(NAME-MCE) CFP--Succotash: Critical Reflections on the 2008 Presidential

[Gradilla, Alexandro]

Alexandro José Gradilla, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
California State University, Fullerton 
Chicana and Chicano Studies Department
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Fullerton, CA 92831
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*Please distribute this CFP. Thank you.

CFP    Succotash: critical reflections on the 2008 Presidential campaigns*
Eds. Maria Ochoa, Alvina Quintana, Myra Mendible, Barbara K. Ige

We seek papers that provide a variety of critical frames for the many, 
indeed thousands, of exchanges------formal and informal, analytical and 
reflective------that are brought about and sustained by the 2008 
campaigns for U.S. President and Vice President. We welcome political, 
social, and cultural reflections, critiques, and analyses that have 
stakes in current discussions by, for, and about U.S. women of color 
feminist and transnational/postcolonial feminist discourses within and 
outside of the United States.

Possible topics include, but not limited to:
.    Mis/appropriations of feminism as a label, project, agenda
.    Re-alignments and alliances across racial/ethnic lines
.    "Mainstreaming" of identity politics
.    Reconstituting whiteness as a political entity
.    Mommy Wars: Hillary, Sarah, Michelle, and their daughters/sons
.    Body politics: the visual representation of candidates
.    Battles for/among voters of color, particularly Latinas/os and Blacks
.    Invisible constituencies: Asian, Pacific Islander, American Indian, 
Middle East populations
.    Out of the rainbow, on to Main Street: LGBTG matters
.    Youth/campus activism
.    Discourse analyses: the presentation of candidates, platforms, ideas
.    Transnational analyses: thinking global, acting local
.    Rhetorical strategies or frameworks
.    Exploitation of nativist, racist, sexist sentiments
.    Militarism/diplomacy
.    Social constructs of rights, entitlements, and privilege
.    Cross-dressings: the cooptation of language and signifiers
.    Faith based activism: clerics and congregations
.    It's the economy, stupid: just don't talk about poverty or poor people
.    All in the family: constructs, illusions, visions
.    Circuits of information, dissemination, disbursal of news
.    Re/Framing of international perspectives regarding the United States
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