“the gods bring threads to webs begun”: african-americans

APRIL 22—3:30 - 5:30 P.M.
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LAW ENFORCEMENT IN
CULTURE AND POLITICS
PRESIDING:
MARK HALLER, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY
PAPERS:
Dangerous Liaisons: Governor Dewey, Lucky Luciano, and
Operation Underworld
COMMENT:
JOHN C. MCWILLIAMS, THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE
UNIVERSITY-DUBOIS CAMPUS
Popular Culture’s G-Men: From Jimmy Cagney to Johnny Depp
RICHARD GID POWERS, COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND
Policing the City: A Century of Drug Control in Chicago
JOSEPH SPILLANE, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
ELLEN DWYER, INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON
RETHINKING POSTWAR AMERICAN HISTORY:
RACE, LABOR, AND CONSUMERISM IN
CAPITALISM’S “GOLDEN AGE”
PRESIDING:
JOAN HOFF, OHIO UNIVERSITY
PAPERS:
“What’s Good for G.M. is Good for the Country”: Postwar Politics and
the Making of a Consuming Public
MEG JACOBS, CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE
“Old Before Its Time”: American Corporations and Post World War Two
Labor-Management Accord
NELSON LICHTENSTEIN, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
Race and the Limits of Liberalism in the American Century
THOMAS SUGRUE, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
COMMENT:
JUDITH STEIN, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK-GRADUATE SCHOOL
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