Racial Pornographics: A Special Issue of Porn Studies
Edited by Mireille Miller-Young, PhD
Associate Professor of Feminist Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Contact: mmilleryoung@femst.ucsb.edu
This special issue of Porn Studies will promote a
discussion about race in the study of pornography. Race remains an
underdeveloped area of research in porn studies, and employing racial analytics
to the study of pornography’s historical, representational, market, labor,
industrial, and technological production is imperative for the field. Race is
crucial for the field because it allows us to think through power relations
that function in concert with gender, sexuality, and class, to uncover the
historical importance of unequal looking relations, labor relations, and access
to media authorship, and to reveal the ways in which desire, sexual and
otherwise, is inextricably bound to processes of racialization.
A critical racial optic, moreover, illuminates the
interests, desires, and experiences of racialized minorities as they are
portrayed in, mobilize, or labor within pornographic fields. This mode of
analysis may draw on the theoretical scholarship of critical race scholars,
women of color feminists, and queer of color critique as well as on the
emerging field of porn studies scholarship to think through the fantasies,
energies, connectivities, pleasures, and power relations embedded in racial
pornographies. Another function of a racial optics is to expose the rise of
colorblindness or postracial ideologies in popular media discourses and
academic theories about pornography, even as race is ever more salient to
labor, economic, political, and looking relations within adult industries in a
neoliberal era.
In addition, this special issue of Porn Studies will
highlight research that launches pornographics as a framework for examining
cultural productions and social relations outside of the genre and industry of
pornography. Increasingly, scholars have drawn on pornography as a lens to
problematize racial, gender, and sexual discourses, structures, and relations
in ways that reveal the utility of pornographics as a mode of cultural inquiry
that exceeds the formal confines of adult entertainment industries and networks
of particular erotic communities. The goal of this special issue is to read the
labor of race in pornography or pornographics, and the labor of pornography or
pornographics in race.
Finally, although this is a scholarly journal we welcome
essays, interviews, and creative pieces from academics, artists, activists, and
adult industry practitioners.
About Porn Studies
New in 2014, Porn Studies is an international,
peer-reviewed journal, which publishes original research examining specifically
sexual and explicit media forms, their connections to wider media landscapes
and their links to the broader spheres of (sex) work across historical periods
and national contexts.
Topics
Race or racial minorities in pornographic images Race or
racial minorities in adult entertainment labor, racialized sex work Deployments
of racialized discourses in porn or discussions of porn Colorblindness and
postracial ideologies in porn or discussions of porn Race in the production,
distribution, or consumption of porn media technologies Race or racial
minorities in pornographic aesthetics or art Racial discourses in antiporn or
sex positive feminist approaches to pornography Histories of race or racial
minorities in pornography or pornographic cultural production Ethnopornography
and race Racial or interracial communities in pornography Race in global,
transnational, or diasporic pornographies Racial fetishism Race and disability
politics in pornography Race and BDSM in pornography Queer and feminist
approaches to race and racism in pornography Racial politics in porn activism,
health issues, and legal concerns Race and obscenity law, censorship, or free
speech issues Race and class in access to pornography, circulations of explicit
media Race in pornographic pop culture, sex tapes, viral videos, animation, and
gaming Race in feminist pornography, queer pornography, trans pornography, and
gay porn Race pleasure, racial pain, racial disgust, racial desire and other
affective domains Radical approaches to race or the methodology of racial
studies in pornography Format
The journal special issue will consist of original
articles, book and/or film reviews, conference proceedings, photo essays, and a
forum or dialogue based interview essay.
Submission formats:
Original articles, approximately 6,000-7,000 words in
length (including notes) Book or film reviews, approximately 1000-2000 words in
length (including notes) Conference proceedings or Photo Essay, approximately
1200 to 2000 words in length (including notes) Forum pieces, Interviews, or
Dialogue/Debate essays, approximately 3,000 to 5,000 words in length (including
notes) Style Guidelines:
Manuscripts are accepted in English, OED spelling and
punctuation preferred, including use of single quotation marks. Authors should
include 1-5 keywords, 150 word abstract, and a short biographical note.
Manuscript preparation instructions for Taylor and Francis publications and
Routledge journals can be found here: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=rprn20&page=instructions#.UpOSA42f8sg
Timeline
Deadline to Receive Notice of Intent to Submit a
Manuscript, 150-200 word Abstract: January 8, 2014 Deadline to Receive Full
Submissions: April 11, 2014 Expected Publication Date: September 2015 Address
questions and submissions to:
Dr. Mireille Miller-Young
Department of Feminist Studies
4631 South Hall
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
USA
Email: mmilleryoung@femst.ucsb.edu
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