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------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 21:28:39 EST Send reply to: Sexuality and Space Specialty Group of the AAG <[log in to unmask]> From: Tamar Rothenberg <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Subject: CFP: Performing Unnatural Acts To: [log in to unmask] 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. ------- End of forwarded message ------- Stephen ********************************************************************* Stephen Whittle Tel: 0161 247 6444 (work) Senior Lecturer in Law Tel: 0161 432 1915 (home) The School of Law Fax: 0161 247 6309 (work) Manchester Metro University Fax: 0161 432 8454 (home) Hathersage Rd Manchester M13 0JA United Kingdom work email: [log in to unmask] home email: [log in to unmask] ********************************************************************** Celebrating and affirming insurgent intellectual cultural practice .... an invitation to enter a space of changing thought, the open mind that is the heartbeat of cultural revolution (b.hooks, 1994) ----------------------------------------------------------------------