SOCIAL JUSTICE: A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order
CALL FOR PAPERS
SPECIAL ISSUE on "Toward a Praxis for Racial Equality"
We are seeking papers that address the strategic and practical
implications of new theorizing about race. In recent years, we
have witnessed the development of new ways of conceptualizing
"race" in cultural and ethnic studies, the social sciences, feminism,
and humanities. A great deal of this work has resulted from the
impasse in the struggle for racial equality globally and in the
West, where the old models of gender-neutral "self-determination" and civil
rights have foundered with the revival
of neoliberalism and the widespread attack on state-guaranteed
equalities.
We would like to receive articles that address some of the important
practical implications of the new theorizing, such as (but not limited to):
* Possibilities for alliances between different populations of color;
* The future of integration;
* The role of the state in guaranteeing social and economic equality;
* Cross-border and transnational organizing;
* The role of gender, sexuality, and the body in racial politics; and
* Grassroots activism.
Editors: The editors for this special issue are Elaine Kim,
professor of Ethnic Studies, U.C. Berkeley, co-author of East to
America: Korean American Life Stories (The New Press, 1996)
and Anthony M. Platt, professor of Social Work, California State
University, Sacramento, author of E. Franklin Frazier
Reconsidered (Rutgers, 1991).
Deadline for submissions: February 15, 1998, to be considered for
inclusion in the special issue.
Article submissions should not exceed 30 double-spaced 8.5 by 11
manuscript pages, preferably in a 12-point font and with one-
inch margins. The page length includes the "Notes" section (for
substantive additions to the text) and the "References" section
(where full citations amplify the abbreviated in-text references
for books or periodicals, e.g., by author name and publication
date). Word counts would roughly be: full-length articles (8,000
words); commentaries and issue pieces (4,000 words). Include a
brief biographical sketch with complete mailing address and
e-mail.
Submissions should be sent as follows: Three copies, plus disk
(Macintosh or PC-compatible 3.5") to:
Attn.: Elaine Kim and Tony Platt
Social Justice
P.O. Box 40601
San Francisco, CA, 94140, USA
e-mail: SocialJust@aol.com