Call for Papers:  Proposed SCS Panel
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"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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