YOUNGBLOOD: YOUTH, RACE, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS
PRESIDING: Prudence Cumberbatch, Brooklyn College
The Racial and Sexual Politics of Space: Youth and Interracial Mixing in New Orleans, Lakisha Michelle Simmons, Davidson College
More than a Hamburger and a Cup of Coffee: NAACP Youth and the Black Freedom Movement, Thomas Bynum, Middle Tennessee State University
Blackboard Jungle: Desegregation, Delinquency, and the Cultural Politics of Brown v. Board of Education, Anders Walker, St. Louis University Law School
COMMENTS: Elsa Barkley Brown, University of Maryland; Susan K. Cahn, University of BuffaloINTENDED AND UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF BRITISH SOVEREIGNTY AND RIGHTS DISCOURSE ACROSS THE EMPIRE
PRESIDING: Nicole Hudgins, University of Baltimore
Politics of Standardization: Sovereignty and the British Empire in the Middle East, Shohei Sato, St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University
Revolution Triumphant: Political Discourse and the London Shrieval Election of 1682, J. Suzanne Farmer, University of Mississippi
The Case of British Abolitionism: Seymour Drescher vs. Eric Williams, George Sochan, Bowie State University
COMMENTS: Nancy Ellenberger, United States Naval AcademyRED, WHITE, AND BLACK: CONSTRUCTING NINETEENTH-CENTURY RACIAL IDENTITIES
PRESIDING: Amy Dru Stanley, University of Chicago
Unintended Consequences: Restricting Notions of Whiteness in Maryland during the Early National Period, Patricia A. Reid, University of Dayton
Traces of Blood: The Legal Construction of Whiteness in Antebellum Alabama, Stephen Middleton, Mississippi State University
The Anatomy of Freedom: Constructing a National Archive of American Indian and African American Bodies, Nancy Bercaw, Smithsonian Institution
COMMENTS: Tony A. Freyer, University of Alabama; Ariela J. Gross, University of Southern CaliforniaPOOR WHITES, LABOR, AND LAW IN THE ANTEBELLUM AND CIVIL WAR SOUTH
PRESIDING: Jeff Forret, Lamar University
Charleston Culture Clash: Poor Apprentices in Working- and Middle-Class Households, 1790-1860, John Murray, Rhodes College
"He Stabbed a Valuable Colored Man": Commodification and Violence among Poor Whites and Slaves, Max Grivno, University of Southern Mississippi
The Demoralization of Labor: Poor Whites, Slavery, and the Civil War, Keri Leigh Merritt, University of Georgia
COMMENTS: Charles C. Bolton, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Nancy Zey, Sam Houston State UniversityWHAT THESE BODIES MEAN: RACE, REPRODUCTION, AND LEGAL CHANGE
PRESIDING: Nicole Rousseau, Kent State University
Nineteenth-Century Race and Reproduction: James Rowan Percy’s Obstetrical Case Record Book, Jennifer Kelly, University of Texas at Austin
She Went to the Colored Doctor: Abortion Prosecutions and the Practice of Interracial Medicine, 1882-1965, Cynthia Greenlee-Donnell, Duke University
Abortion Costs: Race and Welfare in the Political Struggle for Accessible Abortions, North Carolina, 1967-1985, Jennifer Donnally, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
COMMENTS: Crystal Feimster, Yale University; Joanna Schoen, University of IowaSLAVERY, MANUMISSION, AND THE LAW IN THE UPPER SOUTH
PRESIDING: L. Diane Barnes, Youngstown State University
Law, Religion, and Manumissions: Delaware and Slavery, Darlene Spitzer-Antezana, Prince George’s Community College
Slave Manumissions and Property Rights in Antebellum Kentucky, Andrea S. Watkins, Northern Kentucky University
Self-enslaved Property Owners in Virginia, 1856-1864, Ted Maris-Wolf, College of William and Mary
COMMENTS: Eric Burin, University of North Dakota; Janice Sumler-Edmund, Huston-Tillotson UniversityINDIAN CITIZENSHIP/CITIZEN INDIANS: RACE, IDENTITY, AND TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY AMONG POST-REMOVAL CHOCTAWS AND CHEROKEES
PRESIDING: John Ellisor, Columbus State University
Tribal "Remnants" or State Citizens: Mississippi Choctaws in the Post-Removal South, Katherine M.B. Osburn, Tennessee Technological University
Who Belongs? Race, Identity, and Tribal Citizenship on the Baker Roll of Eastern Cherokees, 1924-1930, Mikaëla M. Adams, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"A Good Type of Healthy, Honest Indian": Race, Gender, Class, and the Cherokee Transition to Oklahoma Statehood, Rose Stremlau, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
COMMENTS: Christopher Arris Oakley, East Carolina University; Greg O’Brien, University of North Carolina at GreensboroSEVENTY YEARS OF FAIR EMPLOYMENT: RACIAL POLITICS, PUBLIC POLICY, AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE
PRESIDING: Eric Arnesen, George Washington University
The "Little FEPC" That Wasn’t: The NLRB and Southern Politics during World War II, Sophia Z. Lee, University of Pennsylvania
Fair Employment and the Making of a Segregationist Movement, Jason Morgan Ward, Mississippi State University
Devil’s Bargain: The FEPC and the Paradox of Rights in the Welfare State, James T. Sparrow, University of Chicago
COMMENTS: Anthony S. Chen, Northwestern University; Joseph Crespino, Emory UniversityThe full program is here.