and Distinction on the Postwar Sub\Urban Landscape . . . . . 168Bowling Across Boundaries: An American Leisure Activity Revisited . . 105East Goes Western: Seeing the Cowboy through Korean and

Korean American Eyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182Genre Discontinuities: Allegorizing the Vietnam War in American

Television and Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114Global Circulation of Images: Middle East Meets West in U .S .

Motion Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100Going Mobile: Global Flows of Media and the American

Experience with Portable Technology (Sponsored by the Science and Technology Caucus) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

If You Meet a Punk at the Crossroads, Kill the Buddha: Punk Rock and the Politics of Geolocality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Labor and Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146Media Matters: Access, Ownership, and Diversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1819/11 Vernaculars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120On Location: Film Histories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164Premature Antifascism: Hollywood and Nazism in the 1930s . . . . . . . . 147Queer Studies, Media Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163Radio: Medium and Metaphor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173Rethinking Global Hollywood: Old Myths and New Realities . . . . . . . 122Rights, Knowledge, Activism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138Saints, Sacrifice, and Sovereignty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225Screening Crossroads: A Transatlantic Dialogue on America

and Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130Teaching at the Crossroads: American Studies and Film Studies . . . . . . 140

Comparative Native StudiesAlternative Contact I: Race and Indigeneity in Hawai‘i . . . . . . . . . . . . 177Alternative Contact III: Mixed-Race Indigeneity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195Crossroads, Borderlands, Diaspora: Remapping the Terrains of

Native American Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165Listening to the Land: At the Crossroads of Ecofeminism,

Transnationalism, and Native American Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101Theorizing Native Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Contemporary CultureAmerican Studies at the Intersection of Food and Health: Science,

Policy, and Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134The Animal Nature of Human Social Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Art, Craft, and Film in Native America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163Art and Engaged Citizenship: The Case of the LAB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

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At the Crossroads of Technology and Transnationalism: A Conversation with Michael Adas (Sponsored by the Science and Technology Caucus) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Bodies without Borders: Intimate Knowledges, Public Embodiments, and the Trans-Global–American Crossroads . . . . . . . 125

Craft at the Crossroads Roundtable (Sponsored by the Material Culture Caucus) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Cross-Cultural Encounters: Person-Centered Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . 208Crossroads with Various Intersections: (Geo)Cultural and Ethnic

“Triple/Multiple Consciousness” in a Transnational Age . . . . . . . . . 189The Day that Martin Died: The Politics and Poetics of Loss . . . . . . . . . 156Eating the “Other” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226Food and Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143Homefront: Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180If You Meet a Punk at the Crossroads, Kill the Buddha: Punk

Rock and the Politics of Geolocality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207In Motion: Crossroad Variations and the Work of Praxis . . . . . . . . . . . 132Maps and Geographies of Malleable Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145Policing the Crisis: On the Importance of Stuart Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194Rethinking Global Hollywood: Old Myths and New Realities . . . . . . . 122Sacred/Secular Crossroads and Conundrums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169Saints, Sacrifice, and Sovereignty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225The Sixties: A Conversation with Mark Rudd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165Theories in American Studies III: Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Cultural GeographyAt the Crossroads of Representation and Use: Negotiating

Conflict and Distinction on the Postwar Sub\Urban Landscape . . . . . 168Coloniality and Imperialism in the Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143Coloring America: (Dis)Identifying Hues and Shades of

Latinidad(es) through Diverse Approaches to U .S . Latina/o Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Crossroads in New Orleans: Storytelling and Counterhegemonic Geographies in Pre- and Post-Katrina New Orleans . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Debating Public Art in New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137Food and Local/Global Imaginaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150Homeland, Heartland: Creating and Remembering People and Place . . 117Imagineering Public History: Contradictions, Gentrification, and

Counterstorytelling in Northern New Mexico Public Spaces . . . . . . . 142Maps and Geographies of Malleable Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145Orientalism and American Studies: Locating Edward Said . . . . . . . . . . 202Photography in Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154The Power of Mobility? Cultural Intersections, Identity, and Travel . . . 111Prison, Plantation, and Empire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218Race, Identity, and Educational Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Regionalists on the Left: Radical Voices and Regional Diversity in

the 1930s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

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Remapping Latina/o Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180Rights, Knowledge, Activism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138Taking the “Crossroads” Literally: Reenactments of Historical

Journeys and the Bodily Performance of America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197Transnational Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160Transpacific Cultural Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153The Western Frontier as International Metaphor: Mapping

Morphing Cultural Boundaries since 1945 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Disability StudiesBiopolitics and Transnationalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217Disability and Youth Culture: “Mental Defective” Embodiment,

Special Education, and the Brain (Sponsored by the Childhood and Youth Studies Caucus) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Gender, Sexuality, and Space: Occupation, Crossings, and Lines of Flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Early American StudiesAt the Crossroads of Children’s Studies and American Studies:

Intersections, Possibilities, Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190Breakfast Forum: The Future of American and Ethnic Studies

(Sponsored by the Students’ Committee and the Ethnic Studies Committee) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

The Counterintuitive Whitman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154Historical Crosses: Religious Culture in Earlier America . . . . . . . . . . . . 178Maps and Geographies of Malleable Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145Museums and the Politics of Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210The Politics of Relation: Creolization and the Invention of America . . . 104Positioning Native America with/in American Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136Print, Publics, and Racial Feeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222Propaganda before the Twentieth Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas

(Sponsored by the Early American Matters Caucus) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149Remembering and Representing Native American Pasts . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Environmental StudiesThe Animal Nature of Human Social Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Challenging Ecocriticism: New Directions for the Study of

Literature and Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135The Crossroads of Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics,

and Desire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187Eating at the Crossroads of Agricultural, Environmental, and

Cultural History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159Ecocriticism from Melville to Yamashita . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Energy, Culture, Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

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Environmental History and Policy-Making in the United States and Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Histories of the Dust Heap: Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice . . 107Keywords in the Study of Environment and Culture (Sponsored

by the Environment and Culture Caucus) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126Listening to the Land: At the Crossroads of Ecofeminism,

Transnationalism, and Native American Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101Public Art and Historic Preservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183Race, Nature, and Nation at the Crossroads I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194Race, Nature, and Nation at the Crossroads II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205Sites and Transits: Indigenous and Indigenized Environmental

Ethics and Poetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108Toxic Crossroads: The Transnational Legacies of Agent Orange . . . . . . 212

EthnographyActivists and Movements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2009/11 Vernaculars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120Piles of Memories: Hurricane Katrina and Native Peoples

of Louisiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229Places of Critical Thinking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172Positioning Native America with/in American Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

FolkloreBlack Native Race/Identity from the Eighteenth Century to the

Twentieth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114Trafficking in Folklore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193The Transnational West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

FoodwaysAmerican Studies at the Intersection of Food and Health: Science,

Policy, and Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134Eating at the Crossroads of Agricultural, Environmental, and

Cultural History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159Eating the “Other” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226Food and Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143Food and Local/Global Imaginaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Gender and SexualityAfrican American Women at the Crossroads: Identity, Memory,

and the Creation of a Useable Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206American Studies and Anthropology: The Road Less Traveled . . . . . . . 168An All-Consuming War? Gender and Mass Culture in the

Vietnam Combat Zone: A Junior Scholar Roundtable . . . . . . . . . . . . 161Asian Bodies, American Mediation, Transnational Movements . . . . . . . 215At the Crossroads of Feminism, Race, and American Studies . . . . . . . . 199Biopolitics and Transnationalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

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Black Native Race/Identity from the Eighteenth Century to the Twentieth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Breakfast Forum: Teaching Politics and the Politics of Teaching: Three Scholars Share Pedagogical Strategies (Sponsored by the Students’ Committee) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Changing the Subject: New Perspectives on Gender and Racial Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Clashes and Alliances: Reframing America and the Middle East . . . . . . 190The Crossroads of Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics,

and Desire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187Debating Public Art in New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137Disability and Youth Culture: “Mental Defective” Embodiment,


Faith Activity: Case Studies in Religious Activism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101Genre Discontinuities: Allegorizing the Vietnam War in American

Television and Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114Hearing Gender/Sounding Gender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133Innocence and Complicity: Contemporary Rhetorics of

Victimhood, Violence, and Justice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185Marked by Dirt: The Embodiment of Difference on the Body and

by the State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130Places of Critical Thinking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172Queer Studies, Media Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163“See-Saw”: A Performance by Jeffrey Q . McCune . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200Slavery, Sexuality, and the Shape of Public Memory in the

United States, 1888–1985 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214Theories in American Studies I: Sex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116The Transnational West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Global/Transnational/Cross-Cultural StudiesActivists and Movements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200Alternative Suburban Geographies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122America’s Religious Crossroads: Racialized Transnational

Communities and State Power across Historical Periods . . . . . . . . . . 166American Labor: Invisibility in National, Transnational, and

Colonial Contexts (Sponsored by LAWCHA and the Working Class Studies Caucus) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

An American Studies Worthy of Emulation: The Legacy of David W . Noble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Asia/Pacific/America: Contact Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201Asian Bodies, American Mediation, Transnational Movements . . . . . . . 215At the Crossroads of Children’s Studies and American Studies:

Intersections, Possibilities, Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190At the Crossroads of Technology and Transnationalism: A

Conversation with Michael Adas (Sponsored by the Science and Technology Caucus) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

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Between Local and Transnational: Considering American Studies from Positions in the Regionals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Biopolitics and Transnationalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217Black Fiction in the Atlantic World from Clotel to Tar Baby . . . . . . . . 172Bodies without Borders: Intimate Knowledges, Public

Embodiments, and the Trans-Global–American Crossroads . . . . . . . 125Changing the Subject: New Perspectives on Gender and Racial

Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204Clashes and Alliances: Reframing America and the Middle East . . . . . . 190Cross-Bodies: Filipina/os in Transnational Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131Cross-Cultural Encounters: Person-Centered Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . 208Crossroads and Crossover: American Top 40 as Cultural Exchange . . . 211The Crossroads of the Americas: Revolutionary Hispanophone

Writers in the Nineteenth-Century United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162Crossroads with Various Intersections: (Geo)Cultural and Ethnic

“Triple/Multiple Consciousness” in a Transnational Age . . . . . . . . . 189Diasporic Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184Due Processes: Perspectives on Deportation (Sponsored by the

Committee on Ethnic Studies) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160East Goes Western: Seeing the Cowboy through Korean and

Korean American Eyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182Environmental History and Policy-Making in the United States

and Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223Evolutionary Empires, Unstable Identities: Circum-Atlantic

Darwinism and the Colonial Imagination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102Feminist Subjects in “America”: Violence, Recognition, and

Citizenship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108Food and Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143Global Axes of American Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127Global Circulation of Images: Middle East Meets West in U .S .

Motion Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100Going Mobile: Global Flows of Media and the American


Humor at the Crossroads of Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration . . . . . . . 124Immigrant Masculinities Meeting at the Crossroads of Religion

and Sex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187Imperial Formations and Manifest Destinies: Israel/Palestine and

Circuits of Exceptionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121Indigeneity, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153In Search of Home: Refugees and Representation Along U .S .

Borderlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152Inter-American Perspectives on Culture and Migration

in the Americas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133International Committee Talkshop I: Obtaining Resources to

Teach American Studies Internationally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124Labor and Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

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Life Is Complicated: Coming to Terms with Seething Pasts, Haunting Memories, and Economies of Inequity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Lingering at the Crossroads: Building Transnational Perspectives into American Studies Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Looking for Home in Unexpected Places: James Baldwin and the Politics of Return . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Maps and Geographies of Malleable Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145Marked by Dirt: The Embodiment of Difference on the Body and

by the State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130Middle Passages: Resisting Forced Migration in the Atlantic,

Chinese, and U .S . Internal Slave Trades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149Music Production, Exchange, and Performance: Online Videos,

Cultural Authority, and Transnational Entertainment Gateways . . . . 162National Identities, Transnational Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112New Directions in Italian American Popular Culture Studies . . . . . . . . 1479/11 Vernaculars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120Once and Future Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200On Location: Film Histories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164Onshore and Offshore: American Studies for Export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188Orientalism and American Studies: Locating Edward Said . . . . . . . . . . 202Photography, Power, and the Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225Photography in Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154The Politics of Relation: Creolization and the Invention of America . . . 104Positioning Native America with/in American Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136Post-Border Mexico? The Paradigmatic Drama of the Border in

and for Inter-American Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134Prison, Plantation, and Empire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218Propaganda before the Twentieth Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225Race, Identity, and Educational Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Race, Nature, and Nation at the Crossroads I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194Recasting Black Transnationalism: Race and Performance on the

Global Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213Reexamining Early Twentieth-Century South Asian

American Histories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181Reflections on Race in Comparative Ethnic Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas

(Sponsored by the Early American Matters Caucus) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149Reproduction at the Crossroads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189Rereading American Studies Origins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Rethinking Global Hollywood: Old Myths and New Realities . . . . . . . 122Rethinking the State(s) of America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167Rights, Knowledge, Activism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138Routes of U .S . Imperial Capital: Intersections of Political

Economy and Desire in the Transnational Pacific . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229Self-Locating in Academe and Activism: Identity Politics at the

Crossroads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118Subjugated Pasts and Histories of the Present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

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Thinking Big about American Studies: From Case Studies to Field Imaginaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Thinking Race at Its Limits: The Future of the Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117Thinking with W . E . B . Du Bois at the Crossroads of Theory and

Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116Toxic Crossroads: The Transnational Legacies of Agent Orange . . . . . . 212Trafficking in Folklore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193Transpacific Cultural Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153Transnational Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160The Transnational West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127Transpacific American Studies: Texts and Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211The U .S . Militarization of the Pacific: Oceanic Crossings in the

Colonial Present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135Where Is “America” in Transnational American Studies? . . . . . . . . . . . 115Writers and Migrancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

HistoryAn American Studies Worthy of Emulation: The Legacy of

David W . Noble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213The Animal Nature of Human Social Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Beyond the Binary: Mapping the Intersections of “Indian”and

“Black” Lives in the Southeast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170Black Detroit and Beyond: At the Crossroads of Color, Culture,

and Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199Black Native Race/Identity from the Eighteenth Century to the

Twentieth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114Brokering Borders: The Transnational Makings of Mexican

American Citizenship Across the U .S .-Mexico Borderlands, 1935–1980 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes: A Figurational Approach to American Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Clashes and Alliances: Reframing America and the Middle East . . . . . . 190Cosmopolitan Humanitarianism in the Progressive-Era Settlement

Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198The Counterintuitive Whitman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154Culture and Consumption in the American City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Diasporic Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184Does History Influence Identity? An Exploration of the Third

Generation of Armenians in America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227Energy, Culture, Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170Environmental History and Policy-Making in the United States

and Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223Hateful Saints, a Sodom City, and the Ku Klux Klan:

Anti-Catholicism in the Americas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156Indigeneity, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153The Julian Samora Legacy Project: A Model for the Reclamation

and Mining of Historical Archives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

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Media Matters: Access, Ownership, and Diversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181Negotiating Asian/Native Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137On Location: Film Histories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164Positioning Native America with/in American Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136Power and Public Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144Race, Identity, and Educational Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Race and Gender in American Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184The Religious Left in Modern America (Sponsored by the

Religion and American Culture Caucus) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205Rereading American Studies Origins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Rewriting Radicalism in the Cold War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221The Transnational West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127U .S . Latinos/as at War: Identity and Citizenship at the Crossroads

and in the Cross Hairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197Visualizing Racial Violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Landscape and the Built EnvironmentThe Animal Nature of Human Social Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119At the Crossroads of Representation and Use: Negotiating

Conflict and Distinction on the Postwar Sub\Urban Landscape . . . . . 168Canine America: How Dogs Shape American Personhood, Poetics,

and Publics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131Crossroads in New Orleans: Storytelling and Counterhegemonic

Geographies in Pre- and Post-Katrina New Orleans . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104Culture and Consumption in the American City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Debating Public Art in New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137Ecocriticism from Melville to Yamashita . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Environmental History and Policy-Making in the United States

and Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223Innovative Interpretations of Nineteenth-Century Western Imagery . . . 157Keywords in the Study of Environment and Culture (Sponsored

by the Environment and Culture Caucus) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126Maneuvering Race, Labor, and Place in America’s Cities: Tactical

Survival in an Urban Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202Maps and Geographies of Malleable Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145Mutual Contamination at the Limits: Becoming Human/Artist . . . . . . . 160Of Factories, Supermarkets, and Bomb Shelters: Sensory

Environments, Perception, and New Questions in American Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Photography, Power, and the Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225Picturing Culture: The Politics of Image and Illustration . . . . . . . . . . . . 192Power and Public Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144The Power of Mobility? Cultural Intersections, Identity, and Travel . . . 111Public Art and Historic Preservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183Taking the “Crossroads” Literally: Reenactments of Historical

Journeys and the Bodily Performance of America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

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Legal StudiesBlack Rights and Citizenship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192Critical Race Feminism and the Literary Imagination of Law . . . . . . . . 204Engaging Exception: Interdisciplinarity, Intervention, and “States

of Exception” in U .S . Imperial Pasts and Presents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222Expansions of War: National Security, Transnational Internment,

and Racial Disciplines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105Indigeneity, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153Law and Cultural Studies: Understanding Asian/American and

Latino/a Racial and Gendered Subjects across Spatialities . . . . . . . . . 107Legal Borderlands: The Uses of Race, Gender, and Aesthetics in

the Making of American Imperial Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170Race, Identity, and Educational Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Race and Gender in American Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184Rights, Knowledge, Activism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138Scandalous Selves: Properties of Early Black Personhood . . . . . . . . . . . 123Visualizing Racial Violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Literary StudiesAmerican Antipodes: Transnational Culture/National Identity in

Australia and New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126At the Crossroads of Feminism, Race, and American Studies . . . . . . . . 199Biopolitics and Transnationalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217Black Fiction in the Atlantic World from Clotel to Tar Baby . . . . . . . . 172Black Poetry Matters: Black Poetry at the Crossroads of

Subalternity and Cultural Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182Black Rights and Citizenship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192Bodies without Borders: Intimate Knowledges, Public

Embodiments, and the Trans-Global–American Crossroads . . . . . . . 125Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes: A Figurational Approach to

American Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196Clashes and Alliances: Reframing America and the Middle East . . . . . . 190Coloring America: (Dis)Identifying Hues and Shades of

Latinidad(es) through Diverse Approaches to U .S . Latina/o Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Coloring Outside the Lines: Performing Race in Children’s Books . . . . 193Cosmopolitan Humanitarianism in the Progressive-Era Settlement

Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198The Counterintuitive Whitman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154Critical Race Feminism and the Literary Imagination of Law . . . . . . . . 204Critical Regionalism and American Studies: The Comparative

Case of Chicana/o Regionalisms (Sponsored by the Site Resource Committee) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Crossroads with Various Intersections: (Geo)Cultural and Ethnic “Triple/Multiple Consciousness” in a Transnational Age . . . . . . . . . 189

East Goes Western: Seeing the Cowboy through Korean and Korean American Eyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

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Ecocriticism from Melville to Yamashita . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Energy, Culture, Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170Expansions of War: National Security, Transnational Internment,

and Racial Disciplines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105Ghost Notes and Spirit Moves: What Jazz Studies Doesn’t Hear . . . . . 198Homeland, Heartland: Creating and Remembering People and Place . . 117Humor at the Crossroads of Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration . . . . . . . 124Integrating Conspiracy into the Shaping of American Identities . . . . . . 169Labor and Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146National, International, Planetary? American Studies Meets

Comparative Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159Negotiating Asian/Native Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137Photography in Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154Places of Critical Thinking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172Positioning Native America with/in American Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136Pragmatism, Ethics, and Democracy: Self and Other Down at the

Crossroads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103Reading Contemporary U .S . Political Memoirs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188Rereading American Studies Origins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Rewriting Radicalism in the Cold War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221Teaching Memoirs and Oral History in the K–12 Classroom:

Identities at the Crossroads (Sponsored by the K–16 Collaboration Committee) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Trafficking in Folklore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193The Transnational West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127Transpacific American Studies: Texts and Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211Writers and Migrancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Material CultureAn All-Consuming War? Gender and Mass Culture in the

Vietnam Combat Zone: A Junior Scholar Roundtable . . . . . . . . . . . . 161Art, Craft, and Film in Native America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163Craft at the Crossroads Roundtable (Sponsored by the Material

Culture Caucus) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148Eating the “Other” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Middle East/American StudiesClashes and Alliances: Reframing America and the Middle East . . . . . . 190Does History Influence Identity? An Exploration of the Third

Generation of Armenians in America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227Global Circulation of Images: Middle East Meets West in U .S .

Motion Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100Homefront: Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180Imperial Formations and Manifest Destinies: Israel/Palestine and

Circuits of Exceptionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

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Walls, Borders, and Militarization: A Comparative Dialogue on U .S ./Mexico and Israel/Palestine (Sponsored by the Committee on Ethnic Studies) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

MusicBeautiful Kitsch and Random Form: The Role of Aesthetics in the

Politics of Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195Crossroads and Crossover: American Top 40 as Cultural Exchange . . . 211Ecocriticism from Melville to Yamashita . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Ghost Notes and Spirit Moves: What Jazz Studies Doesn’t Hear . . . . . 198Hearing Gender/Sounding Gender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133If You Meet a Punk at the Crossroads, Kill the Buddha: Punk

Rock and the Politics of Geolocality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207Kill Them with Love: Punk and Performance, Race and Gender . . . . . . 185Musical Cross-Pollination in Rhythm, Blues, and Rap . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217Music Production, Exchange, and Performance: Online Videos,

Cultural Authority, and Transnational Entertainment Gateways . . . . 162No Somos Criminales/We Are Not Criminals: Latina/o Musics

and Performance as Decolonizing Practices in the (neo) Colonial Borderlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Techno-Aesthetic Strategies in Black Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143Tradition and Change in Country Music of the 1970s . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223Trafficking in Folklore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193Twentieth-Century Indigenous Music at the Crossroads: Activism

and Cultural Traditions in Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Native American StudiesAlternative Contact II: Contesting American (Indian) Lands and

Nations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186Alternative Contact III: Mixed-Race Indigeneity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195The Animal Nature of Human Social Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Art, Craft, and Film in Native America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163Beyond the Binary: Mapping the Intersections of “Indian”and

“Black” Lives in the Southeast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170Black Native Race/Identity from the Eighteenth Century to the

Twentieth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114Crossroads, Borderlands, Diaspora: Remapping the Terrains of

Native American Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165Debating Public Art in New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137Faith Activity: Case Studies in Religious Activism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101Gatherings of Nations: American Indian Song, Dance, Art, and

Exhibitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209Indigeneity, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153Indigenous Studies Bound (and Unbound): Institutional Realities

and Professional Pressures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139Listening to the Land: At the Crossroads of Ecofeminism,

Transnationalism, and Native American Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

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Museums and the Politics of Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210Negotiating Asian/Native Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137Once and Future Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200Photography in Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154Piles of Memories: Hurricane Katrina and Native Peoples

of Louisiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229Positioning Native America with/in American Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136Remembering and Representing Native American Pasts . . . . . . . . . . . . 183Rights, Knowledge, Activism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138Sexuality, Nationality, Indigeneity: Intersections of Native

American and Queer Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Sites and Transits: Indigenous and Indigenized Environmental

Ethics and Poetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108The Speculative Logic of Racial Violence: Investments in Empire

in the 1830s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227Survivance: Gerald Vizenor for Thirty Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158Theorizing Native Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124Twentieth-Century Indigenous Music at the Crossroads: Activism


Nineteenth CenturyAfrican American Women at the Crossroads: Identity, Memory,

and the Creation of a Useable Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206Black Fiction in the Atlantic World from Clotel to Tar Baby . . . . . . . . 172Black Rights and Citizenship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192Bodies and Spirits: Reconsidering the American Occult . . . . . . . . . . . . 123Canine America: How Dogs Shape American Personhood, Poetics,

and Publics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131Circulating Scandal in Antebellum Periodicals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113Coloniality and Imperialism in the Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143The Counterintuitive Whitman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154The Crossroads of the Americas: Revolutionary Hispanophone

Writers in the Nineteenth-Century United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162Eating at the Crossroads of Agricultural, Environmental, and

Cultural History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159Innovative Interpretations of Nineteenth-Century Western Imagery . . . 157Legal Borderlands: The Uses of Race, Gender, and Aesthetics in

the Making of American Imperial Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170Middle Passages: Resisting Forced Migration in the Atlantic,

Chinese, and U .S . Internal Slave Trades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149Museums and the Politics of Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210Picturing Culture: The Politics of Image and Illustration . . . . . . . . . . . . 192Prison, Plantation, and Empire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218Propaganda before the Twentieth Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225Reconstruction and Revision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196Remembering and Representing Native American Pasts . . . . . . . . . . . . 183Scandalous Selves: Properties of Early Black Personhood . . . . . . . . . . . 123

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The Speculative Logic of Racial Violence: Investments in Empire in the 1830s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Writers and Migrancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Pacific Islander American StudiesAlternative Contact I: Race and Indigeneity in Hawai‘i . . . . . . . . . . . . 177Race, Identity, and Educational Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Routes of U .S . Imperial Capital: Intersections of Political

Economy and Desire in the Transnational Pacific . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229The U .S . Militarization of the Pacific: Oceanic Crossings in the

Colonial Present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

PedagogyAmerican Studies at the Digital Crossroads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148Be a Better Writer: How to Produce Strong Abstracts, Proposals,

and Cover Letters (Sponsored by the Students’ Committee) . . . . . . . 157Breakfast Forum: Teaching Politics and the Politics of Teaching:

Three Scholars Share Pedagogical Strategies (Sponsored by the Students’ Committee) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Graduate Programs in American Studies: Present and Future (Directors’ Breakfast Workshop) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

In Motion: Crossroad Variations and the Work of Praxis . . . . . . . . . . . 132Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Immigration (Sponsored

by the K–16 Collaboration Committee) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219International Committee Talkshop I: Obtaining Resources to

Teach American Studies Internationally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124Museums and the Politics of Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210Policing the Crisis: On the Importance of Stuart Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194Teaching at the Crossroads: American Studies and Film Studies . . . . . . 140Teaching Memoirs and Oral History in the K–12 Classroom:


Visions and Revisions: How to Build a High School American Studies Program (Sponsored by the K–16 Collaboration Committee) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Performance StudiesAmerican Humor in Theory and Practice: A Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . 166Back Down to the Ground: Race, Structural Inequality, and the

Violence of Everyday Queer Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142Culture and Consumption in the American City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Gatherings of Nations: American Indian Song, Dance, Art, and

Exhibitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209Kill Them with Love: Punk and Performance, Race and Gender . . . . . . 185Kinesthetics Visualized: Posture, Gesture, and Movement in

Twentieth-Century Visual Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

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Latino/a Resistance in L .A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1919/11 Vernaculars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120Race and Gender in American Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184Recasting Black Transnationalism: Race and Performance on the

Global Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213Remembering and Representing Native American Pasts . . . . . . . . . . . . 183Rereading American Studies Origins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Sacred/Secular Crossroads and Conundrums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169“See-Saw”: A Performance by Jeffrey Q . McCune . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200Subjugated Pasts and Histories of the Present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138Theorizing Race and Performance in Colonial Contexts . . . . . . . . . . . . 102Twentieth-Century Indigenous Music at the Crossroads: Activism


PhilosophyPragmatism, Ethics, and Democracy: Self and Other Down at the

Crossroads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103Thinking Race at Its Limits: The Future of the Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Political Culture/GovernmentActivists and Movements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200Black Rights and Citizenship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192Colonial Frictions in the Present Tense: U .S . Colonialism, Racial

Formation, Sovereignty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171Crossing Borders: Political Theory and American Studies at the

Crossroads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179The Counterintuitive Whitman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154Democratic Vistas II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151Environmental History and Policy-Making in the United States

and Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223Graduate Programs in American Studies: Present and Future

(Directors’ Breakfast Workshop) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99Historical Crosses: Religious Culture in Earlier America . . . . . . . . . . . . 178Integrating Conspiracy into the Shaping of American Identities . . . . . . 169Liberal Racism in Academic Institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141Once and Future Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200Onshore and Offshore: American Studies for Export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188Prison, Plantation, and Empire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218Reading Contemporary U .S . Political Memoirs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188The Religious Left in Modern America (Sponsored by the

Religion and American Culture Caucus) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205Rethinking the State(s) of America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167Saints, Sacrifice, and Sovereignty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225Sculpting Model Americanness: The Intersecting Regulatory

Regimes of Normative Citizenship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222The Sixties: A Conversation with Mark Rudd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165Transmitting Public Feelings: Bodies, Emotions, and Politics . . . . . . . . . 161

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U .S . Latinos/as at War: Identity and Citizenship at the Crossroads and in the Cross Hairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Walls, Borders, and Militarization: A Comparative Dialogue on U .S ./Mexico and Israel/Palestine (Sponsored by the Committee on Ethnic Studies) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Popular CultureAmerican Humor in Theory and Practice: A Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . 166Art, Craft, and Film in Native America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163Asia/Pacific/America: Contact Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201Biopolitics and Transnationalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217Bowling Across Boundaries: An American Leisure Activity Revisited . . 105Breakfast Forum: Framing Visual Evidence: The Position of Visual

and Popular Culture in American Studies (Sponsored by the Students’ Committee) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Circulating Scandal in Antebellum Periodicals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113Coloring Outside the Lines: Performing Race in Children’s Books . . . . 193Cultural Crossroads: Middlebrow and the (Re)making of

American Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196Culture and Consumption in the American City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Food and Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143Inter-American Perspectives on Culture and Migration

in the Americas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133Kill Them with Love: Punk and Performance, Race and Gender . . . . . . 185Labor and Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146Media Matters: Access, Ownership, and Diversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181Museums and the Politics of Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210Musical Cross-Pollination in Rhythm, Blues, and Rap . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217New Directions in Italian American Popular Culture Studies . . . . . . . . 147Of Factories, Supermarkets, and Bomb Shelters: Sensory

Environments, Perception, and New Questions in American Studies . 226Once and Future Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200On Location: Film Histories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164Places of Critical Thinking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172Queer Studies, Media Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163Race, Sex, and Science at the Crossroads: Synthetic Personhood in

Visual Popular Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110Race, War, Terror: The Politics of Recuperation and Resistance in

Post-9/11 USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141Race and Gender in American Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184Radio: Medium and Metaphor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173Rereading American Studies Origins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Saints, Sacrifice, and Sovereignty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225Screening Crossroads: A Transatlantic Dialogue on America

and Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130The State of Comix: Cultural Identity, the Nation, and the Visual

Politics of American Comics (Sponsored by the Visual Culture Caucus) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

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Theorizing Race, Gender, and Sexuality at the Crossroads of the Popular and the Profane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Theorizing Race and Performance in Colonial Contexts . . . . . . . . . . . . 102Three Ways of Looking at Bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112Trafficking in Folklore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193The Transnational West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127Transpacific Cultural Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153Ultimate Sacrifices: Religion and Violence in American Popular

Culture (Sponsored by the Religion and American Culture Caucus) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Urban Crossings: Interethnic Encounters in Cultural Practice . . . . . . . . 216Visualizing Racial Violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Postcolonial StudiesAmerican Antipodes: Transnational Culture/National Identity in

Australia and New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126Clashes and Alliances: Reframing America and the Middle East . . . . . . 190Colonial Frictions in the Present Tense: U .S . Colonialism, Racial

Formation, Sovereignty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171Coloniality and Imperialism in the Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143Diasporic Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184Indigeneity, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153Liberal Racism in Academic Institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141The Politics of Relation: Creolization and the Invention of America . . . 104Transpacific Cultural Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153Where Is “America” in Transnational American Studies? . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Print CultureBeautiful Kitsch and Random Form: The Role of Aesthetics in the

Politics of Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195The Black Press in the Twentieth Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145Circulating Scandal in Antebellum Periodicals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113Coloniality and Imperialism in the Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143Picturing Culture: The Politics of Image and Illustration . . . . . . . . . . . . 192Print, Publics, and Racial Feeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222Reconstruction and Revision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Public ScholarshipActivists and Movements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200Alternative Suburban Geographies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122American Studies at the Digital Crossroads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148American Studies Outside the Academy: Workshop (Sponsored by

the ASA Students’ Committee) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103Art and Engaged Citizenship: The Case of the LAB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179Back Down to the Ground: Race, Structural Inequality, and the

Violence of Everyday Queer Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

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Between Local and Transnational: Considering American Studies from Positions in the Regionals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and Technologies of Control . . . . . . . . . . . . 111Breakfast Forum: Getting Great Advising: A Workshop for

Graduate Students (Sponsored by the Students’ Committee) . . . . . . . 193Challenging Ecocriticism: New Directions for the Study of

Literature and Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135Conditions of Production: Feminist and Queer of Color

Engagements with Subjectivity, Nationalism, and Violence . . . . . . . . 215Crossroads and Crossover: American Top 40 as Cultural Exchange . . . 211Culture and Consumption in the American City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Democratic Vistas II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151Digital Crossroads: Online Tools for Open and

Collaborative Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180Feminist Subjects in “America”: Violence, Recognition, and

Citizenship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108Gender, Sexuality, and Space: Occupation, Crossings, and

Lines of Flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151Graduate Programs in American Studies: Present and Future

(Directors’ Breakfast Workshop) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99Imagineering Public History: Contradictions, Gentrification, and

Counterstorytelling in Northern New Mexico Public Spaces . . . . . . . 142Indigeneity, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153Looking for Home in Unexpected Places: James Baldwin and the

Politics of Return . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109Museums and the Politics of Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210Places of Critical Thinking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172Power and Public Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144Public Art and Historic Preservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183Queering Children, Queering Family: Race, Labor, and Economy . . . . 221Queering Modernist Regionalism: Taos, Santa Fe, and Seattle . . . . . . . 100Rights, Knowledge, Activism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138Scholarly Reportage: American Studies Meets Journalism,

Ethnography, and Creative Nonfiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203Theory Meets Practice: “American Sabor: U .S . Latinos in Popular

Music” and the Possibilities of Public Scholarship in the Museum Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Queer StudiesThe Crossroads of Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics,

and Desire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187Queer Studies, Media Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163Queer Theory, Racial Formation, Neoliberalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151Scholarly Reportage: American Studies Meets Journalism,

Ethnography, and Creative Nonfiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203Sculpting Model Americanness: The Intersecting Regulatory

Regimes of Normative Citizenship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

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Sexuality, Nationality, Indigeneity: Intersections of Native American and Queer Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Theory Meets Practice: “American Sabor: U .S . Latinos in Popular Music” and the Possibilities of Public Scholarship in the Museum Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Thinking Big about American Studies: From Case Studies to Field Imaginaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Transmitting Public Feelings: Bodies, Emotions, and Politics . . . . . . . . . 161Troubling Citizenship: Belonging, Community, and Resistance in

an Age of Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Race and EthnicityAfrican American Women at the Crossroads: Identity, Memory,

and the Creation of a Useable Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206Alternative Contact I: Race and Indigeneity in Hawai‘i . . . . . . . . . . . . 177Alternative Contact II: Contesting American (Indian) Lands and

Nations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186Alternative Suburban Geographies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122America’s Religious Crossroads: Racialized Transnational

Communities and State Power across Historical Periods . . . . . . . . . . 166American Studies and Anthropology: The Road Less Traveled . . . . . . . 168The Animal Nature of Human Social Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119At the Crossroads of Feminism, Race, and American Studies . . . . . . . . 199At the Crossroads of Representation: Native Americans, Asian

Americans, and Latinas/os in U .S . Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214Beyond the Binary: Mapping the Intersections of “Indian”and

“Black” Lives in the Southeast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and Technologies of Control . . . . . . . . . . . . 111Biopolitics and Transnationalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217Black Detroit and Beyond: At the Crossroads of Color, Culture,

and Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199Black Fiction in the Atlantic World from Clotel to Tar Baby . . . . . . . . 172Black Native Race/Identity from the Eighteenth Century to the

Twentieth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114Black Poetry Matters: Black Poetry at the Crossroads of

Subalternity and Cultural Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182Black Rights and Citizenship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192Breakfast Forum: Teaching Politics and the Politics of Teaching:

Three Scholars Share Pedagogical Strategies (Sponsored by the Students’ Committee) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Breakfast Forum: The Future of American and Ethnic Studies (Sponsored by the Students’ Committee and the Ethnic Studies Committee) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Challenging Ecocriticism: New Directions for the Study of Literature and Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Changing the Subject: New Perspectives on Gender and Racial Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

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Coloring Outside the Lines: Performing Race in Children’s Books . . . . 193Conditions of Production: Feminist and Queer of Color

Engagements with Subjectivity, Nationalism, and Violence . . . . . . . . 215Critical Race Feminism and the Literary Imagination of Law . . . . . . . . 204Crossing Borders: Political Theory and American Studies at the

Crossroads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179Crossing Over: American Jews and Their Others in Suburbia . . . . . . . . 216Culture and Consumption in the American City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Debating Public Art in New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137Does History Influence Identity? An Exploration of the Third

Generation of Armenians in America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227Engaging Exception: Interdisciplinarity, Intervention, and “States

of Exception” in U .S . Imperial Pasts and Presents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222Environmental History and Policy-Making in the United States

and Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223Expansions of War: National Security, Transnational Internment,

and Racial Disciplines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105Food and Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143Gender, Sexuality, and Space: Occupation, Crossings, and Lines of

Flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151Genre Discontinuities: Allegorizing the Vietnam War in American

Television and Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114Hearing Gender/Sounding Gender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133Humor at the Crossroads of Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration . . . . . . . 124Imperial Formations and Manifest Destinies: Israel/Palestine and

Circuits of Exceptionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121Indigeneity, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153Indigenous Studies Bound (and Unbound): Institutional Realities

and Professional Pressures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139Innocence and Complicity: Contemporary Rhetorics of

Victimhood, Violence, and Justice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185In Search of Home: Refugees and Representation Along U .S .

Borderlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152Inter-American Perspectives on Culture and Migration

in the Americas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Immigration (Sponsored

by the K–16 Collaboration Committee) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219International Committee Talkshop II: Crossroad Adventures:

The Practice of International American Studies Since the “Transnational Turn” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

The Julian Samora Legacy Project: A Model for the Reclamation and Mining of Historical Archives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

King of the Crossroads: Theorizing the Art and Impact of Jean-Michel Basquiat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Labor and Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146Latino/a Resistance in L .A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191Liberal Racism in Academic Institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

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Mexican Americans and Whiteness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116Museums and the Politics of Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210Negotiating Asian/Native Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137New Directions in Italian American Popular Culture Studies . . . . . . . . 1479/11 Vernaculars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120No Laughing Matter: Race and American Visual Humor . . . . . . . . . . . 132Not in Isolation: Solidarity, Responsibility, and Sacrifice

throughout the U .S . Southwest, 1900–2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121Once and Future Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200Photography, Power, and the Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225Piles of Memories: Hurricane Katrina and Native Peoples

of Louisiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229Places of Critical Thinking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172Policing the Crisis: On the Importance of Stuart Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194The Power of Mobility? Cultural Intersections, Identity, and Travel . . . 111Prison, Plantation, and Empire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218Queering Children, Queering Family: Race, Labor, and Economy . . . . 221Queer Studies, Media Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163Queer Theory, Racial Formation, Neoliberalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151Race, Identity, and Educational Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Race, Nature, and Nation at the Crossroads I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194Race, Nature, and Nation at the Crossroads II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205Race, Sex, and Science at the Crossroads: Synthetic Personhood in

Visual Popular Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110Race, War, Terror: The Politics of Recuperation and Resistance in

Post-9/11 USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141Race and Gender in American Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184Radio: Medium and Metaphor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173Recasting Black Transnationalism: Race and Performance on the

Global Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213Reexamining Early Twentieth-Century South Asian

American Histories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181Reflections on Race in Comparative Ethnic Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209Regionalists on the Left: Radical Voices and Regional Diversity in

the 1930s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118Remapping Latina/o Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180Remembrance and Re-vision: Alternative Genealogies of Race . . . . . . . 182Reproduction at the Crossroads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189Rights, Knowledge, Activism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138Self-Locating in Academe and Activism: Identity Politics at the

Crossroads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118Sexuality, Nationality, Indigeneity: Intersections of Native

American and Queer Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Sites and Transits: Indigenous and Indigenized Environmental

Ethics and Poetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108Slavery, Sexuality, and the Shape of Public Memory in the United

States, 1888–1985 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

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The Speculative Logic of Racial Violence: Investments in Empire in the 1830s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Taking the “Crossroads” Literally: Reenactments of Historical Journeys and the Bodily Performance of America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Theories in American Studies II: Race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161Theorizing Race and Performance in Colonial Contexts . . . . . . . . . . . . 102Thinking Race at Its Limits: The Future of the Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117Thinking with W . E . B . Du Bois at the Crossroads of Theory and

Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116Tradition and Change in Country Music of the 1970s . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223Transpacific Cultural Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153Transmitting Public Feelings: Bodies, Emotions, and Politics . . . . . . . . . 161Troubling Citizenship: Belonging, Community, and Resistance in

an Age of Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171Urban Crossings: Interethnic Encounters in Cultural Practice . . . . . . . . 216Visualizing Racial Violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

RegionalismCritical Regionalism and American Studies: The Comparative

Case of Chicana/o Regionalisms (Sponsored by the Site Resource Committee) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Food and Local/Global Imaginaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150Origin Stories: National Identities and Hegemonic Memories in

the American Southwest, 1898–1940 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188Places of Critical Thinking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172Queering Modernist Regionalism: Taos, Santa Fe, and Seattle . . . . . . . 100Race, Identity, and Educational Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Regionalists on the Left: Radical Voices and Regional Diversity in

the 1930s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118The Transnational West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

ReligionActivists and Movements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200America’s Religious Crossroads: Racialized Transnational

Communities and State Power across Historical Periods . . . . . . . . . . 166Faith Activity: Case Studies in Religious Activism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101Hateful Saints, a Sodom City, and the Ku Klux Klan: Anti-

Catholicism in the Americas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156Historical Crosses: Religious Culture in Earlier America . . . . . . . . . . . . 178Immigrant Masculinities Meeting at the Crossroads of Religion

and Sex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187Radio: Medium and Metaphor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173The Religious Left in Modern America (Sponsored by the

Religion and American Culture Caucus) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas

(Sponsored by the Early American Matters Caucus) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

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Sacred/Secular Crossroads and Conundrums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169Saints, Sacrifice, and Sovereignty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225Ultimate Sacrifices: Religion and Violence in American Popular

Culture (Sponsored by the Religion and American Culture Caucus) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Visualizing Racial Violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

RhetoricColoniality and Imperialism in the Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143Crossing Borders: Political Theory and American Studies at the

Crossroads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179Debating Public Art in New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Science and TechnologyAt the Crossroads of Technology and Transnationalism: A

Conversation with Michael Adas (Sponsored by the Science and Technology Caucus) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and Technologies of Control . . . . . . . . . . . . 111Digital Crossroads: Online Tools for Open and

Collaborative Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180Environmental History and Policy-Making in the United States

and Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223Evolutionary Empires, Unstable Identities: Circum-Atlantic

Darwinism and the Colonial Imagination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102Going Mobile: Global Flows of Media and the American


Histories of the Dust Heap: Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice . . 107Keywords in the Study of Environment and Culture (Sponsored

by the Environment and Culture Caucus) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126Music Production, Exchange, and Performance: Online Videos,

Cultural Authority, and Transnational Entertainment Gateways . . . . 162Photography in Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154Race, Sex, and Science at the Crossroads: Synthetic Personhood in

Visual Popular Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110Reproduction at the Crossroads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189Techno-Aesthetic Strategies in Black Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

SociologyCivilizing and Decivilizing Processes: A Figurational Approach to

American Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196Clashes and Alliances: Reframing America and the Middle East . . . . . . 190Race, Identity, and Educational Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Rethinking the State(s) of America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

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Teaching and K-16 CollaborationBetween Local and Transnational: Considering American Studies

from Positions in the Regionals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Immigration (Sponsored

by the K–16 Collaboration Committee) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219Mock Job Interview Workshop (Sponsored by the Students’

Committee) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207TA to Tenure: Rethinking Academic Labor and Unionization

(Sponsored by the Students’ Committee) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110Teaching Memoirs and Oral History in the K–12 Classroom:


Visions and Revisions: How to Build a High School American Studies Program (Sponsored by the K–16 Collaboration Committee) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Television and Media StudiesBeautiful Kitsch and Random Form: The Role of Aesthetics in the

Politics of Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195Breakfast Forum: Framing Visual Evidence: The Position of Visual


Immigrant Masculinities Meeting at the Crossroads of Religion and Sex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Labor and Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146Queer Studies, Media Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163Radio: Medium and Metaphor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173Three Ways of Looking at Bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112Visualizing Racial Violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Transgender StudiesQueer Theory, Racial Formation, Neoliberalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Trauma StudiesInnocence and Complicity: Contemporary Rhetorics of

Victimhood, Violence, and Justice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185Life Is Complicated: Coming to Terms with Seething Pasts,

Haunting Memories, and Economies of Inequity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2139/11 Vernaculars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120Power and Public Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Twentieth CenturyAn All-Consuming War? Gender and Mass Culture in the

Vietnam Combat Zone: A Junior Scholar Roundtable . . . . . . . . . . . . 161Asia/Pacific/America: Contact Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

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Black Detroit and Beyond: At the Crossroads of Color, Culture, and Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Black Fiction in the Atlantic World from Clotel to Tar Baby . . . . . . . . 172The Black Press in the Twentieth Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145Black Rights and Citizenship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192Bowling Across Boundaries: An American Leisure Activity Revisited . . 105Breakfast Forum: The Future of American and Ethnic Studies

(Sponsored by the Students’ Committee and the Ethnic Studies Committee) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Canine America: How Dogs Shape American Personhood, Poetics, and Publics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Clashes and Alliances: Reframing America and the Middle East . . . . . . 190Crossing Over: American Jews and Their Others in Suburbia . . . . . . . . 216Cultural Crossroads: Middlebrow and the (Re)making of

American Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196Culture and Consumption in the American City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224The Day that Martin Died: The Politics and Poetics of Loss . . . . . . . . . 156Diasporic Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184Disability and Youth Culture: “Mental Defective” Embodiment,


Gatherings of Nations: American Indian Song, Dance, Art, and Exhibitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Histories of the Dust Heap: Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice . . 107Integrating Conspiracy into the Shaping of American Identities . . . . . . 169Kinesthetics Visualized: Posture, Gesture, and Movement in

Twentieth-Century Visual Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228Labor and Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146Maps and Geographies of Malleable Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145Migration, Racialization, and Resistance: African Americans,


Of Factories, Supermarkets, and Bomb Shelters: Sensory Environments, Perception, and New Questions in American Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Once and Future Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200Photography in Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154Public Art and Historic Preservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183Race and Gender in American Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184Radio: Medium and Metaphor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173Reading Contemporary U .S . Political Memoirs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188Rereading American Studies Origins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Rewriting Radicalism in the Cold War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221Saints, Sacrifice, and Sovereignty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225The State of Comix: Cultural Identity, the Nation, and the Visual


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Survivance: Gerald Vizenor for Thirty Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158Three Ways of Looking at Bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112Tradition and Change in Country Music of the 1970s . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223Trafficking in Folklore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193The Transnational West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127Transpacific American Studies: Texts and Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211The Western Frontier as International Metaphor: Mapping

Morphing Cultural Boundaries since 1945 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115Writers and Migrancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

U.S. ColonialismAlternative Contact III: Mixed-Race Indigeneity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195American Labor: Invisibility in National, Transnational, and

Colonial Contexts (Sponsored by LAWCHA and the Working Class Studies Caucus) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Asia/Pacific/America: Contact Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201Black Rights and Citizenship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192Colonial Frictions in the Present Tense: U .S . Colonialism, Racial

Formation, Sovereignty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171Coloniality and Imperialism in the Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143Cross-Bodies: Filipina/os in Transnational Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131Due Processes: Perspectives on Deportation (Sponsored by the

Committee on Ethnic Studies) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160Engaging Exception: Interdisciplinarity, Intervention, and “States

of Exception” in U .S . Imperial Pasts and Presents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222Evolutionary Empires, Unstable Identities: Circum-Atlantic

Darwinism and the Colonial Imagination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102Indigenous Studies Bound (and Unbound): Institutional Realities

and Professional Pressures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139In Search of Home: Refugees and Representation Along U .S .

Borderlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152Once and Future Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200Onshore and Offshore: American Studies for Export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188Orientalism and American Studies: Locating Edward Said . . . . . . . . . . 202Prison, Plantation, and Empire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218Race, Identity, and Educational Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Race, War, Terror: The Politics of Recuperation and Resistance in

Post-9/11 USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141Routes of U .S . Imperial Capital: Intersections of Political

Economy and Desire in the Transnational Pacific . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229Subjugated Pasts and Histories of the Present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138Theorizing Native Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124Thinking Big about American Studies: From Case Studies to Field

Imaginaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144Toxic Crossroads: The Transnational Legacies of Agent Orange . . . . . . 212The U .S . Militarization of the Pacific: Oceanic Crossings in the

Colonial Present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

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Visual Culture StudiesThe Animal Nature of Human Social Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Art, Craft, and Film in Native America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163Bodies and Spirits: Reconsidering the American Occult . . . . . . . . . . . . 123Breakfast Forum: Framing Visual Evidence: The Position of Visual


Coloniality and Imperialism in the Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143The Counterintuitive Whitman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154Craft at the Crossroads Roundtable (Sponsored by the Material

Culture Caucus) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148Debating Public Art in New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137Innovative Interpretations of Nineteenth-Century Western Imagery . . . 157Kinesthetics Visualized: Posture, Gesture, and Movement in

Twentieth-Century Visual Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228King of the Crossroads: Theorizing the Art and Impact of

Jean-Michel Basquiat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Latino/a Resistance in L .A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191Mutual Contamination at the Limits: Becoming Human/Artist . . . . . . . 1609/11 Vernaculars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120No Laughing Matter: Race and American Visual Humor . . . . . . . . . . . 132On Location: Film Histories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164Photography, Power, and the Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225Photography in Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154Picturing Culture: The Politics of Image and Illustration . . . . . . . . . . . . 192Public Art and Historic Preservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183Queering Modernist Regionalism: Taos, Santa Fe, and Seattle . . . . . . . 100Remembrance and Re-vision: Alternative Genealogies of Race . . . . . . . 182Saints, Sacrifice, and Sovereignty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225The State of Comix: Cultural Identity, the Nation, and the Visual


Teaching at the Crossroads: American Studies and Film Studies . . . . . . 140Thinking Big about American Studies: From Case Studies to Field

Imaginaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144Trafficking in Folklore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193Transpacific Cultural Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Women’s StudiesArt, Craft, and Film in Native America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163Asia/Pacific/America: Contact Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201Clashes and Alliances: Reframing America and the Middle East . . . . . . 190Conditions of Production: Feminist and Queer of Color

Engagements with Subjectivity, Nationalism, and Violence . . . . . . . . 215Culture and Consumption in the American City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Environmental History and Policy-Making in the United States

and Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

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Feminist Subjects in “America”: Violence, Recognition, and Citizenship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Food and Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143Homefront: Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180International Committee Talkshop III: The State of Women’s

Studies Around the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186On Location: Film Histories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164Photography in Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154Queer Studies, Media Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Working-Class StudiesAmerican Labor: Invisibility in National, Transnational, and

Colonial Contexts (Sponsored by LAWCHA and the Working-Class Studies Caucus) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Ecocriticism from Melville to Yamashita . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106In Motion: Crossroad Variations and the Work of Praxis . . . . . . . . . . . 132Labor and Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146Maneuvering Race, Labor, and Place in America’s Cities: Tactical

Survival in an Urban Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202Musical Cross-Pollination in Rhythm, Blues, and Rap . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2179/11 Vernaculars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120Not in Isolation: Solidarity, Responsibility, and Sacrifice

throughout the U .S . Southwest, 1900–2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121Photography, Power, and the Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225Power and Public Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144Prison, Plantation, and Empire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218TA to Tenure: Rethinking Academic Labor and Unionization

(Sponsored by the Students’ Committee) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

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