ASC
Sessions on Race and Black Content
40th Annual ASA Conference
EXTREME Appalachia! March
9-12, 2017 Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
Session 3.18
Higher Education | Race and Ethnicity Race, Desegregation, and Education Convener: Peter Wallenstein
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‘‘Race, Desegregation, and Education between Goal Posts of Hope: The Role of an Integrated Football Team in Amicable
School Desegregation in a West Virginia
Coal Town,’’ Michael N. Kline, Talking Across the Lines, LLC
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‘‘Contested Communities in Appalachia: Race, Region, Power,
and the Making of the Whitest HBCU,’’ Dana Stoker Cochran,
Radford University
§ ‘‘Double Discontinuity in East Tennessee: Black Enrollment
at Maryville College, 1860s---1960s,’’ Peter Wallenstein,
Virginia Tech
§
Historic Christiansburg Institute (CI) and Museum, a leading African American secondary education boarding school
and the major education institution for African
Americans in Southwest
Virginia before it closed.
Pre- registration requested at http://tinyurl.com/ASAsignups.Session 3.21
History | Race and Ethnicity
Affrilachian Asheville: Exploring 130 years of the African
American experience in Asheville, NC
Convener: Gene Hyde
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‘‘Philanthropic Experimentation: George Vanderbilt, the YMI, and Racial Uplift Ideology
in Asheville, North Carolina, 1892-1906,’’ Darin Waters, University of North Carolina at Asheville
§ ‘‘The Urban Folk Photography of Isaiah Rice,’’ Gene Hyde, University of North Carolina
Asheville
§ ‘‘‘Get off Your Do Nothing’: Becoming Public in an Affrilachian Elder Gathering
Space,’’ Kenneth Betsalel and
Heidi Kelley, University of North Carolina
at Asheville
Respondent: Fred J. Hay, Appalachian State University
Session 4.17
Land and Landscape | History | Race and Ethnicity Race and Historical Practices in Appalachia Convener: Andrew Lee Feight
§ ‘‘Black Knoxville: At the Intersection of Race and Region,’’ Enkeshi Thom, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
§ ‘‘The Burning of CCC Camp Adams: Segregation & Sabotage
in Ohio's Shawnee State Forest,’’ Andrew Lee Feight,
Shawnee State University
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‘‘Appalachian Activist: The Civil Rights Movement in Asheville, North Carolina,’’ Patrick S. Parker, Appalachian State University
Session 4.20
Music and Dance
Musical & Dance Cultural Diversity in Extreme
Appalachia
Convener: Cece Conway
§ ‘‘Diverse Musical Voices in Extreme Appalachia,’’ Cece Conway, Appalachian State University
§ ‘‘Flatfooting Meets the Charleston in the Southwest Virginia Coalfields,’’ Susan Spalding, Berea College
§ ‘‘Sexy, Saucy, Bachata: Dominican
Two-step in Appalachia?’’ Shawn Terrell, Appalachian State University
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‘‘Recovering Marginalized Voices from Earl White and Arthur Grimes: Contemporary Black Musicians and Dancers in the Old Time Music Community,’’ Shohei Tsutsumi, Appalachian State University
Session 6.4
Critical Interventions
Organizing | Race and Ethnicity
Class Identity, White Racial Identity,
and Social Justice
Convener: Matthew S. Richards, Appalachian State University
§ ‘‘Class Identity, Experiences, and Intersections among
Young College-educated People in West Virginia,’’ Anna R. Terman, Ohio University
§ ‘‘Cultural Crisis, White Privilege, and Class in Appalachia: An Analysis of Selected
Memoirs,’’ Marie Tedesco, East Tennessee State University
§ ‘‘Where Are the Hillbilly Nationalists in the Black Lives Matter Movement?’’ Kimberly Williams, Virginia Tech
§ Respondent: Matthew S. Richards, Appalachian State University
Session 6.9
Sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
Material Culture | History
19th Century African American Quilters in Appalachia
Convener: Kathleen Curtis Wilson, Virginia
Foundation for the Humanities
§ Blacksburg Museum and Cultural Foundation, Alexander Black House,
204 Draper Rd, downtown Blacksburg
§
A shuttle will depart
at 12:40pm from the College Avenue entrance to Squires Student
Center. The Black House is a 5- minute walk (two blocks) up Draper
Rd.
Session 6.16
History | Race and Ethnicity | Gender
Extreme Early Appalachia
Convener: Sarah E. McCartney
§ ‘‘The Yuchi Indians of Appalachia,’’ Jim Glanville, Independent Scholar
§ ‘‘Alles 1st Ganz Anders Hier: The German Immigrant of the 18th Century Backcountry, 1730-1775,’’ Anna Kiefer, Lord Fairfax
Community College
§ ‘‘‘The Original Purchase Was Blood, and Mine Shall Seal the Surrender’: Revolutionary-era Settlement and Sentiment
in Botetourt County,
Virginia,’’ Sarah E. McCartney, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
§ ‘‘Cherokee Gender in Southern
Appalachia,’’ Jamie Myers Mize, University of North Georgia - Gainesville
Session 7.4
Field Trip | Race and Ethnicity
| Education | History
§ Convener: Jessie Eaves, Executive Board Member,
Christiansburg Institute
Session 7.12
Workshop | Organizing | Race and Ethnicity
§ Racial Justice
in Appalachia: Organizing White People
for Change
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Using interactive exercises from SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice), participants explore
their attitudes and experiences in action for racial
justice, as well as the history of white anti-racists in the country and region. The workshop
considers the experience of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth in incorporating a racial
justice.
§ Convener and Presenter: Meta Mendel-Reyes, Berea College
Session 7.19
History | Politics and Government
History and Politics I
Convener: John R. Burch, Campbellsville University
§ ‘‘We Can Burn Coal in Compliance with Clean
Air Laws: West Virginia’s War ‘for’ Clean
Coal, 1977-1984,’’ William
H. Gorby, West
Virginia University
§ ‘‘The View of the Coalfields from the Corporate
Headquarters, 1945-60,’’ Lou
Martin, Chatham University
§ ‘‘Integrating Appalachia: Competing Visions
of John C. Campbell
and John D. Whisman,’’
Glen Taul, Campbellsville University
§ ‘‘Matt Reese & the West Virginia
Primary of 1960:
The Birth of Modern
Day Political Consulting,’’ Lori Thompson, Marshall University
Session 8.1, Highlighted Session Literary Reading
§ ‘‘Chasing Utopia,’’ Nikki Giovanni, Virginia Tech
§ Convener: Emily Blair, University of Louisville
Session 8.3: Field Trip
History | Race and Ethnicity
Solitude Historic Farmhouse and Slave Dwelling
Dating back more than 200 years,
Solitude was first a farmhouse
that was part of a constellation of New River Valley slave-run plantations. Solitude was later home to the Preston and Olin Institute, which in 1872 became the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (now known as Virginia Tech). Pre-registration requested
at http://tinyurl.com/ASAsignups.
Convener: Elizabeth Fine, Emerita, Virginia Tech
