Critical Mixed Race Studies 2018 at University of Maryland

2018 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference
Resisting, Reclaiming, and ReimaginingUniversity of Maryland March 1-3, 2018
Adele H. Stamp Student Union 3972 Campus Drive, College Park, MD, 20742
#CMRS2018

This was the first CMRS I was able to attend just as a participant and not an organizer. Thank you to the new board and #CMRS2018 conference organizers Chandra Crudup and Naliyah Kaya for keeping CMRS alive and taking it into new directions. Despite the University of Maryland shutting down on 3/2 due to a wind storm, CMRS attendees and organizers found a way to hold panels at a nearby hotel on 3/2 and rearrange 2 days of programming on the fly. 

Chandra Crudup and Naliyah Kaya

CMRS 2018 organizer and CMRS VP Chandra Crudup with keynote speaker Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni.

On behalf of the Mavin Foundation, board member Kelly F. Jackson received the lifetime achievement award. Congratulations to the 2018 Paul Spickard Graduate Student Paper Awardee Haley Pilgrim.

Panel:  Canaries in the Race Mine: Global Mixed Race Cultural StudiesMarch 1, 2018 1:00-2:30pm in Banneker B

“Looking for Merle – Picturing US Globalization through Asian Female Stars”
LeiLani Nishime, University of Washington

“Resistance, Rage, and Resilience: QTPOC, disability, and mixed-race identity in the poetry of Kay Ulanday Barret”
Laura Kina, DePaul University

“As Above, So Between: Gazing at Miss Lala as a Mixed-Race Figure”
Elizabeth Fei, DePaul University

“Trevor Noah and Racial Liminality in Post-Apartheid South Africa”
Myra Washington, The University of New Mexico

CMRS "Canaries in the Race Mine" panelists:
Myra Washington, Elizabeth Fei, LeiLani Nishime, Laura Kina