Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 20:02:33 -0800
Subject: SPOON-ANN: CFP: Performing Unnatural Acts


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>PERFORMING UNNATURAL ACTS: CRITICALLY QUEERING RACIAL CULTURAL STUDIES
>
>As the editors of a new anthology tentatively entitled, Performing 
>Unnatural Acts: Critically Queering Racial Cultural Studies, we seek 
>submissions interrogating the ways in which the categories of race and 
>queerness are produced, performed engaged and contested. Even as we admit 
>the categories of Race and Queerness to be problematic, we deploy them in 
>the anticipation of producing critical analyses of the ways in which they 
>shape and are shaped by each other. By deconstructing the 
>heteronormativity of much ethnic studies scholarship--especially those 
>invested in nationalist frameworks--and by "adding a little color" to 
>queer theorizing's privileged subject/object, we hope to examine the 
>intersections of and slippages between discourses of sexuality and 
>discourses of race, racialization, and ethnicity.
>
>We are informed by multiple strategies (queer, feminist, 
>poststructuralist, and critical race theories) and are interested in the 
>politics of performativity and performance, cultural production, the 
>politics of identification, and of course, the politics of politics. 
>Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
>
>CRITICAL INTERVENTIONS INTO METHODOLOGIES: Native American Studies, 
>African and African American Studies, Asian Studies and Chicano/Latino Studies
>
>RACIAL HISTORIOGRAPHY AND QUEER DISIDENTIFICATION
>
>CLAIMS TO CITIZENSHIP AND NATIONALISMS: Black Nations/Queer Nations, 
>defining nationhood, borders, immigration, post-nationalisms, modernity.
>
>QUEER DIASPORAS: "homeland," "migranthood," transgression, domesticity, 
>postcoloniality.
>
>PUBLIC SPACE AND MORAL PANICS: sex panics and white flight, zoning laws in 
>urban neighborhoods, public displays of queerness, criminality.
>
>WHAT HAPPENS WHEN QUEER GOES TRANSNATIONAL? questions of travel, tourism, 
>globalization, the (concept of ) "queer" crossing borders.
>
>QUEER IN THE ACADEMY: visibility politics, disciplinarity.
>
>OPPOSITIONAL QUEERNESS: To paraphrase Norma Alarcon, what does it mean, in 
>the context of uneven race and class relations, to become queer in 
>opposition to other queers?
>
>REPRESENTATION AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION: Queer people of color literatures: 
>themes, issues and poetics
>
>There are, or course, plenty of additional issues that can be addressed 
>under the rubric of "Performing Unnatural Acts," and we encourage 
>submissions reflecting a broad range of historical locations, areas of 
>study and theoretical positions.
>Send double spaced manuscripts (between 25 and 30 pages) in hard copy, as 
>well as in a 3.5" floppy disk in either Mac or PC format, a brief 
>biographical statement, and a stamped self-addressed envelope to the 
>address below. We are presently deciding on a publisher for this volume. 
>The deadline is March 30, 2001. For questions, please contact the editors
>via e-mail: unnaturalacts-AT-hotmail.com
>
>Queer Ethnic Studies Working Group
>506 Barrows Hall
>University of California
>Berkeley, CA 94720
>Karina Cespedes
>Vernadette Gonzalez
>Mimi Nguyen
>Mattie Richardson
>Visit the Queer Ethnic Studies web-site at:
>http://www.worsethanqueer.com/conference.
>
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