Fund Type: Fellowship. Residential: Yes. Eligibility: Unrestricted/Multiple Eligibility; Applicants may not be degree candidates and should have a Ph.D., J.D. or equivalent..
Award: Stipends are individually determined in accordance with each fellow's needs and the Center's resources.
Deadline: 1/15/2008
Details: The Charles Warren Center invites applications from historians and scholars in related disciplines to participate in a workshop on Race-Making and Law-Making in "the Long Civil Rights Movement" - a term originally put into academic discourse by the noted historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall. As its title indicates, the workshop invites scholars to question and rethink the conventional time period during which the movement for racial equality in America is believed to have taken place, including the extension of that period beyond the bounds of the twentieth century. It also invites a rethinking of the movement's geographic scope, both within and outside the United States . Finally, participants are invited to consider the long civil rights movement in relation to organizational strategies and leadership, personnel and successes in claims-making within state apparatuses such as courts, war and wartime contexts, and the processes of racial and cultural formation that were associated with the push for equality. The workshop will focus less on the origins, successes and failures of the modern movement than on discontinuities, disruptions and ironies that attended the creation of equal citizenship in America .
Keywords: American History, civil rights movement
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