We are looking for additional papers for our workshop at the 2014 European Association for American Studies conference in The Hague, the Netherlands. Deadline for submissions is September 31. Our workshop examines racial conflict and racial justice in the U.S. South since the Civil War. Advocates and opponents of white supremacy employed the rhetoric of justice to defend their respective causes and presented their crusades as paradigms of Americanism. When and why did projects for racial justice succeed or fail? In what ways did the southern white power structure respond to activities that challenged its control? And how did developments in the Deep South relate to human rights struggles in other southern states, the rest of the country, and the world?
With this panel, we aim to contribute to recent discussions in the historiography on the (Deep) South, such as the idea of southern exceptionalism, the global context of the Civil Rights Movement, and the contextualization of Reconstruction within the broader framework of postwar American history and historiography. The South has been typified as a dark corner of Canaan, but nevertheless it remains central to our understanding of the quest for racial justice in the entire United States.
For more information, please contact me or check the EAAS website at http://www.eaas.eu/conferences/eaas-biennial-conferences/info-2014-the-hague for the complete CFP.
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