[ecrea] CFA Zapruder World - Performing Race

*Call for Articles: Performing Race*

A special issue of /Zapruder World: Transnational Journal for the 
History of Social Conflicts/ edited by Irene Fattacciu and Claudio Fogu

ZapruderWorld is an online, open-access and peer-reviewed history 
journal coordinated by an international network of activists and 
scholars, both academic and independent. The journal’s parent 
organization, Storie in movimento (SIM), has been active since 2002 and 
continues to publish the Italian journal Zapruder.

The aim of Zapruder World is to create a wide arena in which to exchange 
critical knowledge based on both individual research and collective 
elaboration. The journal focuses on social conflict paying particular 
attention to conflicts as movements rather than focusing on their 
resolutions, so as to better connect the history of social conflicts 
with current transnational cycles of protest. Zapruder World is animated 
by an aspiration towards “global history” but intentionally leaves its 
actual definition, contents, and methods open for discussion.

Seeking to stake a position that does not fall into the definitional 
trap of considering “race” as a biological fact or as a social 
construction, the fourth issue of Zapruder World wants to explore the 
practices through which “race” acquires importance as performance and 
experience, by focusing on everyday life. Race is indeed not always 
important /per se/, but it becomes important through a series of 
specific practices that influence the way people behave, identify, and 
reproduce themselves. Racism permeates everyday life in ways often not 
obvious, affecting the ways in which people relate and look at the 
world, as well as their aspirations and their sense of identity. And, 
today, the social construction of “race” is consistently challenged in 
politics and popular culture by developments in genetic science as well 
as by public policies that pretend to measure race and establish 
categories to implement affirmative policies. Critical Race Theory 
studies and those of connected fields (LatCrit, Feminist and Queer 
studies) have brought an essential contribution to a new understanding 
of race by looking at race as a performative identity, shifting the 
focus from macro-institutions to the mechanisms of formation of racial 
identities, still keeping the implicit political dimension of the 
operation. Yet the idea that racial categorization are primarily the 
product of historically determined social and cultural practices needs 
to be further investigated and substantiated. How do the creation and 
reproduction of racialized discourse interact with the practices that 
implicitly underpin it? How does the process of construction of ‘race’ 
as performative identity take place through experiences and practices? 
Which are the appropriate analytical tools to explore the spaces where 
race was and is negotiated and socialized? How did the tensions occurred 
at different times/places between racialized institutional practices and 
patterns of resistance substantiated in forms of struggle against 
dominant conceptions of race?

In order to answer these questions, this issue aims to explore the 
ordinariness of race shaping the world around us through the set of 
environments, practices and relations within which we daily spend most 
of our time, and where the ways through which one is ‘raced' (as well as 
gendered, classed and so on) are not necessarily explicit or 
understood.We invite contributions focusing on any area of the World 
since the 17^th century, and that especially address one or more of the 
following fields:

·Consumer culture and consuming practices

·Racialized subjectivities, identities and performances

·Racial socialization (family, school ecc.)

·Racism and strategies of resistance in the workplace

·Marriage, love and sex

·The construction of racial identity through the experience of parenthood

·Body and racialized aesthetics

Although history is the main focus of this journal, multi- and 
interdisciplinary approaches, as well as contributions merging an 
historical perspective with other disciplines are highly appreciated. 
Intersectional approaches focusing on the intersections between race and 
gender as well as class are also particularly welcomed.

We also invite submission of non-essay form original work such 
photographs, videos, interviews, drawings, comics, songs, hyperlinks to 
online resources, multimedia, etc… both accompanying the articles 
themselves and as autonomous contributions. We encourage authors to 
think about incorporating multimedia both into their pieces proposed for 
Zapruder World and in the sections (e.g. “yesterday” and “today”) we 
have created on our website.

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/Submissions:/Abstracts in English (300-600 words) shall be sent by 
February 20 to (info /at/ zapruderworld.org)

All contributors will be informed about the status of their abstract 
submission by March 15, 2016. Full articles (preferably 6,000-9,000 
words) are expected by May 30, 2017.

The Manifesto of Zapruder World, the journal’s previous volumes, as well 
as guidelines for prospective authors can be found at: 
http://www.zapruderworld.org <http://www.zapruderworld.org/>.


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