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African American Book Publishers List
[Below is an African American Book Publishers List compiled by Randall K. Burkett at Emory University. He is looking for additions. If you have additions/corrections join the conversation. Ed.]
African American Book Publishers List
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H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Afro-Am: 26 December - 2 January
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Willie Lynch letter
Colleagues,
Willie Lynch letter
I would be interested in reading how--if at all--teaching scholars on this network deal with the willie lynch letter. It periodically appears in internet forums and students bring it up in class or in public forums on campus. Please reply on this site or, if you prefer, offlist at klgreen@mvsu.edu
Recent News Items of Interest to H-Afro-Am
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Writing Black Women's Intellectual History
AAIHS Online Roundtable on Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism
The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) recently hosted an online roundtable on Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. On Nov. 7, AAIHS blogger Paul Hébert (Independent Scholar) provided introductory remarks, which were followed by responses from Joshua B.
Re: Birth of a Nation - Nat Turner the film
I found that The Birth of a Nation. As someone who teaches slave narratives, I found the film was unlike any slave narrative I have read. It fulfills the expectations of those who are unfamiliar with the details of the slave experience. Where is the humor? Best example: Fred's fight with Covey.
H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Afro-Am: 10 October - 17 October
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Convict Labor and the Building of American Universities
Between 1890 and 1915, the trustees of Clemson College (now Clemson University) leased a predominately African American convict labor crew to help clear land, make bricks, erect a dike, and build the earliest structures for the institution. I am currently documenting this history as well as its connection to the history of mass incarceration. I am also seeking information about other colleges and universities that were built with convict labor, and those that currently have contracts with prison industries program. Any insights anyone can provide would be appreciated. Thank you!
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CFP: Capitalist Transitions, Empire Building, and American History
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CFP: Africanization and Americanization: Searching for Inter-racial, Interstitial, Inter-sectional, and Interstates meeting spaces, Africa Vs North America, Volume 1
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EXTENDED DEADLINE: Call for Papers: “1977-2017: The IWY National Women’s Conference In Retrospect” November 5-7, 2017, University of Houston
This year marks the 40th Anniversary of the 1977 National Women’s Conference, the domestic answer to the United Nations’ International Women’s Year initiative. The Houston Conference, as it came to be known, was the largest federally mandated gathering of American women in history. On this occasion, 2000 delegates elected from fifty states and six territories and roughly 16,000 observers came together to craft a twenty-six plank National Plan of Action, submitted to President Jimmy Carter in 1978. The conference remains one of the most imaginative and wide-ranging exercises in civic enga
CFP: Ways of Knowing Graduate Conference--Deadline Extended to May 31st
Ways of Knowing 2017
TOC: Journal of the Early Republic Spring 2017
The following is the table of contents for the Journal of the Early Republic, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. The issue includes articles about black education in antebellum Ohio, the relationship between women and slaves in constitutional thought, and Haitian revolutionaries. Find the table of contents below and the full issue on Project Muse.
Encourage your students to apply *BY MAY 20TH* to the Cooper-DuBois Mentoring Program for those interested in pursuing graduate study in Af Am Lit / Culture
Cooper-Du Bois Mentoring Program - Supporting Doctoral Study for
Underrepresented Studies in African American Literature, Language, and Culture
DATES: November 3-6, 2017
LOCATION: Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
THE PROGRAM:
Underrepresented students interested in pursuing doctoral studies in African American
literature, language and culture meet with Penn State faculty, staff and current and former
graduate students to learn about the graduate admissions process, the field of African
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Special Issue of South Atlantic Review on Nella Larsen's "Passing"
CFP for the Langston Hughes Society Panel at SAMLA
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EXTENDED DEADLINE: CFP: “1977-2017: The IWY National Women’s Conference In Retrospect” November 5-7, 2017, University of Houston
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First Annual Haitian Heritage Symposium
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CFP: African Americans in Western North Carolina and Southern Appalachia
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Call for Applications "Managing Racial Capital"
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Remembering early modern revolutions: England, North America, France and Haiti
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