Cybercolleagues: I came across the below call on the CRTNET list and thought I'd pass it along to other GDO Division folks.
Charlie Wankel
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">St. John's University</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state></st1:place>
From: Kent Ono kaono@uiuc.edu
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR A COMMUNICATION AND RACE ANTHOLOGY Critical Rhetorical Race Studies
Editors
Michael Lacy (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Monmouth</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>)
Kent A. Ono (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Illinois</st1:placename></st1:place>, Urbana-Champaign)
We encourage submission of abstracts or papers relating to studies of rhetoric and race. We are looking for a variety of scholarly essays that help to frame the study of race within the field of communication. In particular, we are interested in essays that make theoretical contributions to the rhetorical study of race in the field of communication and that illustrate their theoretical significance through detailed case studies. Our purpose is to address critically the rhetorical aspects of racial construction across a wide range of racial contexts and to elucidate ways of knowing about race made possible through rhetorical inquiry.
This volume will include key framing essays by such scholars as Homi Bhabha, Cornel West, bell hooks, Edward Said, Patricia Williams, and Richard Delgado; invited essays by prominent scholars conducting research within the field; as well as essays selected by way of this call for papers of new scholarship by scholars who frame their work within the field of communication studies. With this book, we hope to contribute to the grounding of race scholarship in the field already underway by such scholars as (and this is clearly only a small representation of the work in the field) Molefi Asante, Mark McPhail, Gordon Nakagawa, Dana Cloud, Carrie Crenshaw, Marsha Houston, Dolores Tanno, Thomas Nakayama, Aaron Gresson, Marouf Hasian, Alberto Gonzalez, Richard Morris, Ronald Jackson, Raka Shome, Dreama Moon, Rona Halualani, Wenshu Lee, Lisa Flores, Fernando Delgado, and others.
We are interested in essays that scrutinize, for example, the discourses of race and colonialism; rhetoric, race, and media; the ideology of race, gender, sexuality, class, and nation; political economy and race; immigration; historical racial identity; and advertising and new media racial identities. With this collection, we hope to center critical rhetorical race scholarship as a complex site from which important communication research can be derived. Not only are we interested in how race is represented, however; we are strongly interested in what race does.
Our plan is to submit an anthology proposal to university and trade presses once we assemble all of the abstracts to be included.
By July 31, 2007, please send a 100 word abstract and/or a full essay submission to:
Kent A. Ono
Asian American Studies Program
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