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The 91st Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians
(OAH) starts tomorrow in Indianapolis, Indiana. The OAH chose
the theme of "Boundaries" for this year's meeting.
The "urban" sessions for the first day, Thursday, are summarized below
and a similar set of Friday's sessions will be posted later today.
Saturday's and Sunday's sessions related to urban themes may, time
allowing, be extracted from the full program as well. "Urban"
sessions either had an explicitly "urban" theme or included papers
on particular cities' experiences (identified by *). Obviously,
there is some subjectivity in selection, and we apologize for omission
of any sessions that others deem "urban."
If you are attending an urban session, we would welcome receiving
a summary of the session's papers and discussions on H-Urban
after the conference.
Thursday, April 2, 1-3 p.m.
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o RACIAL BOUNDARIES IN THE POSTWAR ERA: POPULAR CULTURE, SUBURBANIZATION,
AND MIGRATION (Thursday, April 2, 1-3 p.m.)
Presiding: Barbara Dianne Savage, U. of Pennsylvania
Papers:
"The Politics & Culture of 'Whiteness': Race in
Metropolitan Detroit, 1945-1970"
David Freund, U. of Michigan
"Defining Puerto Ricans: Migration and U.S. Racial
Ideologies in the Postwar Era"
Carmen Whalen, Rutgers U.
"Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Politics of Racial
Boundaries in American Popular Culture"
Jerma Jackson, U. of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Comment: George Lipsitz, U. of California, San Diego
o THE SUBURB AS BOUNDARY AND BORDERLAND: REMAPPING THE
TWENTIETH-CENTURY METROPOLITAN FRONTIER (Thursday, April 2, 1-3 p.m.)
Presiding: Zane L. Miller, U. of Cincinnati
Papers
"Suburbs as Historic Districts: The Redefinition of Boundaries"
David Allen Hamer, Victoria U. of Wellington
"The Transformation of the Rural-Metropolitan Fringe: The
Experience of Edina, Minnesota, 1930-1970"
Diane Pecknold, Indiana U. Bloomington
Paul Schadewald, Indiana U. Bloomington
"Public Art and Public Space in an Edge City: The 'Spirit
Poles' Controversy in Concord, California"
Joseph A. Rodriguez, U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Comment: Anthony M. Orum, U. of Illinois at Chicago (Dept. of Sociology)
o CONVERSATION -- URBAN BOUNDARIES (Thursday, April 2, 1-3 p.m.)
Moderator: Thomas J. Sugrue, U. of Pennsylvania
Panelists:
Thomas J. Sugrue, "City Boundaries: The Spatial Construction
of Race in the Twentieth Century North"
Gerald Gamm, U. of Rochester, "City Walls: Ethnicity and
Race in the American City, 1870-1997"
Ira Katznelson, U. of Rochester
"'City Trenches'" Revisited
Comment:
Thomas J. Sugrue
Gerald Gamm
Ira Katznelson
Thursday, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
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SESSION II-DRAWING THE 'AGE LINE' IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA: CLASS,
GENDER, RACE, AND AGE IN THE EXPERIENCE OF WORK, 1870-1940
(Thursday, 3:30-5:30 p.m.)
Presiding: Alice Kessler-Harris, Rutgers U., New Brunswick
Campus
Papers:
"'Handicapped by Age': Women over Forty-Five and the
Employment Bureaus of the Women's Educational and
Industrial Union"
Corinne T. Field, Columbia U.
*"City Slave Girls: The Troubled Boundary Between Female
Child and Adult Labor in Gilded Age Chicago
Lara Vapnek, Columbia U.
Comment: Carole Haber, U. of North Carolina at Charlotte
Alice Kessler-Harris
o THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN SOCIAL
ACTIVISM IN INDIANAPOLIS (Thursday, 3:30 - 5:30 p.m.)
MODERATOR: Drew Smith, Indiana State U.
PANELIST: Bill Crawford, Indiana House of Representatives
Mashariki Jywanza, Africa Celebration '98, Indianapolis,
Indiana
Achebe Lateef, Social Activist, Indianapolis, Indiana
Fay Williams, Attorney at Law, Indianapolis, Law
COMMENT: The Audience
o NEIGHBORHOOD PRESERVATION IN CHICAGO, 1900-1968: RACE, RESTRICTIVE
COVENANTS, AND URBAN RENEWAL (Thursday, 3:30-5:30 p.m.)
Presiding: James Grossman, The Newberry Library
Papers:
"Neighbors and Boundaries: Racial Restrictive Covenants in
Chicago, 1900-1950"
Wendy Plotkin, U. of Illinois at Chicago
"Blighted Buildings or Poor People? Neighborhood Preservation
on Chicago's West Side, 1955-1968
Amanda Seligman, Northwestern U.
Comment: Arnold Hirsch, U. of New Orleans
James Grossman
o ETHNIC, RACIAL, AND RELIGIOUS BOUNDARIES IN EARLY GEORGIA,
1732-1830 (Thursday, 3:30-5:30 p.m.)
Presiding: Edward Cashin, Augusta State U.
Papers:
*"Blurring the Boundaries of Race: Interaction between African-
Americans and Irish Immigrants in Antebellum Savannah"
Timothy J. Lockley, U. of Warwick
"Mischief-Makers and Risk-Takers: Lowland and Highland Scots
in Early Colonial Georgia"
Anthony W. Parker, U. of Dundee
*"Redefining the Boundaries: Jews and the Expansion of Religious
Toleration in Colonial Savannah, 1733-1790"
Holly Snyder, Brandeis U.
Comment: Betty C. Wood, Girton College, Cambridge U.
o CONVERSATION--LESSONS FROM THE GREAT MIGRATION: LABOR MARKETS
AND THE ECONOMIC STATUS OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS (Thursday, 3:30-
5:30 p.m.)
Moderator: Joe William Trotter, Carnegie Mellon U.
Panelists:
Thomas Maloney, Department of Economics, U. of Utah
William A. Sundstrom, Department of Economics, Santa Clara U.
Warren Whatley, Department of Economics, U. of Michigan
Comment: Joe William Trotter
o ROUNDTABLE--REVISITING *THE CRABGRASS FRONTIER*
(Thursday, 3:30-5:30 p.m.)
Moderator:
Michael H. Ebner, Lake Forest College
Panelists:
Henry Binford, Northwestern U.
Philip Ethington, U. of Southern California
Ann Durkin Keating, North Central College, IL
John Logan, Dept. of Sociology, SUNY-Albany
Comment:
Kenneth T. Jackson, Columbia U.
The remarks of several of the panelists in the _Crabgrass Frontier_
follow.
o NEW DIRECTIONS IN ORAL HISTORY: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION OF AMERICAN
HISTORY DISSERTATIONS USING ORAL HISTORY (Co-Sponsored by the Oral
History Association) (Thursday, 3:30-5:30 p.m.)
Moderator: Ronald J. Grele, Columbia University
Faculty Panelist: George C. Wright, University of Texas at Arlington
Graduate Student Panelists:
William D. Carrigan, Emory University
Dissertation: "Between South and West: Racial and Cultural Conflict
in Central Texas, 1836-1916"
Elisabeth E. Orr, Indiana University Bloomington
*Dissertation: "Living Along the Fault Line: Community and
Multiethnicity in Suburban Garden Grove and
Westminster, California, 1950-1995"
Rhonda Y. Williams, Case Western Reserve University
*Dissertation: "Living Just Enough for the City: Change and
Activism in Baltimore's Public Housing"
Comment: The Audience
Wendy Plotkin
H-Urban Co-Editor
University of Illinois at Chicago
Department of History
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