Call for Papers – COPAS Anniversary Issue: “White Supremacy in the United States: Politics, Economies, Histories, Affects, and Poetics”

The online peer-reviewed journal Current Objectives in Postgraduate American Studies (COPAS), which is dedicated to publishing the work of early career researchers in American Studies in Germany and beyond, turns twenty in 2019.

For its anniversary thematic issue, COPAS calls for papers that investigate the United States and America Studies under the auspices of the concept of ‘white supremacy’.

Potential topics may include (but are not limited to) the following fields of inquiry:

• white supremacy and cultural expression (e.g. film, literature, photography, performing arts, music, and social media)
• Antiblackness and other racist and discriminatory discourses and practices (against e.g. Black, Indigenous, LatinX, and ‘undocumented people’) as well as their transnational ramifications
• racial capitalism as well as intersections of white supremacy and class
• the entanglements of white supremacy, settler colonialism, and genocide
• social justice movements and their concepts of and actions towards a just and free society
• white supremacy and questions of gender and sexuality
• the body politics of white supremacy (e.g. scientific racism, ableism and ablenationalism, eugenics and genetic testing)
• white supremacy, globalization, and environmental destruction

For scholarly papers the submission deadline for 500-word-proposals is December 1, 2018. Applicants will be informed about the outcome by January 30, 2019. Upon acceptance, full articles of about 5000 to 8000 words will be due June 15, 2019.

Creative submissions are also due December 1, 2018. Brief artist’s statements (1000 – 1500 words) will be due by June 15, 2019.

Submissions are to be sent to copas@dgfa.de

Please refer to https://copas.uni-regensburg.de/about/submissions  for more details on the submission guidelines.

Further information concerning the call for papers can also be found here.