| Call for Papers |
| The Journal of African American History |
| Formerly The Journal of Negro History Founded by Carter G. Woodson, January 1, 1916 A Publication of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History |
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| Please mail three (3) hard copies of your manuscript to: Dr. V.P. Franklin, Editor The Journal of African American History University of California, Riverside Graduate School of Education 1207 Sproul Hall 900 University Avenue Riverside, CA 92521 E-mail: vpf1019@aol.com; or jaah@jaah.org Submission Deadline: 31 July 2008 |
“To Be Heard in Black and White: The History of African Americans and Print Culture” Submission Deadline: 31 July 2008 The Journal of African American History is planning a Special Issue devoted to the practices of print culture and its technology by and within African American communities. From the 18th through the 20th century, hand bills, broadsides, newspapers, magazines, books, and journals circulated in forms which preserved, multiplied, and distributed black voices and images in print. This Special Issue will seek to offer new insights based on the latest research and scholarship on the significance of print culture practices within African American communities historically. The Journal of African American History (JAAH) welcomes scholarly essays on the print culture practices of African Americans, including but not limited to 1) markets, readers, advertisers, and images in the development of black print practices in the U.S., North or South America, or the Caribbean; 2) censorship of print products intended for African American communities; 3) religious denominations and the circulation of the printed word; 4) the intersection/interaction of race, class, and gender in the development of black print culture practices; 5) the intersection between print and oral cultural practices; 6) black feminism/womanism and the printed word; 7) black print practices within and for African American educational institutions. |
| “Historical Perspectives on African and African American Diasporas” Submission Deadline: 31 July 2008 The Journal of African American History is planning a Special Issue on the theories and history of African diasporas. Over the last decade historians, literary critics, sociologists, and other researchers have been engaged in theorizing about and documenting the movements of African-descended peoples within the African continent and into parts of the New World of the Americas and the Old Worlds of Europe and Asia. While it has been argued that the similarities in the mechanisms of dispersal among African peoples and the shared experiences of race-based oppression serve as a basis for political solidarity and complementary notions of “blackness,” more recently the emphasis has been placed on cultural differences rising from the heterogeneity of geographical locations, time periods, class and gender relations, and economic structures. This Special Issue of The Journal of African American History (JAAH) seeks scholarly essays that consider the ways that African- descended peoples have dealt with dispersal historically and maintained and/or abandoned their attachments to their homelands. Essays that focus on the dispersal of U.S. African Americans to North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Africa are especially welcome. Among the essay topics to be considered in this Special Issue of the JAAH are 1) class and gender relations, feminism, and radicalism within African disaporic communities historically; 2) biographical essays examining the lives of African-descended people who emigrated and settled voluntarily inside the United States; or African Americans who returned to Africa, or the process of “re- diasporizing”; 3) the cultural and linguistic traditions from homelands retained by African diasporic populations; 4) the history of international and transnational movements and organizations linking peoples in African diasporas; and 5) literary or religious expressions of an African diasporic or pan-African consciousness historically. Essays should be no more than 35 typed, double-spaced pages (12 point font), including endnotes. The JAAH uses the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition (Chicago, 2003) for citations. Guidelines for manuscript submission are available in The Journal of African American History; and on the JAAH website: http://www.jaah.org/ Submitted essays will be peer-reviewed. Your cover letter should include the title of your essay, name, postal address, e-mail address, phone number, and fax number. Your essay should begin with the title of the essay and should NOT include your name. |
| Essays should be no more than 35 typed, double-spaced pages (12 point font), including endnotes. The JAAH uses the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition (Chicago, 2003) for citations. Guidelines for manuscript submission are available in The Journal of African American History; and on the JAAH website: http://www.jaah.org/ Submitted essays will be peer-reviewed. Your cover letter should include the title of your essay, name, postal address, e-mail address, phone number, and fax number. Your essay should begin with the title of the essay and should NOT include your name. |
| Please mail three (3) hard copies of your manuscript to: Dr. V.P. Franklin, Editor Sheila S. Walker, Guest Editor The Journal of African American History University of California, Riverside Graduate School of Education 1207 Sproul Hall 900 University Avenue Riverside, CA 92506 E-mail: vpf1019@aol.com; or jaah@jaah.org Submission Deadline: 31 July 2008 |