Fw: KAS Call for Papers--"Race and Anthropology, Race in Anthropology"

[Nate Dumas (by way of Richard J Senghas)]

Please forward this to all interested colleagues!  Best,

Nate Dumas
Managing Editor, Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers
Doctoral Student, Linguistic Anthropology
University of California, Berkeley

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Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 5:01 AM
Subject: KAS Call for Papers--"Race and Anthropology, Race in Anthropology"

>KAS Special-Theme Issue
>Call for Papers
>10/31/2005
>
>
>In 1903, W.E.B. DuBois remarked that the problem of the twentieth 
>century would be the problem of
>the colorline. In many ways, the colorline-or race, its metonymic 
>referent-is also the problem of
>the twenty-first. Given the resurgence of biologized race in 
>genomics and "ethnic designer drugs,"
>the nineteenth and early twentieth century concepts of race that 
>anthropology played a central
>role in creating and deconstructing continue to be salient. Despite 
>our discipline's mantra that
>race is a "social construct," race continues to be a social reality, 
>whether or not it is
>conceptualized in explicitly biological terms. The rebiologization 
>of race provides
>anthropologists-from all four fields-an opportunity to 
>reinitiate/reinvigorate an
>intradisciplinary conversation on race-as well as an 
>interdisciplinary one. Moreover, the
>resurgence of biologized race also presents an opportunity for 
>anthropology as a discipline to
>intervene in public conversations on race from which meaningful 
>anthropological contributions have
>been all too often absent.  In this spirit, this issue of the 
>Kroeber Anthropological Society
>(KAS) Papers seeks to think, and rethink race, race and 
>anthropology, and race in anthropology.
>Can anthropology as a discipline speak with one proverbial voice? Is 
>this even desirable? And why
>have intradisciplinary discussions of race receded to the margins? 
>Then again, have
>intradisciplinary discussions of race receded? The recent 
>bifurcations of anthropology departments
>into biological and cultural anthropology departments as well as the 
>growing number of
>anthropologists in interdisciplinary departments are signs that for 
>significant segments of the
>discipline a four-field approach has been abandoned, or, at the very 
>least, had its utility,
>feasibility, and desirability put in question. Interestingly, it is 
>precisely at this moment of
>fissure that the four fields may have the most to say to each other, 
>if only on the concept of
>race. American anthropology was founded in the Boasian tradition, 
>and Boas himself critically
>interrogated the linking of race, language and culture. In many 
>ways, race is the concept that has
>bound the discipline together. If nothing else, anthropologists 
>should ask if this continues to be
>the case. So this issue of the KAS Papers invites anthropologists 
>from all four fields to revisit
>the issue of race, both in its salience inside of the discipline and 
>its potency outside the
>academy. What do anthropologists have to say about race? What do 
>anthropologists have to say to
>each other about race? And what is "race" anyway?
>
>Submissions are due February 1, 2006
>Please send two paper copies and one electronic copy (MS Word) to:
>Kroeber Anthropological Society
>232 Kroeber Hall
>Berkeley, CA 94720
>
>Papers should be no more than 11000 words (30 pgs, double-spaced). 
>Electronic copies can be mailed
>on a 3.5" diskette or CD to the above address. For format 
>guidelines, please refer to the AAA
>style guide or the KAS website at 
>http://sscl.berkeley.edu/~kas/submission.html.
>
>For further information, contact: Marian Swanzy-Parker - mariansp at berkeley.edu
>
>
>Nate Dumas
>Managing Editor, Kroeber Anthropological Society
>Doctoral Student, Linguistic Anthropology
>University of California, Berkeley
>