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Call for Papers
Critical Race Theory & Communication Studies:
A Special Issue of the Communication Law Review
Guest Editor: Rachel Griffin Ph.D., Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
The editorial board encourages submissions of scholarly articles for
a special issue on Critical Race Theory (CRT). The overarching
premise of this special issue is to serve as a focused point of
entry for CRT into the field of Communication Studies. Described as
"a gasp of emanicipatory hope" by Cornel West (1995, p.xii), CRT
offers numerous possibilities to the field of Communication Studies
as a theoretical and methodological force that necessitates
positioning the perspectives, knowledges, and experiences of
marginalized identity groups at the center of inquiry.
Rooted in legal studies, critical race theory was designed to
critique the laws and policies that uphold White supremacy in the
United States (Crenshaw Gotanda, Peller, & Thomas, 1995). As theory,
CRT provides a rich foundation for understanding the experiences of
people of color; as method, CRT allows for the exploration of how
race and racism work in the everyday lives of people of color. With
a fierce emphasis on liberation, those who utilize CRT and the
offspring of CRT including Critical Race Feminism, LatCrit,
AsianCrit, TribalCrit, WhiteCrit, and QueerCrit within their work
address the deeply embedded roots of oppression. As a genre of
critical scholarship, CRT and its' offspring offer rich theoretical
and methodological means to explore the ways social inequality is
produced, (re)produced, and/or contested at micro and macro levels
of U.S. American society and abroad. Submissions that bring together
the unique insights of CRT and communication scholarship to
contribute to an innovative dialogue that inspires social
consciousness and social justice will be favored. Authors may
address a variety of different topic areas including but not limited
to rhetoric, performance, identity, policy, education, pedagogy,
media, technology, sport, and globalization.
Graduate students as well as faculty are highly encouraged to submit
manuscripts for this special issue. It is strongly encouraged that
authors submit manuscripts electronically and conform to the
stylistic and citation guidelines of the Chicago Manual of Style.
The deadline for submissions to this special issue is August 1st,
2009. All submissions should be sent to Rachel Griffin, Ph.D.
at <(rachelag /at/ siu.htm)>(rachelag /at/ siu.edu) in a Microsoft Word document.
To facilitate the blind, peer review process, no material
identifying the author(s) of submitted manuscripts should appear
anywhere other than the title page, which should include: (a) the
title of the paper, (b) the author's name, position, institutional
affiliation, address, telephone and fax numbers, and email address,
(c) any acknowledgements, including the history of the manuscript
and if any part of it has been presented at a conference or is
derived from a thesis or dissertation; and (d) a word count.
Manuscripts must be double-spaced throughout and should be no longer
than 9,000 words, inclusive of notes and reference matter. Papers
will be referred to peer reviewers for publication. The manuscripts
for this special issue should not be under review by any other
publication venue.
To inquire about this special issue, please contact:
Rachel Alicia Griffin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Speech Communication
Southern Illinois University @ Carbondale
1100 Lincoln Drive Mailcode 6605
Carbondale, IL 62901
<(rachelag /at/ siu.htm)>(rachelag /at/ siu.edu)
(618) 453-1882
References
Crenshaw, K., Gotanda, N., Peller, G., & Thomas, K. (Eds.). (1995).
Critical race theory: The key writings that formed the movement. New
York: The New York Press.
West, C. (1995). Forward. In K. Crenshaw, N. Gotanda, G. Peller, &
Thomas, K. (Eds.), (2000). Critical Race Theory: The key writings
that formed the movement. (pp.xi-xii). New York: The New York Press.
