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Tepoztlán, Morelos, México | 20 - 27 de julio de 2016
Call for participantsFrom the new Zapatistas to #BlackLivesMatter to #Not1More/#Niunamas to the Movement of Dominican Women of Haitian Descent: recent social movements have inspired scholars to examine the imbrications of race with colonialism, sexuality, nationalism, gender, capitalism, state-building, movement-building, class formation, criminalization, and incarceration. We thus seek contributions from scholars, activists, and artists engaged in creative studies of race across historical epochs and geographical space. What makes new racial configurations new? How might earlier epochs of racial violence be said to echo and extend through the present? And what might earlier struggles with and against racial formations teach us today?
Questioning ongoing assumptions about race and ethnicity and analyzing resistance to white supremacy will be central focuses of the week-long conference. While welcoming research that is grounded in geographically specific struggles, we particularly encourage applications from scholars who engage the pleasures and pitfalls of the transnational as a category of analysis. What can scholarship and activism focused on the local, national, and transnational in the global South bring to our understanding of racial violence more globally? What can we learn from the continuing work on the global South in critical dialogue with work and movements centered on the United States and Europe? Have nation-focused studies obscured transnational flows of ideas and people engaged in anti-racist movement-building or in the creation of global white supremacy? What do various pasts say to our varied presents?
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2016 Conference program |
Our focus on the broad theme of racial violence could include these and other channels of inquiry
1. The relationship between capitalism and slavery and between capitalism and other forced labor practices like the mita or tribute
2. Histories of racism and racial and ethnic violence in purportedly “free” labor practices
3. Colonialism and decolonization and racist violence
4. Indigenismo and Indigeneity: Intersections with racial violence
5. The racial violence produced and promoted by scientific, religious or other political rationalities
6. The intersections between racial and sexual violence
7. Homo and hetero normativity and racial violence
8. The transnational roots of the radicalized carceral society and its critics
9. Digital media, social networking and racial violence
10. Social movements against white supremacy and white privilege
11. The politics and poetics of artistic interventions against racist violence
12. The state and racial and ethnic violence
13. The nation-state, citizenship, and racial violence: historical and contemporary dilemmas
14. Racial violence in migratory contexts
15. Racial violence against African Americans
2. Histories of racism and racial and ethnic violence in purportedly “free” labor practices
3. Colonialism and decolonization and racist violence
4. Indigenismo and Indigeneity: Intersections with racial violence
5. The racial violence produced and promoted by scientific, religious or other political rationalities
6. The intersections between racial and sexual violence
7. Homo and hetero normativity and racial violence
8. The transnational roots of the radicalized carceral society and its critics
9. Digital media, social networking and racial violence
10. Social movements against white supremacy and white privilege
11. The politics and poetics of artistic interventions against racist violence
12. The state and racial and ethnic violence
13. The nation-state, citizenship, and racial violence: historical and contemporary dilemmas
14. Racial violence in migratory contexts
15. Racial violence against African Americans