Call for Papers:  Proposed SCS Panel

Please reply to <[log in to unmask]> by Friday, September 15

 

"Color to Color: Portraying Other People of Color"

 

Seeking one more paper to round out a panel.  We have two papers and a

respondent on the topic of so-called people of color

depicting/performing/portraying other so-called minority races in

contemporary film, television, video, and related media.  We're interested

in the way such texts work toward and against consensus -- how such

depictions speak for as well as speak to people of color.  Ideally, we'd

like to look at another paper which focuses on post-riot L.A., but we'll

entertain non-L.A. specific texts.

 

Some of the questions we're posing: how do people of color frame their

depictions of other races (e.g., how does Anna Deveare Smith contextualize

her "performance" of Jews, Koreans, etc.)?  How do such depictions operate

within racial hierarchies of power (e.g., do such performances reinforce or

destablize racial hierarchies; does a Korean filmmaker have a greater

responsiblity to the African American community than to the white community

when he creates African and white characters)?  How do these texts

circulate in the media marketplace?

 

The other panelists/papers are:

-Peter Feng (University of Iowa) on Korean American filmmaker Jae Soh and

his films about post-riot L.A.

-Lynda Goldstein (Penn State) on Anna Deveare Smith's _Twilight: Los

Angeles, 1992_

-Christine Choy (filmmaker, NYU professor, and founding member of Third World

Newsreel), respondent

 

Please reply to <[log in to unmask]> by Friday, September 15

[Yes, we realize that's not much time -- but deadline is fast approaching

-- please send an informal proposal, if selected we'll ask you for a formal

proposal]

 

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