{"id":18994,"date":"2011-12-14T22:41:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T22:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=18994"},"modified":"2013-10-08T21:00:26","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T21:00:26","slug":"james-weldon-johnsons-the-autobiography-of-an-ex%e2%80%93colored-man-a-century-later-session-529","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=18994","title":{"rendered":"James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex\u2013Colored Man: A Century Later (Session 529)"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex\u2013Colored Man: A Century Later (Session 529)<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Modern Language Association<\/a>
\n127th MLA Annual Convention<\/a>
\n2012-01-05 through 2012-01-05
\nWashington State Convention Center
\nSeattle, Washingon<\/p>\n

Program arranged by the Division on Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature<\/p>\n

Presiding<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gene Andrew Jarrett<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of English
\nBoston University<\/em><\/p>\n

Speakers<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. “Music, Race, and Nation in Johnson’s Autobiography”<\/p>\n

Erich Nunn<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of English
\nAuburn University<\/em>
\n\u00a0
\n2.<\/strong> “An Old Negro in a New Century: Locating the Southern Slave in Johnson’s Autobiography”<\/p>\n

Adena Spingarn<\/strong>
\nHarvard University<\/em>
\n\u00a0
\n3. “The Ex-Colored among Us: Johnson’s Autobiography and the New Millennial Multiracialism”<\/p>\n

Michele Elam<\/strong><\/a>, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education
\nStanford University<\/em><\/p>\n

4. <\/strong>“Pragmatic Nationalism in Johnson’s Autobiography”<\/p>\n

Michael Clay Hooper<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of English
\nPrairie View A&M University<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

For more information, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex\u2013Colored Man: A Century Later (Session 529) Modern Language Association 127th MLA Annual Convention 2012-01-05 through 2012-01-05 Washington State Convention Center Seattle, Washingon Program arranged by the Division on Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature Presiding Gene Andrew Jarrett, Associate Professor of English Boston University Speakers 1. “Music, Race, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1196,13,8,20],"tags":[8726,8725,8723,8722,8724,1307,8728,8727,8729,1386,8705],"class_list":["post-18994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-criticism","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-adena-spingarn","tag-erich-nunn","tag-gene-a-jarrett","tag-gene-andrew-jarrett","tag-gene-jarrett","tag-james-weldon-johnson","tag-michael-c-hooper","tag-michael-clay-hooper","tag-michael-hooper","tag-michele-elam","tag-modern-language-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}