[ecrea] CFP: "Do You Feel Me?": Exploring Black American Gender and Sexuality Through Emotion and Feeling

> CFP: "Do You Feel Me?": Exploring Black American Gender and 
> Sexuality through Emotion and Feeling
>
>  CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> "Do You Feel Me?": Exploring Black American Gender and Sexuality 
> Through Emotion and Feeling
>
> Editors
> Bianca C. Williams (University of Colorado-Boulder)
> Jennifer A. Woodruff (Bates College)
>
> Abstract Proposals due January 15, 2010
>
> The editors seeks contributions for a collection that explores 
> "feeling" and "emotion" as rubrics for understanding the 
> complexities of Black American race, gender, and sexuality. By 
> framing an examination of the Black American experience through 
> "feeling," this volume aims to call attention to the ways research 
> informants negotiate their identities and navigate the affective 
> dimensions of power within their communities. The volume will 
> provide texture to the literature on race, sexuality, and gender in 
> the U.S., focusing on how Black Americans feel as they experience 
> their racialized, gendered, and sexualized identities, and how they 
> connect with other individuals (including the researcher) through 
> similar and/or divergent emotional experiences.
>
> Please send a 350-500 word abstract and CV to (jwoodruf /at/ bates.edu) and 
> (Bianca.williams /at/ colorado.edu) by January 15, 2010. Notification of 
> accepted proposals will be made by March 1, 2010. First chapter 
> drafts of 6000-7000 words will be due around June 2010. More 
> information on the collection's theme is included below:
>
> In a public dialogue held at the University of Pennsylvania 
> anthropologist John L. Jackson and English professor Frederick C. 
> Moten put forth the proverbial question, "Do you feel me?" in order 
> to draw attention to the tensions and disconnects people feel as 
> they build relationships within the African Diaspora. Moten argued 
> that the question should be read as both "a translation and an 
> articulation," suggesting that the query itself claims, "you get it, 
> but you don't understand." This volume takes up Jackson's and 
> Moten's inquiry about "feeling" and its link to differentials of 
> power, in order to use "affect" and "emotion" as rubrics for 
> thinking through the ways people experience racialized, gendered, 
> and sexualized processes differently, and position themselves within 
> these discourses. While recognizing the significant contributions 
> theorists of intersectionality have made to the analysis of power 
> and subject formation, we propose "feeling" as a productive analytic 
> tool for examining how race, gender, and sexuality not only 
> intersect, but are always inextricably linked. Instead of studying 
> large structures or institutions, we aim to place an anthropological 
> emphasis on people as mediators of racialized, gendered, and 
> sexualized experiences in local and transnational spaces, and 
> discuss how these individuals feel as they participate in, and work 
> against, racist, sexist, and homophobic discourses.
>
> Additionally, we seek to explore how subjects may use affect and 
> emotion to speak to those differences of power embedded within the 
> relationship between informant and research ethnographer. In those 
> critical moments when informants implicitly or explicitly ask the 
> ethnographer, "Do you feel me?," they are often gesturing towards an 
> embrace of the ethnographer's racialized, gendered, and sexualized 
> credentials ("yes, you are one of us"), or a disavowal ("you may 
> study me, you may feel me, but you will never fully understand me"). 
> This collection explores how "feeling" and "emotion" contribute to 
> the ever-changing racialized, gendered, and sexualized contours of 
> the Black American experience(s) by asking the complex question "Do 
> you feel me?"
>
> C. Riley Snorton, M.A.
> Doctoral Candidate
> Fontaine Fellow
> Annenberg School for Communication
> University of Pennsylvania
>
> Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow
> W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research
> Harvard University

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