Le Sud des États-Unis au cœur des enjeux politiques américains : classe, race et espaces au prisme de l’œuvre de Michael Goldfield*
Class, Race and Place in the US South: American Politics Through the Lens of Michael Goldfield’s Work*
International Conference, 1-2-3 February 2023
IMAGER (Université Paris-Est Créteil), CREW (Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Site : https://sudetatsunis.sciencesconf.org/
Wednesday, February 1: 17:00-19:00
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
Round-table: Donna Kesselman (UPEC-IMAGER), James Cohen (Sorbonne Nouvelle-CREW), Elizabeth Faue (Wayne State University), Christen Bryson (Sorbonne Nouvelle-CREW), Émilien Julliard (CNRS-IDHE.S)
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)
Thursday, February 2
Salle des Thèses, bât P CMC, Université Paris-Est Créteil (Métro ligne 8, Créteil-Université)
9:00: Conference Opening
Université UPEC: Guillaume Marche, Directeur of IMAGER, UPEC
Conference Organizing Committee: Donna Kesselman (UPEC-IMAGER), Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry (Sorbonne Nouvelle-CREW), James Cohen (Sorbonne Nouvelle-CREW),
9:00 – Introduction
Cody R. Melcher, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Loyola University
“On Michael Goldfield”
9:45 – 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”
Jacquelyn Hall, Professor Emeritus, UNC-Chapel Hill
“The Long Backlash”
Matthew Nichter, Associate Professor of Sociology, Rollins College, Orlando
“The Lost Opportunity Thesis and the Sociology of the Civil Rights Movement”
11:30 – 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”
2:30 – Panel 3 Interactions and Intersections, part (I)
Chair: Hélène Quanquin, Professeure de Civilisation des États-Unis, Université de Lille-CECILLE
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)”
4:15 – Panel 3 Interactions and Intersections, part (II)
Chair: Cécile Coquet-Mokoko,Professeure de Civilisation des Etats-Unis, USVQ
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”
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”
Friday, February 3, 2023
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 Reception
9:30 – 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)”
Esther Cyna, Associate Professor of American Studies, USVQ-CHCSC
“The Legacy of Jim Crow in School Finance: A Southern Story?”
Manuel Bocquier, Doctoral Candidate, (EHESS, Mondes Américains, CENA / Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne)
“Segregation and Music Selling: Rethinking Southern Distinctiveness through Consumption”
11:15 – Panel 4 (Re)Defining / (Re)Thinking the South, Part (II)
Chair: Jean-Christian Vinel,Professor, Histoire américaine, Université de Paris-LARCA
Andrew Y. Elrod, Historian & Writer, Los Angeles
“Spreading the Open Shop: Non-Union Construction, the Business Roundtable, and the Rise of Sunbelt America”
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”
2:00 – Panel 5 Imagining Another Civil Rights Movement: Counterfactual Analyses
Chair: Jacquelyn Dowd-Hall,Professor Emeritus, UNC-Chapel Hill
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”
3:15 – 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
*On the occasion of the publication of his last book: Michael Goldfield, The Southern Key: Class, Race and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s, New York, Oxford, 2020
Organizing Committee:
Kalilou Barry, Doctorant en Civilisation américaine, UPEC-IMAGER
Lyais Ben Youssef, Doctorant en Civilisation américaine, UPEC-IMAGER
James Cohen, Professeur, Sorbonne Nouvelle-CREW
Esther Cyna, Maîtresse de Conférences, USVQ-CHCSC
Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry, Professeure émérite, Sorbonne Nouvelle-CREW
Mathieu Hocquelet, Chercheur en Sociologie du Travail, Céreq
Donna Kesselman, Professeure, UPEC-IMAGER
Olivier Maheo, Post-Doctoral Researcher, TEMOS, CNRS-Université Le Mans, ANR RelRAce.
Guillaume Marche, Professeur, UPEC-IMAGER
Cody R. Melcher, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Loyola University
Marie Ménard, Doctorante en Civilisation américaine, UPEC-IMAGER
Scientific Committee:
Mathieu Bonzom, Maître de Conférences en études nord-américaines, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne-CESSP
Audrey Célestine, Maîtresse de Conférences, Université de Lille-CECILLE
Cécile Coquet-Mokoko, Professeure de Civilisation des Etats-Unis, USVQ-CHCSC
Elizabeth Faue, Professor of History, Wayne State University
Rosemary Feurer, Associate Professor of History, Northern Illinois University
Errol A. Henderson, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Pennsylvania State University
Ambre Ivol, Maîtresse de Conférences en Civilisation des États-Unis, Université de Nantes-CIL
Emilien Julliard, Chargé de recherche en Sociologie, CNRS-université Paris-Nanterre-IDHE .S
Nelson Lichtenstein, Research Professor, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Hélène Quanquin,Professeure de Civilisation des États-Unis, Université de Lille-CECILLE
Caroline Rolland-Diamond, Professeure d’histoire des Etats-Unis, Université Paris-Nanterre-CREA
Anne Stefani, Professeure en Civilisation américaine, Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès-CAS
Jean-Christian Vinel, Professor, Histoire des États-Unis, Université de Paris Cité-Larca
Karel Yon, Chargé de Recherche en Sociologie, CNRS-Université Paris-Nanterre-IDHE.S