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<br><br><br><blockquote><hr>Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 18:46:05 -0800<br>From: mar.christina@gmail.com<br>To: marycaroline7@hotmail.com<br>Subject: Please Circulate/ CFP: Eugenics in American History and Culture (1/24; ALA 5/22-25)<br><br><p class="EC_MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">CFP: Eugenics in American History and Culture (1/24; ALA 5/22-25)</font></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The Society for the Study of Mixed Race invites paper submissions on all aspects of eugenics in American history and culture for a panel to take place at the American Literature Association Annual Conference (details below). Widely influential in early 20
<sup>th</sup> century America, eugenic thought informed anti-miscegenation laws, anti-immigration movements, intelligence theories, etc. Witnessing Nazi atrocities ostensibly stemmed the eugenic tide in the U.S., but recent scholarship suggests eugenics, in the forms of discriminatory birth control practices and technologies introduced by the science of human genetics (cloning, screening, engineering), remains a powerful current in contemporary American culture. Papers addressing such postwar and contemporary manifestations of eugenic thought and/or eugenic treatments of race mixing are especially welcome.
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Please email a short proposal to <a href="mailto:mar.christina@gmail.com">mar.christina@gmail.com</a> by Friday, January 24, 2008. </font>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Conference Information:</font></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The American Literature Association's 19<sup>th</sup> annual conference will meet at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco in Embarcadero Center on May 22-25, 2008 (Thursday through Sunday of Memorial Day weekend).
<span style=""> </span>The deadline for all proposals is January 30, 2008. For further information, please consult the ALA website at </font><a href="http://www.americanliterature.org/" target="_blank"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
www.americanliterature.org</font></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> or contact the conference director, Professor Maria Karafilis of California State University, Los Angeles at </font><a href="mailto:mkarafi@calstatela.edu">
<font face="Times New Roman" size="3">mkarafi@calstatela.edu</font></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> with specific questions. </font></p>
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