CFP: How Fear and Loathing Create Borders Between Cultures (11/10/06; 4/24/06-4/26/06)
San Antonio College
13th Annual Multicultural Conference
Call for Papers
Fear and Loathing: The Springboards of Modern Culture
April 24-26, 2007
Fear and demonization have been some of the most powerful forces enlisted to
create borders between cultures. The call to build a wall between the US &
Mexico, the terms Islamofascism, and surrender monkies, the glorification of
violence in popular media-all are current expressions of fear and
loathing. In America's past we have seen fear and loathing expressed in
regard to Fascism, the Red Scare, the KKK, Japanese internment camps, the
Reservation system, deportations of foreigners, eradications of languages
other than English.