*Call for Papers*



We are inviting abstract submissions for a proposed companion volume to 

our edited collection /The Colorblind Screen: Television in Post-Racial 

America/ (NYU Press, 2014).



Tentative Title: */Colorblind Hollywood: Movies in Post-Racial America /*



Twenty-first century America adheres to a politics of colorblindness.The 

election of Barack Obama and his two terms as president helped create 

this complex cultural moment that many have deemed 

post-racial.Colorblind racism denies differences based on skin color by 

simply refusing to see color: the rhetoric of colorblind racism then 

enables the reinforcement of dominant ideologies and institutional 

practices by negating difference.Sociologists, political scientists, 

historians, economists, and media studies scholars have been central in 

defining and describing the manner in which colorblind racism functions 

as the major discursive strategy for the maintenance of racial 

inequities in the United States today.



*/Colorblind Hollywood: Movies in Post-Racial America /*will consider 

the influence of this discourse of colorblind racism on contemporary 

American film.This project offers an important intervention in the study 

of the cinematic representation of race as manifest through one of the 

dominant global mediums for cultural negotiation and exchange.This 

collection will examine cinematic renderings of the current racial 

landscape of this country and its manifestation through a multiplicity 

of identity positions that include race, ethnicity, class, and gender.



Although the study of the role of race in Hollywood film is not unique, 

what distinguishes this project is the lens through which race will be 

viewed, namely, that of the politics of colorblind racism.Contemporary 

Hollywood reflects a prescribed sense of diversity; this project will 

consider how that diversity is constructed and, more importantly, how 

that construction is read by a viewing audience that adheres to a 

politics of colorblind racism.



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Possible topics might include, but are not limited to:



Socio-cultural/historical approaches



Critical/theoretical debates



Industry/institutional approaches



Genre



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Gender and sexuality



Audiences and spectatorship



The representation and performance of ethnicity, biraciality, and race



Please submit a 500-word abstract and a brief bio to Sarah E. Turner 

([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>) and Sarah Nilsen 

([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>) by September 1, 

2015.Successful submissions will be notified by the end of September.





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