Special issue: Race and Ethnicity in Fandom (Summer 2011)Transformative Works and Cultureshttp://journal.transformativeworks.org/http://community.livejournal.com/fight_derailing/4761.htmleditor AT transformativeworks.orgSPECIAL ISSUE EDITORSSarah Gatson (Gatson AT tamu.edu), Sociology, Texas A&M University,http://sociweb.tamu.edu/faculty.php?faculty_id=12Gatson@tamu.eduRobin Reid (Robin_Reid AT tamu-commerce.edu), Literature andLanguages, Texas A&M University-Commerce,http://www.tamu-commerce.edu/litlang/reid.asp?menuName=people&pageName=facultyRobin_Reid@tamu-commerce.eduPlease feel free to forward to other listservs, individuals, and to postonline!DESCRIPTION_Transformative Works and Cultures_ (TWC), an online-only,peer-reviewed journal focusing on media and fan studies, broadlyconceived, invites contributions for a special issue on race andethnicity to be published in summer 2011.Academic scholarship on fan cultures and fan productions over the pastfew decades has focused primarily on gender as the sole category ofanalysis. There has been little published scholarship on fan culturesand productions that incorporates critical race theory or draws on therich array of methodologies that have been developed during the pastcentury in both activist and academic communities in order toincorporate analysis of the social constructions of race andethnicities in fandoms.In contrast, fan activism and fan scholarship (at cons, workshops, andon the Internet) has produced a growing body of work (personalnarratives, essays, carnivals, and in recent months, a press) focusingon not only analyzing but also confronting hierarchies of race andethnicity and their relationship to gender, sexuality, class, anddisability. Submissions by academics, acafans, fan scholars, and fansare encouraged. In all categories, people of color are especiallyencouraged to submit.Topics might include but are not limited to:*Online activism and the circulation of critical race theory and womenof color feminisms in fan communities, in particular the relationshipbetween fan online discourse and other online activist communities.*Critical analysis of the instantiation and critique of racialhierarchies in fan communities and the surrounding culturalproductions.*Racist and antiracist issues in commercial transformative works(comics, film, mashups, remixes, machinima, etc.), especiallyrecuperative race readings (e.g., Randall's _The Wind Done Gone,_Rhys's _Wide Sargasso Sea_).*Race concerns in source texts (characters of color and their fannishreception, fandoms for work by authors of color, writing fannishoriginal characters, etc.) and fannish responses (such as the CarlBrandon Society, Verb Noire, and other panfannish and professionalprojects).*Intersection of race and ethnicity with gender, sexuality, class, andability in fannish contexts in fan works and fan communities(pre-Internet, Internet, conventions, vids, fan fiction, artwork,etc.).SUBMISSIONSSubmit final papers directly to TWC by October 1, 2010. Please visitTWC's Web site (http://journal.transformativeworks.org/) for completesubmission guidelines. Please contact the guest editors with questionsor inquiries.ARTICLE TYPESTheory: Apply a conceptual focus or theoretical frame. Peer review.5,000-8,000 words.Praxis: Apply a specific theory to a formation or artifact; explicatefan practice; perform a detailed reading of a specific text; relatetransformative phenomena to social, literary, technological, and/orhistorical frameworks. Peer review. 4,000-7,000 words.Symposium: Provide insight into developments or debates surroundingfandom, transformative media, or cultures. Editorial review.1,500-2,500 words.
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