Call for Papers: Theory, Research & Action in Urban Education (TRAUE, Special Theme Issue) #BlackLivesMatter: Conversations Across Educational and Community Spaces; submissions due 11/1/16

Call for Papers: Theory, Research & Action in Urban Education
(TRAUE, Special Theme Issue) #BlackLivesMatter: Conversations Across
Educational and Community Spaces; submissions due 11/1/16

#BlackLivesMatter is this generation’s social justice call-to-action
founded by three queer women of color. It articulates the narratives
and counter-narratives of Black people and blackness in the United
States, and the way that these resonate across the exceedingly blurry
lines of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class.
#BlackLivesMatter is the empowerment of silenced voices to join,
disrupt and even change the conversation in different spaces.
#BlackLivesMatter is about unapologetically confronting the
institutional level racism that perpetuates historically rooted
inequality on Black and Brown bodies.

This contemporary engagement in #BlackLivesMatter is not divorced from
a historical trajectory. In 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois asserted, "The
problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line" (Du
Bois, 1903/1904, p.9). Nearly a century later, Cornel West contended
that “the problem of the 21st century” remained “the problem of the
color line” (West, 2001, p.xiv). Today, in the age of social media,
images of state violence against Black men, women and trans people
pervade the media landscape, evoking images of sanctioned violence.
Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor reminds us that “the past is not yet the past”
(2015, loc 137) and that “officers have a license to kill--and a
consistent propensity to use it (2015, loc 145). In the current media
terrain, the color line proves to be a persistent thread of the Black
experience in the United States.

This special issue of TRAUE invites readers to lend their voices to an
ongoing conversation about race and racism in the United States
through a diverse array of forms and approaches. We invite articles,
reviews, policy briefs and notes from the field as well as short
stories, poems, open letters and photographs. We seek to anthologize
diverse perspectives and experiences by engaging topics of identity as
it intersects with educational institutions.

The graduate student online journal, "Theory, Research, and Action in
Urban Education" (TRAUE), is now accepting submissions for our
upcoming winter themed issue. Submissions are due November 1, 2016.
Please review our submission guidelines
[http://traue.commons.gc.cuny.edu/submission-guidelines/] and direct
all submissions and inquiries to urbanedTRAUE@gmail.com.

TRAUE is an open-access, peer-reviewed online journal published by
doctoral students and recent graduates of the Graduate Center of the
City University of New York. We encourage graduate students and recent
graduates to submit studies in progress, as well as findings from
completed research and reflections on practice. TRAUE’s mission is to
develop and share tools for imagining and enacting sustainable,
systemic educational and social equity. Submissions to this journal
should advance social and educational equity, have a strong
theoretical grounding, and be emerging ideas. Review current issue and
archive: http://traue.commons.gc.cuny.edu/