SESSION 4: 9:00 AM – 10:45 AM

4A (Stibbs): Space/Place
Chair: Scott Brockman Varnado, University of California, Los Angeles
Scott Brockman Varnado, University of California, Los Angeles, “Reframing Dixie: Cultural
Identity and the Production of Cinematic and Public Space in the Southern United States”
Rianna Walcott, University of Maryland, College Park, “Black Homeplaces: An Archive of
Diasporic Placemaking”
Florence Madenga, Boston College, “Contesting the Tradwife: ‘Homegrown’ Content,
Authenticity and Black Womanhood”
Fania Noël, CUNY Grad Center, “In the Name of the Dead Black Wife: Absence, Blackness, and
Gender in Science Fiction”