Speculating Black, Speculating Queer
If for some strange reason you happen to be in D.C. next Wednesday, dont mind being surrounded by a bunch of anthropologists, and can afford the conference registration free, check it out. I'm looking for to it.
"Difference, (In)Equality, and Justice"
106th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
Nov 28 - Dec 2
Washington, DC
Panel (November 28th, 7pm)
Speculating Black, Speculating Queer: Toward a Black Queer Anthropology
Shaka McGlotten, Ph.D.
Marlon M. Bailey, Ph.D.
Eileen Hayes, Ph.D.
Frank Leon Roberts
"Difference, (In)Equality, and Justice"
106th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
Nov 28 - Dec 2
Washington, DC
Panel (November 28th, 7pm)
Speculating Black, Speculating Queer: Toward a Black Queer Anthropology
Shaka McGlotten, Ph.D.
Marlon M. Bailey, Ph.D.
Eileen Hayes, Ph.D.
Frank Leon Roberts
Abstract:
"Within contemporary intellectual and academic communities, difference has become synonymous with the social production of categorical identifications. But as the still ongoing and frequently contentious debates about identity politics affirm, categories of race, gender, sexuality, and class alone seem woefully insufficient as adequate descriptors of social reality, subjectivity, and everyday life. Working from the notion that difference is not only always already intersectional but also a notion that demands ongoing theoretical scrutiny and reevaluation, this panel proposes to examine new work from within anthropology that speculates on black queer lives and politics. As a diverse group of lesbian and gay anthropologists have noted, as a discipline, anthropology has been slow to assimilate the theoretical insights of queer theory. (There are, of course, groundbreaking and still very relevant exceptions to this general rule). More attuned to the contingencies and political economies of race, numerous anthropologists have created nuanced accounts of racial difference, especially as it articulates with class and gender. Why, then, if intersectional and multi-sited works have become de rigueur have so few studies emerged in recent years that address both race and homosexuality? Two notable exceptions to this rule are Martin Manalasanan and Gayatri Gopinath who have significantly advanced the study of race, diaspora, and transnationalism within the context of South Asian Studies. What, though, are the works that similarly advance the study of queer subjectivities within the black diaspora? The panel seeks to present emerging work that, however partially or tentatively, might situate itself within the rubric of a black queer anthropology and that addresses one or more of the following topics: What can anthropology learn from black queer studies? To what degree does the focus on globalization and/or transnationalism within anthropology inform and/or constrain work on queer sexualities in the black diaspora? How can the study of black queer communities effect theoretical or methodological shifts within the discipline? What sorts of transformative applications and radical intellectual genealogies inhere in attention to black queer cultures? How are utopian, radical, and/or progressive politics made explicit and implicit in ethnographic accounts of black queer lives? What intellectual and political projects and possibilities lay outside the politics of identification or representation?"
"Within contemporary intellectual and academic communities, difference has become synonymous with the social production of categorical identifications. But as the still ongoing and frequently contentious debates about identity politics affirm, categories of race, gender, sexuality, and class alone seem woefully insufficient as adequate descriptors of social reality, subjectivity, and everyday life. Working from the notion that difference is not only always already intersectional but also a notion that demands ongoing theoretical scrutiny and reevaluation, this panel proposes to examine new work from within anthropology that speculates on black queer lives and politics. As a diverse group of lesbian and gay anthropologists have noted, as a discipline, anthropology has been slow to assimilate the theoretical insights of queer theory. (There are, of course, groundbreaking and still very relevant exceptions to this general rule). More attuned to the contingencies and political economies of race, numerous anthropologists have created nuanced accounts of racial difference, especially as it articulates with class and gender. Why, then, if intersectional and multi-sited works have become de rigueur have so few studies emerged in recent years that address both race and homosexuality? Two notable exceptions to this rule are Martin Manalasanan and Gayatri Gopinath who have significantly advanced the study of race, diaspora, and transnationalism within the context of South Asian Studies. What, though, are the works that similarly advance the study of queer subjectivities within the black diaspora? The panel seeks to present emerging work that, however partially or tentatively, might situate itself within the rubric of a black queer anthropology and that addresses one or more of the following topics: What can anthropology learn from black queer studies? To what degree does the focus on globalization and/or transnationalism within anthropology inform and/or constrain work on queer sexualities in the black diaspora? How can the study of black queer communities effect theoretical or methodological shifts within the discipline? What sorts of transformative applications and radical intellectual genealogies inhere in attention to black queer cultures? How are utopian, radical, and/or progressive politics made explicit and implicit in ethnographic accounts of black queer lives? What intellectual and political projects and possibilities lay outside the politics of identification or representation?"
im sneaking in the back door just to see my frank in action.
Posted by
C. Baptiste-Williams |
11/19/2007
hey Frank...quick question...do you have to pay the registration fee to see that one panel? Also, are there any other panels or presentations we might be interested (and by we I mean black queers)? Thanks!
JLG
Posted by
Joey Bahamas |
11/20/2007