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--- Begin Message ---Black Masculinities
Friday, February 4, 2005
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Black Masculinities is an all-day conference organized and sponsored
by the Africana Studies Group of the Graduate Center of the City
University of New York. This conference seeks to clear a space for a
strategic, systematic interrogation of Black masculinities, exploring
the complexity of representations and performances of Black masculinity,
and analyzing the simultaneous commodification and dehumanization of Black
males. We recognize that theories of Black masculinities effect
cultural critique, public policy, and community activism. Black masculinity
should represent (and often has represented) a complex, disruptive, and
liberating theoretical and political stance. Despite this radical potential, Black masculinity often remains a problematic vacancy, both inside the academy and in its lived experience in the world.
The papers at the conference will, we hope, contribute to the identification and
articulation of a progressive Black Masculinity. We invite papers and panel
suggestions from academic and independent scholars from all fields in the
social sciences and humanities, as well as artists and activists.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Fictional Black Masculinities
Political Black Masculinities
Performative Black Masculinities
Theorized Black Masculinities
Comic Black Masculinities
Queer Black Masculinities
Statistical Black Masculinities
Visual Representations of Black Masculinities
Applied Black Masculinities
Feminist Black Masculinities
Transnational Black Masculinities
Generational Black Masculinities
Black Masculinities and the Military
Black Masculinities and Prison
Black Masculinities and Labor
Nationalist Black Masculinities
Multiethnic Black Masculinities
Genealogies of Black Masculinities
Please submit abstracts (300-500 words, please) by September 15th 2004
to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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