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Call for Papers: The "Weaponization" of Ethnic Studies

2023-02-17

Article Submission Deadline: May 31, 2023

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Through May 2023, Kalfou is currently seeking submissions that address what Sunaina Maira describes as the “weaponization” of Ethnic Studies against itself. Despite the proliferation of “DEI” statements and agencies, we continue to see the neutralization of antiracist and antisexist discourses in order to perpetuate injustice. In various ways, such neutralization attempts to delegitimate radical struggles and the knowledge they produce.

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Current Issue

Vol. 9 No. 2 (2022): Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies

Published: 2023-01-05

Symposium on The Race of Sound, by Nina Sun Eidsheim

The Race of Sound, by Nina Sun Eidsheim: What Good Work Does and Why It Matters

George Lipsitz
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Making a Space for Epistemology and Aesthetics in Voice Studies

Marit J. MacArthur
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Listening to Listening: A Response to Nina Sun Eidsheim’s The Race of Sound

Ellie M. Hisama
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The Acousmatic Question and the Will to Datafy: Otter.ai, Low-Resource Languages, and the Politics of Machine Listening

Jonathan Sterne , Mehak Sawhney
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Listening Practice and History: Sound, Erasure

Nancy Yunhwa Rao
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Do Vibrations Make Decisions?

Brian Kane
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Hearing Timbre at the Crossroads

Landon Morrison
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Who Is Speaking? An Empirical Perspective on the Acousmatic Question

Jody Kreiman
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Exceeding the Visual, Eluding the Textual

Dorinne Kondo
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No Conclusions: Response to Symposium, August 16, 2021

Nina Sun Eidsheim, Daniel Walden
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Feature Articles

Mapping Complicities in Brahmin Supremacy to White Supremacy: An Unsettling of South Asia and South Asian America

sahiba
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Boxing Ring Entrances as Insubordinate Spaces: A Disruptive Oral Herstory

Rudy Mondragón
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“Did He Ever Hear of Egypt or Carthage?” Moses Roper’s Literary and Oratorical Activism in the British Isles

Hannah-Rose Murray
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A Different Way of Working: The Insurgent Sociology of Shana M. griffin

Nia Flowers, George Lipsitz
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La Mesa Popular

Unsettling Complicities: An Autoethnographic Mapping

sahiba
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Mobilized 4 Movement

The Grace of Black Folk: Notes on Ubuntu Democracy

Johari Jabir
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Review

Artificial Whiteness: Politics and Ideology in Artificial Intelligence, by Yarden Katz

Ethan Chang
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Kalfou is a scholarly journal focused on social movements, social institutions, and social relations. We seek to build links among intellectuals, artists, and activists in shared struggles for social justice. The journal seeks to promote the development of community-based scholarship in ethnic studies among humanists and social scientists and to connect the specialized knowledge produced in academe to the situated knowledge generated in aggrieved communities.

Kalfou is published by Temple University Press on behalf of the University of California, Santa Barbara.