Call for Papers
HERMAN C. HUDSON SYMPOSIUM
Submission Deadline: January 12, 2011
“BLACK IS…BLACK AIN’T”: RECONCEPTUALIZING THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
An Interdisciplinary Symposium
Held at Indiana University-Bloomington
MARCH 25-26, 2011
Keynote Speaker: Professor Michele Wallace
The African Diaspora has been historically conceived as originating with the Transatlantic Slave trade. However, some would argue that to perceive the African Diaspora only in relation to slavery is to [...]
Mambu Badu // Photography Collective
(What a great email to wake up to—exciting news about a new collective of black women photographers. Check it out!)
Mambu Badu // Photography Collective
Mambu Badu is a new photography collective created in 2010 that seeks to find, expose, and nurture emerging Black/African-American female photographers.
“Mambu Badu” is a Swahili phrase meaning “the best has yet to [...]
CFP: Intersecting Identities in African American History and Culture
The Triangle African-American History Colloquium announces its fifth annual New Perspectives on African-American History and Culture Conference.
*Fifth Annual New Perspectives on African American History and Culture Conference at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill*
*Presented by the Triangle African American History Colloquium February 18-19, 2011*
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The Conference Committee invites proposals for single papers or complete [...]
CFP: Black California Dreamin’
Call for Papers—Black California Dreamin’
UC Santa Barbara’s Center for Black Studies Research is sponsoring a project entitled “Black California Dreamin’: Social Vision and the Crisis of California’s African American Communities.” This project will document the perspectives of the African American “pioneers” who arrived in California during the 1940s and 1950s, examine the challenges faced by [...]
Call for Papers on the Intellectual History of Black Women
The Black Women’s Intellectual and Cultural History Collective (BWICH) is seeking paper submissions for a broad-ranging conference on black women’s contributions to black thought, political mobilization, creative work and gender theory. We are interested in work on any time period that explores black women as intellectuals across a broad geography including Africa, the Caribbean, [...]
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- Taking a Break February 8, 2012Site visitors will probably notice that I haven’t updated here frequently. I am taking a break from my site(s) for at least the summer. I’ve been working in this field for 25 years and I’m burned out on photography and art, the site(s) are in need of major updates/ revamping/ retooling, social media is exhausting, [...] […]
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- Mambu Badu’s Inaugural Magazine February 8, 2012Danielle was briefly a contributor to this site; I am very excited to hear about her latest venture, the collective and now journal Mambu Badu “that seek to find, expose, and nurture emerging female photographers of African descent.”  Congrats, Danielle! As you may (or may not) know, last fall, I co-founded Mambu Badu, a photography collective […]