{"id":233,"date":"2011-01-25T16:05:53","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T15:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonia.noblogs.org\/?p=233"},"modified":"2011-03-14T18:01:41","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T17:01:41","slug":"post-racial-imaginaries-darkmatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonia.noblogs.org\/?p=233","title":{"rendered":"CFP Post-racial imaginaries – darkmatter Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"

darkmatter Journal<\/strong> – http:\/\/www.darkmatter101.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Special Issue – Call for Papers: Post-racial Imaginaries<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Increasing reference to the notion of \u2018post-race\u2019 is suggestive of an emergent discursive framework in critical approaches to race and racism. \u2018Post-race\u2019, \u2018post-racial\u2019, \u2018post-black\u2019, and associated ideas, are being mobilized in various theoretical, cultural and political discourses to describe new racial formations. Post-race requires us to question in new ways the precepts of race thinking, positing the end of race as a point with which to think racial futures. The imprecise nature of much \u2018post-\u2019 talk means there has yet to be a rigorous assessment of the significance of post-race and its cognate terms, beyond simple endorsement or dismissal.<\/p>\n

This special issue of darkmatter Journal is interested in delineating the contours of the \u2018post-racial\u2019 turn by asking: what is the post-racial? What are the conditions of its emergence? What assumptions and claims does it make about the logics of racism? What critical and political work is the term doing? What does the \u2018post\u2019 in post-race mean? How is racism theorized in post-race? What is the relationship between colonial history and the post-racial? When and where is the post-racial? Who claims post-raciality?<\/p>\n

Given the multiple registers of post-race talk, these fundamental questions might be addressed in relation to:<\/p>\n