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Subject: CFP: Our Americas: Political and Cultural Imaginings


Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 21:17:12 -0400
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RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW CALL FOR PAPERS:

"Our Americas: Political and Cultural Imaginings,"
Edited by Sandhya Shukla and Heidi Tinsman

The Radical History Review is soliciting scholarship and critical essays for
the
thematic issue entitled "Our Americas: Political and Cultural Imaginings,"
to
appear in Spring, 2004. This issue utilizes the organizing theme (and
problematic) of the "Americas," Jose Martí's utopian vision of a
transnational,
multicultural, and anti-imperialist political world. In moving beyond the
bifurcating paradigms of Latin American area studies and American (US-based)
studies, this issue of RHR will examine relationships among North American,
Latin American, Caribbean and other island societies
and cultures, including histories of colonization, slavery,
migration,capitalist
development, and nation-state formation.

In particular, we aim to revisit the significance of nationalism as both a
progressive and reactionary force in articulating oppositional projects such
as
abolition, anti-colonialism, the non-aligned movement, leftist revolutions
as
well as in recent economic and political plans of late capitalism and their
effects.  We are interested in how transnational formations of diaspora,
feminism, sexuality, and class are imbricated in processes of state-building
and
regionalism.  This issue of RHR also seeks
to problematize dichotomous black-white constructions of race, since
experiences
of Africans, Asians, Native Americans, Spanish descendants, and mixed
peoples
have all constructed the social landscape of the Americas.

We welcome a broad and interdisciplinary interpretation of these
themes.Papers
on the histories and cultures of Cuba seem particularly pertinent,as would
those
on the Philippines and Puerto Rico. We likewise seek works on the multiple
constructions of race, gender, sexuality and radical politics across the
Americas, on US-Latin America relationships, on transnational intellectual
currents, and on film and art. Given the diverse
format of the RHR, we are also interested in shorter pieces on how to
contribute
to a teaching curriculum on "the Americas," on public art and history that
strives to come to terms with any of the questions posed above, and on
recent
books on this subject. Lastly, we are looking for scholars interested in
commenting on the significance of Jose Martí's essay "Our America" for a
range
of political and intellectual projects.

Deadline for Submissions is March 1, 2003.

Send hard-copy manuscripts and your contact information to:

Radical History Review
Tamiment Library,  70 Washington Square South
New York, New York  10012