32. Race, Ethnicity, and Politics

Ange-Marie Hancock, Yale University, Ange-Marie.hancock@yale.edu
Adrian D. Pantoja, Pitzer College, adrian_pantoja@pitzer.edu

This year’s conference theme and call for papers focuses on the role of categories in global inequality. In particular, the REP section has long been a contributor to this theme and seeks work from scholars across subfields who reflect the power of traditional race scholarship but we emphasize and encourage scholars who work within new and emerging paradigms such as intersectionality and transnationalism. We seek scholarship that brings together the wealth of knowledge regarding race, ethnicity and native status and the recognition of such socio-political categories as contingent and dynamically interactive with categories of gender, class, national status, and sexual orientation. While fluidity and diversity characterize these socio-political identities; all, to varying degrees share the category of marginal status groups whose categorical distinction places them outside dominant norms and institutions. 

We welcome papers that discuss the substantive findings of race and ethnicity research across subfields, in the longstanding tradition of the best work of this genre. In particular, we encourage submissions that cross subfields in a substantively thematic way, through explorations of topics such as identities, orientations, affiliations, allegiances, distributive politics, institutions, representation, and conflict and violence. As well, we would encourage submissions that examine intersectionality and other new paradigms in comparative context for the future of race politics in national, international and transnational settings.