List members are invited to submit abstracts for a panel on 'Race and Modernity in the Caribbean' for the Society for Latin American Studies annual conference, University of Leeds, 26th-27th March 2009.
Details below:
45th Annual Conference of the Society for Latin American Studies
University of Leeds, Thursday 26th - Friday 27th March, 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS
Panel title: Race and Modernity in the Caribbean
Convenors:
David Howard
Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh
Drummond Street, Edinburgh EH8 9XP, UK
Tel: +44 131 650 8164 Email: [log in to unmask]
Kate Quinn
Institute for the Study of the Americas
31 Tavistock Square
London WC1H 9HA
Tel: +44 207 8628974
Email: [log in to unmask]
Abstract:
Sydney Mintz (1993) has described Caribbean societies as the first modernised peoples in world history, a description later to be assessed and developed by David Scott (2004) in Conscripts of Modernity. The proposed panel will consider whether the ideas of race and ethnicity in the Caribbean today can be assessed wholly as reconstituted legacies of the colonial encounter, or whether the concept of ‘modern blackness’, outlined primarily by Deborah Thomas (2002), provides a practical and intellectual break from colonial pasts. Papers might assess the importance of independence in reshaping the memory and practice of racialised status; the importance of ‘race’ as a founding myth for Caribbean social structures, or the political implications of racialised difference in contemporary societies.
If you are interested in presenting a paper for this panel, please email an initial 200-word abstract to [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] by 30th October, 2008. Full details of the confirmed panel and abstracts will be submitted to the conference organisers in December. Please note that some postgraduate bursaries are available to attend the SLAS conference.
Full conference details are at www.polis.leeds.ac.uk/slas2009
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