> Call for Papers: Museums & Social Issues 
> 
> Museums & Social Issues is currently accepting papers for Vol. 2 (1):
> 
> “What Is Race?” 
> 
> Submission Deadlines:
> Concept Paragraph: August 30, 2006
> Articles: December 2006 
> 
> Museums & Social Issues is a peer-reviewed journal published by Left
> Coast 
> Press, Inc. The
> journal provides a forum for discourse about social issues and the 
> engagement of museums in
> those issues. Each journal includes theoretical, philosophical and
> practical 
> perspectives. Vol 2(1)
> will raise questions about questions about race that have not been
> addressed 
> previously or that
> assist museums in considering enduring concerns, thoughtful
> perspectives or 
> creative initiatives.
> Articles are particularly welcome that address questions such as: 
> 
> • What constitutes race? If the concept of race is a social
> construction, 
> how should
> museums portray it?
> • What role have or should museums play in a national dialogue
> about race?
> • How can or how do museums engage diverse communities around 
> controversial issues
> such as racial violence, racial inferiority, white supremacy, etc.
> • What is the role of race in collecting? How do museums whose
> collections 
> focus
> around a historic community make their collections relevant to a
> changing 
> community?
> • Do particular museums primarily attract particular races in their
> 
> audiences and staff?
> • Articles about case studies will be considered, but priority
> given to 
> ones that broadly
> discuss, synthesize, challenge and analyze the subject and provide 
> conceptual and
> practical ideas. 
> 
> Prospective authors are should contact co-editors Kris Morrissey 
> ([log in to unmask]) or
> Gretchen Sullivan Sorin ([log in to unmask]) prior to August 30. 
> 
> About the editors: Kris Morrissey, PhD, is Director of Museum Studies
> at 
> Michigan State, and
> Editor of Museums & Social Issues. Gretchen Sullivan Sorin is
> Director and 
> Distinguished
> Professor at the Cooperstown Graduate Program in Cooperstown, New
> York. She 
> brings thirty
> years of experience in museums as an educator, exhibitions curator,
> and 
> consultant working for
> more than 200 museums, in addition to teaching museum studies for the
> past 
> eleven years. Many
> of Sorin’s exhibitions use art and historical artifacts to address
> issues 
> of race and class. 
> 
> Vol1(1) focusing on Museums and Public Understanding of Evolution and
> Vol 
> 1(2) on The
> Culture of Sustainability are available through the publisher. Vol.
> 2(2) 
> will focus on Civic Discourse and Democracy with initial concepts due
> 
> January 2007 or sooner. www.LCoastPress.com. 
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Denice Blair Leach
> MSU Museum Education Division
> 205 Museum
> East Lansing, MI 48824
> [log in to unmask]
> 517-353-3882
> FAX 517-432-2846
> www.virtualoutreach.org 

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