This is to announce that the deadline for submitting proposals for the
following conference has been extended until July 15th.
"The Problem of the Color Line":
A Re-Examination of Race at the Close of the Twentieth Century
11th Annual Graduate Student Conference
Friday, October 15, 1999
Tufts University
Medford, Massachusetts
"The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line."
-W.E.B. DuBois, 1903
An interdisciplinary conference seeking to re-evaluate the formation,
function, and representation of race and races over the course of the
Twentieth Century and beyond.
Topics might include, but are not limited to:
- Consumption and Identity Formation
- White Paper / Black Print: Representations of Race in Literature
- Coloring Gender / Coloring Genre
- (E)racing Difference
- Colonial / Imperial Hegemony
- Que(e)rying race
- Talking the Talk: Discourse
- Walking the Walk: Activism
- The Law of the Father(land)
- Cyberrace
Please submit 1-2 page double-spaced abstracts for 12-15 minute
presentations by July 15, 1999 to:
"Color Line" Conference
Department of English
East Hall
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155
For more information contact:
Kellie Wixson at kwixson@emerald.tufts.edu or Tony Lilly at
alilly@emerald.tufts.edu
Sponsored by:
Tufts English Graduate Organization, Tufts University English Department,
Graduate Student Council, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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