(NAME-MCE) CFP: Asian Americans and the New South

[Khyati Joshi]

Call for Papers

Asian Americans and the New South

(University of Georgia Press)

Edited by

Khyati Y. Joshi and Jigna Desai

Description

The American South has a rich and vibrant tapestry of longstanding Asian
American communities as well as exponentially growing recent ones. In
addition to the historical presence of Asian Americans for the last two
centuries (e.g., Chinese Americans in Mississippi and Filipino Americans in
New Orleans), geographically diverse areas including Atlanta, the Research
Triangle (Chapel Hill, Raleigh -Durham), New Orleans, Orlando and Nashville,
have also become sites of recent immigration and internal migration. In an
attempt to recognize and reckon with these historical and emerging minority
communities, scholarly fields are beginning to map these unique histories,
new communities, and the South's changing racial formations. This
interdisciplinary anthology seeks to bring together essays that touch upon a
wide-ranging number of topics that reflect the breadth and depth of the
Asian American presence in the South. Historical perspectives on Asian
Americans in the South. Contributions will be sought for an anthology
exploring the historical, political, cultural, social, and/or economic
issues associated with Asian Americans in the South. We would be interested
in manuscripts that examine any of the following:

* Historical Perspectives on Asian Americans in the American South 

* AA Religious Communities

* Past and emerging AA racial formations

* The South as regional and transnational crossroads

* Interethnic and panethnic relations among Asian Americans 

* Multiracial and interracial relations

* Katrina and its consequences 

* Education 

* Social movements in the South 

* Labor, class and social organizing

* Internal migration or transnationalism

* Public health, illness and/or the body

* Gender & Sexuality

* Policies, politics, and/or politicians in Asian American
communities 

* The impact of organizing around current immigration policies 

* Past and emerging AA racial formations

* Second and third generation identities 

Timetable:

Abstracts Due:

06.01.07

Final Drafts Due: 

11.15.07

Manuscript Length:

6000-8000 words

For more information contact:

Khyati Y. Joshi, Assistant Professor, School of Education, Fairleigh
Dickinson University * khyati at fdu.edu <mailto:khyati%40fdu.edu> 

Jigna Desai, Associate Professor, Women's Studies & Director, Asian American
Studies Program, University of Minnesota * desai003 at umn.
<mailto:desai003%40umn.edu> edu 




Khyati Y. Joshi

Assistant Professor

School of Education 

Fairleigh Dickinson  University

Teaneck, NJ 07666

v-201.692.2826

f-201.692.2603