“Race & Reality: Mediated Truths”
November 19, 2010
“Race & Reality: Mediated Truths”
November 19, 2010
AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES AND RESEARCH CENTER’S
26th Annual Symposium on
African American Culture & Philosophy
THIS YEARS SYMPSOIUM IS SPONSORED BY:
THE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS
AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES & RESEARCH CENTER
“Race
& Reality: Mediated Truths”
November 19, 2010
8:30 AM—4:00 PM STEW 318
African American Studies & Research Center
Beering Hall of Liberal Arts and Education
Room 6182
100 N. University Street
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
Tel. (765) 494-5680/ Fax (765) 496-1581
Email: aasrc@purdue.edu
Http://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/idis/
Purdue University West Lafayette, IN
“Race & Reality: Mediated Truths”
November 19, 2010
“Race & Reality: Mediated Truths”
November 19, 2010
Symposium Scholar in Residence
Friday, November 19, 2010
Dr. Trudier Harris
STEW 318
Welcome—Dr. Venetria K. Patton
Visiting Scholar in Residence, University of Alabama
Luncheon—Plenary
12:30 PM
Faculty Lounge, Purdue Memorial Union
SESSION ONE
8:45 a.m—10:15 a.m.
“Hip-hop as the New/Old Form of Drama: Amiri Baraka and the One—Man Show
Mr. Khalid Y. Long, Miami University of Ohio
“My Voice, My Truth, My Theatre: Women Stage Directors of the 1960s & 70s
Dr. Anne Fliotsos, Purdue University
Respondent: Dr. Trudier Harris
BREAK 10:15 a.m.
SESSION TWO
10:45 a.m—12:15 p.m.
“Loss and Tesimony as Urban Narrative in John Edgar Widemans’s Philadelphia Fire
Ms. Casarae Gibson, Purdue University
Dr. Trudier Harris is a cultural critic and literary scholar whose work has focused
on writers such as Toni Morrison and James Baldwin. Dr. Harris ‘s publications
include: Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American
Literature (2001) , The Power of the Porch: The Storyteller's Craft in Zora Neale
Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan (1996), Black Women in the Fiction of
James Baldwin (1985), and Exorcising Blackness: Historical and Literary
Lynching and Burning Rituals (1984). Her memoir, Summer Snow was published
in 2003.
Born in 1948, Dr. Harris attended Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where
she witnessed and participated in protests as African Americans were beaten,
gassed, and jailed during the Civil Rights Movement. Later, Dr. Harris attended
Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio where she received her
graduate degrees in English. After graduating in 1973, Dr. Harris taught at
William and Mary College in Virginia before taking a position at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) in 1979 where she was the J. Carlyle
Sitterson Professor of English and Comparative Literature Emerita.
“Homosocial Black Male Desire as Mediated through the Horn and the Pen:
Elegy as Love Letter or Love Letter as Elegy in Michael S. Harper’s ‘Dear John, Dear Coltrane’”
Dr. Daniel Morris, Purdue University
Respondent: Dr. Trudier Harris
12:30 p.m. Luncheon West Faculty Lounge—Plenary by Dr. Trudier Harris
SESSION THREE
2:30 p.m—4:00 p.m.
“The Color of Spirit; or, Obama’s Postglobal Call to Responsibility
Mr. Alfred J. Lopez, Purdue University
“The ‘Whiting Out’ of Progress: Whiteness Discourses and the Wilmington Massacre
and Coup of 1898
Mr. Ryan LeCount, Purdue University
Respondent: Dr. Leonard Harris