LACS The Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association
LACS-SHA 2010 Program
Charlotte, NC, November 4-7
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4
Informal LACS Gathering at Brixx Restaurant, 7-9 pm
(Uptown in Seventh Street Station 225 E. 6th St. 2 blocks from the Westin)
Opening SHA Reception (9 til)
(The Levine Museum of the New South, just two blocks away from Brixx)
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 9:30-11:30 A.M. College
11. FAMILY AND KINSHIP IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD
Presiding: Lyman Johnson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Family, Inheritance, Race, and Social Mobility in a Brazilian Slave Society: The Case of the Vieira da Costa Family in Eighteenth-Century Minas Gerais
Mariana Dantas, Ohio University
The Slave Family in Sancti Spiritus: A Quantitative Analysis
Sarah Franklin, University of Southern Mississippi
Afro-Cuban Families under Slavery: The State of the Research
Karen Y. Morrison, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Africanizing" the Slave Family: Marriage and Kinship in an Atlantic Perspective
Tyler Parry, University of South Carolina
Comments: Charlotte Cosner, Western Carolina University
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2:30-4:30 P.M. Sharon
24. SLAVERY AND THE ATLANTIC WORLD IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES
Presiding: Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University
"A Well-Constructed Female Figure": Science, Beauty, and Labor in the Atlantic World
Alexandra Cornelius-Diallo, Florida International University
A Recalcitrant Bishop, Cabildos de Nación, and Religious Creolization in Eighteenth-Century Cuba
Joanna Elrick, Vanderbilt University
"To See How Happy the Human Race Can Be": A Colonization Experiment on Haiti’s Northern Coast, 1835-1845
Mark J. Fleszar, Georgia State University
"Very Proper People": British Recruitment of Slaves in the Leeward Islands during the Seven Years’ War (1761-1763)
David Barry Gaspar, Duke University
Comments Matt Childs, University of South Carolina
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 9:30-11:30 A.M. College
36. WOMEN, PERFORMANCE, AND THE POLITICS OF BIOGRAPHY IN LATIN AMERICA, 1920s-1940s
Presiding: Jürgen Buchenau, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Performing Motherhood: Concha Michel and the Politics of Mexican Maternalism
Jocelyn Olcott, Duke University
"Chaplin in Skirts?" Nini Marshall and the Female Comic Voice in Argentina, 1935-1945
Christine Ehrick, University of Louisville
The Final Fraud: Magda Portal and the Break from APRA, 1945-1948
Ivonne Wallace Fuentes, Roanoke College
Organized Labor, Luis Napoleón Morones, and the Assassination of Alvaro Obregón
Gregory Crider, Winthrop University
Comments: Mary Kay Vaughan, University of Maryland
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, Noon Park
40. LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN SECTION LUNCHEONAND BUSINESS MEETING
Presiding: Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University
Populist Politics in Late-Colonial Buenos Aires
Lyman Johnson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2:30-4:30 P.M. College
49. SPORT’S AGENCY: SPORT AS A CREATIVE FORCE IN LATIN AMERICA
Presiding: Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie, Howard University
Racial Hierarchies, National Hierarchies and the Perception of Sport in Republican Cuba
Enver Casimir, University of North Carolina, Chapel-Hill
Playing at Nation: Buenos Aires, the Provinces and the
Campeonato Argentino Soccer TournamentJeffrey Richey, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Something New? Women’s Soccer and Gender in Latin America
Joshua Nadel, North Carolina Central University
Comments: Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 4:45 P.M Queens
CS6. PHI ALPHA THETA-LATIN AMERICAN
Presiding: Richmond Brown, University of Florida
Drawing Borderlines: Jesuit Cartography and the Configuration of Space in Maynas
Roberto Chauca, University of Florida
Transfiguring the Amazon: Euclides da Cunha and Rio Branco on the Incorporation of the Amazon and the Consolidation of the Brazilian State
Andréa Ferreira, University of Florida
The African Origins of Slaves Leaving Angola in the Nineteenth Century
Daniel Domingues da Silva, Emory Uniiversity
From Military Forts and Military Men to Slave Depots and Slave Traders: Illegal Slave Trading in Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, 1830-1840
Cari Sloan Williams, Emory University
Comments: Marshall Eakin, Vanderbilt University
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 6:00-8:00 PM
LACS RECEPTION Room TBD
Westin Hotel, Room TBD, 6-8 pm
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 9:00-11:00 A.M. College
59. POLITICS, POLITICIANS, AND THE POLITICAL IN AUTHORITARIAN BRAZIL AND MEXICO
Presiding: Jerry Dávila, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Brazil’s Lula, the "Bearded Toad," in 1989: From the "Republic of São Bernardo" to President of the Republic?
John D. French, Duke University
"The Funeral of Democracy": The Moreira Alves Case, Elite Political Culture, and the Birth of Dictatorship in Brazil
Bryan Pitts, Duke University
Intellectuals and the Fourth Brean in Mexican History: A Legacy of Tlatelolco
William Kelly, Texas Christian University
Comments: Jerry Dávila