FYI...Stefanie ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: Joan Callahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cobalt >International Journal of Status, Aesthetics & Identity > > >JOURNAL SUBMISSIONS > > >Cobalt, a quarterly, multidisciplinary journal focusing on contemporary >aspects of social status, aesthetics and identity Invites submissions for its >premier issue. > >Nontraditional styles of discourse in the areas of gender, sexuality, race and >color are especially encouraged. > >'Performance' is the theme of the first volume and may be interpreted and >challenged as desired. > > >Jhana Sen Xian, Editor >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >CALL FOR ANTHOLOGY SUBMISSIONS > > >Skin Trading: >Women, Complexion & Caste > > >This anthology will explore the significance of color-based and phenotypic >social and economic hierarchies in the lives of women from diverse cultural >backgrounds. Multidisciplinary articles examining the implications of skin >color as one of many markers of racial and ethnic phenotype, for Arab, Asian, >Black, Jewish, Native American or Latina women are especially encouraged. >Anthology topics will focus on the themes of gender, race, ethnicity, class >and sexuality, from both academic and activist perspectives. Skin Trading is >chiefly concerned with the intra-racial and/or intra-ethnic expressions of >color-based aesthetic preferences as they are informed by either global or >intra/intercultural power dynamics. Submissions should be centered around one >or more of the following topics : > > > Politics of Race, Color, and Sexual Identity > Transformation of Color into Caste > Internalization: Inter/Intra-Racial/Ethnic Color Dynamics > Ethnic Erasure: Assimilation > Multiracial Politics > > >Please forward a brief abstract of your article topic, with a biography, at >your earliest convenience but no later than February 1, 1998. Completed >articles are needed by September 1, 1998. If you would like further >information or have any questions please feel free to contact me. I look >forward to your participation in this most dynamic publication. > > > JHANA SEN XIAN, EDITOR > > >reply to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ************************** Joan C. Callahan / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor, Department of Philosophy University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0027 606-257-1861 FAX: 606-257-3286 URL: http://www.uky.edu/~buddy/buddywelcome.html "May we always resist what we know in our hearts to be wrong. May we do right and keep our word." Nikky Finney ************************** ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker Department of Resource Management Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 56 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
