Legal History at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association

The program is out for the 77th Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Society, scheduled to take place on October 27-30, 2011, in Baltimore, Maryland.  Here are some panels that may be of interest to readers:

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 Buffalo

INTENDED 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 Academy

RED, 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 California

POOR 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 University

WHAT 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 Iowa

SLAVERY, 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 University

INDIAN 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 Greensboro

SEVENTY 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 University 

The full program is here.