Panel
Chair, "Japanese and African Americans: Encounters and
Perceptions," Blacks and Asians: Encounters Through Time
and Space, International Conference, Boston
University,
April 2002
Panel
Chair, "Racial Boundaries and Asian American Communities
in the Northwest," Fifty-Fifth Annual Pacific Northwest
History Conference, Seattle,
April 2002
Conference
Panelist, "Buffalo Soldiers\Native
Americans: Perceptions and Encounters in the 19th Century
West," University of Arizona
Southwest Center,
Tucson,
Arizona, March
2002
Panel
Chair, "Migration, Labor and the Racial Frontier,"
at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California,
January 2002
Panel
Chair, "LA Ethnic," at the Western History Association
Meeting, San Diego,
California, October
2001
Panel
Chair, "Defining the African Diaspora," at Diaspora
Paradigms: New Scholarship in Comparative Black History Conference,
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, September,
2001
Panel
Chair, "20th Century Asian American and African American
Perspectives on the Other," at the Asian American Studies
Association Meeting, Toronto, Canada, April 2001
Panel
Chair, "Building American Neighborhoods: Understanding
Federal Policy's Failure and Successes," at the American
Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago,
Illinois, January
2000
Panel
Chair, "Seeking El Dorado:
African Americans and the California
Dream," at the Western History Association Annual Meeting,
Portland, Oregon,
October, 1999
Panel
Chair, "Civil Rights Activism in the West, World War
II and the Post-War Era," at the Pacific Coast Branch,
American Historical Association Meeting, Maui, Hawaii, August
1999
Panel
Commentator, "The Unheralded Triumph: Residential Integration
and its Consequences for Blacks in California
Suburbs, 1960-1990" at the Pacific
Coast Branch/American
Historical Association Meeting, San
Diego, California,
August 1998
"The
Urban West: Broadening the Lens of African American History,
Work and Social Policy" at the
Seminar for African American Urban Studies: History, Work,
and Social Policy, Carnegie-Mellon University,
Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, February 1998
Panel
Chair, "Filling the Vacuum: African Americans and the
Urban West," at the Western History Association Meeting,
St. Paul, Minnesota,
October, 1997
Panel
Chair, "The African American Urban Experience in the
Twentieth Century American West," at the Association
for the Study of Afro-American Life and History Annual Meeting,
Charleston, South Carolina, October 1996
Discussant
on the Career of Kenneth W. Porter, Roundtable: "Pioneer"
Historians of the African American West, Western History Association
Meeting, Denver,
Colorado, and
October 1995
Panel
Moderator, "Communities and
Colonies in the West," at Symposium on Blacks in the
West: Image and Reality, American
Heritage Center,
University
of Wyoming, September 1995
"The
Black Urban West on the Pacific Slope: Community Formation
Among African Americans in San
Francisco and Los Angeles,
1860-1920," Symposium: The Black
Route West, University
of California, Davis, September 1995
Commentator,
Session on Gender and Race in the Far West, Power and Place
in the North American West, Third Annual Symposium of the
Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, University
of Washington, Seattle, Washington, November 1994
Commentator,
Session on The Cultural Construction
of the Western Landscape, Western History Association Meeting,
Albuquerque,
New Mexico, October 1994
"African
Americans in the West: A Comparative Perspective," Presentation
at the NEH-sponsored Summer Institute on the American West,
Boulder, Colorado, July 1994.
"The
Urban and Suburban West," Presentation at the NEH-sponsored
Summer Institute on the American West, Boulder, Colorado,
July 1994.
"The
Civil Rights Movement in the Urban West: Black Protest in
Seattle, 1960-1970," Annual
Meeting of the Association for the Study of Afro-American
Life and History, Baltimore, Maryland,
October, 1993
Commentator,
Session, "Urban Black Communities in the 20th Century:
Race, Class and Economic Change," Annual Meeting of the
Organization of American Historians, Anaheim,
California, April,
1993
"African
American History in the Pacific Northwest: Retrospect and
Prospect," Luncheon Presentation, Pacific Northwest History
Conference, Eugene,
Oregon, March, 1993
"The
African American West," Panel discussion at the Association
for the Study of African Life and History Conference, Kansas
City, Missouri, October, 1992.
Commentator,
Session, "The Politics of Liberal Coalition Building,"
Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American
Historical Association, Corvallis, Oregon, August, 1992
"The
End of the Ghetto?: The Campaign for Open Housing in Seattle,
1960-1970," Paper presented at the Joint Meeting of the
Southern Conference of Afro-American Studies, Inc., and the
Caribbean Studies Association, Dakar, Senegal, July, 1991
Commentator,
The African-American Experience in
the Twentieth Century West: Urban and Suburban, Western History
Association Meeting, Reno,
Nevada, October, 1990
"Blacks
and Asians in a White City: Japanese Americans and African
Americans in Seattle, 1890-1940," Paper presented
at 54th Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists,
Seattle, Washington, September, 1990
Chair,
Session on Place in American Culture, California American Studies Association, San Luis Obispo, California,
May, 1990
"The
Troublesome Presence: Black Americans and the United
States Constitution," Paper presented at the International
Conference on Federalism in a Changing World, Obafemi
Awolowo University, Ile
Ife, Nigeria, December, 1987
"The
Question of Culture: Black Life and the Transformation
of Black Urban America," Paper presented at the 9th Annual
Caribbean Studies Association Meeting, London,
England,
July, 1987
"Black
Seattle: The Evolution of An
Afro American Community," Symposium on Blacks in
the American West, University
of California, Davis, April, 1983
"The
Shaping of a Black Community: Seattle's Central District,
1910 1940,"Paper presented at the 23rd Annual Meeting
of the Western Social Sciences Association, San Diego, California,
April, 1981
"Slave
Family Life on the Fazenda and Plantation: A
Comparison of Brazil and the United States, 1750 1750," paper presented at the First Annual World Conference
on Records, Family History and Genealogy, Salt Lake City,
Utah, August, 1980.
"The
Great Migration: The Afro American Communities of
Seattle and Portland During the 1940s," Paper presented
at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Missouri Valley History
Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, March, 1980
"Red
v. Black: Conflict and Accommodation in the Post Civil
War Indian Territory, 1867 1907," Paper presented
at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association/Pacific
Coast Branch, Honolulu, Hawaii, August, 1979
"The
Emergence of Black Communities in the Pacific Northwest, 1865
1910," Paper presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of
the Association for the Study of Afro American Life
and History, Los Angeles, California,
October 1978
Presider,
Session on the History of Blacks in the American West, 62nd
Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Afro-American
Life and History, Washington,
D.C., October,
1977
Commentator,
"A Conceptual Framework for Analyzing the History of
Blacks in the Pacific Northwest, 1720-1846," Paper presented
at the Pacific Northwest History Association, Pullman, Washington,
April 1974
