{"id":33744,"date":"2013-09-21T06:01:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T06:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=33744"},"modified":"2016-07-08T02:30:22","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T02:30:22","slug":"call-for-papers-%e2%80%93-%e2%80%98skin-tone-%e2%80%9ccolourism%e2%80%9d-and-%e2%80%9cpassing%e2%80%9d%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=33744","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers \u2013 \u2018Skin Tone, \u201cColourism\u201d and \u201cPassing\u201d\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/cers.leeds.ac.uk\/news\/call-for-papers-skin-tone-colourism-and-passing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Call for\u00a0Papers \u2013 \u2018Skin Tone, \u201cColourism\u201d and \u201cPassing\u201d\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeds.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of Leeds<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociology.leeds.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">School of Sociology and Social Policy<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cers.leeds.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies<\/a><br \/>\nLeeds, West Yorkshire, England<br \/>\n2013-09-11<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter Edwards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raceintheamericas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Race in the Americas<\/a> (RITA) group, in partnership with the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS), seeks abstract submissions on the theme of <strong>skin tone, \u2018colourism\u2019 and \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">passing\u2019<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The seminar will be held on <strong>Saturday 8 March 2014<\/strong>, at the University of Leeds.<\/p>\n<p>Submissions might include, but are not restricted to, research on the following topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Colourism\u2019 as a prejudice within racial groups with regard to skin tone;<\/li>\n<li>The social implications of individuals passing as one race instead of another;<\/li>\n<li>The impact of \u2018passing\u2019 on the politics of representation and governance;<\/li>\n<li>The creation of space for a multi-ethnic identity: what is that space and does it exist? Are individuals forced to identify with one ethnicity over another?;<\/li>\n<li>Racial identity as a performance through clothing, speech and patterns of consumption;<\/li>\n<li>The proliferation of chemical products to lighten or darken skin tone and what this means for understandings of \u2018race\u2019;<\/li>\n<li>Cultural systems of caste classification and translations of skin tone into political structures;<\/li>\n<li>The role of skin tone in influencing confidence, and in determining social status within a power structure that privileges whiteness;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/cers.leeds.ac.uk\/news\/call-for-papers-skin-tone-colourism-and-passing\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call for\u00a0Papers \u2013 \u2018Skin Tone, \u201cColourism\u201d and \u201cPassing\u201d\u2019 University of Leeds School of Sociology and Social Policy Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies Leeds, West Yorkshire, England 2013-09-11 Peter Edwards The Race in the Americas (RITA) group, in partnership with the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS), seeks abstract submissions on the theme of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6462,10,27],"tags":[13132,5022],"class_list":["post-33744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-uk","category-wanted","tag-centre-for-ethnicity-and-racism-studies","tag-university-of-leeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48129,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33744\/revisions\/48129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}