[nyfoil-l] Fri., Feb. 4: BLACK MASCULINITIES CONFERENCE at CUNY Graduate Center

[Laura Rice]

Black Masculinities Conference
Friday, February 4, 2005
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street
New York, NY
To register for the conference please call
212-817-8215 or e-mail continuinged at gc.cuny.edu
<mailto:continuinged at gc.cuny.edu>
Provide your name, e-mail, institutional
affiliation, phone number, and mailing address.


9:30-9:45- Welcome-Kevin McGruder,
Jonathan Gray, Bill Kelly.

9:45-10:45- Keynote
11:00- 12:30- Concurrent Panel Session I
Proshansky
Auditorium


Abolition and Black Masculinity, David Reynolds, moderator
John Stauffer, Harvard “Interracial Friendships and Freedom in Moby-Dick
and The Heroic Slave;” Timothy Patrick McCarthy, UNC-Chapel Hill,
“(Race) Rebels With a Cause: Antislavery Fiction and Black Masculinity,”
Judith Mulcahy, CUNY Graduate Center, “Power from the People: Williams
Wells Brown, Thomas Jefferson and the Yardwork of Nation-Building.”

Masculinity, Gender and Sexuality, Tyler Schmidt moderator
Shane Vogel, Indiana, “Re-Reading DuBois Reading McKay,” Vincent
Woodward, University of Colorado, “Researching Black Homoeroticism in
the 19th Century,”
Frank Leon Roberts, NYU, “'How Does it Feel?' Frantz Fanon, D'Angelo and the
Matrixes of Black (male) Visuality”

Transgressive Masculinities, Mychel Namphy, moderator
Sterling Bland, Rutgers-Newark “Parody, Transgression and Black
Masculinity in Percival Everett”s Erasure,” Rosamond King, LIU-Brooklyn
“Sexual Healing” Black Men Write Interracial Relationships,” Richard
Perez, CUNY Graduate Center “Defacing Race, Inscribing Blackness:
Afro-Latino Identity in Piri Thomas” Down These Mean Streets”

Masculinity and War, Geoffrey Jacques, moderator
David Duckworth, “Home of the Brave: WWII Trauma as Expressed through
the Male Subject,” Chad Williams, Hamilton College, “African-American
Soldiers and Constructions of Black Masculinity during WWI,” Louis
Woods, Howard University, “On Leave: Black Soldiers in Belfast during WWII”

Revising Gender, Transforming Masculinity, David Kazanjian, moderator
Mark Anthony Neal, Duke, “Post-Nigga Identity and the Queering of Hip
Hop,” Arin Hill, Texas-Austin, “Toward s a Critical Cartography:
Queer/Black/Female Masculinities,” Marla Stewart, Georgia State,
“Renegotiating our Queer Black Masculinities”

Trickster Figures, Nick Powers, moderator
Tyrone Stewart, Maryland, “Taking Black Male Depression Back to the
Lab,” William Fisher, Columbia, “Blowing Our Image Richard Pryor and the
Possibilities of Black Masculinities,” Anoop Mirpuri, University of
Washington “Why Can”t Kobe Pass (the Ball)”“

Multinational Masculinities, Ammiel Alcalay, moderator
Stacie McCormick, Raritan Valley Community College “The Limits of
Patriarchal Agency in Arrow of God and Nervous Conditions,” Andrea
Davis, York University-Toronto, “Translating Narratives of Masculinity
Across Borders: A Jamaican Case Study”, Cary Alan Johnson, Africa
Regional Director, Planned Parenthood “Male Involvement in HIV/AIDS Care
in Zimbabwe

12:30-1:30- Lunch
1:45-3:15- Concurrent Panel Session II

Proshansky Auditorium
Black Masculinity in Art and Movement, LeRonn Brooks, moderator

Harry Allen, “media assassin”, “Body Language: African-American
Masculine Movement as Dance Vernacular,” Derrick Brooms, Loyola-Chicago,
“Black Masculinities on Display: Representations and Cultural Images in
Exhibits,” Winston Kennedy-Howard University, emeritus “African American
Male Imagery in Fine Art and Popular Prints.”

On The Down Low, Cleo Manago, moderator
Jeffrey Quinn McCune, Northwestern University “A Good Masculinity is
Hard to Find: Towards a more transgressive politics,” David Malebranche,
Emory, Black Masculinity and HIV Risk among Black Men who have sex with
Men, William Gordon, Rutgers, “Self Representation, Self Oppression:
African-American Men on the “Down Low” Reproducing Their Own Marginality”

Prisons and Masculinity, Yasser Payne moderator
T.J. Obi, Baruch College, “Fighting Sweet” Masculinity and the “52”
Combat Aesthetic,” Talitha LeFlouria, Howard University, “Stranger in
the Camp: An Examination of the Southern Convict Lease System,” Dennis
Tyler, UCLA, “Iron City: Black Masculinity and Prisons”

Maculinity and Performance, Glenda Carpio, moderator
David Andrew Jones, Queens College, “The Representation of Black
Masculinity in Les Negres,” Julie Godin, Univeristy of Ottowa,”Cool to
Cold: Urban Space, Masculine Self-Fashioning and Barber Shop Books,”
Quincy T. Mills, University of Chicago, “Race, Entrepreneurship and
Respectability: Color-Line Barbers and the Question of Manhood,”

Expressions of Bondage and Freedom, James DeJongh, moderator
Rolando Jorif, CUNY Graduate Center, “Reciprocal Ambivalences: Harriet
Jacobs and Frederick Douglass.” Victoria Chevalier, Cornell, “Tracking
the Man, Moses: Ritual Productions of Black Masculinity in David
Bradley”s Chaneysville Incident” Maha Marouan, Nottingham,
“Representations of Black Masculinity in David Bradley”s Chaneysville
Incident”

Masculine and Racial Intersections, Akemi Kochiyama, moderator
Yuichiro Onishi, BMCC, “Masculinized Black Freedom in U.S. Occupied
Okinawa,” Riche Richardson, UC Davis, ““Culls of the Colored Race”:
Military Pathologies of Southern Black Men in WWI and WWII” Nina Ha,
Ohio State “Gay or Asian, Black or White”

Representative Figures, Robert Reid Pharr, moderator
Timothy Chin, Cal State-Dominguez Hills, “Millionaires and
Huckleberries: Black Masculinity in Ellison and James Weldon Johnson,”
Christopher Gilliard, Detroit Mercy, “Black Bodies and Domestic Colonies,”

3:30-5:00-Concurrent Panel Session III
Proshansky Auditorium


Black Masculinity in the Embodiment of Nation, Suzanne Schieder, moderator
Maurice Wallace, Duke University, “Playing the Race Cartes: Civil War
Photography and Black Manhood” Ivy Wilson, Notre Dame, “In Living
Color: Haiti and the Revolutionary Black Body” Rebecca Wanzo, Ohio
State”Red, White, and Black(face): Wearing Patriotism in the Truth Comic
Book.”


Cinematic Representations of Black Masculinty, Lise Esdaile, moderator
Ronald Tyson, Raritan Community College “If It Don't Fit, Don't Force
It: Black Maculinity and the Hughes Bros.” Gl Tyler, “Leave Your Balls
at the Door: Black Masculinity and the Buddy Film,” Terrence T. Tucker,
University of Kentucky “Multiple Images of Black Masculinity in Ernest
Gaines” A Gathering of Old Men and Spike Lee”s Get on the Bus”

Black Gay Masculinity, Kevin McGruder, moderator
Antiwan Walker, University of Kentucky, “When Blackness Isn”t Enuf,”
Alaric Blair, author, “Boys Will Be B-Boys”, and John Martin Green,
Black Men”s Exchange “Same Gender Loving Black Masculinities”

Masculinity, Then and Now, Moustafa Bayoumi, moderator
Zachery Williams, Ithaca College, “Moving Beyond Black Masculinity and
Towards a New Theory of Black Men”s Studies,” Seneca Vaught, Bowling
Green University “Redemptive Suffering and the Black Male Political
Prisoner,” Nicholas Boston, Lehman College”The Illest Ever: Black Men
and the Men”s Magazine Genre”


Health, Illness and Death, Alex Welcome, moderator
Aime Ellis, Michigan State, “Death Bound: Livin” the [Thug] Life, Keith
Barrett, Loyola Marymount, Masculinities and Insights into Men”s Health”



Sociologies of Masculinity, Angelique Harris, moderator
Khalil Shahyd, Brandies, “Neo-Liberal Development and the Construction
of Black Masculinity,” Malinda Alaine Lundquist, University of Minnesota
“E. Franklin Frazier and the Sociologies of Black Fatherhood,” Billy
Johnson, Wright State, “The Role of Racial Identity and Acculturation in
African American Domestic Violence.”

5:15-6:30- Roundtable “Where Do We Go From Here”“
Ta-Nehisi Coates of The Village Voice, Rev. Osagyefo Sekou of
New York Common Ground, Keith Boykin, author of Beyond the Down Low:
Sex, Lies and Denial in Black America, Greg Tate, cultural critic, and
Margaret Rose Vendryes, Professor of Art History, York College and the
CUNY Graduate Center.








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