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