Race & Political Discourse in the United States Today
 | Friday And Saturday, April 3-4, 2009 Sponsored by: Event Co-Sponsors: |
| FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2009 | |
| 9:30 | Opening remarks by Daphene R. McFerren, Director Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change, University of Memphis |
| 9:30 | OBAMA AND THE MEDIA: CARICATURES, REPRESENTATIONS AND HIP HOP Chair: Reece L. Auguiste, University of Memphis |
| Change Gonna Come: Obama’s Rhetorical Genius and its Impact on Hip Hop Wilfredo Gomez, Bucknell University | |
| Killing Two Birds with One Stone: a Muslim Obama Usame Tunagur, Ohio University | |
| 10:45 | Rac[e]ing Obama; Rac[e]ing McCain Leonard Baynes, St. Johns Law School, New York |
| 12:00 | LUNCH |
| 2:00 | DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING AWARD CEREMONY AND RECEPTION Sponsored by African and African American Studies and the University of Memphis (Panhellenic Building) |
| 3:30 | GENDER IDENTITY AND RACIAL IDENTITY: BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA Chair: Shelby Crosby, University of Memphis |
| Barack Obama: In Search of his Father, in Search of Himself Stephanie Li, University of Rochester | |
| Obama’s Baby Mama: How Michelle Obama’s Self-Narratives in the Media Negotiate Racism Eluned Jones, University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada | |
| 6:00 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS* *All Conference proceedings (with one exception noted on the program) will take place on the University of Memphis campus at the Michael D. Rose Theatre Lecture Hall. All events are free and open to the public, on a first-come, first serve basis. A capacity crowd is expected for Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.’s keynote address, and, when that occurs, no more people will be admitted to the Rose Theatre. |
| SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 2009 | |
| 9:30 | OBAMA, RACE AND PUBLIC POLICY |
| Racism, Stress and Health: Why Obama’s Class Based Approach Won’t Eliminate Racial and Health Gaps Vernellia R. Randall, University of Dayton School of Law | |
| Anti-Zionist by Association: Conservative American-Jewish Perceptions of Candidate Obama Jonathan Sciarcon, University of California at Santa Barbara | |
| 10:30 | Towards a More Perfect Union: Obama and Colorblind Public Policy Bill E. Lawson, University of Memphis |
| 11:30 | LUNCH |
| 12:30 | CRITICAL RACE THEORY MEETS A POST-ETHNIC AMERICA? |
| What are you? A Post-Race Obama America Meets Critical Race Theory Celia Anderson, University of Memphis Adrienne Dixson, Ohio State University | |
| A Post-Election Obama Meets Critical Race Theory Thandeka Chapman, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | |
| 2:15 | OLD SCHOOL POLITICS? THE CONTINUING RELEVANCE OF RACE AND ETHNICITY IN MEMPHIS Panel Discussion |
| 4:00 | PLENARY ADDRESS |
| 5:00 | Closing Remarks by Jonathan Judaken, Director Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities, University of Memphis |
| 5:15 | RECEPTION Sponsored by The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change Local Advisory Board |
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