[nativestudies-l] Fwd: NEASA deadline extended

[alyssa.mt.pleasant at yale.edu]

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    Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:32:36 -0500 (EST)
    From: jkauanui at wesleyan.edu
Reply-To: jkauanui at wesleyan.edu
 Subject: deadline extended

Hau`oli Makahiki Hou! Happy New Year!

I hope this email finds all of you well. The deadline for the next annual
conference on race & citizenship in the US-- by the New England American
Studies Association (NEASA) has been EXTENDED through MARCH 15th.  I'm on
the council of NEASA on the conference program committee for the
conference.  It would be great to get proposals from you for papers and
panels!!!  See below for details-- the conference does NOT have a New
England-focus.

Mahalo, Kehaulani

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HOMELAND IN/SECURITY: Race and Citizenship in the United States
New England American Studies Association

September 15-16, 2006

University of Southern Maine  Portland, Maine

* * Call for Papers * *

The current political moment presents new  opportunities and imperatives
to examine historical and contemporary  formations of race and citizenship
in the United States. Race and  citizenship are central to the "war on
terror" in all its aspects.   Transnationally, the racialized  politics of
US citizenship inform  detainments at Guantánamo Bay (of deported Haitians
as well as of  multiply racialized Muslims) and the other "black sites"
including Abu Ghraib, as much as they inform  the ongoing military
expansion in Guam, Puerto Rico, and Hawai'i. The war is also waged within
United  States borders, where race and citizenship are central to military
recruitment policies, Patriot Act injustices, and the color-coded
corruptions of homeland security. Of course, this is not merely a military
issue: Race and citizenship also define other pressing social issues
including Katrina and the failures of  Post-Katrina, education, prison,
healthcare, immigration  legislation, and the broad-based assault on
indigenous sovereignty.

Race and citizenship in the United States have long genealogies.
Understanding the history of race and  citizenship is made doubly urgent
by the contemporary circumstances.  This conference will provide an
opportunity to assess both current and historical materials in the
explosive context of the United States  post 9/11. NEASA invites proposals
that consider this topic from every angle, including historical, social,
political, economic, aesthetic,  literary, cinematic and discursive
strategies for addressing these questions in our work today.  Papers and
panels with a regional New England focus are welcome and we hope to
receive proposals from scholars, teachers, cultural workers, and curators
working within a range of institutions, cultural locations, and
disciplines.

Please submit abstract and CV in Word, Wordperfect, or hardcopy by March
15, 2006 to:   Dane A. Morrison, Ph.D.  Professor of Early American
History  Department of History  Salem State College  352 Lafayette Street
Salem, MA  01970  (978) 542-7134  dane.morrison at salemstate.edu



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