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Copies of the presentations given at
the “American Movement Cultures” conference, held in June
1996, are now available only by writing directly to their authors.
Thank you.
CONFERENCE
PROGRAM
FRIDAY, JUNE 21st:
Fri 9:30-4pm : Registration, Compton Union Building (CUB) 125
Fri 9:30 -10:30 : Coffee & Tea, CUB 125
Fri 10:30am-noon: Welcoming Remarks and Session 1, CUB Room 127
Utopian Movements: Bodies, Work, Reform, and Cultures of Perfection
- Pam Hardman (Eastern Washington University) “'Pure Minds
and Healthy Bodies': Purity Reform Movements in America”
- John Gonzales (Washington State University) “Skirting
Victoria: Antebellum Sexual Utopias”
- Kyle Julien (University of California, Los Angles) “EPIC
Migrations: Upton Sinclair's EPIC Plan and the Discourse of the
Middle Westerner in Los Angeles”
- Moderator: Alex Hammond
Fri Noon-1pm No Host Lunch CUB cafeteria
Fri 1-2:30pm Session 2A: CUB 127
Gay Movements, Queer Representations
- Curtis Wasson (Washington State University) “Two (Con)Texts of Kiss of the Spiderwoman:
Revolutionary Homosexual Novel and Liberal American Gay Movement
Film”
- Beth Kraig (Pacific Lutheran University) “The Only Way
to Win? Thwarting Anti-Gay Initiative 13 in Seattle”
- Gary Holcomb (Washington State University) “Movement and Movements among the Diaspora:
Queer Patronages and the Voyages of Claude McKay”
- Moderator: Kendal Broad
Session 2B: CUB 123
Chicanos/as in Movement: Regions, Representations
- Maria Chavez (Washington State University) “Chicano/a Movements in the Pacific
Northwest”
- Juan Ignacio Oliva (Laguna University, Tenerife, Canary Islands,
Spain) “Migrant Challenges in American Literature”
- Maria Cuevas, “Cultures of Chicana Activism in Southern
California”
- Moderator: NoÎl Sturgeon
Fri 3-4:30pm Session 3A: CUB 127, Mt. St. Helens
Deviant Feminisms?
- Kim Holcomb (Washington State University) “Bodies in Pain: Contexts for Erotic
Pain vs. Feminist Views of Sexual Deviance”
- Ednie Garrison (Washington State University) “Punk Rock Revolution—Grrrl Style!:
Girl-Positive Music and Third Wave Feminist Movement Cultures”
- Marsha McCauley (Washington State University) “Drag Shows and their Repercussions
on Gender Stereotypes”
- Moderator: Ednie Garrison
Session 3B: CUB 123
Representing African-American Identities
- Alexis Nyandwi (Washington State University) “'Negro' Media in the Early Civil
Rights Movement ”
- Joseph Gurley (Washington State University) “'The Paradox of Blackness/Maleness'
in America: An Analytical Approach to a Cultural Movement”
- Ann Garnsey (Washington State University) '''Nigger Lovers,' 'White Negroes', 'Wiggers'
and 'Globetrotters': White Racial Touring in 20th Century America"
- Moderator: Abdoulaye Saine
Fri 5-5:45pm POETRY READING AND DISCUSSION: CUB 127, Mt. St. Helens
Lalo Delgado, Chicano poet & activist will read from his poems
and discuss his involvement in the Chicano/a Movement
Fri 6-7:-15pm Conference Dinner: CUB 125 (meal ticket required)
Fri 7:30pm :
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: CUB 127
Charles Payne, Northwestern University
“Once and Future SNCC?”
What does a proposed revival of the Student Non-violent Coordinating
Committee of Civil Rights movement fame tell us about the past and
the present of the Movement?
Fri 9-10:30pm : Northwest FILM Premier: Todd Hall 276
“W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices”
A brilliantly innovative new film directed by Louis Massiah, with
segments written and narrated by African-American intellectuals
Amiri Baraka, Thulani Davis, Wesley Brown and the late Toni Cade
Bambara
SATURDAY: JUNE 22nd
Sat 8:00-8:30am Coffee & Light Breakfast: CUB 125
Sat 8:30-10am: Session 4A: CUB 123
Performing Marginalized Identities
- Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
“Monkhood in 3 Easy Lessons: Performing an Asian American
Male Identity”
- Aloun Silattanakoun (Washington State University) “The Asian American Movement:
In Search of 'Asianness'”
- Bashar Abdullah (Washington State University) “From Black Muslim to Muslim: Reform,
Factionalism, and Schism in a Philadelphia Muslim Community”
- Moderator: Susan Kilgore
Session 4B CUB 127
Democracy Travels: Race, Nationalism, and Western Paradigms of
Equality
- Mary Jo Gonzales (Washington State University) “'Realizing the Dream of a Color
Blind Society': The Meritocracy Movement, Affirmative Action and
the Discourse of the California Civil Rights Initiative”
- Carol Batker (Florida State University) “Immigration and
the Crisis of National Allegiance in Early Jewish American Women's
Literature and Journalism”
- Anel Bulatova (Washington State University) “Comparing Ethnic Nationalist Movements:
USA, Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union”
- Moderator: Mary Jo Gonzales
Sat 10:30am-12pm Session 5A CUB 127
Places, Displacements and Borderlands
- Eduardo Barrera (Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Ciudad Juarez,
Mexico) “Aliens in Heterotopia: An Intertextual Reading of
the Border Patrol Museum”
- Nicolas Shump (University of Kansas) “Boundaries, Border
Crossings and Crossroads: An Analysis of Emerging Paradigms of
Latino Ethnicity”
- Katrine Barber (Washington State University) “Mexico de Afuera of California,
USA?: Helen Hunt Jackson, the Californian Mission Revivalists
and Collecting the Narratives of Nineteenth Century Nationalism”
- Moderator: Lisa Lowe
Session 5B CUB 123
Popular Cultures, Indian Cultures, Movement Cultures
- Edison Cassadore (University of Arizona)“American Indian
Reconciliation Narratives in Silko's Ceremony and Costner's 'Dances
with Wolves'”
- James Stripes (Washington State University) “Russell Means: From 'Actorvist' at
Wounded Knee to the Voice of Disney's Powhatan”
- Chrysula Dimitrakopulu (Washington State University) “(Post)Modern Identity, American
Indian Spirituality and the New Age Movement”
- Moderator: Cheyenne Tuller
Sat Noon-1pm Conference Luncheon: CUB 125 (meal ticket required)
Sat 1-2pm :
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: CUB 127
Lisa Lowe, University of California, San Diego
“Immigrant Acts: Social Movements and Political Subjects”
Using the complexities of Asian American identity formation as her
example, Lowe will explore the implications for movements of the
emerging transnational, postmodern political economy
Sat 2:30-4pm : Session 6A: CUB 127
Scripted Resistance: African American Texts in Movement
- Cynthia Dobbs (University of California, Berkeley) "Inscriptions
of History in Beloved: Bodies and Codes"
- Marcus Tribbett (Washington State University) “Memphis Minnie and Hidden Transcripts
of Resistance in Blues Culture”
- C.K. Doreski (Boston University) "Televisual Intertexts in
Alice Walker's Meridian"
- Moderator: Shelli Fowler
Session 6B: Film: Todd Hall 276
“Not Bad for a Girl” (This film will be shown again
at 9pm at The Combine; see below)
Sat 4:30-6pm : Session 7A: CUB 127
Feminist Cultures Across the Generations
A roundtable discussion with representatives of several generations
of American feminists.
Session 7B: CUB 123
Labor Cultures: Unionism, Environmental Protection, and Employment
- Alison Eisinger (University of Washington) [written with David
Gerwin] “Workers on the Edge: The Newark Committee for Full
Employment”
- Doug Nilson (Idaho State University) “Political Sociology
of the Wise Use Movement”
- John Whitmer (University of Idaho) “The Movement Culture
of Industrial Unionism: The Knights of Labor and the Industrial
Workers of the World”
- Moderator: T.V. Reed
Sat 6:30-9pm Dinner Reception hosted by American Studies, Bundy Reading
Room, Avery Hall
Sat 9pm : Northwest FILM Premier: The Combine, E 215 Main, downtown
Pullman
“Not Bad for a Girl”
A fine film by Lisa Apramian about young feminists in alternative
music scenes (Riot Grrrls, etc). Discussion will follow.
SUNDAY: JUNE 23rd
Sun 9-10:30am : Session 8A: Bundy Reading Room, Avery Hall
Environmental Imaginaries: Culture, Place, and Social Movements
- Stan Beyer (University of California, Irvine) “Unwise Allegiance:
The Wise Use Movement, Property, and the Global Economy”
- Blaine Vogt (Brandeis University) “Moving in Place: Bioregional
Movements and the Reinvention of the Commons”
- Janelle Collins (Washington State University) “Appropriations and Intersections:
Discourses of the Animal Rights Movement”
- Moderator: Darin Saul
Sun 10:30 to 11am : Brunch: Bundy Reading Room
Sun 11am-noon : Closing Roundtable Discussion: Bundy Reading Room
“The Future of American Social Movements?”
- Charles Payne, Lisa Lowe and all participants
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