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>Subject: CFP: "Race and Coalition" Issue, 
>Ethnoscapes: An Interdisciplinary Journal on 
>Race and Ethnicity in the Global Context 
>(2/16/07; journal issue)
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>
>Call for Papers
>
>Ethnoscapes: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the
>Global Context
>
>Issue One, Fall 2007
>ìRace and Coalitionî
>
>
>The editorial staff of the new peer-reviewed journal Ethnoscapes: An
>Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the Global Context
>invites submissions for its inaugural issue on the subject of ìRace and
>Coalition.î Ethnoscapes maps the development of important themes in the
>field of race and ethnic studies by using a ìclassicî piece as a point of
>departure for a reconsideration of critical issues within the contemporary
>economic, political, and cultural terrain.
>
>While the classic piece establishes the thematic parameters of each issue,
>authors are under no obligation to actively engage the arguments posed by
>that work.
>
>Issue one explores the subject of ìRace and Coalitionî with consideration
>of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) and Charles V. Hamiltonís ìThe Myths of
>Coalitionî from the 1967 text Black Power: The Politics of Liberation.  In
>this seminal essay, the authors question the viability of coalitions that
>do not seek radical changes in racial hierarchy, include partners with
>disparate amounts of economic and political power, and rely on
>sentimentality and goodwill to build and maintain cohesiveness.
>
>The authors argue instead that viable and productive coalitions must do
>the following:
>
>1)	recognize the self-interests of the 
>groups involved in the relationship;
>2)	have the capacity for realizing the self-interests of each group;
>3)	articulate their own ìindependent base of powerî;
>4)	have specific goals.
>
>Proceeding from this articulation of coalition politics, Ethnoscapes seeks
>manuscripts that investigate the dynamics of ìRace and Coalitionî with
>particular attention to one or more of the following themes:
>
>A)	Theoretical Foundations of Coalition. If organizing is no longer forged
>on the basis of shared identity or ìunity,î what serves as the
>ìfoundationî for political mobilization? What new forms of coalition,
>alliance, or issue-based organizing have emerged in the current political,
>economic, and cultural context? Can these convergences operate only
>temporarily or can they be more sustained? How can/must/do coalitions
>negotiate differences along the lines of gender, sexuality, nationality,
>religion, and class in articulating a shared platform? What productive
>alliances have been or can be forged between different marginalized
>groups? What makes these coalitions cohere? How do these projects
>(re)shape experiences of race and ethnicity?
>
>B)	The Multicultural Terrain of Organizing in the United States. With the
>rise of Asian/Pacific American and Latino/a social movements, how is the
>concept of ìcoalitionî being rearticulated today? Does the ìpeople of
>colorî construct, expressing the common bonds of non-white groups, still
>make sense? What new challenges to coalition-building emerge in the
>context of the variable power relations of nations, economic operations,
>and discourse that characterize the contemporary multiracial terrain of US
>organizing? What strategies can be mobilized to negotiate these
>differences? What roles are available to whites in multiracial coalitions
>and in coalitions for racial justice?
>
>C) The Global Context. What challenges and possibilities do new
>communications and other technologies linking people across the globe
>offer for multiracial coalitions? How do the ties of nation, state, and
>culture complicate efforts to organize pan-ethnically? How can models of
>organizing around race throughout the world, or on behalf of racially
>identified groups and concerns, usefully inform organizing strategies in
>the US context, or vice versa? What is at stake and where are we headed?
>
>The deadline for manuscript submission is February 16, 2007. Please send
>submissions to [log in to unmask] and
>[log in to unmask]  See
>http://www.kirwaninstitute.org/ethnoscapes/styleguide.html to prepare your
>document in accordance with the style guidelines of Ethnoscapes.
>
>Melanie Maltry
>Assistant Editor
>The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
>The Ohio State University
>

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