MLA Commons | TC Race and Ethnicity Studies | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/ Activity feed for the group, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:25:18 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 dbcc7fc10cc931586e43d33246d7b1db Francisco E. Robles started the topic TC Race and Ethnicity - MLA 2026 panel on contemporary poetry of statelessness in the forum TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/tc-race-and-ethnicity-mla-2026-panel-on-contemporary-poetry-of-statelessness/ Thu, 13 Mar 2025 20:10:57 -0400 Contemporary Poetry of Statelessness

In her poem “Nights,” Mona Kareem cycles between images of natural processes (cloud formation, rain, phases of the moon) and human ritual actions (dancing, lamenting, singing), suggesting a delicate balance in the liminal zone between the porous self and the ever-changing world. Celestial bodies and human…[Read more]

]]> 0 5524f885b1ca8f70043d5b36e70bec1e Francisco E. Robles started the topic TC Race and Ethnicity Studies - Jobs in the forum TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/tc-race-and-ethnicity-studies-jobs/ Wed, 02 Oct 2024 01:59:24 -0400 Hi all,

I’m sending along a job posting from Texas A&M, which is in long nineteenth-century <span id=”_mainContent__descriptionText”>multi-ethnic, transnational, and comparative approaches to US literature</span>. This search is being chaired by Jessica Howell: https://faculty.tamu.edu/JobDetail?JobId=151010.

I also invite folks to add to this…[Read more]

]]> 0 27d9774623e34f616ab47334370fe09d Guylian Nemegeer started the topic Conference: Pan-Movements, Regeneration, and Modernity (29 October) in the forum TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/conference-pan-movements-regeneration-and-modernity-29-october/ Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:45:26 -0400 Dear colleagues,

Members in this group may be interested in the following conference. It is possible to attend the event online. Registration is needed: https://event.ugent.be/registration/event/89430443-ec0a-4dd1-8d2c-d3dfb82ad014

Pan-Movements, Regeneration, and Modernity (29 October)

This conference investigates the global development of…[Read more]

]]> 0 5b6bb23195964ddd1cee8d0977a88df6 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic Research based news piece on hybridity and Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/research-based-news-piece-on-hybridity-and-turkish-immigrants-in-the-netherlands-3/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 07:49:31 -0400 Dear All,

I would like to present our research on hybridity and immigrants in the Netherlands in the form of a news piece below. I will be happy if you could distribute in your networks.

https://x.com/bianet_eng/status/1656667905487151105

Best regards,
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe
İstanbul Aydın University

]]> 0 34aba525092de1f5220fc056fa47a2a3 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new feminist short story on sexual harassment at a Turkish university setting in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/new-feminist-short-story-on-sexual-harassment-at-a-turkish-university-setting-4/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 12:29:42 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Linnaeus University in Sweden have just published a short story on sexual harassment in a Turkish university context titled as “Professor Mali Romantic-Longhair and the Girl” in the Journal of International Women’s Studies (JIWS.) We present the link and the info to the short story bel…[Read more]

]]> 0 20301abeb72a45b27319f5ea2225eddf Kristin Moriah started the topic Un-Bioed: Radically Reimagining Black Women's Lives in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/un-bioed-radically-reimagining-black-womens-lives-2/ Thu, 18 Jan 2024 00:13:46 -0500 Un-Bioed: Radically Reimagining Black Women’s Lives

This 2-day conference is an opportunity to celebrate and expand the community of Black women’s life writers. Black women’s life writing has been among the fastest-growing literary subgenres in the past several years. Long before this explosion of memoirs and biographies on and by Black women…[Read more]

]]> 0 8c67c2d2118421b9ee6a6e988495e12b SBussey started the topic Philadelphia plans in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/philadelphia-plans-3/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 22:04:51 -0500 Looking forward to seeing some of you in Phily! TC Aging Studies has two panels: Thursday, 3:30 (Marriott 308) and Saturday 10:15 (Marriott Franklin-8). We are also planning an informal gathering on Saturday at 9:30, at the Exhibit Hall coffee area. I hope you will come by and introduce yourself to me and next year’s Forum president, Shawn Maurer.…[Read more]

]]> 0 6ac19d36ce2a036eea761d8257646a60 Epifanio San Juan deposited CHALLENGING AMERICAN STUDIES in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864253/ Sun, 12 Nov 2023 03:13:36 -0500 Critique of orthodox American Studies in the last quarter of the twentieth=century.

]]> 0 27b689d40fa57269ed39a40a2490466e Epifanio San Juan deposited INTER-CROSSCULTURAL DIALOGUES AND POSTCOLONIAL INDIGENIZATION IN LATE MODERNITY in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864251/ Sun, 12 Nov 2023 03:09:01 -0500 Survey of the rise of sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino psychology) in the context of decolonization and indigenization movements in the Philippines in the last decades of the 20th century.

]]> 0 fa04154611bdcc6b079bf7270d5269c9 Andrea R. Malone replied to the topic CFP for MLA Convention 2024 in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-convention-2024-3/#post-1033037 Thu, 02 Mar 2023 13:33:16 -0500 To clarify, this session is sponsored by the Libraries and Research forum.

]]> 0 6debf6b1784bb91b3211229ec5520511 Habiba Ibrahim started the topic Self-Nominations & Suggestions | TC Race & Ethnicity Studies Forum EC in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/self-nominations-suggestions-tc-race-ethnicity-studies-forum-ec-2/ Mon, 16 Jan 2023 22:23:16 -0500 Every year, Forum executive committees appoint one new member annually to their committees. This year, the Race and Ethnicity Studies Forum executive committee seeks self-nominations and suggestions for a new committee member from our membership so as to allow for broad participation. Our hope is that broad participation will ensure diversity of…[Read more]

]]> 0 3f3dfbf727bd6ac922f718abdab392f1 David Palmer created the doc MLA Convention Session on Modern American Drama and Racism in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1828216/ Wed, 04 Jan 2023 04:46:52 -0500 0 3d11988bac9eb24b08ec4a668075b902 David Palmer created the doc MLA Convention Session on Modern American Drama and Racism in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1828103/ Tue, 03 Jan 2023 03:07:53 -0500 0 802b5f3be6ae2a91e48ab484ab271ee5 John Gruesser deposited Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line PowerPoint in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1827266/ Wed, 21 Dec 2022 02:35:39 -0500 Based in the South throughout his career, the Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs wrote nearly fifty books and pamphlets, including five novels, nearly all of which he issued through his own publishing companies. Griggs was a founder of American Baptist Theological Seminary, which several Civil Rights Movement leaders attended in the 1950s.…[Read more]

]]> 0 87948b58fde9f9886586e50ed8c396d6 John Gruesser deposited Poe's Last Jest: The Magazine Prison-House, Colonial Exploitation, and Revenge in "Hop-Frog" in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1826936/ Sun, 18 Dec 2022 04:06:49 -0500 As I have done in connection with another tale about vengeance Edgar Allan Poe published two and a half years earlier, “The Cask of Amontillado,” in what follows I offer a generalized biographical interpretation of the 1849 story “Hop-Frog,” linking it to Poe’s February 1845 essay “Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House” and his September 184…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0564049e671656e77b57478ab996a37 John Gruesser deposited Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line (Oxford University Press 2022) Text in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1826932/ Sun, 18 Dec 2022 03:58:00 -0500 Based in the South throughout his career, the Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933) wrote nearly fifty books and pamphlets, including five novels, almost all of which he issued through his own publishing companies. Griggs was a founder of American Baptist Theological Seminary, which several Civil Rights Movement leaders attended in…[Read more]

]]> 0 25b0c7afd2a99367532cd5d56bafb750 John Gruesser deposited Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line (Oxford University Press 2022) PowerPoint in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1826929/ Sun, 18 Dec 2022 03:52:14 -0500 Based in the South throughout his career, the Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs wrote nearly fifty books and pamphlets, including five novels, almost all of which he issued through his own publishing companies. Griggs was a founder of American Baptist Theological Seminary, which several Civil Rights Movement leaders attended in the 1950s.…[Read more]

]]> 0 77377f5f28b0164ca916fabca367b7e5 Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic 3 tenure-track jobs: Afro-Brazil, Black Diasporas, Race & Indigeneity (UVA) in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/3-tenure-track-jobs-afro-brazil-black-diasporas-race-indigeneity-uva/ Fri, 18 Nov 2022 21:00:18 -0500 Dear colleagues,

Please help spread the word about 3 tenure-track positions related to race and ethnicity at UVA. I am on the search committee for the first two, Afro Brazilian Studies and Black Diasporas of the Américas, and am happy to take questions about both positions. I’ve been asked to share the third link (Race & Indigeneity,…[Read more]

]]> 0 9523075c82a581a7d9b2c16a158c4020 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Job Post: Visiting Assistant Prof of English in Multi-Ethnic Literature in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/job-post-visiting-assistant-prof-of-english-in-multi-ethnic-literature/ Tue, 07 Jun 2022 17:29:12 -0400 Dear colleagues,

Please share this job post with your networks!

Many thanks,

Elena

———-

https://jobs.bucknell.edu/en-us/job/497067/visiting-assistant-professor-of-english-in-multiethnic-literature

Bucknell University’s English Department seeks to hire a visiting assistant professor of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US. The one-year r…[Read more]

]]> 0 410920dc096e22569cae4f1ab44a046e Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies (UVA) in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/tenure-track-assistant-professor-of-native-american-and-indigenous-studies-uva/ Thu, 11 Nov 2021 18:58:04 -0500 Dear colleagues,

Please help us share the news with early career scholars in your networks. Maltyox chawe’/Thank you very much! — Allison. You can find the original job ad here: https://uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UVAJobs/job/Charlottesville-VA/Tenure-track-Assistant-Professor—Native-American-and-Indigenous-Studies_R0030413. I’ve also pasted i…[Read more]

]]> 0 7ce82d960b5415bcac6e1bdfda971c7b Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited Popol Wujs: Culture, Complexity, and the Encoding of Maya Cosmovision in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1758039/ Tue, 09 Nov 2021 03:50:34 -0500 The Popol Wuj is one of the most important, commonly studied, and widely circulated Indigenous literary works from colonial Mesoamerica. By some accounts, there are 1,200 editions of the work published in thirty world languages, all of which trace back to a single manuscript—itself a copy of an earlier Mayan work. To protect their work from b…[Read more]

]]> 0 b2b055ba94c9a79fcbdd5f735d871a0c Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Associate or advanced Assistant Professor of Black Diasporas in the Américas in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/associate-or-advanced-assistant-professor-of-black-diasporas-in-the-americas/ Mon, 08 Nov 2021 16:38:13 -0500 Dear colleagues,

I’m writing to ask for your help in spreading the word about a search for an Associate or advanced Assistant Professor of Black Diasporas in the Américas, to be a joint appointment in the Carter G. Woodson Department of African American and African Studies and the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University…[Read more]

]]> 0 e49fff9c6d195f641e5998b3ddaaf0b6 Gabrielle Dean started the topic Textual Scholarship 2021 conference "Reckonings, Recoveries, and Transitions" in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/textual-scholarship-2021-conference-reckonings-recoveries-and-transitions/ Fri, 15 Jan 2021 15:34:46 -0500 Please consider submitting a proposal for the 2021 conference of the Society for Textual Scholarship, to be hosted virtually by The New School May 19-22, on the theme Reckonings, Recoveries, and Transitions. Proposals are due February 8, for presentations in a variety of formats.

The Society hopes to attract participation in this conference from…[Read more]

]]> 0 b316b320f5085df627fa849e41697297 Whit Frazier Peterson deposited A Magnificent Blond Beast: Exploring the Implications of Harlem Renaissance Writer Wallace Thurman as Ghostwriter of a Forgotten Celebrity Gossip Memoir in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1723209/ Fri, 15 Jan 2021 02:28:36 -0500 In an early version of his article “Harlem Literati in the Twenties,” first published in the Saturday Evening Review in 1940, Langston Hughes offers the curious suggestion that Wallace Thurman was the ghostwriter of Men, Marriage and Me (erroneously written as Men, Women and Checks in Hughes’ article), the tell-all memoir ostensibly by the origi…[Read more]

]]> 0 6b2c7d908163c2dc792e163ef22282ce Jervette Ward started the topic MLA Elections Close TODAY!!! in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/mla-elections-close-today-2/ Thu, 10 Dec 2020 16:22:58 -0500 Don’t forget that MLA elections close today!

Don’t forget to vote for the new member of the LLC African American Forum Executive Committee and for the MLA Executive Council among other elections.

https://www.mla.org/About-Us/Governance/Elections/Nominations-for-2020-MLA-Elections

]]> 0 88734078561afff96f21d4bc45b5214e Dr Rahul K Gairola deposited Lightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1697996/ Wed, 15 Jul 2020 19:21:33 -0400 Lightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today

]]> 0 8d1a839a17f80466091b624a27e4d6c0 John Hansen deposited “Defying Stereotypes: To Assimilate or Not Assimilate?” in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1690089/ Sat, 06 Jun 2020 03:49:54 -0400 Does the shift away from following or portraying the typical Asian male in my own life help Asians as a whole? Yes. Doing so can help Asian-Americans because it might allow others who view or interact with me to then change their perceptions about other Asian males and help them be more open-minded and accepting. This personal essay explores such notions.

]]> 0 40b9b0328f0fe84fa36e1b26d2d563f9 Jervette Ward started the topic CFP Women and Language in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/cfp-women-and-language-7/ Wed, 06 May 2020 20:49:09 -0400 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/african-american/

 

Call for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender.…[Read more]

]]> 0 662ca375b67c045666a12617e66d703e Ifeoma C. Kiddoe Nwankwo started the topic In Memoriam: African American Literary and Scholarly Greats in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/in-memoriam-african-american-literary-and-scholarly-greats-2/ Sun, 05 Apr 2020 20:25:04 -0400 Submit 300-word abstracts for an In Memoriam Panel celebrating and critically engaging with the works and legacies of recently departed writers and scholars to jervette@gmail.com by April 6.

LLC African American Forum

]]> 0 04e61cbc8c3928fb9984aefed5667b72 Ahmed Idrissi Alami deposited CFPs: MLA 2021, CLCS Global Arab and Arab American in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1680332/ Mon, 09 Mar 2020 03:53:31 -0400 Global Indigeneity
Considers theoretical and political questions raised by the model of “trans-indigeneity” paying attention to indigenous mythologies, histories of settler colonialism, and questions of comparison, translation, resistance, language, and appropriation. 300-word abstract and short bio.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 20 Mar…[Read more]

]]> 0 ec5bb1ef9caf8ac976139a7976d23a60 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic MLA 2021 CFP: "Afro-Latinx Stories" and "Latinx Affect" in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/mla-2021-cfp-afro-latinx-stories-and-latinx-affect/ Tue, 03 Mar 2020 17:20:33 -0500 Dear MLA members,

Please consider submitting proposals for one of the following CFPs for the Modern Language Association’s 2021 convention in Toronto!

MLA 2021 Call For Papers: Afro-Latinx Stories

  • Papers analyzing Afro-Latinx cultural and literary production.
  • Send 150-word abstract and CV to Elena Machado Sáez (

[Read more]

]]> 0 f654e307e7a0efa0522d59571417fdf3 Julie Phillips Brown deposited Otherbreath: Bare Life and the Limits of Self in Claudia Rankine's 'Citizen' in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1674839/ Fri, 10 Jan 2020 16:34:10 -0500 For the “Extreme Texts” special issue of Jacket2, edited by Divya Victor (2019)

]]> 0 4b62a5952f2c308bd9b06fa2f231c947 Tanja Stampfl started the topic Tenure Track Position in Global Anglophone Literature and Composition in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/tenure-track-position-in-global-anglophone-literature-and-composition/ Thu, 21 Nov 2019 20:59:24 -0500 The Department of English at the University of the Incarnate Word seeks applications for an Assistant Professor position in Composition and Global Anglophone Literature with an emphasis on social justice issues (tenure-track, 4-4 teaching load) beginning August 2020. Ph.D. is required prior to the appointment start date. The successful candidate…[Read more]

]]> 0 5e661f113d811124f74c7e55d94855ac Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP - Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/cfp-symposium-documenting-diversity-democracy-in-brazil/ Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:26:08 -0500 Hello everyone, I am happy to share the Call for Papers for this symposium that will take place at the University of Miami, in March 2020.

https://mailchi.mp/miami.edu/documenting-diversity-and-democracy-in-brazil-call-for-papers-2019

Please share with those who may be interested.

Thank you so much!

]]> 0 2e93c32e856532a1eac3ce2d79206f1a Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1663748/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:41:43 -0400 The Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]

]]> 0 78a5904f6c31310a3b5bbf863bc22fd0 Travis M. Foster deposited Campus Novels and the Nation of Peers in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1659051/ Tue, 30 Jul 2019 16:36:44 -0400 This article covers an entire generation of American popular novels published between the Civil War and World War I: campus fictions, focusing all but exclusively on homosocial scenes of undergraduate merriment. Centering on the camaraderie of fraternal sociality, campus novels model friendship as a democratic ideal for dispensing with conflict,…[Read more]

]]> 0 c3e2760d9821308590442d5f5e683a2b Whit Frazier Peterson deposited The Afrofuturist Historical Novel in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1643100/ Sun, 23 Jun 2019 16:26:26 -0400 The recent surge of interest in Afrofuturism has resulted in some groundbreaking work looking at the ways technology and race intersect in film, fashion, music and literature, as is evidenced by the important collection of essays “Afrofuturism 2.0” (2016), edited by Reynaldo Anderson and Charles E. Jones. However there has not yet been an aca…[Read more]

]]> 0 63c616de8a7754988a70fb77290173ae Louise Bethlehem deposited Stenographic fictions: Mary Benson’s At the Still Point and the South African political trial in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1640468/ Sat, 18 May 2019 03:55:24 -0400 From the mid-1960s onward, compilations of the speeches and trial addresses of South African opponents of apartheid focused attention on the apartheid regime despite intensified repression in the wake of the Rivonia Trial. Mary Benson’s novel, At the Still Point, transposes the political trial into fiction. Its “stenographic” codes of repre…[Read more]

]]> 0 b39796e4d1f3599282a2bc1a96b45d29 Nicholas Rinehart deposited Richard Wright's Globalism in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1638346/ Mon, 15 Apr 2019 04:03:28 -0400 This essay takes a long view of Wright’s work, arguing that his racial consciousness always extended beyond national boundaries and was forged from a globalist perspective. This outlook is not, as some critics have maintained, a late-stage development in Wright’s career, but rather the predominant theme that unites his oeuvre with a single con…[Read more]

]]> 0 d12e518f98d1751f80f73b50dea0803d Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited The Nature of Metallic Matter: Materials-Based Methods in the Study of Mining in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628525/ Thu, 10 Jan 2019 03:54:40 -0500 In 1526, royal refiner and natural historian Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557) praised the singular quality of the “muchos tesoros de oro labrado / en poder delos indios q̄ se hā cōquistado” (lxv, v). By 1535, however, he had to define what, exactly, he meant by gold: “No hablo aquí en el oro que se ha habido por rescates, o en la guerra, ni…[Read more]

]]> 0 b269929152678ae2d9d21ca29057c82b Jesse A. Goldberg deposited Slavery’s Ghosts and the Haunted Housing Crisis: On Narrative Economy and Circum-Atlantic Memory in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628094/ Sun, 06 Jan 2019 16:37:36 -0500 In light of (re)new(ed) interest in focusing interdisciplinary scholarly attention on the history of capitalism – a focus captured in Edward Baptist’s recent book, The Half has Never Been Told – this essay reads Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel A Mercy as a key text for considering the history of capitalism as central to conceptions of circum-…[Read more]

]]> 0 5689cc34d92e0d1e47fcf8041bfc5b77 Rosemary G. Feal started the topic Achy Obejas at the MLA Convention in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/achy-obejas-at-the-mla-convention/ Mon, 31 Dec 2018 16:57:13 -0500 Going to the MLA Convention? Please come to hear queer Cuban-American writer and translator Achy Obejas in Session 298 , “Endlessly Cuban: A Discussion on the Work of Achy Obejas with the Author” and Session 473, “A Creative Conversation with Achy Obejas.” See https://achyobejas.mla.hcommons.org/ for bios.

]]> 0 2a982d8e94dff364d33b228974487017 Shirin A. Khanmohamadi deposited The Look of Medieval Ethnography: William of Rubruck's Mission to Mongolia in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1621093/ Mon, 15 Oct 2018 04:09:56 -0400 Reads William of Rubruck’s mission to Asia as an instance of premodern ethnographic representation and the shape of the precolonial European ethnographic gaze upon Asia.

]]> 0 5aed957e395f354cba8b162a52c3ebc9 Patricia Akhimie deposited "Bruised with Adversity": Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1619910/ Wed, 03 Oct 2018 16:45:35 -0400 “‘Bruised with Adversity’: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors” examines the role of the body, and of the somatic mark in particular, in the social production of both individual subjects and racial groups. In The Comedy of Errors, two sets of twins experience the benefits as well as the pitfalls of mistaken identity, revealing the ease with which…[Read more]

]]> 0 0815660e200c9c671c74226071a56dc7 Ida Yoshinaga started the topic CFP International Fantastic Division for ICFA #40 (proposals due 10/31) in the discussion Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/cfp-international-fantastic-division-for-icfa-40-proposals-due-10-31-2/ Fri, 28 Sep 2018 22:58:21 -0400 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts #40

March 2019

Orlando, Florida

CFP Deadline 10/31/18

 

Please join us on <u>March 13-16, 2019</u>, for the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA) #40 in its theme of “Politics and Conflicts.”  We welcome ideas for papers and panels on science fiction, fantasy, fair…[Read more]

]]> 0 d7ff3392a24888257713519ef8ccb1b7 Charlie Gleek deposited Writing History: 19th Century African American Activism in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1614985/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 13:52:11 -0400 Our work in this course will center around two questions. First, what were the material and social conditions for Black men, women, and children living in the territory that would become the United States, from roughly 1750 until on or about 1860? While slavery is likely the first concept that comes to mind, additional concepts such as racism,…[Read more]

]]> 0 50d8ec16c293764f274ce4e5bb7e66a1 Ruth Yvonne Hsu started the topic CfP: International Conference: Migration Studies, Transnational Literature in the discussion Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/cfp-international-conference-migration-studies-transnational-literature/ Sun, 24 Jun 2018 20:21:31 -0400 CFP: Forms of Migration: An International Conference on Transnational Literature & Innovative Aesthetics

May 2—4, 2019: University of Graz (Graz, Austria)

The Department of American Studies and the Centre for Intermediality Studies at the University of Graz (Graz, Austria), in conjunction with the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), announces a call f…[Read more]

]]> 0 484fe965ccd645e62cead60053f1f3fd Marissa K. López started the topic Petition for Latinx studies in the discussion Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/petition-for-latinx-studies/ Fri, 22 Jun 2018 21:06:00 -0400 Please sign this petition to end the exclusion of Latinx studies from the Futures of American Studies Institute.

]]> 0 d3c0b84694c4b520137f3d3e7138a653 Charles Gleek deposited Review of Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South by Talitha LeFlouria. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2015. in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1610072/ Wed, 06 Jun 2018 04:23:56 -0400 Talitha LeFlouria’s Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South ambitiously takes on the task of highlighting the roles that black women played in the modernization of the Georgian economy and culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; roles that were products of material and ideological circumstances as well as a…[Read more]

]]> 0 ea3569bfdc606cb045507c1c50bc319c Marissa K. López deposited The Political Economy of Early Chicano Historiography: The Case of Hubert H. Bancroft and Mariano G. Vallejo in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1610071/ Wed, 06 Jun 2018 04:18:18 -0400 This article compares the historiographic methods of two 19th century, California historians.. Mariano Vallejo, former Mexican military commander of Alta California, wrote his Recuerdos at the request of San Francisco-based, Anglo-American historian Hubert H. Bancroft. In his own memoir, Literary Industries (1915), Bancroft describes his…[Read more]

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