(NAME-MCE) Mixed Race in the Age of Obama Conference 3-5-10 Chicago IL

[Anselmo Villanueva]

Mixed Race in the Age of Obama Conference

March 5, 2010  University of Chicago

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172733

The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the
University of Chicago invites paper proposals for a daylong conference
to be held on campus on March 5, 2010. “Mixed Race in the Age of
Obama” seeks to intervene in the discursive, material, and ideological
debates involving mixed-race people nationally and internationally,
examining historical, sociological, literary, legal, and other
(inter)disciplinary representations of the lived experience of
mixed-race people.

Conference paper proposals are welcome on the following themes but are
not limited to: identity politics and the politics of mixed-race
peoples, nationally and globally; post-racial discourses and
ideologies; intersecting “zones” of multiracialism, gender, and
multisexuality; mixed-race narratives or histories involving the
“one-drop rule” or blood “quantum”; new studies, genealogies, and/or
historiographies of mixed-race peoples; the politics of transgressions
or non-normative politics; on-the-ground racial politics surrounding
mixed-race peoples and “authenticity” within certain racialized
groups.

Papers presented at the conference will be considered for publication
in an academic journal. All expenses – transport and housing – will be
provided for persons chosen to present.

Paper proposals should not be more than two single-spaced pages and
must be accompanied by a short, two-page résumé. A copy of these
materials should be sent electronically by January 25, 2010 to each of
the following: Ramón A. Gutiérrez (rgutierrez at uchicago.edu), Matthew
M. Briones (brio at uchicago.edu).

Prof. Ramón A. Gutiérrez
Director, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture
University of Chicago
773-702-8063
rgutierrez at uchicago.edu
Email: rgutierrez at uchicago.edu