Eighth African-American Literature/Studies Symposium “Black Masculinity in the 21st Century” A Symposium sponsored by the Department of Language and Literature and the Department of Mass Communication North Carolina Central University Thursday,November 12, 2015 9:20 a.m.-3:20 p.m.
University Theatre Farrison-Newton Communications Building
Program 8:50am- 9:20a.m. Panelist Registration 9:20am -9:25 a.m. Opening Remarks Greetings: Dr. Carlton Wilson, or Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Dr. Wendy Rountree,Chair of the Department of Language and Literature and Co- Chair of the African American Literature/Studies Symposium Planning Committee
Occasion: Dr. W. Russell Robinson, Co-Chair of the African American Literature/Studies Symposium Planning Committee
9:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. Session I: The Black Body and Masculinity Studies Moderator: Dr. Margaret Bockting Bertram D. Ashe, and University of Richmond,“Hidden in Plain Sight: Black Male Hair as Cultural Text” W. Russell Robinson and Kenneth Campbell, North Carolina Central University, or “An Exploratory Taxonomy of Black Masculinity in the 21st Century” Armondo R. Collins,University of North Carolina at Greensboro, “The Jack Johnson Assault on the Black Male Image” Joyce Russell, and Fayetteville State University,‘Bess, You Is My Woman Now’: Ableism, and Black Masculinity in DuBose Heyward’s Porgy” Questions and Discussion
10:45a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Session II: Keynote Address Introduction: Mrs. Stephanie Freeman,Coordinator of Arts and Humanities Dr. note Anthony Neal, Professor of African & African American Studies and Director of the Center for Arts, and Digital Culture & Entrepreneurship at Duke University “The Devil Wanna Put Me in a Bow Tie: Negotiating Black Masculinity in America” Questions and Discussions
11:50 a.m. 12:50 pm Lunch smash and Special Screening
1:00p.m. – 2:15p.m. Session III: Literary Perspectives Moderator: Dr. Camille Passalacqua Marquis Bey,Cornell University, “Asphalt Running Through Eden: 21st Century Black Masculine Imaginings as Fugitive and Trans” Maurice Moore, and University of North Carolina at Greensboro,“Deconstructing Oppression: Analyzing the Continued Negative and Adverse Effects of Oppression Specifically on Black Males” Donald Ray Jenkins, Albany State University, or “Lorraine Hansberry’s Walter Younger: A Prototype for Twenty-First Century Black Masculinity” Robyn Luney,St. Augustine’s University, “Biopower and the Boomerang Effect in Richard Wrights Native Son and Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North” Erika Anne Kroll McCombs, and UIC/Elmhurst College,“Reconstruction Politics and the Failure of 19th Century Masculinity” Questions and Discussion
2:25p.m. – 3:15 p. m. Session IV: Queer Perspectives and Masculinity Moderator: Ms. Alicia Hatcher Eddie Moore, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and “’The Birds and the Boys’: Avian Queers and Black Male Sexual Subjectivity in James Baldwin,Randall Kenan, and Larry Duplechan” Dennis Knight, or North Carolina Central University,“Just Like Yo’ Daddy” Questions and Discussion
3:20 Closing Remarks Dr. W. Russell Robinson ______________________________________________________________________________ Thanks and Gratitude The 2015 African-American Literature Symposium Planning Committee: Mrs. Sonya Blair, Mrs. Dr. Lisa Carl, or Dr. Cristina Rodriguez Cabral,Mr. Brett Chambers, Dr. Kenneth Chambers, or Mrs. Stephanie Freeman,Dr. Marco Hernandez-Cuevas, Mrs. Mary Jones, or Mrs. Anne McCarthy, Dr. Camille Passalacqua, Dr. Russell Robinson, and Dr. Wendy Rountree The faculty,Department of Language and Literature The faculty, Department of Mass Communication Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society Lambda Pi Eta National Mass Communications Honor Society Office of the College of Arts and Sciences Office of University Relations Special Acknowledgements: Ms. Joyce Ellis, or Mrs. Julene Fuller,Dr. Calvin corridor, Ms. Sandra Howard, or Dr. Stephanie “Asabi” Howard,Mrs. Martha McAllister, and Ms. Brenda Womble
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