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The Historical Political Economy of Race

The Historical Political Economy of Race

USC Price School of Public Policy
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
VPD 302

9:15 am to 10 am: Light Breakfast

10:00 am to 11:00 am: Paper 1

The Dog that Did Not Bark: The Failed Attempts to Disenfranchise African Americans in Early 20th Century Maryland

Thomas R. Gray (University of Texas at Dallas) and Jeffery A. Jenkins (University of Southern California)

Discussant: Melissa Rogers (Claremont Graduate University)

11:00 am to 12:00 pm: Paper 2

Education for Empowerment or Control? School Textbooks after the Civil Rights Movement

Agustina Paglayan (University of California, San Diego)

Discussant: D. Roderick Kiewiet (Caltech)

12:00 pm to 1:15 pm: Lunch

1:15 pm to 2:15 pm: Paper 3

Atlantic Slavery’s Impact on European and British Economic Development

Ellora Derenoncourt (Princeton University)

Discussant: Dan Bogart (University of California, Irvine)

2:15 pm to 3:15 pm: Paper 4

Arming the Enslaved? Different Paths Taken by the US and Confederate Congresses during the American Civil War 

Jeffery A. Jenkins (University of Southern California) and Nicholas G. Napolio (University of California, Riverside)

Discussant: Gregory Downs (University of California, Davis)

3:15 pm to 3:30 pm: Break

3:30 pm to 4:30 pm: Paper 5

Creating Citizen-Subjects: Reconstruction and the Political Invention of Black Sovereignty

Trevon D. Logan (The Ohio State University)

Discussant: Hoyt Bleakley (University of Michigan and the Hoover Institution)

4:30 pm to 5:30 pm: Paper 6

Disenfranchisement

Randall Walsh (University of Pittsburgh)

Discussant: Hoyt Bleakley (University of Michigan and the Hoover Institution)

6:30 pm: Dinner at Bacari West Adams