CFP: The Nation and its Global Metropolis (no deadline noted; ASA, 11/3/05-11/6/05)

Hello,

I am currently trying to organize a panel for the 2005 American
Studies Annual Meeting, to be held November 3-6, 2005 in Washington,
DC. The theme of next year’s ASA meeting is “Groundwork: Space and
Place in American Cultures.” A full description of the meeting is
available at:
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/AmericanStudiesAssn/annualmeeting/
ASA2005/cfp2005.htm
The panel is tentatively titled “The Nation and its Global Metropolis:
Immigration, Suburbanization and the Construction of the Washington,
DC Metropolitan Region.”

The panel description as it appears on the ASA website is as follows:

“Recent scholarship on Washington, DC, has demonstrated that federal
control of Washington’s urban policy has resulted in the
disenfranchisement of the city’s indigenous neighborhoods and African
American communities and has frustrated efforts for social justice.
Furthermore, as Howard Gillette argues, the unique relationship
between the federal government and Washington makes the city both
exceptional among American cities and exemplary of the problematic
relationship between the nation and its cities. This panel will
attempt to broaden this thesis by situating Washington within
twentieth century trends of suburbanization and immigration. The
federal government and the imagined identity of Washington as the
national city have impacted the surrounding suburbs of Northern
Virginia and Maryland and the neighboring and overlapping metropolitan
region of Greater Baltimore. At the same time, Washington and these
suburbs have become the home to diverse immigrant communities. This
panel will focus on the policies and imagined identities that have
contributed to and resulted from these trends. The ultimate goal will
be a better understanding of the both the Washington metropolitan
region and the nation in a suburban, globalized world.”

Currently, I am preparing a paper that focuses on land use, historic
preservation and historic tourism in the development of Northern
Virginia, specifically the area surrounding Manassas National
Battlefield. A colleague is working on a paper that focuses on the
relationship between Congress and Capitol Hill in the years
immediately after World War II. We are interested in any submissions
which speak to the larger concerns of the panel and the conference.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions, queries or
comments.

Thank You,

Matthew Mace Barbee
Graduate Student
American Culture Studies Program
Bowling Green State University
East Hall 339B
(419)372-0571

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