2012 Murap Conference Booklet

Table of Contents

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History & Program Statistics………………………...…...page 4 Schedule…………………………………………………………...page 6 Keynote Speaker Biography…………………………...….page 9 Conference Panelist Biographies……………………...page 10 Alumni Panelist Biographies……………………………page 13 MURAP Mentor Biographies…………………………...page 14 MURAP Staff Biographies………………………………..page 20 MURAP Student Biographies & Abstracts………..page 26 Acknowledgements……………………………………..….page 50 3

Moore Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program History This year marks the 18

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of the MURAP Academic Conference and the 23rd anniversary of the MURAP program. The mission of The Moore Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (MURAP) is to contribute in a significant way to achieving diversity in academia by increasing the number of students in the US—both from underrepresented minority groups as well as others with a proven commitment to diversity—who pursue doctoral degrees in the social sciences, humanities, and fine arts.

MURAP is named after our first doctoral recipient, Dr. Mignon Moore, now an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles and past director of Columbia's Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) program. Prof. Moore's educational and professional pursuits are a model of the academic excellence and dedication to academic diversity that MURAP strives to uphold for all of its student fellows. In order to foster the entrance of talented students from diverse backgrounds into graduate school and faculty positions within our targeted areas, we provide a 10-week intensive residential summer program. The 20+ students in each year’s class, all rising juniors or seniors in colleges and universities from across the nation, work one-on-one with UNC-Chapel Hill faculty mentors to design and execute high-caliber research projects of their own. In addition, they attend four workshops geared to preparing them for the challenges ahead (GRE Review, Communication Skills, Writing Techniques and Clinic, and Graduate Professional Development) and participate in social and educational activities organized by the program’s graduate assistants or chosen by the members of the cohort.

With the generous continued support of the Mellon Foundation and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, the Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development, the Office of the Graduate School, and the Institute of African American Research, MURAP aims to achieve its mission by identifying and training students of great promise and helping them to become scholars of the highest distinction. Please see our list of “Summary Statistics” in the following page to gauge our program’s results as of our last graduating class. For more information about MURAP please visit our webpage at http://www.unc.edu/depts/murap.

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MURAP Program Summary Statistics (as of June 2012)

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Number

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Total number of MURAP Alumni (1989-2011) Alumni who enrolled in graduate and professional school Alumni holding positions in Academia Alumni who enrolled in UNC graduate programs Alumni who have pursued or are pursuing the PhD  Alumni who have earned the PhD  PhDs in progress

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100%

222

58%

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10%

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10%

108

28%

58

15%

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13%

Alumni who have pursued or are pursuing the Master’s Degree  Master’s degrees earned  Master’s degrees in progress

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47%

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39% 7%

18th Annual MURAP Academic Conference

“The (Ir)Relevance of Civil Rights Today” Thursday July 26th & Friday July 27th Hitchcock Multipurpose Room Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 150 South Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599

Day 1 – Thursday, July 26, 2012 8:00-9:00am Breakfast 9:00-9:30am Welcome, Dr. Joseph Jordan, Interim Director, Institute of African American Research Opening Remarks, Dr. Rosa Perelmuter, Director, Moore Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program 9:30-10:00am Introduction of the 2012 MURAP cohort of students, mentors, and staff 10:00-11:00am Keynote Address: Prof. Carol Anderson, Emory University “When the Levees Broke: A Globalized History of Un-Civil Rights in America” 11:00-11:30am Break 11:30-1:00pm A Sampling of MURAP Students’ Research- Part I Michele Wells, Brooklyn College “Performing the Movement: Nina Simone’s Vocalization of Civil Rights.”

Codey Young, Ursinus College “Occupy The Hood: A Discursive Analysis on Cultural Resistance."

Ivory Goudy, Williams College “’Duly Convicted’ and the Thirteenth Amendment: A Review of the Criminal Punishment Exception.”

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1:00-2:30pm Lunch 2:30-4:30pm Scholar Panel I: Civil Rights in a Contemporary Context Moderator: Prof. Reginald Hildebrand, UNC-Chapel Hill Prof. William A. “Sandy” Darity, Jr., Duke University “Far Beyond Civil Rights: Bold Policies for Bad Times” Prof. Elizabeth Anker, Cornell University "W. E. B. Du Bois, Dark Princess, and the Pitfalls of Rights Logic" Prof. Mark P. Orbe, Western Michigan University “The Realities of a ‘Post-Racial’ Society” 4:30pm Concluding Remarks, Dr. Rosa Perelmuter

Day 2: Friday, July 27, 2012 8:00-9:00am Breakfast 9:00-9:30am Welcome , Dr. Taffye Benson-Clayton, Vice Chancellor of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Opening Remarks, Dr. Rosa Perelmuter, Director, Moore Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program 9:30-11:00am A Sampling of MURAP Students’ Research- Part II Korde Tuttle, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “Sun and the City: Engineering Demonstrative Change through Theatre” Isaura Godínez, California State University, Chico “HIV/AIDS in Zambia: Factors Affecting Access to Viraday in 2006” Julian Rucker, University of Texas at Austin “Racial Identity, Perpetrator Race, Racial Composition of Primary Community and Mood Responses to Discrimination” 11:00-11:30am Break 11:30-12:00pm A Sampling of Duke Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) Students’ Research Diana Ruiz, “What Remains to Be Seen: Feminism and Race in Cinematic Representations of Rape” 12:00-1:30 Lunch 7

1:30-3:30pm Scholar Panel II: Addressing the Limitations of Civil Rights Moderator: Prof. Ashley Lucas, UNC-Chapel Hill Prof. Mark Anthony Neal, Duke University “What if the Greensboro Four Had Twitter?”

Prof. Isaac Unah, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “Civil Rights and the Boom of Mass Incarceration” Dr. Zakiya Luna, University of California, Berkeley “When Civil Rights Aren’t Enough: Reproduction, Race, and Human Rights” 3:30-5:00pm Alumni Panel Moderator: Dt. Reena Goldthree Dr. Reena Goldthree (MURAP ’03), Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies, Dartmouth College Dr. Zakiya Luna (MURAP ’02), President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law Andrew Martínez (MURAP ’09), Third-Year Doctoral Student in Ethnic Studies, University of California, Los Angeles Kyera C. Singleton (MURAP ’10), Second-Year Doctoral Student in American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 5:00pm Concluding Remarks, Dr. Rosa Perelmuter

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Conference Speakers’ Biographies CAROL ANDERSON is Associate Professor of African American Studies and History at Emory University and has recently completed a fellowship at Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Miami University, where she earned bachelor’s and master's degrees in Political Science, International Relations, and History, and received her PhD in History from The Ohio State University. Prof. Anderson’s research and teaching focus on public policy, and in particular on the ways that domestic and international policies intersect through the issues of race, justice and equality in the United States. In the Spring 2013 semester she will be the Visiting Gladstein Professor of Human Rights at the University of Connecticut.

The author of Eyes off the Prize: The United Nations and the AfricanAmerican Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955 (Cambridge University Press, 2003), for which she received both the Gustavus Myers and Myrna Bernath Book Awards, Anderson is now working on her forthcoming book, Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960. Her study uncovers the long-hidden and important role of the nation's most powerful civil rights organization in the fight for the liberation of peoples of color in Africa and Asia.

Dr. Anderson’s research has garnered substantial fellowships and grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Ford Foundation, National Humanities Center, Harvard University, and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. She has also served on working groups \dealing with race, minority rights, and criminal justice at Stanford’s Center for Applied Science and Behavioral Studies, the Aspen Institute, and the United Nations, and was a member of the US State Department’s Historical Advisory Committee. Currently she is on the Board of Directors of the Harry S. Truman Library Institute and the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative.

Her teaching also has earned Prof. Anderson numerous awards, including the Crystal Apple Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Education, the William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, the Mizzou Class of '39 Outstanding Faculty Award, the Most Inspiring Professor Award from the Athletic Department, the Gold Chalk Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching, and the Provost's Teaching Award for Outstanding Junior Faculty.

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ELIZABETH ANKER is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Cornell University. She received her PhD from the University of Virginia and also holds a JD from the University of Chicago. Prof. Anker’s work focuses on contemporary world literature, law and literature, and the relationship between aesthetics and politics. Her first book, Fictions of Dignity: Embodying Human Rights in World Literature (Cornell University Press 2012), draws on phenomenology to analyze novels by Salman Rushdie, J. M. Coetzee, Nawal el Saadawi, and Arundhati Roy and thereby develop an embodied politics of reading and account of human rights. In addition, she has recently published on animal rights in New Literary History and on the 9/11 novel in American Literary History. Her current book project, “Constitutional Failure and the Aesthetic Formations of Sovereignties in Crisis,” examines how the challenges of constitutionalism are depicted in literature, architecture, and film. In addition, she is working on two co-edited collections, one on new directions in law and literature and another on the hermeneutics of suspicion.

WILLIAM A. “SANDY” DARITY, JR. is Arts & Sciences Professor of Public Policy Studies and Professor of African and African American Studies and Economics at Duke University. He holds a PhD in Economics from MIT. Prof. Darity’s research focuses on stratification economic, inequality by race and ethnicity, schooling and the racial achievement gap, North-South theories of trade and development, skin shade and labor market outcomes, the economics of reparations, the Atlantic slave trade and the Industrial Revolution, the history of economic thought, and the social-psychological effects of unemployment exposure.

During his previous tenure as Boshamer Professor of Economics and Sociology at UNC-Chapel Hill, he served as Director of Graduate Studies, of the Institute of African American Research, of MURAP, and of the Undergraduate Honors Program in economics. Prof. Darity spent academic year 2011-12 at Stanford University, where he was a fellow in the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS). Previously he was a fellow at the National Humanities Center (1989-90) and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors (1984). Darity is a past president of the National Economic Association and the Southern Economic Association, was Editor-in-Chief of the new edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (2008) and has authored or edited 10 books and more than 225 articles in professional journals.

He lives in Durham, NC, where he plays harmonica, coaches youth sport, and enjoys reading science and speculative fiction.

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ZAKIYA LUNA is a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is hosted by the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice at the School of Law. She completed a joint PhD in Sociology and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, where she also earned a Master's of Social Work. Dr. Luna’s dissertation examined the mechanisms and consequences of the reproductive justice movement’s integration of international human rights into US reproductive rights advocacy and was funded in part by a National Science Foundation Law and Social Science Dissertation Grant. Her research is in the areas of social movements, law and society, reproduction and identity. She is currently preparing a book manuscript and her articles have appeared in prestigious journals such as Sociological Inquiry, Feminist Studies, Societies without Borders, and Research in Social Movements, Conflict, and Change. In 2011 Luna was awarded an Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor Award by the University of Michigan, and spent academic year 2011-2012 as a Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she was hosted by the Center for Research on Gender and Women and affiliated with the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and the Department of Sociology.

MARK ANTHONY NEAL is Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department of African and African-American Studies at Duke University, where he won the 2010 Robert B. Cox Award for Teaching. A native of the Bronx, NY, Neal earned his doctorate from the University of Buffalo in American Studies. He has written and lectured extensively on black popular culture, black masculinity, sexism and homophobia in Black communities, and the history of popular music. Prof. Neal is the author of four books, What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture (1998), Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic (2002), Songs in the Keys of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation (2003) and New Black Man: Rethinking Black Masculinity (2005). He is also the co-editor (with Murray Forman) of That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader, 2nd Edition (2011), and his next book, Looking for Leroy: (Il)Legible Black Masculinities, is forthcoming with New York University Press. Neal hosts the weekly webcast, ‘Left of Black’ in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University (http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/). A frequent commentator for National Public Radio, Neal contributes to several on-line media outlets, including Huff Post Black Voices, Ebony.com, SeeingBlack.com, and Britain’s New Black Magazine. He has also appeared in several documentaries including Byron Hurt’s acclaimed Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes (2006), John Akomfrah’s Urban Soul (2004) and Jonathan Gayles, White Scripts and Black Supermen (2012). Neal is the founder and managing editor of the blog NewBlackMan (http://newblackman.blogspot.com/). You can follow him on Twitter @NewBlackMan. 11

MARK P. ORBE received his PhD from Ohio University. At Western Michigan University, he is Professor of Communication & Diversity in the School of Communication and holds a joint appointment in the Center for Gender and Women's Studies. His teaching and research interests center on the inextricable relationship between culture, communication and power as manifested in diverse situational contexts. Author of hundreds of journal articles and book chapters, Orbe also has published eleven books, including his two most recent, which focus on public perceptions of President Barack Obama and identity negotiations in communicative global contexts.

Prof. Orbe is the immediate past Editor for the International & Intercultural Communication Annual and Secretary-General for the World Communication Association.

ISAAC UNAH is Associate Professor of Political Science. He earned his PhD in political science from SUNY-Stony Brook. His research and teaching interests focus on judicial institutions and their collective influence on public policy and bureaucratic behavior. Unah’s research has been published in several political science, law, and interdisciplinary social science journals, including the American Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, Law & Policy, Business and Politics, and several major law reviews. His first book, The Courts of International Trade: Judicial Specialization, Expertise, and Bureaucratic Policymaking (1998), examines the role of specialized courts in U.S. trade policy implementation. From 2005– 2007, Unah served as visiting scientist and program director for the Law and Social Sciences Program at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, Virginia. In 2009 he published his second book, The Supreme Court in American Politics, which uses an evolutionary perspective to give readers a firm understanding of the U.S. Supreme Court. Unah’s ongoing projects include research into punishment politics, especially the political motivations underlying the use of capital punishment in the United States.

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Alumni Panelist Biographies REENA N. GOLDTHREE (MURAP 2002) is Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies at Dartmouth College. After receiving her B.A. (magna cum laude) in History-Sociology from Columbia University she completed her M.A. and Ph.D. in History from Duke University. Dr. Goldthree’s research explores the social and political history of Latin America and the Caribbean, with a focus on nationalism, gender, migration, and race.

Her current project examines how the dislocations of World War I transformed colonial identity and imperial policy in the British Caribbean during the first three decades of the twentieth century. She has received fellowships from the American Historical Association, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, Mustard Seed Foundation, and Social Science Research Council and was a Fulbright Fellow in Trinidad and Tobago in 200809. Her article, “‘Yours in the Service of the Sons of Ham’: Amy Jacques Garvey, Theodore Bilbo, and the Paradoxes of Black Nationalism,” was published in the edited collection, Global Circuits of Blackness: Interrogating the African Diaspora (University of Illinois Press, 2010).

ZAKIYA LUNA—See Conference Speakers’ Biographies ANDREW MARTINEZ (MURAP 2009), a three-time Ford predoctoral honorable mention scholar, is about to begin his third year in the doctoral program in Culture and Performance at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA). His research focuses on ballet as nation building in the early years of the Cuban revolution. He seeks to convey the way the choreographing of national identity is made material through the example of ballet, and how the trajectory of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba and its artistic practice has upheld, critiqued, or reinscribed national ideologies. Andy was awarded the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance and Chair’s Discretionary Scholarship for the 2011-2012 academic year, and, with the help of the UCLA Latin American Institute’s summer research grant, spent part of the summer to do field work in Cuba. In his spare time he enjoys taking ballet class and playing the piano.

KYERA CHRISTINE SINGLETON (MURAP 2010) is a second-year doctoral student in the Program of American Culture at the University of MichiganAnn Arbor. She is interested in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, the US South, and 19th century Black women’s history. She graduated cum laude from Macalester College, where she was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow, with degrees in American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Mellon and Beinecke Foundations.

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MURAP Mentors’ Biographies

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EMILIO DEL VALLE ESCALANTE is Associate Professor of Spanish at UNC-Chapel Hill. He was born in Guatemala (maya k’iche’) and holds a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh. His teaching and research focuses on contemporary Latin American literatures and cultural studies, with particular emphasis on indigenous literatures and social movements, Central American literatures and cultures, and post-colonial and subaltern studies theory in the Latin American context. He has been concerned with contemporary indigenous textual production and how indigenous intellectuals challenge hegemonic traditional constructions of the indigenous world, history, the nation-state, and modernity in order to redefine not only the discursive and political nature of these hegemonic narratives, but also interethnic or intercultural relations. He is the author of Maya Nationalisms and Postcolonial Challenges in Guatemala: Coloniality, Modernity and Identity Politics (School for Advanced Research Press, 2009; Spanish version by FLACSO, 2008), the editor of “Indigenous Literatures and Social Movements in Latin America” (a special issue of Latin American Indian Literatures Journal [Spring 2008]) and U’k'ux kaj, u’k'ux ulew: Antologia de poesia Maya guatemalteca contemporanea (IILI, 2010). He is currently working on a book manuscript that traces the origins of the Maya literary movement in Guatemala, Before and After Genocide in Guatemala: ReBulding the Maya World Through Literature (1961-2010).

DAVID GARCÍA is Associate Professor of Music at UNC-Chapel Hill. He holds degrees in music from California State University-Long Beach, University of California-Santa Barbara, and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His research focuses on the music of Latin America and the United States, with an emphasis on black music. He teaches undergraduate courses in music of Latin America, world music, and jazz, and graduate seminars in ethnomusicology, music of the African diaspora, and popular music. His book Arsenio Rodríguez and the Transnational Flows of Latin Popular Music (2006) was awarded a Certificate of Merit in the category Best Research in Folk, Ethnic, or World Music by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections in 2007. He is currently writing his second book, The Past of Black Music’s Presence, which critically examines the constructions of black music’s African origins in mid-twentieth century discourse.

REGINALD HILDEBRAND is Associate Professor of African American Studies and History at UNC-Chapel Hill. He received his BA and MA from Howard University and his PhD from Princeton. His research focuses on the period of Emancipation and Reconstruction, as in his book The Times Were Strange and Stirring: Methodist Preachers and the Crisis of Emancipation (1995). Currently he is working on a collection of essays entitled Engaging Blackness: Body, Mind, and Spirit; the Perspectives of Malcolm X, 16

W.E.B. Du Bois, and Howard Thurman. He has served as interim director of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History and also as interim director of the Institute of African American Research at UNCChapel Hill. He is a former co-chair of the North Carolina Freedom Monument Project, a trustee of the North Carolina Humanities Council, and a member of the Board of the Paul Green Foundation. In addition, he serves as a member of the North Carolina African American Heritage Commission, and of the Advisory Board for the North Carolina Historical Review.

ASHLEY LUCAS is Assistant Professor of Dramatic Art at UNC-Chapel Hill and a fellow of the Ford Foundation, the UNC Faculty Engaged Scholars Program, and UNC’s Institute for Arts and Humanities. She holds a B.A. in Theater Studies and English from Yale University and a joint PhD in Ethnic Studies and Theatre and Drama from UC-San Diego. She is the author of an ethnographic play about the families of prisoners entitled Doin’ Time: Through the Visiting Glass, which she has performed as a one-woman show throughout the US and in Ireland and Canada. Her book manuscript, entitled We All Looking at Walls: Ethnographic Theatre in Prison Contexts, is currently under review at University of Michigan Press. Lucas was recently invited to be the lead writer for the Methuen Critical Companion on Prison Theatre. Together with sociologist Jodie Lawston, Lucas edited a book entitled Razor Wire Women: Prisoners, Activists, Scholars, and Artists (2011), and Lucas and Lawston coauthor a blog by the same title: http://razorwirewomen.wordpress.com. Lucas is the Producing Artistic Director of the Teatro Latina/o Series at UNC Chapel Hill, which presents performances, readings, lectures, and workshops by US Latina/o theatre artists (www.teatrolatinoseries.com). Lucas has been a MURAP mentor since 2008 and has taught the MURAP Communication Skills Workshop for the last four years.

MARGARITA MOONEY is Assistant Professor of Sociology at UNC-Chapel Hill and a Faculty Fellow in the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina. She received her MA and PhD in Sociology from Princeton University and her BA in Psychology from Yale University. Her areas of interest include religion, immigration, sociological theory, culture and economic sociology. Mooney’s book Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora was published by University of California Press in 2009. She is currently conducting research on religion and resilience among young adults while continuing her work in migration through a project, in association with UNC’s Center for Galapagos Studies, examining how tourism and labor migration are influencing development of towns on the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.

ENRIQUE W. NEBLETT, JR. is Assistant Professor of Psychology and Lab Director of the African American Youth Wellness Laboratory at UNC17

Chapel Hill. His research examines the association between racism-related stress and health in African American and ethnic minority youth, with a focus on racial and ethnic protective factors and mechanisms that promote youth wellness. His work has been presented at several national conferences and published in journals such as Psychosomatic Medicine, Child Development, The Journal of Counseling Psychology, The Journal of Research on Adolescence, and The Journal of Black Psychology. Dr. Neblett is Faculty Advisor of the Minority Psychology Student Association and has served as the Co-Chair of the Diversity Training Committee in the Department of Psychology. In 2010, he was named the UNC Psychology Club’s Faculty Research Mentor of the Year for “outstanding mentorship to undergraduate students conducting research in psychology.” He is also a former recipient of the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, a two-year research and training award that was funded by NSF to examine racial identity, coping with racism, and cardiovascular physiological responses to stress. Neblett is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Research in Child Development, and the Society for Research on Adolescence. He is also a provisional Licensed Psychologist in the state of North Carolina.

KENNETTA HAMMOND PERRY is Assistant Professor of History at Eastern Carolina University. She earned a PhD in Comparative Black History from Michigan State University and completed postdoctoral work at the University of Virginia and Duke University. Her research examines Atlantic World history, with a particular emphasis on transnational race politics, empire, migration, and movements for citizenship among people of African descent in Europe, the Caribbean and the United States. She teaches courses in the department of History and the program in African & African American Studies. She has published in the Journal of British Studies, Atlantic Studies, and Twentieth Century British History, and she is currently completing a book manuscript tentatively titled London is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging, which examines how Caribbean migrants in post-WWII Britain appropriated and reconstituted imperial discourses of citizenship to fashion Black British identities and make claims upon their rights as British citizens.

DEBRA SKINNER is a Senior Scientist at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anthropology at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is a sociocultural anthropologist with postdoctoral training and research in Nepal and the US on interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approaches to the study of human development.

Skinner has conducted numerous ethnographic and multi-method longitudinal studies on families’ understandings of and responses to childhood disability and the broader cultural, economic, and political contexts of 18

these beliefs and practices; has developed theoretical models and methods to assess personal identity and parental beliefs; and has worked to integrate methods on large interdisciplinary and longitudinal projects around issues related to poverty, families, and disability. Her past research has included family and poverty studies in urban and rural contexts; inquiries into children's constructions of race/ethnic and other social identities in school; and cultural and familial interpretations of pediatric genetic disorders. Her current research includes family adaptations to and understandings of genetic disorder, specifically fragile X syndrome, and the social and ethical dimensions of expanded newborn screening and of the use of whole exome/genome sequencing in clinical medicine.

KARLA SLOCUM is Associate Professor of Anthropology at UNC-Chapel Hill. She earned a PhD from University of Florida. Her interests include the impacts and meanings of globalization; responses to and impacts of neoliberal economic change, especially among rural populations; black and brown peoples’ social movements; the significance of place, and the role of race in community identity. Slocum authored Free Trade and Freedom: Neoliberalism, Place, and Nation in the Caribbean (2006), which explores how Afro-Caribbean and Indo-Caribbean farmers made sense of emerging and changing global economic trade policies. Her current research examines the role that race and history play within the everyday public and performed identities of Oklahoma’s historic All Black Towns.

KAROLYN TYSON is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at UNC-Chapel Hill. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of California-Berkeley. Tyson teaches a first-year seminar on equality of educational opportunity, graduate courses on qualitative research methods, and courses on the sociology of education at the graduate and undergraduate levels. She specializes in qualitative research focused on issues related to schooling and inequality, particularly the complex interactions between schooling processes and the achievement outcomes of black students. Currently Tyson is collaborating with a team of researchers on a multi-method, multi-site study examining issues centered on the law, rights consciousness, and legal mobilization in American secondary schools. Her 2011 book Integration Interrupted, which shows how the practice of curriculum tracking in the aftermath of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision has contributed to students casting academic achievement as a “white thing,” won the 2012 Pierre Bordieu Award for Tyson is also working on a study tracing the history of racialized tracking in a suburban school district and the consequences for the district’s black students.

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MURAP Staff Biographies

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PHILLIP CHRISTMAN

teaches English at North Carolina Central University. He holds an MA in English Literature from Marquette University and an MFA in fiction writing from University of South Carolina-Columbia.

Christman has served as MURAP's Writing Coordinator since 2009, and also operates a private writing consultancy. His writing has appeared in Open Letters Monthly, Paste, Annalemma, Books & Culture, The Christian Century, NWSA Journal, and other places.

SHELBY EDEN DAWKINS-LAW (MURAP 2010) is a Master’s student entering her second year in the UNC School of Education’s Culture, Curriculum, and Change program. Her thesis will explore the financial ties between corporate America and public education, using the DC Public School system as an example. As a graduate student Shelby has served the university community as Graduate Honor Court member and has been elected as the 2012-2013 Senator for the School of Education to the Graduate and Professional Student Federation. Shelby also has been heavily involved with the Chapel Hill/Carrboro community, serving as Coach to undergraduate tutors in the federally funded America Reads program and as Grant Writing Intern at the Orange County Rape Crisis Center. With this work she will be graduating with a certificate in Non-Profit Leadership through the School of Social Work. Shelby has continued her passion for mentoring students this past year by working as teaching assistant for the Scholars’ Latino Initiative, a high school-to-college mentoring program for Latino, and mostly undocumented, students in North Carolina public schools. She also worked as a teaching assistant for the very first class in the new undergrad minor in Education, supervising students in their field research placements in public and private schools in the triangle. In her spare time, Shelby enjoys watching the Food Network and experimenting with her own mystery ingredients, as on her favorite show, “Chopped.” She is currently Conference Coordinator and, starting Fall 2012, will be Alumni Coordinator for MURAP.

LAUREL FOOTE-HUDSON is a fourth year graduate student in the MA/ PhD program in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her current research interests have been influenced by her exposure to both Spanish and Japanese languages and literature and popular culture. Over the past few years, she has used a comparative research approach in order to better reflect an ongoing interest in the genres of Golden Age Spanish Theater and 17 th Century Kabuki and travelogue in Spain and Japan; she believes that both media are captivating tools for representing tropes depicting the foreign “other” in modern popular media. Framing both of these genres within their respective literary and cultural contexts is her growing interest in modern Occidental and Orientalist theory. She plans to rely on this emerging theoretical basis as a way to explore the multi-faceted 22

conceptualization of Japan (as the re-branded “East”) as well as Spain (the former “West”) and other Western nations as respective “others” in modern contexts. This year she for worked as an Assistant to the Director for MURAP and has enjoyed her experience tremendously.

NATALIE M. GWISHIRI (MURAP 2008) is a rising fourth-year graduate student in Indiana University’s Department of History. She is interested in 20th century, colonial and post-colonial African History. She is particularly concerned with how women relate to nationalism, identity, and memory within historical and contemporary South Africa. She is Graduate Assistant for MURAP.

JAN HENDRICKSON-SMITH is training program coordinator at the Carolina Population Center (CPC) and lead instructor for the MURAP/CPC GRE workshop. She holds a Master’s degree in economics from the Pennsylvania State University, where she also served as director of computing at the Population Research Institute, and taught courses in statistical programming and introductory computing. As CPC training program coordinator, she coordinates all administrative aspects of a population science-based interdisciplinary training program for undergraduate interns, predoctoral trainees, and postdoctoral scholars. Her current interests focus on the recruitment, retention, and mentoring of students and trainees from diverse populations, methods and models of interdisciplinary training, and instructional technology and design.

ELIZABETH MOORE is a 2011 graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, and aspires to pursue graduate studies in public health. Her past work with migrant farmworkers in North Carolina sparked her interest in eliminating health disparities among underserved populations. In addition to serving as Program Coordinator for MURAP, she recruits new parents for the Fragile X Newborn Screening Study, and interviews Latino teenagers about their dating experiences for the NOVIOlencia Study. When she is not working, she enjoys volunteering at the Open Door Clinic in Raleigh and practicing yoga. She is MURAP’s Program Coordinator.

MARIA J. OBANDO (MURAP 2008) is a rising fourth-year graduate student in English and Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is interested in 20th century Latina/o and African American literature, particularly how Latinos and African Americans are represented in drama. Her focus on dramatic texts includes their historical, cultural and literary contexts as well as their performative aspects. She has served as Graduate Assistant for the past three summers.

ROSA PERLMUTER is Professor of Spanish American Literature at UNCChapel Hill. She was born in Cuba, completed high school and college in 23

Boston, and received her PhD in Romance Languages from the University of Michigan. She writes and teaches about Colonial authors ranging from Columbus to Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. She is the author of two books on the latter, the acclaimed “Tenth Muse” of seventeenth-century Mexico: Noche intelectual: La oscuridad idiomatica en el “Primero sueno” (1982) and Los límites de la femineidad en Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: Estrategias retoricas y recepcion literaria (2004). Prof. Perelmuter’s many articles have appeared in national and international academic journals. After serving as a MURAP mentor for over a decade, she became its Interim Director in 2005, and has been Director of the program since September 2006.

While she tries to keep up with her teaching, departmental and MURAP duties she is attempting to forge ahead with her research agenda, which includes two very different book-length studies. One, tentatively entitled “The Rhetoric of Space in Alonso de Ercilla y Zuniga’s La Araucana: Nature, Science and Ideology,” centers on a celebrated sixteenth-century epic poem written in Chile, while the other is a historical personal memoir of the Jewish community in Cuba with the working title “Growing Up Jewish in Havana: Culture, Identity and Community.”

SAMANTHIS SMALLS (MURAP 2008) is a PhD candidate at Duke University in the department of history. A native of Savannah, Georgia, Sam is a Ford Fellow who is entering her fourth year of graduate study. Her work explores the use of power by nineteenth-century South Carolina state government in policing its enslaved population, particularly the imprisonment of enslaved people in antebellum jails and workhouses. Her research questions the intersections of property and personhood, public and private, as well as punishment. Sam also serves as a tutor with the Achievement Academy of Durham, a program whose mission is to prepare area high school dropouts to take the GED and support their postsecondary education efforts. Sam is MURAP’s Office Assistant and, through the summer, its Alumni Coordinator.

ROBIN SMITH is in her fourth year of the English Literature MA/PhD program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This year she completed her PhD comprehensive exams in American Literature to 1900 and Transatlantic Poetry and Poetics. Currently, she is writing the prospectus for her dissertation, which will examine poetic representations of industrial labor in nineteenth-century America. This is her second summer working as the Assistant Writing Coordinator and GRE Verbal tutor for MURAP.

JONATHAN WALL (MURAP 2011) is a 2012 graduate of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, and is preparing to begin graduate studies at Harvard University. At Harvard, he will pursue an MA in Education Policy and Management, with a focus on Education Policy, Politics, and the Law. After 24

completing this one-year program, he plans to attend law school and become an education attorney and politician. He served on the founding board of Peachtree Hope Charter School in Atlanta, which opened in 2010 as the largest start-up charter in the history of Georgia. Aside from being addicted to TEDTalks, Sudoku, and all things education reform, he is an avid sports fan and basketball junkie. He is a Graduate Assistant for MURAP.

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JESSICA ADAMOKO from New York City, is a rising senior at Swarthmore College. She designed a special major in Migration Studies in which she is exploring her interests in transnationalism, tourism, pilgrimage, integration, public and private space, and forced migration.

Outside the classroom, she works for Information Technology Services, dances with Rhythm N' Motion Dance Company, debates for the Peaslee Debate Society, and loves to learn and practice languages, including Arabic and Twi. Jessica’s work with MURAP builds on her time as a J. Roland Pennock Fellow, Mellon Mays Fellow, Gilman Scholar, and as a Richard Rubin Scholar, on her time in the Migration and Transnational Identity program in Morocco, and her term enrollment in the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies. Her mentor is Prof. Karla Slocum.

“The Integration of the Maghrebi Diaspora through Post Funeral Processes in Western Europe” This research project is concerned with the funeral and burial processes of first- and second-generation Muslims of Maghrebi countries, especially Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, who reside in Western Europe. While some first- and second-generation North African immigrants are repatriated to their country of origin for burial, others pursue post-funeral rites in their host countries. Analyzing news media accounts across a 15-year period from 1997 to 2012, this study examines the obstacles in the host country that challenge the funeral and post-funeral rituals of these immigrant populations. My research suggests that some of the major burial-related challenges Maghrebi Muslim immigrants experience include limited space for burial, cost of grave construction, lack of washrooms, and several other factors, all of which impede or render impossible such Islamic interment prescriptions as burial within 24 hours, grave creation in an unused plot, alignment of graves toward Mecca, burial in direct contact with earth, and the permanence of a grave. The project identifies the specific issues surrounding these challenges as well as some possible solutions that Maghrebi Muslim immigrants have worked out.

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ANTONIO DE JESUS ALANIS is a senior at UNC-Chapel Hill studying Latin American literature. He was born in Durango, Mexico, but has lived most of his life in Durham, North Carolina. This summer, continuing his longstanding interest in the literatures of Latin America, he is studying the United States and Mexican relations as depicted in novels of the Mexican Revolution. Once he completes his undergraduate career in 2013, Antonio plans to attend graduate school and pursue a PhD in Latin American literature. In his spare time, he loves cooking, jogging, painting, and taking care of his seven-year-old brother, Milan. His mentor is Prof. Emilio del Valle Escalante.

“US-Mexican Relations as Reflected by The Underdogs and Pocho” This research project focuses on US and Mexican cultural and political relations from 1910 to 1940 through the lens of two novels, The Underdogs (1915) by Mariano Azuela and Pocho (1959) by Jose Antonio Villarreal. I will examine a select group of principal characters and scenes that specifically address US-Mexican relations in each novel. In The Underdogs I will examine part three, with special attention to the epistolary exchange between Luis Cervantes and Venancio; in Pocho¸ I will focus on conversations between the character Richard Rubio and his parents. Close reading of these novels will reveal the complex and shifting discourses concerning US-Mexican cultural and political relations in Azuela's and Villarreal's novels.

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NKEMKA ANYIWO is a senior at the University of Maryland-College Park pursuing degrees in African American Studies and Psychology. Her interest in physiological responses to discrimination was sharpened by her time as a research assistant for the Black Families Research Group, a lab that specializes in African American families.

Nkemka also works for the Comprehensive Assessment and Intervention Program, and was selected as a 2012 Young Scholar by the Society for Research on Adolescence. She has held leadership positions in several campus organizations and currently serves as the Eastern Undergraduate Representative for the Association of Black Psychologists. She plans to pursue a PhD in psychology in Fall 2013. Her mentor is Prof. Enrique Neblett, Jr. “Racial Identity, Gender, and Responses to Racial Discrimination: An Intersectional Approach�

Racial discrimination can have deleterious consequences on the physical and psychological health of African Americans. This study used a visual imagery paradigm to investigate the extent to which being bothered by experiences of racial discrimination in the past year predicted mood and physiological responses to racial discrimination vignettes. I also examined the extent to which gender and racial identity jointly moderated these responses. Participants were 104 self-identified African American college students (57% female) recruited from a public, southeastern university in the United States. They completed self-report measures of racial identity and prior racial discrimination experiences and provided mood ratings following exposure to racial and nonracial vignettes while also undergoing continuous cardiovascular physiological measurement. Repeatedmeasures Analysis of Variance (RMANOVA) revealed that bother in the past year was associated with mood responses to the vignettes. Moreover, gender and public regard interacted with bother in the past year to predict mood responses such that women with high public regard (i.e., the view that others see African Americans favorably) and low bother reported significantly higher ratings on negative emotions and lower ratings on positive emotions than men with high public regard and low bother. These results suggest that individual factors and previous experiences with discrimination may impact the way that African Americans respond to future discrimination encounters with implications for long-term mental and physical health.

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VICTOREA AJA’LE AUSTIN is a rising senior studying Sociology with a concentration in Marketing and a minor in Spanish at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. She has been on the Dean’s List for three consecutive years while playing for the school’s women’s tennis team. She is also a member of three academic national honor societies: Alpha Kappa Mu, Alpha Kappa Delta, and Phi Kappa Phi. Victorea’s MURAP research focuses on the relevance of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to black students in the 21st century. In addition to her academic work, she is very active in her community, spending 15 hours per week during the school year volunteering at a local elementary school serving low-income students. Her mentor is Prof.

Karolyn Tyson.

“My Parents Made Me Do It: Why 21st Century Black College Students Choose Predominantly White Institutions Over Historically Black College or Universities” This study examines black college students’ college decision process and how they assess their college decision after having attended school for a year or more. More specifically, this study addresses why more blacks in the 21st century are choosing to attend a Predominately White Institution (PWI) instead of a Historically Black College or University (HBCU). While previous research has focused on black high school students’ perceptions of HBCUs and PWIs, I focus on the views of enrolled college students. I interviewed sixteen currently enrolled black students, eight of whom attend an HBCU and eight of whom attend a PWI. Students were asked whether they would recommend that other blacks attend an HBCU or a PWI; who influenced them to attend their institution; how they currently assess their choice of institution; and whether HBCUs remain relevant today. The results of this research show that HBCUs are still relevant in the black community because participants believe HBCUs provide a nurturing space for black students. Black students who attend PWIs report feeling culture shock during their first year on campus while blacks attending HBCUs report feeling “at home.” This study also reveals that black students’ choices on which institution to attend were influenced most by family and peers, who often encourage them to attend a PWI or discourage their desire to attend an HBCU.

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CHADDRICK D GALLAWAY is a senior sociology major and Community Action and Social Change minor at the University of Michigan. He will graduate in April of 2012. This summer, Chaddrick is conducting a study on the experiences of African American and white college students who participated in a course on interracial dialogue. Prior to attending the University of Michigan, Chaddrick attended Delta Community College for two years and graduated with honors with an Associate’s degree in Liberal Arts. After Chaddrick completes his bachelor’s degree, he plans to pursue a doctorate in sociology with a focus on education. He is particularly interested in community college students and their post transfer process and race and inequality at the collegiate level. His mentor is Prof. Karolyn Tyson.

“There is Nothing Interesting about Us: Peer Teaching and White Racial Identity” This study examines the issue of peer teaching about race in college classroom. Specifically, it focuses on the experiences and interactions of Black and White students in a course centered on interracial dialogues. I use exit interviews conducted with participants after the course was completed to investigate the students’ experiences in the course and how Black and White students taught each other about race and ethnicity. The data, collected by the Program on Intergroup Relations, revealed that the responsibility for teaching about race is not equally distributed in the classroom: Black and White students generally agreed that Blacks were doing most of the teaching by sharing their experiences. White students shared less because of a perceived lack of racial experiences, and because they did not see themselves as raced. Because Whites do not share their experiences, the responsibility of teaching about race falls to Blacks, which causes frustration among Black participants.

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JASMINE GILYARD is an Honor Roll student and rising senior at Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina. She is also a Life Scholarship recipient, currently studying English with a minor in Spanish.

Her MURAP research studies perceptions of Malcolm X in the Black press. Jasmine has received many academic awards, such as the Dean’s List from Fall 2009-Fall 2011, the Most Outstanding in English Award, and Academic Excellence in the Humanities & Social Sciences in Fall 2011.

She has been an academic tutor in English Composition and Elementary Spanish for two years. She writes for her university newsletter, the Panther Newsletter, and for the Tatler, the newsletter of the English Department of Claflin University. She has also been a Freshman Orientation Leader for two years. Jasmine enjoys devoting her free time to community service, including work with Adopt-a-Highway, canned food drives, clothing drives, MLK Day of Service, Toys for Tots, the Domestic Violence Toiletry Drive for abused women and children, and the National Kidney Walk, just to name a few. She is also a member of the Gamma Nu Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, where she serves on the Executive Board. In her spare time, Jasmine enjoys reading and writing short stories. In the future, she plans to pursue a PhD in African American Studies. Her mentor is Prof. Reginald Hildebrand.

“Malcolm X & The Black Media: Before the Autobiography” Alex Haley’s Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) played a large role in establishing Malcolm’s public identity. For this reason, many scholars and readers have focused on the autobiography, but fewer scholars have focused on how Malcolm was perceived by readers of the black press before the publication of the autobiography. My study examines the period between 1961 and 1965, the pivotal final years of Malcolm X’s life, when he became a leading topic in the Chicago Defender and New York Amsterdam News, both of which were nationally known black newspapers. This study will also examine two other black newspapers, the Baltimore AfroAmerican and the Pittsburgh Courier, which also followed Malcolm throughout his public career. By closely reading headlines, word choice, tone, treatment of particular themes, emphases in reporting, and changes in the ways events were reported, my conclusion defines similarities and differences between how these newspapers portrayed Malcolm and the portrayal found in Haley’s autobiography.

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ISAURA GODINEZ is a senior at California State University-Chico, majoring in Anthropology and Latin American Studies and minoring in Biology. Isaura’s research interests include differential disease patterns in populations approached from a genetic and anthropological perspective, with the goal that this interdisciplinary approach will improve disease management techniques.

A related interest is the role that the U.S. plays in disease management in other countries. Isaura’s research interests stem from volunteering and work experiences. As a part of Chico State’s Community Action Volunteers in Education, she volunteered in elementary school classrooms with diverse populations. She further refined her interest in intercultural communication by participating in the 26th Annual California Indian Conference. Isaura currently works at Chico State’s Student Learning Center as a Supplemental Instruction Leader presenting strategies for success in college to freshmen from underrepresented populations. Upon completion of MURAP, Isaura intends to continue to study these interests. Her future projects include producing a documentary film about funding and management of HIV/AIDS in Zambia. Her participation in MURAP is being sponsored by the Center for Genomics and Society and her mentor is Dr. Debra Skinner.

“The Global Politics of HIV/AIDS: The Case of Access to Viraday by Zambia in 2006” The global aspects of HIV/AIDS have been the target of much research, which has particularly examined how the epidemiology of the disease varies throughout different countries, global intellectual property rights as they apply to HIV/AIDS pharmaceuticals, and the local and international efforts to treat the epidemic. Existing literature has failed to create a cohesive narrative regarding how treatment of HIV/AIDS is affected by these factors in particular countries. This project synthesizes existing information regarding the global politics of HIV/AIDS treatment and examines a specific case of how such politics and other practices affected access to a generic antiretroviral (ARV) drug called Viraday in Zambia. A critical medical anthropology analysis indicates that pharmaceutical companies hold power over biomedicine along with the governments of developed nations, and that, in the case of Zambia, the US denied access to a promising ARV drug, thus protecting the interests of US-based, multinational pharmaceutical companies and contradicting the professed goal of international aid agencies of managing HIV/AIDS. 34

IVORY GOURDY is a senior at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, double-majoring in Political Science and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, with a triple minor in Legal Studies, Africana Studies, and Latino/a Studies. Next school year, Ivory will be writing a thesis in Africana Studies and a thesis in Latino/a Studies; she hopes to graduate with honors in both academic departments. She plans to enroll in a JD/PhD program, where she will focus on constitutional law and on the intersection between law, political theory, and race. In her spare time, she enjoys participating in community service and campus support groups, including time on the boards of the Black Student Union and the Women of Color Resource Center, as well as volunteer service at the Williamstown-based local high school community service house, the ABC Home for Disadvantaged Youth. Her mentor is Prof. Isaac Unah.

“’Duly Convicted’ and the Thirteenth Amendment: A Review of the Criminal Punishment Exception” The Thirteenth Amendment allows individuals who have been “duly convicted” to be subjected to forms of involuntary servitude and slavery. This criminal punishment exception allows federal and state governments to control minority populations and create a cheap labor force. While the crime/punishment exception is constitutional, it raises questions regarding what the expression “duly convicted” may mean for both citizens and the criminal justice system—questions sharpened by the lack of legal literature surrounding the expression’s meaning, and of guidelines that would demonstrate whether a due conviction has been fairly provided. Because the original authors of the expression failed to do so, this project seeks to define “duly convicted” and to demonstrate the difficulty that the average African American has in being “duly convicted.” Using evidence from Congressional debates and Supreme Court decisions, I have determined that the expression “duly convicted” is synonymous with due process and various criminal rights afforded to citizens in the Bill of Rights. However, scholarly reviews of due process and the criminal rights procedures reveal that there are many institutional and structural problems that hinder the access to fair trials for all citizens. This reality is especially true for minorities and more specifically, African Americans, as analysis of empirical data to analyze racial discriminatory practices and racial bias in the criminal justice system shows.

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CARLA DE JESUS JEREZ studies Creative Writing and Humanities at Florida State University. Her research interests include poetry, film, gender, and the relationship between music and literature.

She has spent the past three years heavily involved in the FSU Askew Student Life Center where she has served as a programmer to help educate and entertain the student body through both contemporary and classic film. She has also served as the Center's Event Coordinator for two years, and has organized a range of artistic and academic events, including visits from speakers such as Edgar Wright and Nick Offerman. She currently serves as the building's theater manager. Most recently, she was sent to represent FSU's Film Committee at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas. Her poetry has appeared in The Sierra Nevada Review and The Kudzu Review, and she has performed in the Women Center's production of The Vagina Monologues. Following MURAP, she has been selected to lead a Freshman Interest Group in the fall semester where she will mentor students in a first-year Creative Writing class. Carla plans to further explore her research interests by writing an undergraduate thesis through her university's Honors in the Major program. She enjoys mentoring at Riley Elementary School in Tallahassee, FL, and in her spare time samples the great variety of that city’s cuisine. Her mentor is Prof. David García.

“Josh White as a Musical Bridge to Blackness” Josh White, though rated by one prominent publication during the 1963 folk revival as more popular than Bob Dylan, endured harsh criticisms from the left that had once championed him as an authentically American musician. This study examines the nature of these racialized critiques, exploring the ideologies that influenced them and that ultimately complicated perceptions of White’s aesthetics. In analyzing the legacy of Uncle Tomism through reviews of both White’s music and Uncle Tom’s Cabin, as well as a study of White’s perceptions of his own music through biographies, interviews, and recordings, I excavate the role played by romantic racialism in White’s ambitious and forward-thinking career. Ultimately, this study aims to understand the role Josh white played for white Americans as a racialized musical symbol, and how expectations from white Americans complicated his voice.

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LAUREN ELIZABETH REINE JOHNSON studies American Studies and Political Science at Macalester College. Her research focuses upon the intersection of race, gender, and politics in American law and within the criminal justice system. In the past three years Lauren Elizabeth joined a campus organization, Black Liberation Affairs Committee, committed to examining identity in the Black Diaspora, and she has planned events surrounding the topic of mass incarceration. She has presented her research on employment discrimination against ex-offenders at the Project Pericles Debating for Democracy conference. Lauren Elizabeth also designed an internship as a Charles Green fellow with a non-profit criminal justice law firm in Minneapolis to promote awareness of legal rights and police brutality to communities of color. Her interests in social justice have led her to work for four summers as a middle school teacher with Breakthrough Collaborative, a national organization focused on closing the education gap, and have also led her to participate in marathons and fundraisers in support of Multiple Sclerosis research. Her mentor is Prof. Isaac Unah.

“How the Prison System Informs Black Women's Citizenship in the United States” Although conceptions of citizenship have been widely discussed, few scholars have examined the ideology of citizenship as it applies to incarcerated Black women in the United States. Though the female incarceration population increased 800% in the last two decades, and though Black women are disproportionately affected by this increase, this issue has been largely invisible within scholarship. This study examines popular conceptions of citizenship and how they pertain to Black women in the United States, questioning how a Black woman’s citizenship may be understood in light of the mass disproportionate imprisonment of Black women.

Combining social construction theories such as Critical Race Feminism with ideologies of citizenship, this study shows that the historical and political public identities, as well as the stereotypes inscribed upon images of Black women (Jezebel, Sapphire, Welfare Queen, et al.), have limited their citizenship and voice, as is easily seen through their incarceration. This study concludes by posing several research questions that may give deeper insight into the effects of the misrepresentation of Black women through the lens of their mass incarceration.

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BRIAN KUNDINGER studies History and Africana Studies at Brown University. This summer he is researching how US racial and imperial ideology informed the educational philosophies imposed on the black United States and US-occupied Haiti. When he returns to Brown in the fall, he will sit on his university’s Diversity Advisory Board, and he will coordinate the Third World Transition Program, a pre-orientation program primarily for first-generation college students and students of color which fosters discussions about various forms of inequality. Brian works as a Writing Fellow to facilitate the educational transition of these students and leads The Next Thing, a support network for LGBT and queer students of color, to guide the personal transition of students who often feel particularly marginalized in the university. In 2012-13, Brian will also coordinate Brown’s next Theories in Action Conference, which presents senior research and capstone projects with significant social relevance and aims to break down barriers between classrooms and communities. In Spring 2012, he started performing as an actor and cellist with the Rites and Reason Theater in the Black Lavender Experience, a series of performances by and about black queer people. His mentor is Prof. Kennetta Perry.

“An Efficient Occupation: Schooling and Efficiency in the US Occupation of Haiti, 1915–1934” At the turn of the 20th century, the United States was emerging as a global economic power and initiated a series of imperial endeavors that would collectively come to be known as the "civilizing mission." At the same time, the United States was also in the midst of what historian Raymond Callahan called an “Age of Efficiency,” in which an ideological preoccupation with efficiency led to reforms throughout the US’s public sphere, and particularly in education. This study seeks to understand how this preoccupation with efficiency shaped the strategies of US imperialism. To do this, I anchor my study in analysis of how the “cult of efficiency” shaped educational policy within the United States, how it reinforced the existing ideological dichotomy between the civilized and uncivilized world, and how the logic of efficiency was applied to educational reform in occupied Haiti. This research aims to contribute to the small but growing scholarship elucidating the historical reasons for Haiti's economic status in the world today, and to denaturalize the logic of efficiency traced throughout the study.

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ALEXIS LITTLE is a rising junior at Bowdoin College, majoring in History and minoring in Chinese. Her research interests include Reconstruction-era intraracial relations within the Black community. As a first-year student, Alexis successfully completed an intensive four-month-long research project examining the topic of enslaved women through a diasporic perspective, which she presented to Bowdoin’s humanities colloquium. In her time at Bowdoin, Alexis also was nominated and accepted to become a Travelli scholar because of her commitment to academics and music. In addition to her intensive research, she is an active leader in many of Bowdoin College’s music programs, including Miscellania (Bowdoin’s prestigious original female a capella group), classical individual piano studies, Bowdoin’s world-touring Chamber Choir, and Bowdoin’s first-ever Gospel Choir. This fall, Alexis will travel to China to study Chinese history and language. She is also planning an independent study in History upon her return to Bowdoin College in the spring of 2013. Her mentor is Prof. Reginald Hildebrand.

“Erasing Emancipation’s Divide: Understanding Reconstruction Era South Through the Eyes of Black Women” Scholars who study the transition from slavery to reconstruction often overlook the experiences of Black women in regards to their sexual vulnerability. Black women are disregarded because it is assumed that after emancipation they regained ownership over their bodies. Nevertheless, emancipation and reconstruction did not lessen the sexual vulnerability that Black women faced during slavery. This sexual violence was not only a product of the power struggles between Black and white communities that scholars of the Reconstruction-era South have emphasized, but was also shaped by perceptions of Black women. Views of Black women’s integrity, influenced by stereotypes created by white people under slavery, increased whites' tolerance of sexual assault against Black women. To reveal the importance of these stereotypes, my study examines affidavits and complaints made by Black women to the Freedmen’s Bureau and in Congressional hearings, analyzing the ways in which perpetrators of sexual violence reveal their belief in these stereotypes. This investigation confirms that Black women faced a heightened risk of sexual vulnerability after Emancipation.

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ISELA XITLALI GÓMEZ RAMÍREZ studies American Studies and Latin American Studies at Macalester College. Her academic research has focused on music and theater as empowerment and the politics of the arts for Latina/o communities in the US and Latin America. She presented her paper “LATIN Music: An Examination of an Essentialist SuperGenre and the Agency of its Musicians” at the National Association of Chicana Chicano Studies conference in Chicago.

While abroad in Nicaragua, she studied local feminist theater groups in a project that culminated in a paper that appeared in the School for International Training’s Digital Collections journal. She is co-chair of Adelante!, Macalester’s Latina/o student organization, has interned at a social justice theater company, and also volunteers as a mentor to high school students navigating the college admission and financial process. She has been on the Dean’s List at her college and has received the Lealtad-Suzuki Center Award for her commitment to social justice values. She sings and plays the viola in a Latin American folkloric music band. Her mentor is Prof. Ashley Lucas.

“Lost in Adaptation: Luis Alfaro's Electricidad” In 2004, Luis Alfaro’s play Electricidad: A Chicano Take on the Tragedy of Elektra opened at Chicago’s Goodman Theater as the playwright’s first mainstage debut at a major commercial theatre. A MacArthur “genius” award-winning Chicano playwright from Los Angeles, Alfaro adapts Sophocles’ ancient Greek play about the royal Atreus family and transports it to the Atridas household in the Chicana/o barrio community in East Los Angeles, an area often conflated with gang violence. With its West Coast premiere one year later at the Los Angeles Mark Taper Forum, the play interrogates cycles of violence and revenge in a ruling gang family. Alfaro stated that his reason for writing about chola/o figures, or Mexican American gangsters, was to question stereotypes surrounding Chicana/os and their home communities. However, Electricidad reifies stereotypes of Latina/os as inherently violent criminals and offer a version of Latinidad that the non-Latina/o theatre criticswere prepared to believe. Analyzing theater reviews to study the critical reception of the play and assumptions reviewers made about the people and community of East LA, this paper examines how Alfaro’s staging of the chola/o and the Chicana/o community risks foregrounding a negative image in the mind of the primarily outsider audience at these major commercial theaters.

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JULIAN RUCKER is a rising senior at the University of Texas at Austin majoring in Psychology and minoring in Sociology. This summer Julian is investigating how perceptions of discrimination change when the race of the perpetrator varies. Recently, Julian was accepted into the Psychology Honors Program at UT, which was accompanied by a competitive scholarship. For his honors thesis, Julian is currently designing an experiment to examine social factors that lead subjects to perceive discrimination in an otherwise ambiguous scenario. During the summer of 2011, Julian interned with the Student Undergraduate Research Experience at UT, where he conducted extensive research in the areas of Clinical and Developmental Psychology and gave a poster presentation describing his work. He has received numerous departmental and institutional honors from UT and has made the Dean’s List in each of his six semesters there. Julian plans to pursue a PhD in Psychology. His mentor is Prof. Enrique Neblett, Jr. “Racial Discrimination, Racial Centrality, and Perception” This study employed a visual imagery paradigm to examine how racial centrality, race of the perpetrator, and racial composition of the primary community were associated with mood responses to racial discrimination vignettes. Participants were 129 self-identified African American young adults (55% female) recruited from a public, southeastern university in the United States. Participants completed self-report measures of racial centrality and sociodemographic characteristics and rated their mood following exposure to a series of racial and non-racial vignettes. These scenarios included Black and White actors and consisted of blatant and subtle discrimination scenes and a neutral condition. Repeated-Measures Analysis of Variance (RMANOVA) revealed that the race of the perpetrator as well as participants’ levels of racial centrality were associated with mood responses to perceptions of discrimination. Participants reported significantly higher levels of distress and disgust when the perpetrator was White. Also, those with the highest levels of racial centrality had significantly higher ratings of anger and disgust and had stronger overall mood ratings following the subtle discrimination condition. These results suggest that one’s level of racial centrality and the race of the perpetrator may influence how people perceive discrimination. In light of prior findings that racial centrality acts as a protective factor in the context of racial discrimination, I discuss the potential benefits of expressive mood following perceptions of discrimination.

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SIMON SARKODIE is completing a double major in English and Africana Studies at Hunter College. As an English major, his interests are in 19th and early 20th century African American literature. He works at the intersection of Caribbean literature and culture, with related interests in mixed-race studies, critical theory, and theories of racial and gender performance, representations of Blackness, and Transatlantic Studies. In his spare time he volunteer as a Learning Leaders Student Tutor at PS 75 (Emily Dickinson Elementary School) assisting underprivileged fourth through sixth graders in improving reading, writing, and math skills. His mentor is Prof.

Kennetta Hammond Perry.

“Bert Whitman, Black Vaudeville, and Dandyism: A Study This research project examines the genre of Negro Vaudeville (i.e., African American performers in blackface) as constructed in US culture during the decades after the Civil War. During this same period of racial segregation, black activism emerged from African Americans’ desire to selfmake, rewrite, and weave a nuanced narrative of their lives into the fabric of American history. My project, using a close reading of the Black vaudeville act the Whitman sisters, argues that post-Civil War black performers largely functioned to subvert early minstrelsy’s dominant representations of slave culture. My project draws upon recent research in cultural studies and labor history to excavate what it means for a black woman such as Alberta “Bert” Whitman to cross-dress in a tuxedo, a piece of clothing associated with men of high class, and also associated with the intellectual black male figures known as Black Dandies.

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SABRINA TOPPA is on the Dean’s List as a rising senior at Rice University, where she double-majors in Policy and Asian Studies. She has spent the last year in the Netherlands and Denmark studying employment discrimination faced by veiled Muslim women. As a student-researcher for the Tahirih Justice Center, she has also researched alternative forms of legal relief for undocumented immigrants in Texas, who were victims of crimes such as human trafficking. Outside of school, she works with the Partnership for the Advancement and Immersion of Refugees, and has also spent significant time in Tunisia as a Cultural Fellow for the Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education. Her other work outside the U.S. has ranged from studying Urdu in India on the U.S. State Department’s Critical Language Scholarship and studying internally displaced Kurdish refugees in Istanbul, Turkey.

She is broadly interested the integration of minority populations and the positionality of Muslims in the diaspora. Her mentor is Prof. Margarita Mooney.

“Muslims in the West: “Sharia” Law and Multicultural Citizenship in the UK and Canada” As the Muslim immigrant population grows in Western countries, Muslims have become visible claims-makers in debates about how liberal democracies should accommodate cultural differences in the legal system. In this study, I compare public responses in England and Canada to Islamic legal institutions proposing to offer a form of faith-based arbitration. In England, Sharia Councils and Muslim Arbitration Tribunals have sought to furnish a form of alternative dispute resolution to Muslims, particularly Muslim women seeking an Islamic divorce. In Ontario, a Canadian Muslim organization sought to develop a similar tribunal network, but ultimately failed to gain recognition. Drawing on Tariq Modood's understanding of multicultural citizenship, I outline how England and Canada compare and contrast in their responses to these Muslim institutions.

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KORDE ARRINGTON TUTTLE studies Dramatic Art and Communication Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. His research focuses on teaching artists who engage New York City youth through theatre.

As a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholar, Korde spent the spring of 2012 semester in London through UNC’s Honors Semester Abroad program. While there, he completed an internship at Theatre Peckham, a professional children’s theatre company. Also a member of the Theta Kappa Chapter of Lambda Pi Eta, Korde has served as an undergraduate teaching assistant and acted in multiple faculty-directed shows. He has served as a conference facilitator for two years at the National Association of Independent Schools’ “Student Diversity Leadership Conference” and plans to remain involved with the organization. In 2011 Korde was presented with the opportunity to combine his passion for teaching and performance when he was hired to teach drama at the Fresh Air Fund’s Camp Mariah, funded by Mariah Carey, where he was the recipient of the “Excellence Award for Teaching.”

He was a member of the original cast of Mau a Malawi: Stories of AIDS, an MTVu independent project. President of Ebony Readers/Onyx Theatre, UNC’s premier spoken word collective, Korde writes and performs regularly both on campus and in the greater Chapel Hill community. His mentor is Prof. Ashley Lucas.

“Theatrical Transformations: Nilaja Sun, Teaching Artistry & the Fresh Air Fund” Many critics of the arts have challenged theatre’s validity and practicality as an essential component of public school curriculums in the United States. Analyzing the play No Child… by teaching artist Nilaja Sun, and the work written and performed by my former middle school drama students at the Fresh Air Fund’s Camp Mariah in New York, my research examines changes in apparent affect engendered in inner-city students because of their involvement in theatre practices. A comparison between the character arcs of Sun’s fictional students and the experiences of my own pupils reveals notable patterns and similar outcomes between the two sites of study; the students exhibit signs of demonstrative, performative, and attitudinal transformations because of their participation in theatre exercises.

Through critical pedagogy and close readings of Sun’s play and the monologues written by the Fresh Air Fund students, my research strongly supports the notion of performance as a medium through which young people can discover and utilize their voices, consequently supporting an argument for theatre as a transformative social tool.

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ABEYGAEL WACHIRA is a rising senior at North Carolina Central University, where she studies Psychology. She is an honors student, and has consistently been on the Dean’s List.. Abeygael has been awarded three certificates for her exceptional academic achievement at the university, and the university awarded her a certificate in their 63rd Annual Honors Convocation for being one of the highest academic performers in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences.

Abeygael is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA), and of honor societies:Psi Chi, Golden Key, and Phi Eta Sigma. She is also the Vice President of the Association of Students for a Better Africa (A.S.F.A.B.A.), a multicultural organization at her university. A native of Kenya, Abeygael speaks both Swahili and Kikuyu, in addition to English. Her mentor is Prof. Margarita Mooney.

“The Manifestation of Race in the Lives of Black African Immigrants in the United States” Much of the research on black immigrants’ experiences negotiating the Black racial identity they encounter in the U.S. has focused on black West Indian immigrants. Although research on this black immigrant group has provided valuable insight, other black immigrants’ perspective on this issue has remained obscured. This paper examines black African immigrants’ experiences negotiating the Black racial identity they encounter in the US. In particular, it examines how race and race relations in the U.S. affect: (1) the identities and experiences of black African immigrants in the US, (2) black African immigrants’ relationships with other black ethnic groups in the US, and (3) black African immigrants’ perception and response to the Black racial identity they encounter in the U.S. Findings from this research suggest that black African immigrants distance themselves from the black racial identity they encounter in the US through utilizing African cultural norms regarding stranger-host relations, maintaining a sojourner mentality, forming ethnic enclaves, and limiting their social and cultural activities to carefully chosen aspects of the American society.

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MICHELE WELLS

is a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow at Brooklyn College, where she studies Performing the African Diaspora, a program she designed through the CUNY Center for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies. Michele is primarily interested in how performance is used as a source of social or economic power by women of African descent. In the past she has conducted research on performance and the arts broadly across the African Diaspora. Michele was awarded 2nd Place in the 23rd Annual S. Randolph Edmonds Young Scholar’s Competition for her research paper, “On the Geographical Bias of Theater History: Finding African Contributions to Theater Arts.” Michele was selected for an internship at the US Agency for International Development in Accra, Ghana, where she conducted field research in Accra and Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. In 2011, Michele travelled to Florence, Italy, to study art and the placement of African people in Italian Renaissance art. Receiving a grant from her university, she then travelled to Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, where she studied Portuguese language and conducted an independent study entitled “Blackness in Bahian Dramatic Arts.” Michele is preparing an independent study on Brazilian Samba and Congolese dance following her participation in MURAP. Her mentor is Prof. David García.

“Looking for Space: Performativity in the Life of Nina Simone” In “Mississippi Goddam” Nina Simone challenges legalized segregation and violence against African Americans while critiquing the methods of non-violence, integration, and black female respectability advocated by central figures of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. While this song holds the power of Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech and the spirit of Malcolm X’s “by any means necessary,” Simone is not discussed as a leader within the dominant narrative of the movement because the media as well as the traditional leaders of the civil rights movement did not condone a black woman stating her beliefs so forcefully. This paper rethinks the role of Simone’s music from 1963-1968 as a unique mode of leadership. By demonstrating how her civil rights-era performance style is rooted in her upbringing in Tryon, North Carolina, which can be theoretically situated within Judith Butler’s theory of performativity, I demonstrate how Simone was uniquely suited to perform the movement. This paper will argue that Simone’s music gave voice to an excluded part of the movement by recovering and preserving the marginalized voices of black women who suffered the physical abuses of Jim Crow and ultimately aligns her with those male figures deemed worthy of the title “civil rights leader.”

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AMBER YVONNE WINSTON is a rising junior English major with a minor in Urban Studies and Public Policy at Dillard University. She has successfully earned the title of Honor Roll and Dean’s List during her first two years and has received numerous scholarships: the Rhythm Nation and Michael Jackson Scholarship, the John Georges Scholarship, the Sidney Frank Scholarship, and the UNCF Shreveport Scholarship. She is a member of two academic national honor societies, Phi Eta Sigma and Sigma Tau Delta. She has performed over 145 hours of community service and is actively involved in English Club, Global Scholar’s Association, Dillard University Concert Choir, and VisionQuest Chorale. Amber plans to enter graduate school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a concentration in English and Comparative Literature, after completing her undergraduate studies. This summer she is studying the impact of the international Negritude movement on Haitian literary culture. Her mentor is Prof. Emilio del Valle Escalante.

“Jean-Jacques Roumain: Redefining the Negritude Movement” The Negritude movement served as a vehicle through which Black francophone intellectuals expressed their weariness with colonialism in general, and particularly with French colonialism. Jacques Roumain, an influential writer from Haiti, was a part of this literary movement. My research examines how Roumain’s poetry reflects some of the major themes and foci of the Negritude movement, but also facets of Haitian culture. Exploring the significance of Haiti’s colonial context within the thematic elements of Roumain’s Negritude poetry, I consider themes of blackness, communism, and Haitian cultural unity. In addition, this paper analyzes the Marxist context of Roumain’s poetry, particularly given the significance of class in his literary perspective. This interest in class is significant given Roumain’s status as a Haitian elite in a country of marked class divisions. My study aims to assist in the ongoing scholarly effort to recover surviving traces of Haitian culture and customs obscured by French domination, and to focus attention on Roumain’s poetry and Negritude more generally.

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CODEY YOUNG studies Sociology and Philosophy at Ursinus College. His research focuses on discursive oppression of African Americans within the Occupy movement. In the past two years, he has conducted research on racial hegemony within the Occupy movement, served as a political activist with, and current president to, the UC Black Student Union, Sankofa Umoja Nia. He also serves as a blog writer and Advisory Board member for The Brothers Network, a racial justice organization for Black males in Philadelphia. Young’s poetry has won first place at the Ursinus College Poetry Slam. In the future, Codey plans to pursue a PhD in either Sociology or Philosophy. His mentor is Prof. Karla Slocum.

“Occupy the Hood: A Discursive Analysis of Cultural Domination and Resistance” The Occupy The Hood social movement emerged in September 2011 with the goal of ensuring the representation of Black Americans in the larger Occupy Movement. Through an analysis of Occupy The Hood’s weekly online radio podcasts, this study examines the themes, guiding concepts, and assumptions of Occupy The Hood’s discourse on racial oppression and on challenges and solutions for Black communities. Analysis of the podcasts shows that racism and white supremacy, systemic injustice, and community are the most frequently occurring themes emerging during the radio program. For participants in Occupy The Hood’s radio program, racism and white supremacy, as conjoined concepts, refer to an ideological construction of race-based superiority, which is the primary root of social ills in Black communities, and a psychopathology engrained in American consciousness and institutions. For participants, systemic injustice encompasses the corruption of American politics, the educational system, the prison industrial complex, and police brutality. Community refers to the solutions for bolstering Black communities, such as hip hop and other sites of cultural resistance, the education of Black youth, and personal responsibility coupled with self-determinism. With the movement expressing a Black Nationalist perspective, this study argues that Occupy The Hood’s discourse relates to that of Black American social movements from twentieth century such as the Garvey and Black Power movements. Additionally, Occupy The Hood’s discourse has relevance to new social movements, given its emphasis on the representation of Black Americans.

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Duke MMUF Student Biography DIANA RUIZ is a rising senior at Duke University majoring in Women's Studies and completing a Certificate of Arts of the Moving Image. Her research interests include cinematic representations of sexual assault., which forms the topic of her planned honors thesis. In Fall 2012, through Duke's Center for Race Relations, she will teach the course Exploring Race, Gender, and Sexuality. Diana’s faculty mentor is Prof Kimberly Lamm in Duke’s department of Women’s Studies.

“What Remains to Be Seen: Feminism and Race in Cinematic Representations of Rape” Since the 1970s, feminist scholars, filmmakers, and film critics have responded to the misogyny inherent in traditional screen depictions of rape by proposing and, in film, trying to enact new canons of representation.

Cinematic representations of rape still fail, however, to communicate the complexities of racial and gendered intersections. Figures such as Angela Davis have helped to bridge this gap in academia, yet applications of syntheses such as Davis's remain unseen in cinema. Two films inspired by true events, Jonathan Kaplan’s The Accused (1988) and Kimberly Pierce’s Boys Don’t Cry (1999), attempt to inspire a sympathetic attitude towards the trauma of rape, but their erasure of racial components present in the "real" stories suggest that mainstream films continue to ignore the reality of the intersections of racial and gendered violence. In JoAnn Elam’s Rape (1975), the possibilities of articulating a multiplicity of women’s voices and stories coexist with conversations about race; my argument proposes a return to Elam’s text as a possible influence to widen the breadth of representing rape in film.

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Acknowledgements MURAP expresses its gratitude to the following staff members and individuals for their assistance with the 2012 Conference and for their continued support of the program: Philip Christman, Writing Coordinator and Assistant Editor of 2012 Conference Booklet Shelby Dawkins-Law, Conference Coordinator and Incoming Alumni Coordinator Laurel Foote-Hudson, Graduate Assistant Natalie Gwishiri, Resident Graduate Assistant Jan Hendrickson-Smith, Director of GRE Workshop and Hostess Extraordinaire Dr. Joseph Jordan, Interim Director, IAAR Amy King, Business Liaison Mary Kroeger, GRE Teaching Assistant Dr. Ashley Lucas, Communication Skills Instructor and Presentations Coach Geeta Menon, Communications Manager Elizabeth Moore, Program Coordinator Stephanie Nelli, GRE Quantitative Assistant María J. Obando, Graduate Assistant Randy Simmons, Facilities Manager, Stone Center Samanthis Smalls, Graduate Assistant and Summer Alumni Coordinator Robin Smith, GRE and Writing Assistant April Spruill, Administrative Manager, Stone Center Jonathan Wall, Resident Advisor and Office Assistant Ben Wilson, GRE Assistant Videography by Peter Goswick Catering by Marcel’s, Med Deli, Sweet Jane’s Bakery, Carolina Cafe Transportation by Mandy McCullough, Chapel Hill Taxi Travel Arrangements by Mayra Wagner, Maupin Travel Contact Information: MURAP c/o IAAR UNC-Chapel Hill, Sonja Haynes Stone Center #305. CB #3393 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3393 (919)962-6811; fax: (919)843-9407 Website: www.unc.edu/depts/murap 50

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