Civil Rights and the Body in the American South
A symposium sponsored by
the Center for the Study of the American South
and the Duke University Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities and History of Medicine
Free and open to the public.
Please register if you would like to attend by emailing Danielle McGuire at dmcguire13@gmail.com. Registration deadline is February 22.
Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
Date: Fri.-Sat., Feb. 29 and Mar. 1, 2008
Location: Roseneau Hall, UNC School of Public Health,
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Tentative Schedule
Registration begins at 9:45 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 29, in Rosenau Hall Lobby. Coffee and Bagels will be served.
Fri., Feb. 29
Opening Remarks: 10:45 a.m.
Session 1: 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Slave Bodies
- Margaret Abruzzo, University of Alabama
“Pain and Human Rights in the American Slavery Debate.”
- Jurretta Jordan Heckscher, Library of Congress
“‘Might Whip Us De Nex' Day, But We Done Had Our Dance’: The Slave Dancing Body In Oppression And Defiance.”
- Thavolia Glymph, Duke University
Session 2: 1:15 -2:45 p.m.
Medicalizing Black Bodies
- John Mckiernan-Gonzalez, University of Texas at Austin
“The Tlahualilo Exodus of 1895: The Mexican Border, the Calculus of Fitness and the Boundaries of Civil Rights.”
- Nancy Bercaw, University of Mississippi
“Indian Skulls and African American Organs: Emancipation and the Biomedical Reconstruction of Race.”
- Margaret Humphreys, Duke University
"Intensely Human: The Health of Black Soldiers in the American Civil War."
Session 3: 3-4:30 p.m.
The Civil Rights Movement and the Body
- John Dittmer, DePauw
"Race and Health
Care in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Years"
- Danielle McGuire, Fellow, Center for the Study of the American South
"America's Dungeon: Sexualized Violence and Black Women in the Mississippi Freedom Movement"
- Richard Mizelle, Florida State University
"'Everyday Seems Like Murder Here': Mississippi Delta Levee Camps in the Early Twentieth-Century"
- Kenneth R.Janken, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Keynote address: 4:45-5:45 p.m.
Keith A. Wailoo, PhD, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of History at Rutgers University.
Dr. Wailoo is author of several books examining how patterns of disease change over time in America, and focusing especially on the ways in which scientific and technological understandings have interacted with health care politics, racial and
ethnic relations, and cultural politics to inform responses to disease in the 20th century and into the 21st century.
Joint Reception: 5:30-7:30 p.m.
with the Southern Intellectual History Circle Annual Meeting and
the University of North Carolina Press
at the Sonya Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History
Saturday March 1
8:30 a.m. coffee and bagels
Session I: 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Violence and the Body
- David A. Davis, Wake Forest University
“Civil Rights through Carnage: World War I and African American Lynching Narratives.”
- Kennetta Hammond Perry, Duke University
“Souvenirs and Silences: Black Male Bodies, Black Women’s Activism and the Gendering of Race”
- Stephen A. Berrey, Indiana University
“Segregation on the Move: Black Bodies as Sites of Repression and Resistance in Jim Crow Mississippi”
- William Chafe, Chair, Duke University
Session II: 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Politics of Identity
- Ian Lekus, Tufts University
Draft dodging and the effort to "pass" as gay
- Steve Inrig, Fellow, Center for the Study of the American South
Jesse Helms and the Role of "Innocence" in American AIDS Policy.
- Matthew Mace Barbee, Bowling Green University
“Arthur Ashe, Masculinity, HIV/AIDS, and the Civil Rights Movement”
- Karen M. Booth, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Session III: 1:15 -2:45 p.m.
Body Politics
- Tiffany M. Gill, University of Texas at Austin
“Pampered Politics: The Black Beauty Shop, Health Activism, and the Politics of Dignity in the American South, 1960-present.”
- Blain Roberts, University of California at Fresno
“We Have Nothing to Apologize For”: White Women’s Bodies and the Culture of Massive Resistance.”
- Susan Burch, Ohio State University, and Hannah Joyner
“Race, Disability, and the Body Politic: The Story of Junius Wilson.”
- Adriane Lentz-Smith, Duke University
Closing remarks: 3-4 p.m.
Helpful Resources for Travel and
Accommodations
Travel to UNC-Chapel Hill:
Fly to Chapel Hill through RDU International
Airport: http://www.rdu.com/
Taxi service from airport to campus:
http://www.rdu.com/groundtrans/taxis.htm
Driving directions to the conference: UNC Visitor Parking Map:
http://www.sph.unc.edu/school/directions_to_the_school_160_2026.html
Campus Visitor’s Center:
http://www.unc.edu/visitors/
Accommodations:
Hotels and Motels on and near campus:
http://www.chocvb.org/catalog.php?mode=publicview&ref=30
The Carolina Inn and the Franklin Hotel are on campus
and within walking distance of the conference. The Holiday Inn and the Siena Hotel are nearby and offer shuttle service to and from campus.
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