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2010 Black New England Conference
October 14 - October 16
Featuring Keynote Speakers, Rep. Byron Rushing & Lydia Diamond
The Politics of Race: Movements, Protests, Leaders, and Representation
The 2010 conference will explore varied and rich political ideologies and approaches, including the history of cultural, social, and political movements in New England from the 1700s to the present. Focusing on the Black experience, the conference will include presentations on strategies for self representation, the politics of race and freedom and the ways in which race shapes the political process.
The Black New England Conference is a 3-day conference that gathers scholars, teachers, researchers, community members and members of local organizations to share their work and insights on the Black experience past and present in New England. It is both an academic conference and a celebration of Black life and history in New England.
EVENT SCHEDULE
Thursday, October 14, Harriet Wilson Tour, Milford, New Hampshire
| 10:30 - 4:00 pm |
Visible Past: Harriet Wilson & Other Black History Sites in Milford, NH |
| The Harriet Wilson Project is pleased to collaborate with the Center for New England Culture in hosting the 5th annual Black New England Conference tour of Harriet Wilson sites and others connected to the Anti Slavery Movement and New Hampshire's black heritage. This tour will give attendees an opportunity to see the way Milford remembers its history and to learn more about Wilson's life. Attendees will tour the house where she lived and worked, and see the locations related to prosperous black families and the famous abolitionist Hutchinson family, as described in Wilson's 1859 novel, Our Nig; or Sketches from the Life of A Free Black.
Harriet Wilson is recognized around the world as the first black person to publish a novel in the United States, though until recently the importance of her efforts were not well known locally. JerriAnne Boggis and historian Barbara White will lead the bus tour and discussion on Wilson.
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Thursday, October 14 Murkland Auditorium
Friday, October 15: UNH Holloway Commons
8:00 - 9:00 am |
REGISTRATION |
9:00 - 10:30 am |
SESSION #1: MILITANCY & MILITARISM: THE POLITICS OF RACE AND FREEDOM
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- Verdell Roberts, Two Controversial Cases: The Amistad & The New Haven Nine
- Lawrence Goodheart & Peter Hinks, Joseph Mountain, David Daggett, and the Meaning of Black Freedom in Late Eighteenth Century Connecticut & England
- Bob Greene, Maine's Black Men of War
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10:45 - 12:15 pm |
SESSION #2: HISTORIC BLACK LEADERS: RHETORIC & MOVEMENTS |
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- Pearlie Peters, Frederick Douglass and the Nantucket Connection: From Fugitive to Anti-Slavery Advocate
- Lena Ampadu, The Politics of Race and Gender in Pauline Hopkins's Detective Fiction and the Colored American Magazine
- Michael Boston, Booker T. Washington & The National Negro Business League in Boston
- Vaness Julye & Donna McDaniel, Paul Cuffee
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1:00 - 1:30 pm |
LUNCH PERFORMANCE |
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Marilyn Richardson presents, Sarah Parker Ramond |
1:45 - 3:00 pm |
SESSION #3: BLACK FEMINISM IN NEW ENGLAND |
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- Courtney Marshall, This(Covered) Bridge Called My Back: Locating New England's Black Feminisms
- Joelle Ryan, Remembering Rita: The Murder of an African American Transgender Woman in Massachusetts and the Sparking of an International Anti-Violence Movement
- Marla Brettschneider, Black New England and the African Jewish Diaspora: A Study of Jamaica Kincaid
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3:15 - 5:00 pm |
SESSION #4: ENGAGING EARLY BLACK TRADITIONS |
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- James Finley, "The Final Ruin of this Happy Republic":The Agrarian Poetics of David Walker's Appeal
- Robert Munro, Gilbert Haven Jones and the Black Personalist Tradition
- Patricia A. Lott, The Dialogic Interplay Between "Bobalition" Broadsides and Festive Enactments Staged in Nineteenth-Century Boston
- Christopher Brooks, Keeping Face Relations between John S. Rock and Charles Sumner
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5:00 - 7:00 pm |
Break for Dinner |
7:00 - 9:00 pm |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS & OPENING RECEPTION MURKLAND AUDITORIUM |
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Saturday, October 16: UNH Holloway Commons
| 8:00 - 9:00 am |
REGISTRATION |
| 9:00 - 10:30 am |
SESSION #5: REPRESENTING BLACK PLACE & SPACE: THE POLITICS OF MEMORY |
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- Elizabethada Wright, The Rhetoricity of Collective Memory
- Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Remembering Du Bois: The Struggle for Recognition at the Du Bois Boyhood Homesite
- Marcia DeVeaux, In Search of Solid Ground: Urban Renewal and the Displacement of Black Communities in New England
- Cait Vaughan, "I wish she was away": Racializing Space in Harriet Wilson's NH
- Rev. David Allen Pettee, Crossing Borders: Slavery in Two New England Families
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| 10:45 - 12:15 pm |
SESSION #6: SHAPING THE NEWS: THE BUSINESS OF REPRESENTATION and polItics |
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- Daniel McClure, Black Community, Media and the Public Sphere in Boston 1967-1974
- Melanie Levesque, On Being a New England State Representatives
- Kay Boure
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| 12:30 - 1:30 pm |
LUNCH PRESENTATION |
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| 1:45 - 3;15 pm |
SESSION #7: THE ART OF PORTRAYAL: BLACK LIFE IN NEW ENGLAND |
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- Lydia Diamond
- Reginald A. Wilburn, Paternal Loss & Patriarchal Love in Lydia Diamond’s “Stickfly”
- Jackie Parker, Standing straight up as a actress in Black New England
- Delia Konzett, The Aesthetics of Protest in Oscar Micheaux's Within Our Gates
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| 3:15 - 4:00 pm |
CLOSING RECEPTION |
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