Call for Papers

To post information to the ASA-SREM website, please contact:
Yasmiyn Irizarry at [email protected].

Racism and Sports - Two-Volume Set, Praeger Publishers
Call for Papers
Editor: L. L. Martin

Contributors are solicited for a two-volume set on racism and sports, published by Praeger Publishers. Topic areas are listed below. If interested in submitting a manuscript under any of the topic areas, please contact: Editor: Lori Latrice Martin, African-American Studies Department, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 445 West 59th Street, Room 9.63.08, New York, New York 10019, [email protected], 212-237-8758. Manuscripts are 7,000 – 10,000 words. Manuscript due date is April 1, 2013.

Volume 1: Professional Sports
Part I.                    Sports and Racial Ideologies
Part II.                   Ballin’:  Racism and the National Basketball Association
Part III.                 Out of Bounds: Racism and the National Football League
Part IV.                 Crying Foul: Racism and Major League Baseball
Part V.                  Sidelined: The Underrepresentation of Minorities in Sports

Volume 2:  Collegiate Sports

Part I.                    Stereotyping and Racism:  The Black Male Athlete
Part II.                   X’s and O’s: Racism and Coaching
Part III.                 She Got Game: Racism in Female Sports
Part IV.                 Making the Grade: Racism and the Student-Athlete       
Part V.                  American Gladiators? Racism and Classism in College Athletics

Purpose:
Throughout the years, many debates have surrounded the topic of sports and race, debates that can be heard countrywide, from all sections of society: fans, players, coaches, commentators, educators, etc. Although these issues may seem to be limited to the playing field or the ring, the issues surrounding racism in sports impact people in every realm of life, as they are often representative of problems that have not been addressed in society as a whole. The challenges our country faces in addressing these issues are not going to go away anytime soon. The purpose of this unique multivolume set is to bring about an awareness of the issues, to aid readers in making the links between sports and society as a whole, and to encourage readers to think about solutions to the problems presented.

The essays in this multivolume set are meant to highlight controversies surrounding racism in sports and to present the policies and practices that both shape and perpetuate racial/ethnic disparities in sports in American today. Although there will be essays in the set that necessarily have to be of a historical nature, the focus of the set will be sports in America today.

THE RUTGERS JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY: Emerging Areas in Sociological Inquiry

CALL FOR PAPERS, 2012

The Rutgers Journal of Sociology: Emerging Areas in Sociological Inquiry provides a forum for graduate students and junior scholars to present well-researched and theoretically compelling review articles on an annual topic in sociology. Each volume features comprehensive commentary on emerging areas of sociological interest. These are critical evaluations of current research synthesized into cohesive articles about the state of the art in the discipline. Works that highlight the cutting edge of the field, in terms of theoretical, methodological, or topical areas, are privileged.

RJS invites submissions for its third annual edition: Inequalities Reinterpreted.                                   

*Papers and abstracts must be submitted by October 31, 2012.

WWe are seeking reviews by authors who take a fresh approach to inequality.

Areas of interest include:

-Blending different sociological and/or interdisciplinary paradigms of inequality

-New perspectives on social hierarchies, stratification and mobility

  -How a particular concept in the sociology of inequality has developed over time

-New understandings of global inequality

WWe also seek reviews showing how social actors are redefining inequality or experiencing inequality in a new way. Areas of interest include:

-Political contestations over inequalities

-Emerging lay discourses of inequality

-New forms of collective resistance to inequalities

-Media representations of inequality

-New frames, contexts, forums, and performances of inequality

-Inequalities, publics, and counterpublics

Guidelines: We accept original reviews of relevant research. We do not accept empirical research papers. Papers must not be under review or elsewhere published at the time of submission and should be no more than 10,000 words, including references, notes, tables, figures, acknowledgements and all cover pages. The first page should contain a title, author’s affiliation, a running head and approximate word count. The second page should contain the title, an abstract of no more than 250 words and should not contain the names of the authors. Papers should be double-spaced, using Times New Roman font size 12, with 1.25” margins on all sides. All references should be in ASA Style. All documents should be in Microsoft Word and submitted as email attachments to [email protected]. For further guidelines, see our guide for contributors at http://sociology.rutgers.edu/RJS.html.

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MANAGING EDITORS:

Victoria Gonzalez

Dilara Demir                       

Department of Sociology

Rutgers University

EDITORS:

Kathryn Burrows, [email protected]

Jorie Hofstra, [email protected]

The Rutgers Journal of Sociology: Emerging Areas in Sociological Inquiry provides a forum for graduate students and junior faculty to present well-researched and theoretically compelling review articles on an annual topic in sociology. Each volume features comprehensive commentary on emerging areas of sociological interest. These are critical evaluations of current research synthesized into cohesive articles about the state of the art in the discipline. Works that highlight the cutting edge of the field, either in terms of theoretical, methodological, or topical areas, are privileged. See http://sociology.rutgers.edu/rjs.html.

2012-2013 ASA Position Paper on Office of Management & Budget (OMB) and 2020 Census Race and Ethnicity Data Collection

The ASA Latino Section and The Racial Minorities Section is working on developing a proactive position paper on the recommendations proposed in the 8/8/12 report on the Alternative Questionnaire experiment of the 2010 Census.  The proposed changes in future Census questionnaire formats clearly have the potential to affect the way in which we interrogate inequality and mobility among Latinos and Latin immigrants, as well as other racial and ethnic minority groups for generations to come. The main recommendation in that report is that the Census should combine the two-question format currently used in the Census to one question that would include “Hispanic” as a race and asks about their national origin, in lieu of their racial status.  The significance of these changes reverberated among the members of our sections as the elimination of the race question for Hispanics would mean that Hispanics that are primarily identify as and are radicalized as white would now be indistinguishable from Latinos who identify or are radicalized as Black, Native American, etc..  The report also tested the elimination of the term race from future Census and American Community Survey forms--a position that echoes the position taken by the 1997 American Anthropological Association Statement on OMB Directive 15 and that is diametrically in contradiction with the American Sociological Association's 2003 Race Statement, which affirms the need to continue doing data collection and scientific analysis on race and inequality.

Please contact Dr. Nancy Lopez, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of New Mexico, Director and Co-founder, Institute for the Study of "Race" & Social Justice, RWJF Center for Health Policy, University of New Mexico, Email: [email protected], as soon as possible but no later than Oct 1, 2012, if you would like to work on this document for vote by the ASA Council in their 2013 meetings. We especially need bibliography that can shed light on these questions. Please email [email protected] with any references for studies, books, articles, reports that we can compile in our bibliography.

Dear Colleagues,

We (Charles A. Gallagher and Cameron Lippard) would like to invite you or scholars you might recommend to consider contributing short articles for a four-volume encyclopedia tentatively titled: Race and Racism in The United States: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia.

As the general editors of this Greenwood Press project, we hope to attract cutting-edge entries that defines and explains important concepts, theories, and historical events concerning race and racism in the United States. This encyclopedia will be marketed and sold to universities, colleges and public libraries throughout the United States. It will also be available to high schools through both library acquisition and online access. The encyclopedia promises to be one of the most inclusive collections of entries focusing on race and racism ever printed. Each article will be signed by the author and offers race scholars, particularly graduate students and junior scholars, the opportunity to expand their publication records.

While we will provide each contributor with more specific instructions, each contributor will be responsible in writing about five thematically-organized articles that are approximately 800 words in length. The contributor can also suggest �sidebar� entries such as current events or websites that highlight important points made in the articles. We would like to have all submissions by December 31, 2012, which will lead to a 2013 publication date. A modest honorarium will be granted upon completion of the entries.

If you are interested or know of some advanced graduate students or newly-minted Ph.D.s who would be interested in this project, please have contact or Cameron Lippard ([email protected]) for further information. Thank you for your time and we hope to work with you in the future!

The entries organized into groups of four or five terms are attached. Please indicate which grouping (they are numbered) you would like to expand upon.

Charles A. Gallagher and Cameron Lippard