Class, Race and Place in the US South: American Politics Through the Lens of Michael Goldfield’s Work

https://sudetatsunis.sciencesconf.org/

Wednesday, February 1, 17:00-19:00

Maison de la Recherche de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 4 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris, Salle Athéna, rez-de-chaussée (Métro ligne 10 Cardinal Lemoine / RER B Luxembourg)

Conference-Debate:

Luttes sociales et luttes féministes aux USA

The Fight for Workers’ Rights & Women's Rights in the US Today

Keynote by Michael Goldfield and Cody R. Melcher

Followed by Round-Table: Donna Kesselman (UPEC-IMAGER), Elizabeth Faue (Wayne State University), James Cohen (Sorbonne Nouvelle-CREW), Fanny Gallot (UPEC-CRHEC), Christen Bryson (Sorbonne Nouvelle-CREW) et Émilien Julliard (CNRS-IDHE.S)  

Thursday, February 2

Salle des Thèses, bât P CMC, Université Paris-Est Créteil (Métro ligne 8, Créteil-Université)

9:00 Conference Opening

Welcome from Université UPEC: Guillaume Marche, Directeur of IMAGER, UPEC

For the Conference Organizing Committee:

Donna Kesselman (UPEC-IMAGER), Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry (Sorbonne Nouvelle-CREW), James Cohen (Sorbonne Nouvelle-CREW),

9:30 INTRODUCTION 

• Cody R. Melcher, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Loyola University

“On Michael Goldfield”

9:45-11:15 Panel 1: Reframing Southern Narratives

Chair: Barry Eidlin, Associate Professor of Sociology, McGill

• Dan Labotz, Teacher, School of Labor and Urban Studies, CUNY  

“Using Michael Goldfield’s Approach to Examine the Latino Southwest”

• Matthew Nichter, Associate Professor of Sociology, Rollins College, Orlando

“The Lost Opportunity Thesis and the Sociology of the Civil Rights Movement”

11:15 - Coffee Break

11:30-1:00 Panel 2 Mobilizing Workers: Labor & Race

Chair: Mathieu Hocquelet, Chercheur, Sociologie du Travail, Céreq 

• Charles Post, Graduate Center-CUNY

“The World War II ‘No-Strike Pledge’, anti-Black “Hate Strikes” and Racial Divisions in the CIO”

•  Anissa Khamkham, Doctoral Candidate, Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès-CAS

“Organize the South!”: Black Workers for Justice and Black Political Power in North Carolina, 1980s-1990s”

•   Kalilou Barry, Doctoral Candidate, UPEC-IMAGER

“Not Just a Class Issue! The Dynamics of Organizing at Amazon Minnesota and Staten Island Warehouses”

1:00 - Lunch break

2:30-4:00 Panel 3 Interactions and Intersections, part (I)

Chair:  Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry, Professeure émérite, Sorbonne Nouvelle-CREW

•    Marie Ménard, Doctoral Candidate, UPEC-IMAGER

“Resisting Despite the Odds: the Case of the Oklahoma Teacher Walkout of 2018”

•    Jody Noll, Lecturer of History, Georgia State University

“Claiming Power: Race, Gender, and the Successes of the 1968 Statewide Florida Teachers’ Strike”

•   Tristan Pinet-Le Bras, Doctoral Candidate, EHESS-CENA

“For Better or for Worse, You are Opinion-Makers in the Community”. A Political History of Black Radio and Disc-Jockey Organizing (1940-1970)”

 4:00 - Coffee Break

4:15-5:30 Panel 3 Interactions and Intersections, part (II)

Chair:  Cécile Coquet-Mokoko, Professeure de Civilisation des Etats-Unis, UVSQ

•  Matthew Stanley, Associate Professor of History, University of Arkansas.

“Where Are the Workers?: The Class Question in Civil War Memory Studies and the Political Economy of Blue-Gray Reunion”

•  Augustus Wood, Assistant Professor, School of Labor and Employment Relations, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

“‘Get the Pharaoh Off the Community’s Back!’: Interracial Class Struggle, Social Movements, and Repression Under Gentrification in Neo-colonial Atlanta, 1966-2015”

Evening: Conference Banquet

Friday, February 3

Maison de la recherche de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 4 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris, Salle Athéna, rez-de-chaussée (Métro ligne 10 Cardinal Lemoine / RER B Luxembourg)

9:00 Opening & Coffee

9:30-11:00 Panel 4 (Re)Defining / (Re)Thinking the South, Part (I)

Chair: Anne Stefani, Professeure en civilisation américaine, Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès-CAS

• Toni-Michelle Travis, Professor Emerita George Mason University

“Northern Virginia (NOVA) vs. The Rest of Virginia (ROVA)”

• Manuel Bocquier, Doctoral Candidate, (EHESS, Mondes Américains, CENA / Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne)

“Segregation and Music Selling: Rethinking Southern Distinctiveness through Consumption”

11:00 - Coffee Break

11:15-12:15 Panel 4 (Re)Defining / (Re)Thinking the South, Part (II)

Chair:  Jean-Christian Vinel, Professor, Histoire américaine, Université de Paris Cité-LARCA (CNRS-UMR 8225)

•  Esther Cyna, Associate Professor of American Studies, UVSQ-CHCSC

“The Legacy of Jim Crow in School Finance: A Southern Story?”

• Nicolas Raulin, Ph.D in American studies, EHESS-CENA

“A Return Home or a Yankee Invasion? The Reverse Migration to the South and to Atlanta since the 1970s and the Regionalization of the Black Identity”

12:30 - Lunch break

2:00-3:00 Panel 5 Imagining Another Civil Rights Movement: Counterfactual Analyses

Chair:  Pauline Peretz, Maîtresse de conférences HDR en histoire contemporaine, université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint Denis, Membre senior de l'Institut Universitaire de France

• Olivier Maheo, Post-Doctoral Researcher, TEMOS, CNRS-Université Le Mans, ANR RelRAce.

“L’United Steel Workers of America, Africans-Americans, and mccarthyism, 1945-1955”

• Robert R. Korstad, Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and History, Duke University

“Revisiting “Opportunities Found and Lost”: Labor and Social Reform Movements in the 1940s US South”

3:00 - Coffee Break

3:15-5:00 Round Table “WHAT IF”

Chair: Nelson Lichtenstein, Distinguished Professor in History, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Brian Kelly, Reader in US History, Queen’s University Belfast
• Bryan D. Palmer, Professor, Canadian Studies, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario
• Mary Anne Trasciatti, Professor of Rhetoric and Public Advocacy and Director of Labor Studies, Hofstra University: “The Intersectional Politics of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn”
•  Alex Callinicos, Emeritus Professor of European Studies, King’s College

5:00 Keynote - Michael Goldfield, Professor Emeritus, Wayne State University

6: 00 Cocktail