Dear Colleagues,
We serve as co-chairs of the Race/Ethnicity section for the Social
Science History Association (SSHA). The 39th Annual Meeting of the
SSHA is scheduled to take place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from
November 6-9, 2014. Our theme this year is “Inequalities: Politics,
Policy, and the Past.”
Our main goal is to structure sessions so that they explicitly draw on
an interdisciplinary group of scholars who hail from different
institutions. The deadline for submission of abstracts is February
14th, 2014. Note, all SSHA requires to submit at this point is an
abstract. You can find more information at: http://www.ssha.org/,
including the Call for Papers.
We are hoping to put together a number of sessions that were discussed
at the planning meeting, included panels related to the conference
site and date:
Historical Anniversaries of Political/Policy Issues
– Haitian Revolution (1814)
– The Treaty of Berlin (1884-5) and the Partitioning of Africa
– Peruvian War of Independence (1824)
– Taiping Rebellion (1864)
– Beginning of WWI (1914)
– U.S. GI Bill (1944)
– Civil Rights Act (1964)
General Topics on Race/Ethnicity, Politics, and Policy
– Comparative Multiculturalism and Affirmative Action (particularly in
Canada: Indigenous/First Nations vs. French vs. English)
– Racial Classifications – Historic and Contemporary (including
Canadian categories)
– Race and Radical Social Movements
– The Muslim Experience(s), Racialization of Muslims
– Race, the Environment, and Sustainability
Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Political/Policy Issues
– Mass Incarceration
– Histories of Interracial Relationships
– Capitalism and Racial/Ethnic Niche Economies
– Higher Education (possibly with Affirmative Action)
Politics/Policy and Migrations/Immigrations
– Racialization of Refugees
– Citizenship and Racism
– African American Migration to Canada, during and following the
American Revolution
– Diasporas of Different Kinds
– Maroons, Maroonage & Rural Black Communities
Note that any of these could also be roundtables, which serve to
promote discussion and sharing ideas a bit more than traditional paper
sessions.
You are welcome to submit papers regarding any of these topics, or on
a topic relating to your own research. If you would be interested in
putting together an entire session, let us know and we would be happy
to provide you with details as to how to do this. Feel free to forward
this call widely, particularly to graduate students (there is funding
available for graduate students to travel to the conference which can
be found at http://www.ssha.org/grants).
Finally, please feel free to check our Facebook page, which you can
find by searching for “Race/Ethnicity Network – Social Science History
Association” or by following the link:
https://www.facebook.com/
If you have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to contact us via email.
Sincerely,
Joseph O. Jewell jjewell@tamu.edu
Liz Onasch e-onasch@u.northwestern.edu
Melissa F. Weiner mfweiner@holycross.edu