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Call for Papers for manuscript submission for the Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships which is published by the University of Nebraska Press.  This […]

Afro-Latinos in Movement: Critical Approaches to Blackness and Transnationalism in the Americas
Deadline: 15 June 2014
Editors: Petra R. Rivera-Rideau (Virginia Tech), Jennifer A. Jones (Notre Dame), Tianna S. Paschel (University of Chicago)
How do ideas about, and experiences of, blackness travel across the Americas? How does this circulation of representations of blackness – through popular music, the internet, print media, and scholarship – influence local ideas of race and nation?  How does (im)migration to and within the Americas shape and reshape understandings about blackness? Afro-Latinos in Movement – an edited interdisciplinary volume being prepared for Palgrave Macmillan’s Afro-Latino Diasporas Series – seeks to answer such questions. A collection of theoretically engaging and empirically grounded chapters and original artwork, this book will examine African-descended populations in Latin America and Afro-Latinos in the United States in order to explore broader questions of black identity and representation, transnationalism and diaspora in the Americas.  Afro-Latinos in Movement draws on previous works on race and blackness in Latin America and U.S. Latino communities, while also providing a uniquely hemispheric approach. The volume will build up from the U.S. context to critically examine how blackness, and more specifically afrolatinidad, is understood, transformed, and re-imagined across locales throughout the Americas. In this way, the volume emphasizes the multiple movements across geographic borders, and over time. Thus, Afro-Latinos in Movement will broaden and deepen the discussion on afrolatinidad in the Americas by providing a critical transnational approach to understanding blackness in the region.
Afro-Latinos in Movement will be arranged in three sections, each of which will emphasize the multidisciplinary aspect of this volume by incorporating a range of works including creative or biographical pieces. While the volume will highlight the circulation of ideas and identities across borders more generally, Afro-Latinos in Movement expects that about half of the contributions will center on Afrolatinidad in the United States.
To that end, Afro-Latinos in Movement invite manuscripts from both historical and contemporary perspectives that address topics including, but not limited to, the following:

The role of social media and the internet in shaping afrolatinidad
Afro-Latino cultural and political movements
The impact of migration on understandings of afrolatinidad
Representations of afrolatinidad in media (e.g. newspapers, magazines, digital media)
Theoretical interventions on diaspora and transnationalism in the Americas

Submission Guidelines
Afro-Latinos in Movement invites complete manuscripts from all disciplines for inclusion in this volume, including relevant creative works.  All submissions (creative or scholarly) must be original.
All submissions are due by 11:59pm EST on 15 June 2014 and should include:

Author(s) curriculum vitae as separate attachment;
Manuscript title;
Name, institutional affiliation, discipline, position or title, and contact information of author(s) including email address and phone number;
Abstract of the paper or creative piece up to 200 words;
Keywords (maximum of 6);
All tables and illustrations;
Brief (2-3 sentence) scholarly or professional biography of each author;
Scholarly papers should be 5000 to 8000 words, inclusive of references;
Poems, short stories, creative essays and biographical entries should be a maximum of 5000 words;
Artwork should be sent jpeg format, compressed to no larger than 25 MB (larger formats will be used for publication).

Manuscripts should be submitted via electronic attachment (word or PDF file preferred) to: AfroLatinosinMovement@gmail.com with ‘Volume Submission’ in the subject line. CVs should be included as a separate document. Manuscripts may be submitted until the deadline. Papers will be reviewed continuously until the submission deadline. Final decisions will be issued to authors no later than 30th July 2014. Manuscripts will be published in English only.
Submitted manuscripts or artwork should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts will be reviewed by the editors for inclusion. Submissions will be continuously reviewed until the deadline. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page.
If you have any additional inquiries regarding the Call for Papers, submission guidelines, or volume series, please direct all inquiries to: AfroLatinosinMovement@gmail.com
 Adapted from CFP announcement.

36 Writers. 18 Countries. WORD!

Sunday, 8 June 2014   2:00pm – 8:00pm

Medgar Evers College 1650 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn NY  

EMAIL: info@caribbeantheatre.org
INFO: 718-783-8345 / 718-270-6917 / […]

 

 

 

 

 

“More than White, More than Mulatto, More than Black”: Racial Politics in Cuba and the Americas

Call for Panels and Papers
10th Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies
Deadline for submission: 31 October 2014

Conference Dates: 26-28 February 2015
Modesto A. Maidique Campus
Miami, Florida

The Cuban Research Institute (CRI) of Florida International University continues its
tradition of convening scholars and other persons interested in the study of Cuba and
Cuban Americans by announcing its 10th Conference. CRI encourage the submission of
panels and papers concentrating on any aspects of the main conference theme, but will
consider all submissions relevant to the history, economy, politics, culture, society, and
creative expression of Cuba and its diaspora.

In 1893, the Cuban patriot, journalist, and poet José Martí published his famous article,
“Mi raza” (“My Race”). In it he argued against fomenting racial divisions within the
context of Cuba’s independence struggle from Spain. His axiom that “man is more than
white, more than mulatto, more than black” has been extensively cited since then.
Although Martí’s thought has been praised for promoting racial integration and
equality, scholars and activists have criticized the practical implications of his model of
racial democracy in Cuba and elsewhere.

Guidelines for Presenting Panels and Papers

Although CRI prefers panel proposals, they will attempt to group individual papers in sessions according to shared themes. Panels will ideally include four paper presenters, a chair (who may be one of the presenters), and a discussant. Panels may feature five paper presentations if they do not include a discussant. Participants may perform two roles at the conference (chair, discussant, roundtable participant, or paper presenter) but may not present more than one paper. Submissions may be in English or Spanish.

Proposals for panels or roundtables must include a general description of the theme and one-page abstracts of each participant’s paper. Each presentation will be limited to 20 minutes. The following information must be submitted for each participant: full name, role in the session, academic affiliation, title of presentation, preferred addresses, office, cell, and home phone numbers, fax, and email address. Persons wishing to submit individual papers must present a one-page abstract and all pertinent personal data.

The deadline for submission of all paper and panel proposals is 31 October 2014. Notifications of acceptance (or refusal) will be sent out by 1 December 2014. For further information about the conference and other CRI activities, please visit their website here. 

All submissions and requests for information should be sent to cri2015conference@gmail.com. An acknowledgement of receipt will be sent.

The Tenth Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies takes Martí’s dictum as a
cue for further academic inquiry and public debate. Their main theme, Racial Politics in
Cuba and the Americas, invites comparisons between Cuban experiences of race and
those of other Latin American and Caribbean peoples (such as Puerto Ricans,
Dominicans, Haitians, and Brazilians), as well as their diasporic communities. Although
CRI emphasizes the racial politics that emerged from the African-European encounter, they
welcome analyses focusing on other racialized groups in Cuba and the Americas. CRI
is especially interested in examining the economic, social, and cultural underpinnings
of racial politics, as well as their histories, enduring significance, and potential futures.
Panels and papers could focus on but are not limited to the following topics:

Conceptualizations of race, racialization, racial identity, race relations, mestizaje, and other related terms as they apply to the experiences of Cubans and other peoples in the Americas
Differences and similarities between the Cuban system of racial classification and that of other Latin American and Caribbean countries
The origins of race relations in Cuba and the Caribbean during the days of the colonial slave plantation system
The impact of Chinese indentured labor on race relations in Cuba and the Caribbean
Changes in racial discourses and practices, political culture, public opinions, and attitudes toward race in Cuba and other Latin American and Caribbean countries
The contemporary debate about the ethnic and racial diversity of the Cuban population
The racial politics of the Cuban exodus to the United States and other countries over time
Afro-Latinidad as an alternative concept of strategic identities and alliances
Interactions between Cubans and other ethnic and racial groups in the United States, particularly in the Miami metropolitan area
The impact of racial prejudice and discrimination in the educational, occupational, and housing markets of Cuba and the United States
Analysis of the multiple intersections among race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and other factors, both in Cuba and in the diaspora
Literary, artistic, musical, and religious expressions of racial identities in Cuba and its diaspora
The performance of blackness in theatre, music, dance, cinema, and the visual arts
The role of Afro-Cuban intellectuals, writers, and artists in the development of black consciousness
The rise in racial activism in Cuba and the Americas and its influence on the ideology of racial democracy
Historical and contemporary exchanges between Afro-Cubans and other Afro-descendants in the Americas
The racial politics of civil rights discourse
The effects of the “Special Period in Times of Peace” on racial inequality in Cuba
The racially differentiated impact of family remittances and the persistence of socioeconomic gaps between people of African and European origin in Cuba
The representation of race in the media

Message adapted from CFP announcement.

17th Annual Eastern Caribbean  Islands Cultures (‘ISLANDS IN BETWEEN’)
Conference on the Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the Eastern Caribbean
Co-organized by the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, […]

“Styling at the Afro Spot: Black Gods, Black Aesthetics” 

Christopher Winks lecture “Styling at the Afro Spot: Black Gods, Black Aesthetics” in conjunction with exhibition: “Abdias Nascimento: Artist, Activist […]

Philosophy Born of Struggle XXI 2014 Annual Meeting

Forging Concepts through Struggle: The New Slave—Racism, Empire, and Sexual Violence.

31 October – 1 November 2014

Paine College, Augusta, […]

UPDATED Call for Papers: Special Issue of The Black Scholar on Race, Blackness, and the Dominican Republic

New deadline: Abstracts by 31 July 2014 and full article by 15 December 2014

Submissions should be sent to special guest editors, Raj Chetty (chettyr@stjohns.edu) and Amaury Rodríguez (arodrig02@citymail.cuny.edu).

Publication of the special issue is slated for late 2015. When preparing manuscripts, please follow The Black Scholar Submission Guidelines.

The editors of The Black Scholar welcome essays for a special issue examining the complexity of black cultural politics and identity in the Dominican Republic. This special issue seeks to analyze Dominican racial relations against the grain of the cross-disciplinary consensus, primarily U.S.-based, that focuses on Dominicans’ “negrophobia,” “anti-Haitianism,” and “self-hatred.” In this way, the issue inserts itself into a globally comparative Black Studies, including the articulations and disarticulations between blackness in the US, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti.

Aiming to include a cross-disciplinary group of writers, scholars, and activists from the Dominican Republic and Dominicanists from abroad, the issue invites essays on the following topics:

Methodologies of studying blackness and Africanness in the Dominican Republic
Archives/archaeologies of Dominican blackness
Imperialism, blackness, and U.S.-Dominican relations
Dominican Black transnationalisms: intra-Caribbean, inter-American, and African-Dominican
Critical histories of antihaitianismo, Haitian-Dominican cultural relations, and/or Haitian-Dominican solidarity
Race and blackness in Dominican popular cultural production
Political economy of blackness vis-à-vis the Dominican Republic
Racism, colorism, and white supremacy in Dominican social structures
Perceptions of Dominicans by U.S. Blacks, Caribbeans, and/or Africans
Dominican conceptualizations of diaspora: la diáspora in Dominican migration, African diaspora in a Dominican sense, diaspora in an Afro-dominican sense

The issue anticipates that the suggested topics in the list above, or relevant topics not listed, will engage scholars in Black/Africana Studies, Caribbean & Latin American Studies, Psychology, Literary Studies, Theater & Performance Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Geography, Political Science, Media Studies, Ethnomusicology, and History.

The issue will also feature poetry, art, and fiction by black- and Afro-affirming Dominican writers and artists, in English translation.

THE BLACK SCHOLAR is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal providing cogent articles that help the understanding of issues of social concern to black Americans and other peoples of African descent across the world. To provide full range for the development of black thought in a climate where fora are still limited, The Black Scholar emphasizes writings by black authors. The journal was launched in 1969 with the premise that black authors, scholars, artists and activists could participate in dialogue within its pages, “uniting the academy and the street.” Its editors have been dedicated to finding and developing new talent and continuing to publish established authors. TBS is now a refereed journal published with Routledge. Nonetheless, it retains its policy of publishing non-academic organic intellectuals from a variety of vocations and avocations.

For more on the journal’s history and philosophy, please visit its website.

Message adapted from circulated CFP. See original CFP here (Spanish version here).

Call for Papers: Edited Collection on Black Women’s Internationalism

Editors: Tiffany M. Gill and Keisha N. Blain

Deadline: Completed manuscripts by 30 December 2014

Submitted electronically in Microsoft […]

Call for Papers for a special issue of American Periodicals
Black Periodical Studies
Guest Editors Eric Gardner and Joycelyn Moody

Deadline: 30 August 2014

Submissions and/or questions should be made to […]

CCC Press (http://www.cccpress.co.uk) is showcasing new writing in English from around the world in their new series of country anthologies.  The World Englishes Literature (Fiction) series (http://www.new-ventures.net) has so […]

Call for Book Chapters:
Vodou: I Remember: The Idea of Vodou in Haitian Thought, Literature, Music, and Art, edited by Celucien L. Joseph and Nixon S. Cleophat
Deadline: 23 May 2014
If you would like to […]

CaFa Film Nights

Womens Hx Month Edition

28 March, 2014 at 7:30 p.m.

Nicolas Brooklyn

570 Fulton Street

This month, in honor of Women’s History Month, CaFa is showcasing the work of 6 very […]

Please join the Center of Humanities for the next Caribbean Epistemologies Seminar

Marisa Fuentes: Venus Whipped: Abolition Discourse, Gendered Violence and the British Caribbean Archive

Friday 21 March, […]

Critical Caribbean invites you to join them for a lecture by: Mimi Sheller from Drexel University.

“Sexual Citizenship and a Queer Caribbean”

Monday 24 March, 5:00-6:30 p.m.

Tillet Hall 253, Livingston […]

Elizabeth Nunez has delivered a masterpiece. Join her for a Book Party Conversation with special guest host, Tayari Jones.

SUNDAY 6 APRIL, 2014

Time: 3:00 – 6:00 pm

HARLEM ARTS SALON

1925 Seventh […]

Call for Papers: Re-Memory/Remembering: Indian Women in Caribbean Colonies

Deadline: 300 word abstract by 21 March 2014

Send to Mayuri Deka: mayurideka.deka@cob.edu.bs and Alison Klein: <a […]

There is growing global interest in how CPA problems, concepts, and figures are taught.  The Caribbean Philosophical Association(CPA) are looking to archive and make available their collective syllabi.  If you […]

29 March 2014, 4:00pm – 6:00pm

New York City Building
Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Queens NY 11368

The term “Coolitude” was originally coined by Mauritian poet Khal Torabully,the aesthetics of which […]

Call for Papers – Afro-Latinos in Movement: Critical Approaches to Blackness and Transnationalism in the Americas

Submission Guidelines

Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) […]