Oral Presentation Session - Volunteered

Reviewed by: Association of Black Anthropologists

(2-0315) Blackness, Whiteness, and Community Formations

Presenter(s)

• Ingrid Banks

  Associate Professor
  University of California, Santa Barbara

• Akissi Britton

  Assistant Professor, Africana Studies
  Rutgers University

Chair(s)

• Akissi Britton

  Assistant Professor, Africana Studies
  Rutgers University

Presenter(s)

• Xavier Robillard-Martel

  PhD student
  Cornell University

• Lynn Selby

  Universite d'Etat d'Haiti/Universite Publique des Nippes

Presentations:

• 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM

  “They look like they do not mind us comin'”: Contemporary Black Beauty Salons as Spaces of Ironic Integration
  Ingrid Banks – University of California, Santa Barbara
• 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM

  Cajunism as a Racial Project: Concealing Privilege While Asserting Whiteness in Southern Louisiana
  Xavier Robillard-Martel – Cornell University
• 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM

  Disaster, higher education, and aid: Haiti's dual public sector responses to adversity and quest for local control
  Lynn Selby – Universite d'Etat d'Haiti/Universite Publique des Nippes
• 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM

  'The Orisa Have No Color': Black Gods, Social Media and Colorblind Ideology
  Akissi M. Britton – Rutgers University