The 43rd Annual Meeting of the
The National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS)
*** Preliminary Program ***
“The Black Condition within Global Shifts and Persistent Structures of Inequality”
BALLY'S HOTEL
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA
March 14 - March 17, 2012
2011-2012 National Leadership
Officers & Executive Council
Tyson King-Meadows
President & NCOBPS Awards Chair (20112013)
University of Maryland Baltimore County
President Elect
(Vacant)
Lisa Aubrey
Secretary (Term Ends 2012)
Arizonia State University
Kathie Stromile Golden
Treasurer (Term Ends 2012) and InterimExecutive Director
Mississippi Valley State University
Shayla C. Nunnally
Member-at-large (Term Ends 2012)
University of Connecticut
David C. Wilson
Member-at-large (Term Ends 2012)
University of Delaware
Terri Fair
Member-at-large (Terms Ends 2012)
Suffolk University
Boris Ricks
Member-at-large (Terms Ends 2012)
California State University, Northridge
Erica Taylor
Member-at-large (2011-2014)
Graduate Student Representative (Terms Ends
2012)
University of Maryland Baltimore
Undergraduate Student Representative
(Vacant)
Todd Shaw
Parliamentarian (Term Ends 2012)
University of South Carolina
Menna Demessie
Historian (Term Ends 2012)
University of Michigan, 2011 APSA Fellow
James L. Taylor
Immediate Past President
Michael Mitchell, Arizona State University and
David Covin,
Professor Emeritus, California State UniversitySacramento
Co-Editors, National Political Science Review
(NPSR)
Melanye Price
Nominating Committee Chair (Term Ends 2010)
Wesleyan University
NCOBPS Independent Foundations, NONCOUNCIL Status
Clarissa Peterson
2012 Program Co-Chair
DePauw University
Todd Shaw
2012 Program Co-Chair
University of South Carolina
Kathie Stromile Golden
Graduate Assistantship Program, Inc. (G.A.P.)
President
Mississippi Valley State University
Shiela Harmon Martin
Jewel Limar Prestage Mentorship Award
University of the District of Columbia
Bally's Las Vegas
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - Sunday, March 18, 2012
NCOBPS
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Date
Description
Mar 14 -Wed Executive Council Meeting
Mar 14 -Wed Reception
Start Time
12:00 PM
6:00 PM
End Time
5:00 PM
7:00 PM
Room
Las Vegas 2
Windows
Setup
Exp
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Date
Description
Mar 15 –Thu Registration-Vendor Exhibits
Mar 15 –Thu General Session
Mar 15 –Thu Exhibits
Mar 15 –Thu Breakouts
Mar 15 –Thu Business Meeting
Start Time
7:00 AM
8:00 AM
8:00 AM
8:00 AM
5:00 PM
End Time
7:00 PM
12:00 PM
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
7:00 PM
Room
Las Vegas 1
Las Vegas 6/7
Las Vegas 1
Las Vegas 2/3/4/5
Las Vegas 6/7
Setup
Registration
Exp
Friday, March 16, 2012
Date
Description
Mar 16 -Fri
Registration-Vendor Exhibits
Mar 16 -Fri
General Session
Mar 16 -Fri
Exhibit
Mar 16 -Fri
Breakouts
Mar 16 -Fri
Student Symposium
Mar 16 -Fri
Reception / Awards Dinner
Start Time
7:00 AM
8:00 AM
8:00 AM
8:00 AM
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
End Time
7:00 PM
12:00 PM
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
6:00 PM
10:00 PM
Room
Las Vegas 1
Las Vegas 6/7
Las Vegas 1
Las Vegas 2/3/4/5
Skyview 2
Skyview 3
Setup
Registration
Exp
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Date
Description
Mar 17 -Sat
Registration-Vendor Exhibits
Mar 17 -Sat
General Session
Mar 17 -Sat
Breakouts
Mar 17 -Sat
Luncheon
Start Time
7:00 AM
8:00 AM
8:00 AM
11:00 AM
End Time
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
5:00 PM
2:00 PM
Room
Las Vegas 1
Las Vegas 6/7
Las Vegas 2/3/4/5
Skyview 3
Setup
Exhibits
Exp
Exhibits
43rd Annual
National Conference of Black Political Scientists
DAILY SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
(Outline)
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Description
Start Time
End Time
Room
Executive Council Meeting
12:00 PM
5:00 PM
Las Vegas 2
Early Bird Reception
6:00 PM
7:00 PM
Windows
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Description
Start Time
End Time
Room
Registration
7:00 AM
7:00 PM
Las Vegas 1
Vendor Exhibits
8:00 AM
5:00 PM
Las Vegas 1
Opening Plenary
8:30 AM
10:15 AM
Las Vegas 6/7
Break
10:15 AM
10:30 AM
Panel/Roundtable Session 1
10:30 AM
11:45 AM
Lunch Break (On Your Own)
11:45 AM
1:30 PM
Panel/Roundtable Session 2
1:30 PM
2:45 PM
Break
2:45 PM
3:00 PM
Panel/Roundtable Session 3
3:00 PM
4:45 PM
Las Vegas 2/3/4/5
Business Meeting
5:00 PM
7:00 PM
Las Vegas 6/7
Friday, March 16, 2012
Description
Start Time
End Time
Room
Registration-Vendor Exhibits
7:00 AM
7:00 PM
Las Vegas 1
Breakfast with APSA
8:00 AM
9:00 PM
Las Vegas 6/7
Second Plenary
9:15 AM
10:15 PM
Las Vegas 6/7
Las Vegas 2/3/4/5/6/7
Las Vegas 2/3/4/5
Break
10:15 AM
10:30 AM
Panel/Roundtable Session 4
10:30 AM
11:45 AM
Lunch Break (On Your Own)
11:45 AM
1:30 PM
Panel/Roundtable Session 5
1:30 PM
2:45 PM
Break
2:45 PM
3:00 PM
Panel/Roundtable Session 6
3:00 PM
4:45 PM
Las Vegas 2/3/4/5
Graduate Student Symposium
5:00 PM
6:00 PM
Caesar’s Palace
President’s Reception
7:00 PM
7:45 PM
Caesar’s Palace
Annual Awards Dinner
8:00 PM
10:00 PM
Caesar’s Palace
Las Vegas 2/3/4/5/6/7
Las Vegas 2/3/4/5
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Description
Start Time
End Time
Room
Vendor Exhibits
Panel/Roundtable Session 7
Break
Panel/Roundtable Session 8
Concluding Luncheon
8:00 AM
9:00 AM
10:15 AM
10:30 AM
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
10:15 AM
10:30 AM
11:45 AM
2:00 PM
Las Vegas 1
Las Vegas 2/3/4/5/6/7
Las Vegas 2/3/4/5/6/7
Skyview 3
(Preliminary Schedule of Panels and Roundtables)
Preliminary Program
43RD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK POLITICAL SCIENTISTS
Las Vegas, NV
March 14, 2012 through March 17, 2012
03/15/2012 - 8:30 AM
Location: Las Vegas 6/7
CBC Roundtable: The Conscience of Congress: The Congressional Black Caucus after 40 Years and its Impact on Domestic and Foreign
Policy
Menna Demessie , affiliation not provided to SSRN - CBC Roundtable: The Conscience of Congress: The Congressional Black Caucus after 40 Years
and its Impact on Domestic and Foreign Policy
03/15/2012 - 10:30 AM
Location: Las Vegas 2
Karen Stockett is not our sister, and we are not her help!
Pamela Cook , United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities - Flipping the Script on a Popular, Problematic Work: The Help, the White Racial Frame,
and Racial Justice Education
W.J. Moussa Foster , United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities - Justice for the Poor: The Help and its Competing Political Theologies
Julia S. Jordan-Zachery , Providence College - Black Women as 'Domestic Workers' in Academia: Or on How We Became the Help
Duchess Harris , Macalester College - Kathryn Stockett is Not Our Sister, and We Are Not Her Help
Discussants:
Duchess Harris , Macalester College
03/15/2012 - 10:30 AM
Location: Las Vegas 4
Comparative Political Thought & Racial Ideologies
Linda D. Smith , Florida International University (FIU) - Rights, Rationality, and Action: Factors that Influence Afrodescendant Social Moments in Latin
America
Jason Lee Mitchell, II , University of Nevada, Las Vegas - Department of Political Science - American Exceptionalism is an American Delusion: Why
America’s Manifest Destiny is No Longer What America Thinks it Will Be
Danielle P. Clealand , Princeton University - Racial Attitudes and Anti-Black Sentiment in Contemporary Cuba
Narcisse Tiky , University of Connecticut - Department of Political Science - The African Origins of the Athenian Democracy
03/15/2012 - 10:30 AM
Location: Las Vegas 3
Theoretical Perspectives of Black Politics
Stephen Graves , affiliation not provided to SSRN - The ‘Common Good’: Individualism and the Threat to Equality
Aria M. Kirkland-Harris , Government of the District of Columbia - Cultivating Civil Rights Leaders in 21st Century America: A Recapitulation of the
Talented Tenth
Kesha Perry , Mississippi State University - A Place to Call Home
Hoda Zaki , affiliation not provided to SSRN - The Perils and Promise of Transnational Activism on Racial Discrimination: The World Conference
Against Racism, the Durban Review and the Durban Plus Ten Conferences
Guy F. Shroyer , University of the District of Columbia - Hegemony, Nationalism and Doxa: A Social Semiotic Analysis
03/15/2012 - 10:30 AM
Location: Las Vegas 5
Lobbying, Redistricting, and Educational Policy Issues
LaGina Gause , University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of
Political Science - Resources, Salience, and Costly Signaling: Demanding Representation Through Outside Lobbying
Barbara Patrick , Mississippi State University - Are Race to the Top and No Child Left Behind Having the Desired Effect? Assessing State Education
Accountability Models and Teacher Dismissals
James Glenn , affiliation not provided to SSRN - Redistricting Competition Criteria
Donna L. Taylor , Pace University - Dyson College of Arts and Sciences - African-Americans and Study-Abroad Programs in Political Science
Discussants:
David Blanding , Brown University - Department of Political Science
03/15/2012 - 10:30 AM
Location: Las Vegas 6/7
Authors Meet Critics, Michael Dawson - Not in Our Lifetimes: The Future of Black Politics
Michael C. Dawson , University of Chicago - Department of Political Science - Authors Meet Critics: Michael C. Dawson - Not in Our Lifetimes: The
Future of Black Politics. Chicago, Il: University of Chicago Press, 2011 -- Presenter: Michael C. Dawson, John D. MacArthur Professor of Political
Science and the College, The University of Chicago
03/15/2012 - 1:30 PM
Location: Las Vegas 2
Political Participation: Engagement, Elections, and Representation
Luke Keele , Penn State University and Ismail K. White , Ohio State University (OSU) - African American Turnout in Majority-Minority Districts
Emily Brynn Stacey , affiliation not provided to SSRN - Garnering the Vote, Obama 2012?: The Role of Social Media, Disappointment, and Mobilizing
Minority Votes
Andrea Owens-Jones , Brown University - African-American Participation in Local Land Use Decisions in the Post-Urban Renewal Era, 1970-2010
Jatia Wrighten , University of Maryland - National Descriptive Representation and the Effect on African-American Voter Turn Out
Ravi K. Perry , Clark University - Applied Black Politics and the Science of Governing Analysis
03/15/2012 - 1:30 PM
Location: Las Vegas 3
Examining Racial Politics in Brazil: Race, Blackness, and Intellectual and Cultural flows between the United States and Brazil
Gladys Mitchell-Walthour , affiliation not provided to SSRN, Lucio Oliveira , University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Fabricio Fialho , University of
California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Jaqueline Santos , Harvard University - Examining Racial Politics in Brazil: Race, Blackness, and Intellectual and
Cultural flows between the United States and Brazil
03/15/2012 - 1:30 PM
Location: Las Vegas 4
Housing, Neighborhoods, and Community Organizing
Jim C. Fraser , affiliation not provided to SSRN, Ashley Brown Burns , Duke University, Joshua T. Bazuin , Vanderbilt University and Dierdre A. Oakley
, Georgia State University - Housing, Neighborhoods, and Community Development in the Neighborhood: Hope VI Policy and the Production of
Difference
LaToria Whitehead , affiliation not provided to SSRN - The Influence of Non-Governmental Organizations on Public Policy: A Case Study on Childhood
Lead Poisoning Prevention in Savannah, Georgia
Lashonda M. Brenson , University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Political Science and Jowei Chen , Stanford University - Department of
Political Science - Black Representation and Electoral Geography: Are They Related?
Andrea Martrese Slater , University of California, Irvine - School of Social Ecology - Master or Comrade: Empowerment Theories and Applications in
Parent Organizations of LAUSD
03/15/2012 - 1:30 PM
Location: Las Vegas 5
President Obama's Agenda and the Democratic Party
Keneshia Grant , Syracuse University - Department of Political Science - Practical Considerations of the Democratic Party in the Post-War Period:
Electoral Trends from 1932-1960
Robert Smith , San Francisco State University - Red, Black, Blue and Gray: Polarization and the American Presidency from FDR to Obama
Lorenzo Morris , Howard University - Behavioral Pragmatism: Obama's Approach to Employment Policy
Dianne M. Pinderhughes , University of Notre Dame - What’s Left of the Obama Presidency and Change Politics
Discussants:
David Blanding , Brown University - Department of Political Science
03/15/2012 - 3:00 PM
Location: Las Vegas 3
Identity, Ideology, and Nationalism through Popular Culture
Ricky Green , California State University, Sacramento - Fear, Trust and Hip Hop Nationalism
Ja'Lisa La'Shae Jorden , Jackson State University - Warped Images: Media Framing and Political Ideology Amongst Youth
Elka Stevens , Howard University - Visualizing the Black Condition: Exploring Diasporic Identities through Art
03/15/2012 - 3:00 PM
Location: Ls Vegas 5
Manning Marable’s Interpretation of the Life, Death and Legacies of Malcolm X
James Taylor , University of San Francisco - Manning Marable’s Interpretation of the Life, Death and Legacies of Malcolm X
Discussants:
Kurt Young , affiliation not provided to SSRN
03/15/2012 - 3:00 PM
Location: Las Vegas 2
In the Neighborhood: The Politics and Inequality of Urban Development
Maya Evans , University of Illinois at Chicago - The Path to Political Incorporation: Place and Race Matter
Ashley Brown Burns , Duke University, Jim C. Fraser , affiliation not provided to SSRN and Deirdre A. Oakley , affiliation not provided to SSRN - In the
Neighborhood: Hope VI and the Production of Difference
Caroline Harper , Howard University - Exploring the Political Power of Public Housing Residents in Baltimore, MD and Washington, DC
Regina Freer , affiliation not provided to SSRN, Melina Abdullah , California State University, Los Angeles and Ange-Marie Hancock , affiliation not
provided to SSRN - Black Community Organizing in the Obama Era: The Case of Los Angeles
03/15/2012 - 3:00 PM
Location: Las Vegas 4
Transnational Black Feminist Organizing
Adryan Wallace , affiliation not provided to SSRN - Intersectionality and New Challenges to Feminist Theories of Development: A Case Study of Hausa
Women's NGOs in Kano, Nigeria
Tiffany Willoughby-Herard , affiliation not provided to SSRN - Waiting, Dying, Crying, and What Else? Black Women’s Political Action and Migrant
Labor in Black South African Political Thought
H. L. T. Quan , Arizona State University (ASU) - Rememory & Enactment: Fugitive History and the Contemporary Struggles Against Urban
Displacement in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Alexandra Moffett-Bateau , affiliation not provided to SSRN - The Development of Political Imagination in Public Housing
Zenzele Isoke , University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Unheard Voices in American Political Discourse: Black Women, Community Politics, and the
'New Jim Crow'
03/16/2012 - 9:15 AM
Location: Las Vegas 6/7
The Racialization - Deracialization Concept in Political Science: Concepts, Controversies, and Critiques
Stephen M. Caliendo , North Central College, Darren Davis , University of Notre Dame - Department of Political Science, Andra N. Gillespie , Emory
University, Baodong P Liu , University of Utah, Joe P. McCormick II , Pennsylvania State University, Byron D. Orey , Jackson State University, Boris E.
Ricks , California State University, Northridge and David C. Wilson , University of Delaware - The Racialization - Deracialization Concept in Political
Science: Concepts, Controversies, and Critiques - Presenters: David C. Wilson, Univ. of Delaware; Darren W. Davis, Univ. of Notre Dame; Byron
D'Andra Orey, Jackson State Univ.; Boris E. Ricks, Univ. of California at Northridge; Joseph P. McCormick, Pennsylvania State Univ. at York; Stephen
M. Caliendo, North Central College; Baodong Liu, Univ. of Utah; Andra Gillespie, Emory Univ.
03/16/2012 - 10:30 AM
Location: Las Vegas 4
Moving from the Margins: Political Attitudes, Inequality, and Community Based Advocacy
Jorden Xavier Giger , Depauw University and Clarissa Peterson , Depauw University - Does Having a Black President Encourage More Positive
Political Attitudes?
Anita Keith-Foust , North Carolina Central University (NCCU) - Displacing the Poor to Benefit the Wealthy - The Role of Blight Designation in the 21st
Century Gentrification of Hayti
Ebony Sumpter , University of South Carolina - Community-Based Health Advocacy and Health Policy: A Look at Hiv/Aids Prevention Programs
Candra Chaisson , affiliation not provided to SSRN - Justice is What Love Looks Like: Social Inequality and the War on Terrorism
James R. McCoy , University of South Carolina - Bonding Capital, Bridging Capital and Black Political Tolerance
Diana Yvette Washington , University of Nevada, Las Vegas - A Look at Poverty Measurements
Discussants:
Karen Ellis , affiliation not provided to SSRN
Karen Ellis , affiliation not provided to SSRN
Karen Ellis , affiliation not provided to SSRN
Sekou Franklin , Middle Tennessee State University
03/16/2012 - 10:30 AM
Location: Las Vegas 2
Reactions and Responses: A Retrospective on Obama's First Term
Daniel Q. Gillion , University of Pennsylvania and Marc Meredith , affiliation not provided to SSRN - It’s Not the Economy, Stupid: Assessing
Presidential Approval Among Racial and Ethnic Minorities
Pearl K. Dowe , University of Arkansas, Fayetteville and Sekou Franklin , Middle Tennessee State University - Social Capital and Racial Animus During
the Obama Years
Angela K. Lewis , affiliation not provided to SSRN, Pearl K. Dowe , University of Arkansas, Fayetteville and Clarissa Peterson , Depauw University Obama's Universal Voting Coalition and Presidential Policy: The Impact of Deracialized Campaigns on Presidential Policy Implementation
Andra N. Gillespie , Emory University - Race and Rally Effects: Black Voting Behavior in Response to Attacks on Barack Obama
03/16/2012 - 10:30 AM
Location: Las Vegas 5
Local Engagement, Campaigns, and Governance
Geoffrey Stephen Bell Jr. , Howard University - Department of Political Science - Social Networking Sites’ Impact on Political Engagement: An
Emphasis on African Americans
John Bullock , Towson University - Shooting it Out with Pistol Pete: Wild West Baltimore Politics
Ashley Reid Brown , affiliation not provided to SSRN - Fundraisers and Facebook: How Local Officials Leverage Social Networks During Campaigns
Theodore J. Davis Jr. , University of Delaware - Capacity Building and Community Development in a Black Inner-City Community: A Preliminary
Examination of Black Leader's Attitudes and Perceptions
Discussants:
Karen Ellis , affiliation not provided to SSRN
03/16/2012 - 10:30 AM
Location: Las Vegas 3
Foreign Affairs, Finances, and their effects on Democratic Politics
Bernard Forjwuor , Northwestern University - Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences - On Politics of Decolonization:
Refashioning Black Politics against the Constituent Specter of Colonialism
Victoria Marie Jackson , affiliation not provided to SSRN - Patterns of Electoral Support in Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela
Karen Ellis , affiliation not provided to SSRN - Financing Freedoms: Money, Markets, and Multiculturalism in the UK
Leanne Tyler , Columbia University - Foreign Objectives and Domestic Grievances: Assessing the Interaction between Foreign Intervention and
Political Displacement and its Effects on Target State Stability
03/16/2012 - 10:30 AM
Location: Las Vegas 6/7
Black Women, Electoral Politcs & Policy
Nadia Brown , Saint Louis University - Black Women Maryland State Legislators and Anti-Domestic Violence Legislation
Brittany Michee Lewis , affiliation not provided to SSRN - Incites of Injury: Black Feminist Politics, Risky Tactics of Survival and the Production of the
Radical Consciousness in the Age of Obama
Tonya Williams , affiliation not provided to SSRN - Race(ing) Reproduction: A Black Feminist Critical Policy Analysis of the Prenatal Non-Discrimination
Act
Aiisha M. Harden , Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers University, New Brunswick/Piscataway - The Appeal of Black Republican
Candidates: Does Party and Gender Matter? An Experimental Study
Claudia Nelson , affiliation not provided to SSRN - Torn Between My Two Selves: African American Women Still Having to Negotiate What Comes First
- Their Race or Their Gender
03/16/2012 - 1:30 PM
Location: Las Vegas 4
Roundtable for Rising Black Political Scientists: Searching for, Applying to, Interviewing for and Beginning Tenure Track Positions at
Liberal Arts Institutions and Research Institutions
Christopher Matthew Whitt , Augustana College - Roundtable for Rising Black Political Scientists: Searching for, Applying to, Interviewing for and
Beginning Tenure Track Positions at Liberal Arts Institutions and Research Institutions
03/16/2012 - 1:30 PM
Location: Las Vegas 3
Ethnic Politics and State Violence
Tiffiany Howard , affiliation not provided to SSRN - Weak States, Terrorism and Sexual Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa
Luqman Muhammad Abdullah , Howard University - Department of Political Science - Strengthening Relations or Securing Resources? AFRICOM and
US Military Interest in Africa
Brandi D. Pikes , University of Mississippi - Department of Political Science - Racialized Perceptions of Minorities: A Comparative Analysis of Symbolic
Racism in Europe
Eugene Thomas O'Neal , University of Nevada, Las Vegas - Institutionalism and Ethnic Violence in Non‐Democratic Regimes
03/16/2012 - 1:30 PM
Location: Las Vegas 5
Social Identity, Linked Fate, and Sexuality
Shameka Cathey , affiliation not provided to SSRN - Rethinking Civil Rights: The Politics of Same-Sex Marriage and its Potential Impact on African
American Churches in Washington, D.C.
Nyron N. Crawford , affiliation not provided to SSRN - The Boundaries of Racial Loyalty: Blame, Exit, and Social Identity in the Black Body Politic
Camillia Redding , Columbia University - Department of Political Science - Conflicting Social Identities? How Race, Class, and Linked Fate Contribute
to the Identification of African Americans
Shayla C. Nunnally , affiliation not provided to SSRN - Black on Black Trust: The Politics of Black Americans' Intraracial Trust
Kasim Sheron Ortiz , University of South Carolina and James McCoy , affiliation not provided to SSRN - Black Queer Activism in South Carolina:
Creating Change, Defining and Redefining a Movement
03/16/2012 - 1:30 PM
Location: Las Vegas 2
Authors Meet Critics, Katherine Tate - What's Going On? Political Incorporation and the Transformation of Black Public Opinion
Katherine Tate , University of California, Irvine - Authors Meet Critics, Katherine Tate - What's Going On? Political Incorporation and the
Transformation of Black Public Opinion -- Presenter: Katherine A. Tate, Professor, University of California, Irvine
03/16/2012 - 3:00 PM
Location: Las Vegas 4
Voter Photo Identification Laws and the 2012 Election
Sekou Franklin , Middle Tennessee State University - Roundtable Series: Student Reflections on Political Activism, Voter Identification Laws, and
Social Movements
Jarvis Hall , North Carolina Central University (NCCU) - Voter Photo Identification Laws and the 2012 Elections
Discussants:
Artemesia Stanberry , affiliation not provided to SSRN
03/16/2012 - 3:00 PM
Location: Las Vegas 5
Research on the Economics of the African Diaspora
Nichelle Williams , affiliation not provided to SSRN - The Economic Integration of Trade Policy in South Africa
Athena King , University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Legislation and Racial Stratification: Using the Model of Racial Policy to Explain Racial
Triangulation During the Apartheid Era
Ife Williams , affiliation not provided to SSRN - Impact of Eco-Tourism on African Societies-Case Study of the Maasai
Charisse Burden-Stelly , University of California, Berkeley - Capitalism, Blackness, and Temporal Changes in the Diaspora
Geoffrey Stephen Bell Jr. , Howard University - Department of Political Science - Developing a Meta-Database for the African Diaspora, with a Focus
on African Americans
03/16/2012 - 3:00 PM
Location: Las Vegas 2
The Role of Race in Political Belief Systems
B. D'Andra Orey , Jackson State University - Black Racial Conservatism and Intra-Racial Attitudes
Brianna Mack , Emory University - Where Did the Mule Go? Tracing Linked Fate Trends within the 40-Under Black Population
K. C. Morrison , Mississippi State University - College of Arts and Sciences, Timothy Fair , Mississippi State University and Aaron Rollins , Mississippi
State University - Expanding the Myth of the American Republic: The Campaign Rhetoric of Barack Obama
Marcella G. Washington , Jacksonville State University - Accommodating a Conservative Agenda While Securing the Black Vote: How Alvin Brown
Became the First African American Mayor of Jacksonville, Florida
03/16/2012 - 3:00 PM
Location: Las Vegas 3
Representation in Light of Inequality Along Racial and Economic Lines
Carter A. Wilson , affiliation not provided to SSRN - Tea Party Republicans, the New Redeemers: Race and Class Politics of the Obama Era
Byrdie Annette Larkin , affiliation not provided to SSRN - The Demographics of the American Contemporary Voter: The Possibility for the Re-Election
of President Barack Obama and Realignment Politics
Sally Nuamah , Northwestern University - Race Conscious vs. Race Neutral: The Politics of Using Race (or Not) in California, Michigan and Texas
Franklin D. Jones , Texas Southern University - 2011 Redistricting in Texas: Cases Black/Brown Cooperation and Conflict
03/17/2012 - 9:00 AM
Location: Las Vegas 4
Author Meets Her Critics, Tamelyn N. Tucker-Worgs - The Black Megachurch Theology, Gender and the Politics of Public Engagement
Wendy Smooth , affiliation not provided to SSRN, Tamelyn Tucker-Worgs , affiliation not provided to SSRN and James Taylor , University of San
Francisco - The Black Megachurch: Theology, Gender and the Politics of Public Engagement
03/17/2012 - 9:00 AM
Location: Las Vegas 3
Race, Social Justice and Political Economy
Daphne Cooper , affiliation not provided to SSRN - Persistent Poverty Among African Americans in the United States: The Impact of Public Policy
Natasha V. Christie , affiliation not provided to SSRN - Felon Collateral-Consequence Policies: An Old Tool with a New Name
David Blanding , Brown University - Department of Political Science - Public Opinion and Segregation in US Public Schools, 1987-2010
Michael Clemons , affiliation not provided to SSRN - The Political Economy of African American Male Joblessness: the Case of Hampton Roads, Va
03/17/2012 - 9:00 AM
Location: Las Vegas 6
The Politics, Pressures, and Personalities of Publishing in Political Behavior Journals
Michael Mitchell , Arizona State University (ASU), Ismail K. White , Ohio State University (OSU), David C. Wilson , University of Delaware and Robert
Smith , San Francisco State University - The Politics, Pressures, and Personalities of Publishing in Political Behavior Journals -- Presenters: Ismail K.
White, Ohio State University; Michael Mitchell, Arizona State University; David C. Wilson, University of Delaware
03/17/2012 - 9:00 AM
Location: Las Vegas 5
Race, Economics, and Local Mobilizations
Paul White , affiliation not provided to SSRN - I Will Never Vote! Political Participation in the Land Owning, Antebellum South
Jerome Hunt , affiliation not provided to SSRN - The ‘Post-Racial’ Effect: An Examination of Black Mayors and the Effects of Their Policies on Lower
and Working Class Blacks in the Cities of Philadelphia, PA and Washington, D.C.
Todd C. Shaw , University of South Carolina and Robert A. Brown , Emory University - Department of Political Science - Politics is Not Enough: ReExamining the Racial and Economic Conditions for Protest in American Cities
Donn C. Worgs , Towson University - Lessons in Democracy: Mobilizations for African American Education
03/17/2012 - 9:00 AM
Location: Las Vegas 2
Racial Consciousness, Conservatism, and Black Politics
Yahoshua Ben-Yhwh , affiliation not provided to SSRN - When Change Looks and Feels Like the Same Ole Struggles: Black Politics, Colonialism and
the Republican Counterrevolution
Jo Von Marie McCalester , affiliation not provided to SSRN - A Poor State of Affairs: An Examination of the Conservative Attack on Welfare Recipients
Emmitt Y. Riley , affiliation not provided to SSRN - Southern Politics in State and Nation Revisited: The Hunt for Racial Threat in the Age of Obama
Andra N. Gillespie , Emory University and Brianna Mack , Emory University - Group Consciousness and the Origins of Black Conservatism
03/17/2012 - 9:00 AM
Location: Las Vegas 7
A Different Look at African Americans and Socio-Political Activism
Eric Pegues , Middle Tennessee State University - Electoral Mobilization and Interest Group Activity of Blacks and Latinos in Middle Tennessee During
the 2008 Presidential Elections
Sekou Franklin , Middle Tennessee State University - Documentary Filmmaking: Another Look at the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike
03/17/2012 - 10:30 AM
Location: Las Vegas 3
Conflict, Power, and Empowerment in the African Disapora
Leisa Oden-Kurz , affiliation not provided to SSRN - Conflict in Sub Saharan Africa: Is Ethnicity to Blame?
Rasel Mpuya Madaha , University at Buffalo - The Gods Must Have Gone Crazy: Neo-Liberalization and Impoverishment of Black, Youth and Women
in Africa
Patrice Z. Howard , affiliation not provided to SSRN - Economic Empowerment and Political Participation: The Political Impact of Microfinance in
Senegal
Athena King , University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Legislation and Racial Stratification: Using the Model of Racial Policy to Explain Racial
Triangulation During the Apartheid Era
Kurt Young , affiliation not provided to SSRN - Malcolm X and the New Politics of Pan-African Nationalism
Discussants:
Sekou Franklin , Middle Tennessee State University
03/17/2012 - 10:30 AM
Location: Las Vegas 7
Congressional Internships & Experiential Learning: The Odyssey of Political Science Students
Shiela Harmon Martin , University of the District of Columbia - Congressional Internships & Experiential Learning: The Odyssey of Political Science
Students on Capitol Hill -A Panel
Guy F. Shroyer , University of the District of Columbia and Shiela Harmon Martin , University of the District of Columbia - Connecting the Global and
the Local: the Agentic Experience of Diplomatic Simulations
03/17/2012 - 10:30 AM
Location: Las Vegas 5
The Politics of Race, Racial Group Consciousness and Racial Group Identity
Linda Trautman , affiliation not provided to SSRN - An Institutional Analysis: Racial Group Identity, Group Consciousness and Political Socialization
JoAnna Lynn Mitchell-Brown , affiliation not provided to SSRN - The Dynamics of Race and Power in Neighborhood Revitalization within Racially
Integrated Communities
Michael Combs , University of Nebraska at Lincoln - The Supreme Court and the Re-Invention of Differences in Post-Civil Rights America
Miya Woolfalk , Harvard University - The Relevance of Social Institutions and Networks to the Political Salience of Racial and Ethnic Identity
Discussants:
Karen Ellis , affiliation not provided to SSRN
03/17/2012 - 10:30 AM
Location: Las Vegas 6
The Intersecting Politics of Latinos, Blacks, and Native Americans
Darryl Omar Freeman , Washington State University - Neo-Colonial Adaptation or Neo-Sovereignty: Oklahoma Cherokee/African Ancestry Freedmen
Conflict
Andrea Benjamin , affiliation not provided to SSRN - Black and Latino Political Coalitions: Issues Over Candidates
Tony Affigne , Providence College - Modeling the Politics of Afro-Latinos: Lessons from Forty Years of Social Science
Rosalinda Maria Valenzuela , affiliation not provided to SSRN - Attitudes Towards a Candidate’s Race: The Case of Latinos in Dallas
03/17/2012 - 10:30 AM
Location: Las Vegas 4
Roundtable: Black Women in the Academy
Nikol Alexander-Floyd , Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Julia S. Jordan-Zachery , Providence College, Dianne M. Pinderhughes ,
University of Notre Dame and Duchess Harris , Macalester College - Black Women in the Academy
03/17/2012 - 10:30 AM
Location: Las Vegas 2
Political Psychology and Racialized Politics
David C. Wilson , University of Delaware and Darren Davis , University of Notre Dame - Department of Political Science - American Pride and
Prejudice: Public Opinion on the Meaning of Obama’s Election as President
Lafleur Stephens , University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Beyond the Pale: White Americans' Conditional Response to the Norm of Racial Equality
David C. Wilson , University of Delaware and Brennan Robinson , affiliation not provided to SSRN - Tell Me How You Really Feel: Targeted Anger
Toward Barack Obama and the Federal Government
Tyson King-Meadows , University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Rhoanne Esteban , University of Maryland, Baltimore County - Partisan Justice:
Framing Effects and Support for Investigating Electoral Malfeasance
Monique L. Lyle , Vanderbilt University and Sydney L. Jones , affiliation not provided to SSRN - Racial Priming, Emotions, and Health Care Reform
Okay…GO PLAY!! (What Happens in Vegas…) 