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By marking the anniversaries of the 1908 Springfield, Illinois riot, and the cataclysmmic events of 1968, this conference (re)investigates their legacies for a dawning new century. This commemoration also provides a powerful point of entry into larger scholarly conversations about the history of riots, other organized violence against racialized bodies (including sexual and state violence), rebellions and resistance, and their reverberations across time and space.
"Rupture, Repression, and Uprising" seeks domestic, comparative, and international/transnational explorations of varied forms of violence that cross disciplinary lines. We welcome papers and organized panels on topics including, but not limited to, the following:
Racialized communities, structured and state sponsored violence
1968, urban revolts, and Black Power
Interpreting the recent rebellions in the suburbs of Paris, France and Sydney, Australia, and their parallels
(Re)assessing the Moynihan Report, Kerner Commission, and constructions of the "underclass"
Teaching courses in racialized violence
Race riots in the U.S. and abroad
Prison revolt, the prison-industrial complex, and questions of state violence
Sexualized racial violence and feminisms
Violence and intersections of race, gender, and sexualities
Environmental racism as violence
Violence within urban racialized communities
Truth and reconciliation: social movement or state enterprise
Rebellion, "law and order," and the new revanchism
Red Scare and Red Summer
Deadline for panel and paper abstracts is December 1, 2007.
Submissions should be mailed electronically to aasrp@uiuc.edu. The conference is scheduled for April 3-5, 2008.
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