CFP AAG Annual Meeting New Orleans April 10-14, 2018
“White Supremacy and the (Re)Making of America”
Events from the past year in the United States indicate that far from being a “post-racial” society the United States continues to function as a white supremacist, settler state. The rise of Donald Trump and his not so subtle courting of the alt-right, the growth of extremist groups and the rise of Nazi and Klan organizations, hyper-militarized police response to the Black Lives Matter Protests as well as efforts to build a wall on the Southern border amongst other examples are indicative of the way race operates in the United States. In addition, we recognize the powerful historical precedents have been structured race relations of our moment. We propose a session that explores the ways in which rearticulations of white supremacy are tied to historically grounded geographic realities of race and empire in the (re)making of America. Specifically, we are looking for papers, of either past or present geographies, that engage with whiteness and/or race and that work through this contemporary racialized moment. Possible themes for this session include, but are not limited to:
*Historic Geographies of race and racism that explore whiteness and/or white supremacy
*Contemporary processes of racialization and efforts to remake white supremacy.
*Efforts to confront race and racism and broader efforts at decolonization
*The role of Geography in animating specific configurations of place, race and power and related to race.
Those interested in submitting a 250 word abstract should send their submissions to: Joshua Inwood (jfi6@psu.edu) and Steve Hoelscher (hoelscher@austin.utexas.edu) by October 15.
Joshua Inwood, Ph.D.