Call for Contributions
Proposed Panel: Cold War Politics and the Formation of Ethnic Identities
Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association
November 11th-14th, 2004 in Atlanta
Our panel draws from conversations on globalization and the nation-state
in order to think about the articulation of ethnicity during the Cold War.
We seek papers that investigate how discourses or institutions of the
Cold War affected ethnic collectivities, and in turn how these
collectivities influenced the development of the Cold War. How can such
keywords as human rights, development, hegemony, containment, or consensus
be understood through what were seen as particular ethnic issues? To what
extent did the Cold War reconfigure the self-imagining of ethnic
communities, particularly within the framework of the United States? And
what is the role of cultural representation in how these changes have
taken place? Also, we seek papers that trace how new collectivities were
articulated in and through the Cold War. What are the historical and
cultural processes by which these collectivities were produced? How have
they challenged the boundaries of American nationalism?
Possible topics to explore in conjunction with the above issues:
• Conflicts or alliances between feminism and ethnic nationalisms
• The emergence of the United Nations as a political institution
• The Third World and the Third World Movement
• The Communist Party and new social movements
• Liberalism and Consensus Politics
• Labor Policy and Migration
• Interpreting the Cold War and Ethnicity in a Transnational Frame
Deadline for submissions is Friday, January 9th, 2004. Please send a
one-page abstract and a one-page CV (as an attachment) to Randy Ontiveros
at
rontiver@uci.edu. Questions can be sent to the same address.
Mimi Nguyen
Ethnic Studies
University of California, Berkeley
Randy Ontiveros
English and Comparative Literature/Women's Studies
University of California, Irvine
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