Session Details

Sunday, 09 January

711. Literature before the Social Sciences

8:30–9:45 a.m., Diamond Salon 7, J. W. Marriott

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada

Presiding: Ifeoma C. K. Nwankwo, Vanderbilt Univ.

1. “Social Instrumentality and the Discordance of Chicana/o Literature,” Rafael M. Pérez-Torres, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

2. “Race from the Social Sciences,” Chandan Reddy, Univ. of Washington, Seattle

3. “Representations of Racialized Femininity: Embodying Interplay and Interdisciplinarity,” Caroline A. Streeter, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

4. “The Spoken and Silent Word: Preserving Ancient Epistemology,” Halifu Osumare, Univ. of California, Davis

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