Experiences of African American Mobility since the Civil Rights Movement, Workshop May 6 2022

May
06
May 6, 9:00 am
Where

28 rue Serpente 75006 Paris

Where

28 rue Serpente 75006 Paris

9H - WELCOMING OF THE PARTICIPANTS AND AUDIENCE

9H20 - CONFERENCE OPENING

9H30 - PANEL #1 - SPORT AND MOBILITY
Chair : Marie Assaf (EHESS)

  • François René Julliard (Université de Nanterre): The First Great Migration and the Emergence of an African-American Olympic Elite.
  • Sarah Harakat (Sorbonne Université); "That 6-foot-8 Roxbury Monster on Your Team" : What Media Coverage of African American Athletes in White Suburban High Schools Reveals about the Politics of Race and Education in Metropolitan Boston (1966 - 1996)
  • Nathalie Loison (Université Paris-Est Créteil): The Rise and Fall of the Token “Cablinasian”: the Social Mobility of Golfer Tiger Wood in “Post-Racial” America.

11H00 - PANEL #2 - SOCIAL AND GEOGRAPHIC IMMOBILITY
Chair : Marion Marchet (Sorbonne Université)

  • Carla Toquet (Université de Nanterre): Young African American Men in "Men We Reaped" by Jesmyn Ward are as mobile as the cars they own : very stationary.
  • Nicolas Raulin (EHESS): Stuck in place? The Selectivity of African American Migration to the South and the Metropolitan Area of Atlanta since the 1970s.
  • Tanya Golash-Boza (University of California, Merced): Before Gentrification: Race and Dis/Investment in Washington, DC.

12H30 - LUNCH

14H - PLENARY CONFERENCE

  • Natoschia Scruggs (New Jersey City University): Newark, City of Dreams: Black Americans, the Great Migration & The Post-Civil Rights Era in Newark, New Jersey.

15H - CLOSING REMARKS

The program is also available below in pdf format.

Programme