CALL FOR PAPERS
PROPOSED COLLECTION OF ESSAYS TITLED:
"MIXED MESSAGES: Multiple Ethnic Identities in the Academy"
Co-editors: Beatriz Badikian and Carol Roh-Spaulding
We seek essays for a collection on the dilemmas, struggles, and unique
positioning of academics (scholars, teachers, writers) of mixed ethnicity.
In recent years, multi-ethnic academics like Patricia J. Williams, Gloria
Anzaldua, and Naomi Zack have helped to redefine the way we think about
ethnic and racial categorization. Nevertheless, academics from multiple
cultural and ethnic backgrounds seldom have the possibility of acceptance on
the basis of that multiplicity, especially within institutions that define
multiculturalism (whether explicitly or implicitly, in policy decisions
or in the curriculum) tribally--as the study of historically and socially
discrete groups of people. Consequently, in the classroom, in their
scholarship, in their applications for funding, and so on, multi-ethnic
academics are often forced to privilege one ethnicity over the other(s). In
many
cases, that choice is imposed on them by academic hegemony. These
definitions, in turn, influence outcomes that may perpetuate static and
insular
notions of identity on personal, professional, curricular, and scholarly
levels. The ideal essay will interweave personal experiences with a more
scholarly approach.
Deadlines: Abstracts (2 page maximum) by June 1st, 1999
Papers (20 page maximum) by September 30th, 1999
Send abstracts or completed papers to:
Dr. B. Badikian
1867 North Bissell
Chicago, Illinois 60614
Inquiries by email to: badgart@aol.com.
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