SYLLABUS
WEEK ONE, JULY 11-15 (GRAVES):
"Deconstructing Racial Knowledge: Questioning Methodologies"
Joseph Graves, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Monday - July 11
9:00 AM – 12:30 PM Orientation, Academic One, Room 226
2:20 PM Departure, by FIU shuttle, to University Park Campus
4:30 PM Opening Reception, University Park Campus, GC Gallery
(Light food and refreshments will be served)
6:30 PM Lecture, University Park Campus, GC 150
Biological and Social Constructions of Race: 1735-2005
Dr. Joseph Graves, Fairleigh Dickinson University
9:30 PM Departure, by FIU shuttle, to Biscayne Bay Campus
Tuesday - July 12
9:00AM – 12:30PM Academic One, Room 226
Discussion of selected texts by Dr. Joseph Graves.
Selected readings for Tuesday, July 12:
Graves, Joseph L.
2004 The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America. New York: Dutton Books
Social Science Research Council
2005 Is Race Real? (all articles) http://raceand genomics.ssrc.org
Wednesday - July 13
9:00 AM – 12:30 PM Academic One, Room 226
Student papers to be discussed this week:
Reconstructing Blackness: Fanny Jackson Coppin and the Institute for Colored Youth
Kai Wood Mah, McGill University
Representation of Slavery in the Montreal Gazette, 1785-1805
Tamara Extian-Babiuk, McGill University
Creating a Modern and Authentic Haiti: Intellectual Cooperation Between Haiti and the U.S. after 1934
Chantalle Verna, Michigan State University
Repossessing the Black Body: Identity Construction and Appearance in the African Diaspora
Sybil Dione Rosado, University of Florida
On Wednesday July 13, the following students will make a critical presentation of papers by:
· Mario Diego Romero will present a critical reading of Kai Wood Mah's paper
· Christian Campbell will present a critical reading of Tamara Extian-Babiuk's paper
· Irmary Reyes-Santos will present a critical reading of Chantalle Verna's paper
· Carol Subino-Sullivan will present a critical reading of Sybil Dione Rosado's paper
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Distinguished Lecture Series on Haiti, BBC Library – Room 175
“Caribbean Religions in the Diaspora: Continuity and Change” Dr. Leslie Desmangles, Trinity College
Thursday - July 14
9:00 AM – 12:30 PM Academic One, Room 226
On Thursday, July 14, the authors of the papers presented critically the day before will respond, critically as well, to the July 13th presentation of their papers.
5:00 PM Lecture, Academic Two, Room 115
Slavery Happened Here! Towards a Post-Colonial Canadian Art (History)
Dr. Charmaine Nelson, McGill University
Friday - July 15
9:00 AM – 12:30 PM Academic One, Room 226
On Friday July 15, Dr. Graves will comment about all aspects of the presentations and responses of July 13 & 14.
8:00 PM Dinner at Tap Tap, South Beach, Miami
WEEK TWO, JULY 18-22 (YOUNG):
"The African Diaspora: Contesting the Heteronormative"
Lola Young, National Museum and Archives of Black History and Culture, UK
Monday - July 18
6:30 PM Lecture, Wolfe University Center, Room 155
Archives of Knowledge and Imagined Identities: Heteronormativity and the African Diaspora
Dr. Lola Young, National Museum and Archives of Black History and Culture
Tuesday - July 19
9:00 AM – 12:30 PM Academic One, Room 226
Discussion of selected texts by Dr. Lola Young
Selected readings for Tuesday, July 19:
Hall, Stuart
1992 What Is This Black in Black Popular Culture? In Black Popular Culture. Gina Dent, ed. Pp. 21-33. Seattle: Bay Press
Hall, Stuart and Mark Sealy
2001 Different. London: Phaedon Press. Pp. 34-104
Hooks, Bell
2004 We Real Cool. London: Routledge. Pp. 1-14, 101-114
Shepherd, Verene A.
2003 Ethnicity, Colour, and Gender in the Experiences of Enslaved Women on Non-sugar Properties in Jamaica. In Transatlantic Dimensions of Ethnicity in the African Diaspora. Paul Lovejoy and David V. Trotman, eds. Pp. 195-217. London: Continuum.
Thomas, Kendall
1996 Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing: Black Masculinity, Gay Sexuality, and the Jargon of Authenticity. In Representing Black Men. Marcellus Blount and George P. Cunningham, eds. Pp. 55-69. London: Routledge.
Wallace, Michelle
1992 Boyz in the Hood and Jungle Fever. In Black Popular Culture. Gina Dent, ed. Pp. 123-131. Seattle: Bay Press
Young, Lola
1996 Fear of the Dark: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Cinema. London: Routledge. Pp. 115-161
Wednesday July 20
9:00 AM – 12:30 PM Academic One, Room 226
Student papers to be discussed this week:
Questioning Queer: Examining the Black Queer Subject in the Post-Apartheid (Black) Public Sphere
Xavier Livermon, University of California, Berkeley
Precious African Links of a Mighty Chain: Amy Jacques Garvey and the Politics of Pan-Africanism, 1944-1948
Reena Goldthree, Duke University
The ME in My Identity: How Diaspora Identities are Constructed in the Ghanaian Diaspora in the U.K.
Elvina Quaison, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK
Consuming the Black Male Body: Capoeira, Tourism, and Ethnosexual Encounters in Bahia, Brazil
Dara Schoenwald, Florida International University
On Wednesday, July 20, the following students will make a critical presentation of the papers by:
· Devyn Spence will present a critical reading of Dara Schoenwald's paper
· Marisabel Almer will present a critical reading of Xavier Livermon's paper
· Andrea Queeley will present a critical reading of Reena Goldthree's paper
· Tryon Woods will present a critical reading of Elvina Quaison's paper
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Distinguished Lecture Series on Haiti, BBC Library – Room 175
CARE and the Current Situation in Haiti: Challenges and Successes
Abby Maxman, Haiti Country Director, CARE
Thursday - July 21
9:00 AM – 12:30 PM Academic One, Room 226
On Thursday, July 21, the authors of the papers presented critically the day before will respond, critically as well, to the July 20th presentation of their papers.
5:00 PM Lecture, Academic Two, Room 115
Beyond the “Down Low”: Thinking Past Contemporary Heteronormative
Anxieties in Africana Contexts
Dr. Layli Phillips, Georgia State University
Friday - July 22
9:00 AM – 12:30 PM Academic One, Room 226
On Friday July 22, Dr. Lola Young will comment about all aspects of the presentations and responses of July 20 & 21.
Saturday - July 23
7:30 PM Party at Dr. Rahier's House
WEEK THREE, JULY 25-29 (PERSRAM):
"Mapping the African Diaspora: Fragmented Geographies and Positionalities"
Nalini Persram, University of Dublin, Trinity College; University of the West Indies, St. Augustine,Trinidad & Tobago
Monday - July 25
6:30PM Lecture, Wolfe University Center, Room 155
Positioning and Interrogating Diaspora in the Caribbean
Dr. Nalini Persram, University of Dublin, Trinity College; University of the
West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago
Tuesday - July 26
9:00 AM – 12:30 PM Academic One, Room 226
Discussion of selected texts by Dr. Nalini Persram
Selected readings for Tuesday, July 26:
Chivallon, Christine
2002 Beyond Gilroy's Black Atlantic: The Experience of the African Diaspora. Diaspora 11(3)
Clifford, James
1994 Diasporas. Cultural Anthropology 9(3)
Edwards, Brent H.
2001 The Uses of Diaspora. Social Text 66 19(1)
Hall, Stuart
1990 Cultural Identity and Diaspora. In Identity, Community, Culture, and Difference. Jonathan
Rutherford, ed. London: Lawrence and Wishart.
Wright, Michelle
2004 Introduction: Being and Becoming Black in the West. In Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora. Durham: Duke University Press
6:30 PM Reception and Dinner
School of Hospitality Management and Tourism Summer Dining Event
HM Building, Dining Classroom
Wednesday - July 27
9:00 AM – 12:30 PM Academic One, Room 226
Student papers to be discussed this week:
Remembering Angola: The Construction of Cuban National Memory during the Angolan Intervention
Marisabel Almer, University of Michigan
Heirs and Pioneers Coming Home: Remapping the African Diaspora from Ethiopia
Giulia Bonacci, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France
On the Corner of 125th and 7th: Constructing Allies in the Cuban and African American Press, Sept 1960
Devyn Spence, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Freedom of Difference: Decolonization in Nigeria and Chiapas
Tryon Woods, University of California, Irvine
Romancing “the Folk”: Re-Reading the Nation in Caribbean Poetry
Christian Campbell, Duke University
On Wednesday July 27, the following students will make a critical presentation of the papers by:
· Kai Wood Mah will present a critical reading of Marisabel Almer's paper
· Dara Schoenwald will present a critical reading of Giulia Bonacci's paper
· Chantalle Verna will present a critical reading of Devyn Spence's paper
· Elvina Quaison will present a critical reading of Tryon Woods's paper
· Maziki Thame will present a critical reading of Christian Campbell's paper
Thursday, July 28
9:00 AM – 12:30 PM Academic One, Room 226
On Thursday, July 28, the authors of the papers presented critically the day before will respond, critically as well, to the July 27th presentation of their papers.
5:00 PM Lecture, Academic Two, Room 115
Race and Visual/Digital Technology
Gloria Brown-Simmons, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Friday - July 29
9:00 AM – 12:30 PM Academic One, Room 226
On Friday, July 29, Dr. Nalini Persram will comment about all aspects of the presentations and responses of July 27 & 28.
Sunday – July 31
10:00 AM Beach Outing
Halover Beach, North Miami Beach
WEEK FOUR, AUGUST 1-5 (PURI):"African Diaspora: Hybridities Against Race?"
Shalini Puri, University of Pittsburgh
Monday - August 1
6:30PM Lecture, Wolfe University Center, Room 155
Dialogue Across Discontinuity: Feminism, Race, and Cultural Hybridity
Dr. Shalini Puri, University of Pittsburgh
Tuesday - August 2
9:00 AM – 12:30 PM Academic One, Room 226
Discussion of selected texts by Dr. Shalini Puri
Selected readings for Tuesday, August 2:
Gilroy, Paul
2005 Postcolonial Melancholia. New York: Columbia University Press. Pp. 29-35, 54-55
2004 After Empire: Melancholia or Convivial Culture? London: Routeledge.
Link to book: http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=115105
2000 Against Race. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Pp. 1-53, 97-135
Puri, Shalini
2004 The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post-Nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity. New York: Palgrave McMillan. (Introduction, Chapters 1-3)
Wednesday - August 3
9:00 AM – 12:30 PM Academic One, Room 226
Student papers to be discussed this week:
Una e Indivisible: Accounts of Haitian-Dominican Relations in the Island of Saint Domingue/Hispaniola
Irmary Reyes-Santos, University of California, San Diego
Performing Community, Creating Diaspora
Carol Subino-Sullivan, Indiana University
Making Blackness Invisible: The politics of Identity Formation in Jamaica
Maziki Thame, University of the West Indies, Jamaica
Black Immigrants and Social Mobility: A Dream Derailed?
Andrea Queeley, City University of New York
Diaspora and Africanness: Historic Relations Between Africa and Columbia
Mario Diego Romero Vegara, Universidad de Valle, Columbia
On Wednesday, August 3, the following students will make a critical presentation of the papers by:
· Tamara Extian-Babiuk will present a critical reading of Irmary Reyes-Santos's paper
· Sybil Dione Rosado will present a critical reading of Carol Subino-Sullivan's paper
· Xavier Livermon will present a critical reading of Maziki Thame's paper
· Guilia Bonacci will present a critical reading of Andrea Queeley's paper
· Reena Goldthree will present a critical reading of Mario Diego Romero's paper
Thursday - August 4
9:00 AM – 12:30 PM Academic One, Room 226
On Thursday, August 4, the authors of the papers presented critically the day before will respond, critically as well, to the August 3rd presentation of their papers.
Friday - August 5
9:00 AM – 12:30 PM Academic One, Room 226
On Friday, August 5, Dr. Shalini Puri will comment about all aspects of the presentations and responses of August 3 & 4.
1:00 PM Final papers due
E-mail to interad@fiu.edu
Subject line should say: “Improved Draft”
2:00PM Final papers to be picked up by conference discussants in ACI-381.
As a demonstration of respect for the discussants, NO PAPERS SHOULD BE TURNED IN AFTER 1:00PM
This Lecture series is made possible thanks to a grant from the Ford Foundation
and the support of FIU’s Latin American and Caribbean Center (LACC).
