San Francisco Rights Conference
The Question of Rights in U.S. Society
September 17-18, 2009
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94132
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Conference Schedule
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Thursday, September 17
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9:00-9:30 am
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Registration and Breakfast
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9:30-11:15 am
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Concurrent Sessions I
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Panel 1: The Right to Sexual Orientation
Chair: Amy Sueyoshi
Director and Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies Program
Associate Professor of Sexuality Studies
San Francisco State University/College of Ethnic Studies
Lee Formwalt
Organization of American Historians
From Race to Sexuality in Civil Rights History: A Personal and Professional Journey
Melissa Barthelemy
Department of History, San Francisco State University
Equal Justice For Some: The Distasteful Legacy of Bowers v. Hardwick
Christopher Waldrep
Department of History, San Francisco State University
Same-Sex Marriage as a Constitutional Right: Natural Law and Popular Sovereignty
Comment: Amy Sueyoshi
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(9:30-10:30 am)
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Panel 2: Civil Liberties in San Francisco
Chair: Steve Leikin
Department of History, San Francisco State University
Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi
Co-authors of the forthcoming book:
Wherever There’s a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers,
and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California
(Heyday Books, October 2009)
Wherever There’s a Fight in San Francisco: A Virtual Tour of Significant Civil Liberties Sites in the City
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Panel 3: New Rights
Chair: Robert Smith
Department of Political Science, San Francisco State University
Laëtitia Baltz
Bordeaux Institute of Political Studies, Center of the Black/Africana Studies
France
Can We talk about A New Civil Rights Movement? Thoughts from Contemporary Black Movies
Christopher A. Hickman
The George Washington University
A Genuinely New Protected Right: The Apportionment Revolution and its Enemies
Charles Zelden
Nova Southeastern University
Of Voting Rights and Wrongs: Vote Denial in the 2000 Presidential Election and Beyond
Comment: Robert Smith
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11:30-1:00 pm
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Luncheon
Chair: Catherine Powell
Director, Labor Archives & Research Center
San Francisco State University
Introduction: President Robert Corrigan
San Francisco State University
Michael Avery
Suffolk Law School
We Dissent: Pushing Back Against the Supreme Court's Hostility to Civil Rights Claims
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1:15-3:00 pm
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Concurrent Sessions II
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Panel 4: Feminism and the Question of Rights
Chair: Julietta Hua
Department of Women and Gender Studies
San Francisco State University
Vera Fennell
Dept of Political Science, Lehigh University
'Where Women Are Like Tigers and Men are Like Cats...': Maoist Gender Policy and Mass Feminism in China
Zenzele Isoke
Dept of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Race, Sexual Transgression, and the Limits of "Hate Crime" Discourse: The Case of Sakia Gunn
Robin Levi
Justice Now
Human Rights, Feminism and Justice NOW!
Justice Now is a legal services organization in Oakland working with people in women’s prisons and local communities to build a safe, compassionate world without prisons.
Comment: Julietta Hua
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Panel 5: Rights after World War II
Chair: Jessica Elkind
Department of History, San Francisco State University
Alan Petigny
Department of History, University of Florida
The Post-McGovern Backlash: The Rights Revolution and the Attack on the New Politics
Urla Hill
History San José
Black Panthers Don’t Wear Spots: Harry Edwards and the Olympic Project for Human Rights
Nancy Pietroforte
Department of Sociology
Rockland Community College, Suffern, New York
The Evolution of Sexual & Reproductive Rights: Bill Baird’s Unparalleled Contribution to Ensuring Privacy Rights for All Americans
Comment: Jessica Elkind
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Panel 6: Cold War Civil Rights
Chair: Bob Cherny
Department of History, San Francisco State University
Erik Bruce
Department of History, University of Texas at Austin
Communists and the Legal Fight Against Blacklisting in the Entertainment Industry During the Post-War Era
John Hayakawa Török
World Association of International Studies
Stanford University
Containment in Cold War America: Kwong Hai Chew’s Case, The Kang Jai Association Raid and American Civil Liberties
Douglas M. Charles
Penn State University, Greater Allegheny
The FBI's Curious Investigation of Harry Hay, 1943-61
Comment: Bob Cherny
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3:15-5:00 pm
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Concurrent Sessions III
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Panel 7: Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and the Issue of Rights,
or Can it be Rites?
Chair: Steven Estes
Department of History, Sonoma State University
Elizabeth L. Hillman
University of California Hastings College of Law
Executive Authority Over Military Personnel Actions: The White House and "Don't Ask/Don't Tell"
Jonathan Lurie
Department of History, Rutgers University
Engendered Rights and "Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell:" Is it Time at last for a requiem?
Comment: Steven Estes
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Panel 8: Roundtable on Nelson Lichtenstein, The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business
Chair: John Logan
David Brody
UC Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
Kim Voss
Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley
Ben Hensler
General Counsel and Deputy Director of the Workers Rights Consortium
Jono Shaffer
Service Employees International Union
Comment: Nelson Lichtenstein
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Panel 9: Segregated Rights
Chair: R. Volney Riser
Department of History and Social Sciences
University of West Alabama
Christiane Warren
Empire State College/SUNY
African American Women working for civil rights within the structures of the club movement 1890-1920: A discussion of strategies and goals
Patricia Hagler Minter
Department of History, Western Kentucky University
Race, Property Rights, and Negotiated Space in the American South: A Reconsideration of Buchanan v. Warley
Comment: R. Volney Riser
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Friday, September 18
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9:30-11:15 am
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Concurrent Sessions IV
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Panel 10: Civil War Civil Rights
Chair: Waldo Martin
Department of History, UC Berkeley
Vernon Burton
Department of History, Carolina Coastal University
Lincoln and the Constitution in The Age of Lincoln
Timothy S. Huebner
Department of History, Rhodes College
Roger B. Taney and the Constitution
Comment: Waldo Martin
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Panel 11: Conceptualizing Rights
Chair: Paul Longmore
Department of History, San Francisco State University
Randal Beeman
Department of History, Bakersfield College
Beyond Nostalgia: Teaching the 1960s Rights Revolution
R. Volney Riser
Department of History and Social Sciences
University of West Alabama
An Even Longer "Long Civil Rights Movement"?: African-American Constitutional Rights Claims in the Jim Crow Era
Terra Caldwell
Department of History, San Francisco State University
Changes Large or Small: The Relative Impact of the EEOC on Gender Desegregation in the Workplace
Comment: Paul Longmore
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Panel 12: Slavery
Chair: Eva Sheppard Wolf
Department of History, San Francisco State University
Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela Gross (to be presented by Ariela Gross)
Gould School of Law, University of Southern California
Comparing Law and Slaves’ Claims-Making in Cuba, Louisiana and Virginia
Emily V. Blanck
Department of History, Rowan University
Citizenship and Slavery: Moving Beyond Persons and Property
Max L. Grivno
Department of History, University of Southern Mississippi
Caught between Slavery and Freedom: The Legal Construction of Delayed Manumission in Antebellum Maryland
Comment: Eva Sheppard Wolf
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11:30-1:00 pm
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Luncheon
Chair: Gail G. Evans
Dean of Undergraduate Studies
San Francisco State University
Introduction: Barbara Loomis
Department of History, San Francisco State University
Waldo Martin
University of California, Berkeley
Race, Rights, and Revolution: Black Freedom Struggle 1789-2000
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1:15-3:00 pm
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Concurrent Sessions V
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Panel 13: New Perspectives on the Right to Bodily Autonomy, Part 1
Chair: Lynne Curry
Department of History, Eastern Illinois University
Karen Walloch
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"A Community Has a Right to Defend Itself": Persuasion, Coercion, Compulsion, and Force in the Boston and Cambridge Vaccination Campaigns of 1901-02 and Jacobson v. Massachusetts
Shawn Francis Peters
Department of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Making Martyrs: Religious Healing and the Rights of Children
Comment: Lynne Curry
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Panel 14: Violence as a Right
Chair: Christopher Waldrep
Department of History, San Francisco State University
Michael T. Caires
Department of History, University of Virginia
A Second Declaration of Independence: Thomas Goode Jones and the Right Not to be Lynched
Sarah Silkey
Department of History, Lycoming College
Lynch Law: A Right of American Citizenship
Thomas Smith
Department of History, University of Nevada, Reno
Legitimate Violence, Manliness, War, and Liberal Rights at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Comment: Christopher Waldrep
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Panel 15: Reconstruction
Chair: Robin Einhorn
Department of History, UC Berkeley
Michael Les Benedict
Department of History, Ohio State University (emeritus)
Constitutional Politics in the Era of Reconstruction
Michael Ross
Department of History, University of Maryland
The Supreme Court and the "Retreat From Reconstruction": An Assessment of Twenty Years of Scholarship
Michael Fitzgerald
Department of History, St. Olaf College
The Politics of Law Enforcement: The Ku Klux Klan in Reconstruction Alabama
Comment: Robin Einhorn
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3:15-5:00 pm
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Concurrent Sessions VI
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Panel 16: New Perspectives on the Right to Bodily Autonomy, Part 2
Chair: Lynne Curry
Department of History, Eastern Illinois University
Alan Rogers
Department of History, Boston College
The Repeal of Legal Protection for Spiritual Healing in Massachusetts
Sondra Solovay
John F. Kennedy University School of Law
Weight Discrimination and Disability Rights
Comment: Lynne Curry
Teaching the History of Bodily Autonomy
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Panel 17: The Federal Judiciary and Rights
Chair: James Martel
Department of Political Science, San Francisco State University
William Mercer
Department of History, University of Florida
Relocating Rights: Barron v. Baltimore and the Evolution of the Foundation of Rights
Cynthia Nicoletti
Department of History, University of Virginia
Did Secession Really Die at Appomattox?: The Strange Case of U.S. v. Jefferson Davis
Jacob Kramer
Department of History
Borough of Manhattan Community College
A Rule of Reason Correctly Applied: Wilsonian Progressives and the Rights of Radicals, 1900-1920
Comment: James Martel
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Panel 18: Relocations: The Right to Geographic Autonomy
Chair: Jillian Sandell
Women Studies, San Francisco State University
Josh Gannis
Department of History, San Francisco State University
The Court, the Constitution, and Japanese-American Internment
Alex Lovit
Department of History, University of Michigan
Volenti Non Fit Injuria: Free Will and Rights in the American Colonization Society
Christian Gonzales
Department of History, UC San Diego
Mission Schools in the Cherokee and Choctaw Nations: How American rights fostered Native acculturation
Comment: Jillian Sandell
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