LACS The Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association

 

LACS-SHA 2008 Program
New Orleans, October 9-12

LACS-SHA 2008 Program Committee:

Rosanne Adderley, Vanderbilt University (Chair)
William Connell, Christopher Newport University
Jay Clune, University of West Florida
Contact: rosanne.adderley at vanderbilt.edu

Luncheon:

The LACS luncheon speaker will be Dauril Alden, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Washington: “Terror on Land and Sea: The Barbary Corsairs and Their Rivals, 16th to 19th
Centuries”

Tentative Panels:

A. Enslavement of Indians in New Spain

Presiding: Donald Chipman, University of North Texas
Comment: Susan Deeds, University of New Mexico

  • Ida Altman (University of Florida): “Slave Raiding and Spanish Settlement in New Galicia”
  • Robinson A. Herrera (Florida State University): “Native Slavery and Agricultural Settlements in Early Spanish Guatemala”
  • Juliana Barr (University of Florida): “’Traces of Christians’: Bondage in Spanish Texas”
  • José Cuello (Wayne State University): “Spanish Forms of Enslavement & Indigenous Resistance in Colonial Mexican Northeast”

 B. Mexico’s U.S. & Caribbean Borders: New Perspectives

Presiding: James D. Huck, Stone Center, Tulane University
Comment: Gregory Crider, Wingate University

  • Timothy Henderson (Auburn University Montgomery): “Mexico Meets the New South (1884 Cotton Exposition, New Orleans)”
  • Jürgen Buchenau (UNC, Charlotte): “General Abelardo Rodríguez and the Making of Baja, California 1920-1940”
  • Rachel Chico (Clemson University): “Caribbean Outpost: Jalapa, Veracruz & Redefining Coastal Culture in 19th-Century Mexico”

 C. Race, Nation & Identity Construction in 19th and 20th Century South America

Presiding: Edith Wolfe, Stone Center, Tulane University
Comment: Seth Garfield, University of Texas, Austin

  • Gregg Bocketti (Transylvania University): “Early Football Spectatorship and the First
    Republic of Brazil”
  • Nicola Foote (Florida Gulf Coast University): “Race, Intellectuals and Indigenous Heritage in Ecuador, 1870-1960”
  • Ana Lucia Araujo (University of Ottawa/Carleton University): “Zumbi and the Black Admiral: Constructing Afro-Brazilian Historical Heroes”

D. Black Society in the Late Colonial Gulf South and Caribbean

Presiding: Virginia Gould, Tulane University
Comment: Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University

  • Richmond F. Brown (University of Florida): “Enslaved and Free Blacks in Spanish Mobile, 1780-1813”
  • H. Sophie Burton (Independent Scholar): “Enslaved, Free Blacks & Mulattoes in
    Ouachita Post: the Case of Zadoc Harmon, 1780-1813”
  • Keith A. Manuel (University of Florida): “Slavery, Ethnicity and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century Havana”

E. Writing Race, Nation & Empire Across the Americas

Presiding: Natalie J. Ring, University of Texas, Dallas
Comment: Marilyn G. Miller, Tulane University

  • Jana Evans Braziel (University of Cincinnati): “Challenges to U.S. Imperial Designs by Frederick Douglass and José Martí”
  • Sarah Ann Wells (University of California at Berkeley): “Race, Modernism &
    Comparison: Gilberto Freyre’s US South”
  • James Nichols (SUNY Stony Brook): “Olmsted’s Travel Writing and “Raceing” the US/Mexico Border”

F. Proposed Phi Alpha Theta Panel: Racialized Labor Struggles in the Modern Caribbean &
Gulf South

Presiding: Amy Bellone-Hite, Xavier University of Louisiana
Comment: Ted Henken, Baruch College, CUNY

  • Jensen Branscombe (University of Alabama): “’Always Cuba in Your Heart’: Cuban Resettlement in Alabama During the 1960s”
  • Zhandarka Kurti (SUNY Binghamton): “Ethnoracialized Labor in Mid 19th-Century US South & Puerto Rico”
  • Leo B. Gorman (University of New Orleans): “Immigrant Labor Strife and Solidarity in Post-Katrina New Orleans”
  • Gary T. Van Cott (Tulane University): “Laboring Experience of New Orleans Banana Workforce in Comparative Context”

(Graduate student presenters are eligible for the Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr. Paper Prize, presented for the best graduate student paper on Latin American and Caribbean, Borderlands or Atlantic World history presented at the 2008 SHA meeting.)