Presenters:

Carol Anderson – "Eyes off the Prize"

Felice Blake – "Intracial Recognition in the Post-Civil Rights Era"

Moderator: Luke Harris 

Rapporteur: Daniel HoSang

Session Readings:

Civil Rights

A"Hollow Mockery": African Americans, White Supremacy, and the Development of Human Rights in the United States (pages 7-19 are particularly relevant)

From Margin to Centerfold:  The (Mis)Recognition of Pleasure and Danger in Contemporary Black Erotic Fiction (pages 7-23 are particularly relevant)

Please Don’t Stop the Music:  African American Literary Studies and the Blues of Intraracial Recognition