Ethnoscapes: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the Global Context

Call for Submissions:
 
Issue One, Fall 2007
"Race and Coalition"
 
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 ³Race and Coalition.² Ethnoscapes maps the development of important themes in the field of race and ethnic studies by using a ³classic² 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  'Race and Coalition'  with consideration of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) and Charles V. Hamilton¹s ³The Myths of Coalition² from the 1967 text Black Power: The Politics of Liberation.  In their 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 ³independent base of power²;
4) have specific goals.
 
Proceeding from this articulation of coalition politics, Ethnoscapes seeks manuscripts that investigate the dynamics of ³Race and Coalition² 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 ³unity,² what serves as the ³foundation² 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 ³coalition² being rearticulated today? Does the ³people of color² 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 mmaltry@kirwaninstitute.org http://webmail.kirwaninstitute.org/src/compose.php?send_to=mmaltry%40kirwan
institute.org>  and editors@kirwaninstitute.org http://webmail.kirwaninstitute.org/src/compose.php?send_to=editors%40kirwan
institute.org . 
See http://www.kirwaninstitute.org/ethnoscapes/styleguide.html to prepare your document in accordance with the style guidelines of Ethnoscapes.
 
Melanie Maltry
Assistant Editor, Ethnoscapes
The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity The Ohio State University
 
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Issue Two, Spring 2008
"Transnational Migration, Race, and Citizenship"
 
The editorial staff for the new peer-reviewed journal Ethnoscapes: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the Global Context invites submissions for its second issue on the subject of ³Transnational Migration, Race, and Citizenship.² Ethnoscapes maps the development of important themes in the field of race and ethnic studies by using a ³classic² 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 two explores the subject of "Transnational Migration, Race, and Citizenship" with consideration of the chapter "The Shock of Alienation" from Oscar Handlin's ground-breaking The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made the American People. In this chapter, Handlin investigates the relationships between labor, cultural membership, citizenship, and the production of racial difference. Citing violence against Chinese and Filipino immigrants in the early 19th century, he details the ways in which labor tensions in the US were integral to the establishment of federal anti-immigration policy aimed at these "unassimilable" groups. According to Handlin, cultural variation and poverty status became the criteria used to infer an ostensibly inherent racial inferiority that served as the basis for denying Chinese and Filipino immigrants the rights and protections that accompanied citizenship.
 
While labor, cultural membership, and race remain central components of the current complexities of immigration, new concerns have emerged since the
1951 publication of Handlin's Pulitzer Prize-winning history. On one hand, new signs of deterritorialization‹the increasing incidence of dual citizenship, home-country remittances, expatriate involvement in home-country politics, and "diasporic" community-building‹have led some to assert the declining relevance of the nation-state as a primary attachment and the declining significance of citizenship itself. On the other, debates and policy developments around immigration and citizenship suggest that the nation-state's power to regulate the movement of labor and capital within and across borders is far from obsolete. In particular, state power continues to have a profound impact on racialized disparities, processes of racialization, and on the burdens and benefits of citizenship. In this new context, we are compelled to reconsider the nature of transnational migration, the nature of citizenship, the link between the two, and the role of race in mediating that link.
 
To this end, the ³Transnational Migration, Race, and Citizenship² issue of Ethnoscapes seeks manuscripts that investigate:
A) Economic Flows, Migration, and Racialized Disparities How is migration racialized/ethnicized and gendered? What is the relationship between late capitalist economic operations, migration, and racialized disparities in health, education, self determination and representation, and wealth? In what ways do ³citizenship gaps²‹spaces in which market participation forecloses political membership‹re/produce racialized disparities globally?
 
B) Borders, Boundaries, and ³The Nation² How is immigration policy racialized? What is/should be the current role of the nation-state in generating policy that regulates the movement of wealth and people across borders and in regulating resultant disparities? What forms of regulation/governance that exceed the nation-state can be conceptualized? What role does cultural nationalism play in political membership? What transnational forms of political and cultural membership are/can be imagined?
 
C) Processes of Racialization
In what ways are immigrant populations affecting domestic racial hierarchies and racial identities? How are transnational cultural flows affecting conceptualizations of race and ethnicity? Their relationship to nation?
 
The deadline for manuscript submission is March 2, 2007. Please send submissions to mmaltry@kirwaninstitute.org http://webmail.kirwaninstitute.org/src/compose.php?send_to=mmaltry%40kirwan
institute.org>  and editors@kirwaninstitute.org http://webmail.kirwaninstitute.org/src/compose.php?send_to=editors%40kirwan
institute.org> .
See http://www.kirwaninstitute.org/ethnoscapes/styleguide.html to prepare your document in accordance with the style guidelines of Ethnoscapes.
 
Melanie Maltry
Assistant Editor, Ethnoscapes
The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity The Ohio State University