Call for Proposals

Scholarship, teaching, and activism are the foci that tie together this year’s call for papers for this Group. We invite papers and panel proposals on the following topics:

• Understanding sex trafficking and its impact on the lives of women of color and how that means investigating sexualized racism
• Artistic and creative images that mine the various ways women of color break free from traditional cult-of-womanhood categories — share the different kinds of knowledge and intellectual practices you are developing that challenge our current disciplinary formations and heteropatriarchal educational status quo
• Based on direct experiences with immigration in the United States, advance the cause of transformative justice. Considering our early foresisters, whose wisdom should we acknowledge? Who provides a template for our anti-imperial internationalist work?

Mission

This Group fosters intellectual exchange in the fields of religious studies and theology as they are developing in diverse communities of color from a gendered analysis. While the AAR features Program Units from diverse communities of color, we provide a space for conversation between communities of color. This Group does not assume a prior “women of color” identity, but centers a woman of color analytic that deconstructs the intersecting logics of gender and race. At the same time, we do not hold to a “post-identity” framework and are also concerned with the status of women of color in the academy, the politics of pedagogy, and the relationship between women-of-color-centered activism and scholarship. Understanding identity as performative and shifting, we make the very category of “women of color” itself a site for political and intellectual engagement.

Anonymity of Review Process

Proposals are anonymous to Chairs and steering committee members at all times.

Questions?

Grace Ji-Sun Kim
Moravian Theological Seminary
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Andrea Smith
University of California, Riverside
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Method of Submission

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