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PERFORMING UNNATURAL ACTS: CRITICALLY QUEERING RACIAL CULTURAL STUDIES

As the editors of a new anthology tentatively entitled, Performing
Unnatural Acts: Critically Queering Racial Cultural Studies, we seek
submissions interrogating the ways in which the categories of race
and queerness are produced, performed engaged and contested. Even as
we admit the categories of Race and Queerness to be problematic, we
deploy them in the anticipation of producing critical analyses of
the ways in which they shape and are shaped by each other. By
deconstructing the heteronormativity of much ethnic studies
scholarship--especially those invested in nationalist
frameworks--and by "adding a little color" to queer theorizing's
privileged subject/object, we hope to examine the intersections of
and slippages between discourses of sexuality and discourses of
race, racialization, and ethnicity.

We are informed by multiple strategies (queer, feminist,
poststructuralist, and critical race theories) and are interested in
the politics of performativity and performance, cultural production,
the politics of identification, and of course, the politics of
politics. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

CRITICAL INTERVENTIONS INTO METHODOLOGIES: Native American Studies,
African and African American Studies, Asian Studies and
Chicano/Latino Studies

RACIAL HISTORIOGRAPHY AND QUEER DISIDENTIFICATION

CLAIMS TO CITIZENSHIP AND NATIONALISMS: Black Nations/Queer Nations,
defining nationhood, borders, immigration, post-nationalisms,
modernity.

QUEER DIASPORAS: "homeland," "migranthood," transgression,
domesticity, postcoloniality.

PUBLIC SPACE AND MORAL PANICS: sex panics and white flight, zoning
laws in urban neighborhoods, public displays of queerness,
criminality.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN QUEER GOES TRANSNATIONAL? questions of travel,
tourism, globalization, the (concept of ) "queer" crossing borders.

QUEER IN THE ACADEMY: visibility politics, disciplinarity.

OPPOSITIONAL QUEERNESS: To paraphrase Norma Alarcon, what does it
mean, in the context of uneven race and class relations, to become
queer in opposition to other queers?

REPRESENTATION AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION: Queer people of color
literatures: themes, issues and poetics

There are, or course, plenty of additional issues that can be
addressed under the rubric of "Performing Unnatural Acts," and we
encourage submissions reflecting a broad range of historical
locations, areas of study and theoretical positions.
Send double spaced manuscripts (between 25 and 30 pages) in hard
copy, as well as in a 3.5" floppy disk in either Mac or PC format, a
brief biographical statement, and a stamped self-addressed envelope
to the address below. We are presently deciding on a publisher for
this volume. The deadline is March 30, 2001. For questions, please
contact the editors
via e-mail: [log in to unmask]

Queer Ethnic Studies Working Group
506 Barrows Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
Karina Cespedes
Vernadette Gonzalez
Mimi Nguyen
Mattie Richardson
Visit the Queer Ethnic Studies web-site at:
http://www.worsethanqueer.com/conference.
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