[csaa-forum] special issue of ACRAWSA Journal: 'Queer Race'

[Damien Riggs]

Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association Journal

Special issue: ‘Queer Race’

Edited by Damien W. Riggs

Taking its leave from a book of the same name by Ian Barnard (2003), this
special issue of the ACRAWSA Journal focuses on issues of race, racism and
race privilege in relation to the lives of queer people living
in ‘postcolonising’ (Moreton-Robinson, 2003) nations such as Australia. Whilst
considerable media, academic and activist attention continues to be paid to
the rights claims of people variously identified as queer, little attendant
attention has been paid to the intersections of queer identities with other
concurrent identities in relation to race, ethnicity, religion, gender and
class. This special issue thus invites contributions that explore the
simultaneous ways in which queer people are racialised, classed etc. Moreover,
it seeks to explore what it means to identify in these ways within the context
of Australia, a nation currently configured through particular investments in
white hegemony.


Contributions may focus on (but are not limited to):

* The privileges held by particular groups of queer people

* The implications of employing particular forms of rhetoric when pushing for
rights

* The intersecting/multiple ways in which queer identities are experienced

* Theoretical/experiential accounts of ‘queer race’

* International comparisons of queer identities

* Historical analyses of the cultural locations of queer identities

* Papers deconstructing notions of ‘queer race’

* Queer race and media technologies


Submission deadlines:

Initial submissions: July 15th

Reviews back to authors: August 30th

Finalised papers due: October 15th

Publication date: November 15th 2006


The ACRAWSA Journal is a peer-reviewed publication and as such is eligible for
DEST points. www.journal.acrawsa.org.au


All inquiries/proposals/papers should be sent to damien.riggs at adelaide.edu.au