CLAVE (klá-ve)

Counterdisciplinary Notes on Race, Power & the State

CLAVE (klá-ve)

Counterdisciplinary Notes on Race, Power & the State

We are currently accepting submissions for CLAVE: COUNTERDISCIPLINARY NOTES ON RACE, POWER & THE STATE, which is the online publication of LatCrit, Inc. and the Facultad de Derecho, Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico.

The beat at the heart of Latin music is clave, a rhythm brought with the African diaspora from the Yoruba, Congo and other African peoples to the Spanish-colonized Caribbean. The clave rhythm has been described as "the keystone, the wedge-shaped stone placed at the top of an arch which locks all the other stones in place." In addition to the musical meaning of clave, the word can also mean "key," "code" "the foundation of a matter," or "the heart of the matter." Finally, clave can mean "getting screwed."

CLAVE explores the ways in which states, laws, and other forces and discourses subject nationalized, gendered, sexualized, and racialized bodies. CLAVE also explores the many modes of resistance to state power, symbolized by the steady beat of the clave through colonialism, imperialism, and diaspora. In accordance with the goals and methods of LatCrit, Inc. CLAVE seeks to establish conversations that disrupt the traditional boundaries of nation, discipline, and academic hierarchy.

We welcome articles from academics in disciplines such as cultural studies, area studies, ethnic studies, history, political science, political theory, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, as well as "law proper." We welcome submissions from organizers, activists, practitioners, artists and others. CLAVE publishes articles, interviews, poems, prose, plays, images, videos, works in progress, rants, and appreciations. We also encourage proposals for themed issues.

Please visit www.clave.org to read: works by Peter Fitzpatrick, Evelyn Hu-deHart, Angela Harris, Mattilda, and Tom Pain; our special issue on crimes against human races in Lebanon and New Orleans; and the innaugural issues of REVISTA CLAVE, which is comprised of works by students at IAUPR. Coming soon in CLAVE are: a special issue on the unique post/colonial politics of white settler states, guest edited by the incomparable Sherene Razack; a special issue on Black American masculinities; and a special issue on leftist alliances and adversities in contemporary Venezuela. www.clave.org

Tucker Culbertson

Fellow / Center for the Study of Law & Culture / Columbia University Adjunct Professor / Political Science / San Francisco State University Ph.D. Candidate / Jurisprudence & Social Policy / UC-Berkeley

Please visit the CLAVE website at: www.clave.org
 
 
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