Conference Papers
To enable more informed conversations among participants and attendees during the conference, below you will find papers to complement the speakers' presentations.
Tiya Miles, Tracing African American Life in Native American Spaces
Dylan Penningroth, Faith and Property in African American History
Deborah Gray White, From New Negro to Post-Black: Shifts in Black Identity
Thavolia Glymph, “Between Slavery and Freedom”: Rethinking the Slaves’ War
Walter Johnson, Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Human Rights
Brenda E. Stevenson, Ritualizing Black Family in the Wake of Freedom
Leslie M. Harris, What Makes a Successful City? The View from African American History
Carl Nightingale, Diascalar Perspectives on American Urban Color Lines: How Words We Imported Long Ago from Abroad Can Inspire Transnational Histories for the Future
Joe William Trotter, Jr., Shifting Perspectives on Segregation in the Emerging Postindustrial Age
Eric Arnesen, “Pursuing Economic Emancipation: Black Workers and the Labor Question in the Twentieth Century”
Adrienne Monteith Petty, African Americans and the Enduring Quest for Land
Shane White, The Colored American Anti-Masonic Grocery Association and Other Stories of Black Business
Session 5: What is African American Religion?
Anthea Butler, African American Religion outside of the Black Church
Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., The Category of "African American Religion"
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, The Bible Politics of the Black Freedom Struggle
Judith Weisenfeld, Sites and Sources for the Study of the African American Religious Past
T. Ruby Patterson Myers, Forging Freedoms: Internationalization of African American History
Barbara D. Savage, Professor Merze Tate: Diplomatic Historian, Cosmopolitan Woman
James Sidbury, "Just Before God and Man": Legal Traditions and Constitutional Visions in Early Freetown, Sierra Leone and the United States
Dolores Hayden, The Shapes of Time
George W. McDaniel, To Uplift Our Hearts: Building Bridges through Historic Preservation
Dorothy Spruill Redford, Seeing History Whole
Session 8: African American History as American History
Thomas C. Holt, African American History as American History
Jacqueline Jones, The Idea of "Race" As a Political Strategy
