Sounding Race

Deborah Vargas
Chicano/Latino Studies
UC Irvine

The “Sounding Race” working group’s caucus centralized race, gender, and sexuality to the study of sound and vice versa. In the words of their grant: “A new direction in sound studies suggests that sound, indeed, racializes, queers, and genders both the speaking subject as well as the listener.” The grant was authored by Deborah Vargas (UC Irvine), Roshanak Kheshti (UC San Diego), Dr. Inés Casillas (UC Santa Barbara and frequent Sounding Out! blogger), and Kevin Fellezs (formerly at UC Merced, now at Columbia University).