[Englecturers] FW: Please Circulate/ CFP: Eugenics in American History and Culture (1/24; ALA 5/22-25)

[Mary Cummins]

Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 18:46:05 -0800
From: mar.christina at gmail.com
To: marycaroline7 at hotmail.com
Subject: Please Circulate/ CFP: Eugenics in American History and Culture (1/24; ALA 5/22-25)

CFP: Eugenics in American History and Culture (1/24; ALA 5/22-25)
 
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
th 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.

 
Please email a short proposal to mar.christina at gmail.com by Friday, January 24, 2008. 

 
Conference Information:
 
The American Literature Association's 19th 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).
  The deadline for all proposals is January 30, 2008. For further information, please consult the ALA website at 
www.americanliterature.org or contact the conference director, Professor Maria Karafilis of California State University, Los Angeles at 
mkarafi at calstatela.edu with specific questions. 

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