CFP: Race, Ethnicity, and American Reform Movements (3/1/06; MLA '07)
Modern Language Association Convention 2007
Proposals Due Mar. 1
Call for Papers:
This panel will explore how different ethnic or racial groups have
responded to twentieth-century mainstream or government-sponsored social
and economic reform initiatives such as prohibition, work-place safety,
consumer safety, urban planning, anti-trust efforts, child labor reform,
prostitution regulation, civil liberties protection, social purity
campaigns, eugenics, immigration reform, obscenity prohibition, welfare,
affirmative action, environmental protection, business regulation, etc.
Please send 1-page abstracts to one of the addresses below. E-mail
submissions are encouraged.