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Our 1998 conference, OUTING WHITENESS, will bring together individuals engaged in the ongoing interdisciplinary dialog on the construction and the normalization of "whiteness." | ||
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OUTING WHITENESS seeks to build and expand upon existing scholarly work and to continue to push the intellectual inquiry surrounding the social, philosophical and political meanings of "whiteness" in the United States and around the globe. | ||
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OUTING WHITENESS discussants will be from many fields, including aesthetics, Africana studies, anthropology, art, art history, Asian-American studies, Chicano studies, cultural studies, economics, film theory, geography, government, history, law, linguistics, literature, philosophy, psychology, queer studies, religion, sociology, science and women's studies. | ||
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| N | Since the emergence of Black Studies in the academy, scholars have produced a tremendous amount of scholarship which critically examines the re-presentation of people of African descent in the arts, history, critical theories and culture. However in Playing the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, Toni Morrison suggests that when she "stopped reading as reader and began to read as a writer" she experienced a revelation regarding the conventional re-presentations of Black people in the literature written by white-Americans. | ||
| G | [She]came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer. The fabrication of an Africanist persona is reflexive; an extraordinary meditation on the self; a powerful exploration of the fears and desires that reside in the writerly conscious. It is an astonishing revelation of longing, of terror, of perplexity of shame, of magnanimity. It requires hard work not to see this [p.17]. | ||
| Indeed, increasingly, scholars are interrogating the dialectics of "blackness" and "whiteness" that dominate intellectual thought as well as popular culture. OUTING WHITENESS organizers seek papers that subject to critical scrutiny the category of "whiteness" and the proliferation of "whites studies." |
Submit 1-page abstract by October 1, 1997
Send to: Phyllis J. Jackson, Department of Art and Art History
Pomona College, Claremont, California 91711
Direct queries to:
OUTWHITENESS@pomona.edu
| *The Claremont Colleges: | Conference Organizers:
Phyllis J. Jackson, Department of Art and Art History, Pomona College Darrell Moore, Guest Organizer, Philosophy Department, DePaul University, Chicago |
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