This panel, organized by Chisu Teresa Ko (Ursinus College) and Danielle Roper (University of Chicago), invites papers that further the study and theorization of blackface and racial impersonation in Latin America and the Caribbean across various historical periods, genres and forms. As both a racial archive and racial project, blackface performance is the instrument through which people make sense of changes around them— advancements and reversals in racial equality, demographic and political shifts, and (re-) imaginations of national identity. We welcome work that pushes beyond national boundaries to consider hemispheric, trans-Atlantic, or global connections and that locates blackface performance in relation to different processes of racial formation and moments of new political articulation. 

The 56th NeMLA Convention will take place in March 2025 in Philadelphia. 

Please complete abstract submissions on the NeMLA webiste by September 30, 2024. 

https://www.nemla.org/convention.html