Michigan Colloquium on Race and Twentieth-Century

American Political Development (2003-05)

Organizers: Matt Lassiter, Tony Chen, and Robert Mickey

1. MARGARET WEIR: "STATES, RACE, AND THE DECLINE OF NEW DEAL LIBERALISM" (October 2, 2003)

2. THOMAS SUGRUE: "JIM CROW'S LAST STAND: THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE SUBURBAN NORTH" (Oct. 16, 2003)

3. LIZABETH COHEN: "THE RACIAL POLITICS OF MASS CONSUMPTION IN THE CONSUMERS' REPUBLIC" (Nov. 7, 2003)

4. MICHAEL KATZ: "THE NEW AFRICAN-AMERICAN INEQUALITY" (Dec. 11, 2003)

5. MAE NGAI: "IMPOSSIBLE SUBJECTS: ILLEGAL ALIENS AND THE MAKING OF MODERN AMERICA" (Feb. 5, 2004)

6. AMY BRIDGES: "MANAGING THE PERIPHERY: CONSTITUTIONS AND RACIAL ORDER IN THE AMERICAN WEST" (April 1, 2004)

7. NANCY MACLEAN: “ARE MEXICAN AMERICANS ‘WHITES OR PEOPLE OF COLOR’? THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF MEXICAN AMERICAN POLITICS” (March 25, 2005)

8. KEVIN KRUSE AND JOSEPH CRESPINO: “ROUNDTABLE ON SOUTHERN POLITICS AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN CONSERVATISM” (May 17, 2005)