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From: "Marta Caminero-Santangelo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I just thought I'd remind everyone about the deadline for this upcoming
Latino Studies conference.
Call for Papers
Nuestra América in the U.S.? A U.S. Latino/a Studies Conference
Friday & Saturday, February 8 & 9, 2008
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Proposal Deadline: September 15, 2007
www.ContinuingEd.ku.edu (keyword: Latino)
Plenary Speakers
Helena María Viramontes, Under the Feet of Jesus and Their Dogs Came
with Them
Juan Flores, From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino
Identity
Emma Pérez, The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History
Roberto Suro, Strangers Among Us: Latino Lives in a Changing America
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Doméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and
Caring in the Shadows of Affluence
This interdisciplinary conference adopts José Martís expansive hemispheric
conception of America to explore implications of the growth of the U.S.
Latino population at the cusp of the 21st century*a century that has seen
Latinos/as become the largest U.S. ethnic minority. How have these shifting
demographics affected communities, labor, politics, education, and cultural
production in the U.S.?
Papers will be considered from all disciplines. We invite submissions that
address issues of:
* migration and immigration
* transnationalism
* pan-ethnicity
* education
* the (re)formulation of racial and ethnic identities
* Latinos/as and labor practices
* militarization of the border
* Latino consumer marketing
* Latino media
* Latinos/as and the law
* political activism and coalition
* immigrant rights struggles
* community organizations serving Latino populations
* the impact of Latinization on U.S. culture
Send 200-word proposals by Sept. 15, along with title and institutional
affiliation to:
Marta Caminero-Santangelo
KU Department of English
1445 Jayhawk Blvd.
Lawrence, KS 66045
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 785-864-2529
Sponsors The Milton & Miriam Handler Foundation; the University of Kansas
departments of English, Spanish & Portuguese, Sociology, Political Science,
History, Public Administration, Religious Studies, and Anthropology; Office
of the Provost; Office of the Chancellor; the Hall Center for the
Humanities; the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences; KU Continuing Education;
the School of Education; the School of Journalism; the School of Social
Welfare; the Institute for Policy & Social Research; the KU Womens Studies,
American Studies, Humanities and Western Civilization, and Latin American
Studies programs; the Center for Research on Global Change; The St. Anthony
Educational Foundation.
Marta Caminero-Santangelo
Associate Professor, English
University of Kansas
http://martacamsan.tripod.com/
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