The phrase black power, in the context of the 1960s, is often associated with the militant rhetoric of the Black Panther Party and the Nation of Islam (NOI). The two flashpoints of black nationalism are compelling, but as African and African Diaspora Studies scholar Cynthia Young describes in Soul Power: Culture, Radicalism, and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left … [Read more...] about Cynthia Young’s Soul Power: Redefining Radicalism Through Culture
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CFP: Alien Bodies: Race, Space, & Sex in the African Diaspora, February 8-9, 2013
Via H-Net ---------------------------------- Alien Bodies: Race, Space, and Sex in the African Diaspora The African-American Studies Collective Emory University, Atlanta, GA February 8-9, 2013 Was it why I sometimes felt as weary of America as if I too had landed in what was now South Carolina in 1526 or in Jamestown in 1619? Was it the tug of all the lost mothers … [Read more...] about CFP: Alien Bodies: Race, Space, & Sex in the African Diaspora, February 8-9, 2013
Frontera NorteSur: Truckin’ in Zeta Land
I received this story in my email from Frontera NorteSur news service that is hosted at New Mexico State University. You can subscribe to their email list or follow FNS posts at their website. Frontera NorteSur Editor's Note: As a general rule, Frontera NorteSur prefers not to use anonymous or unidentified persons as the main source(s) of information for a story. But … [Read more...] about Frontera NorteSur: Truckin’ in Zeta Land
[CFP] The Border Project – December 2011 Symposium
Re-posted from H-NET: The Border Project: Looking at Arts, History & Place in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands, December 2011 Symposium Location: Arizona, United States Call for Papers Date: 2011-06-01 Date Submitted: 2011-02-21 Announcement ID: 183262 The University of Arizona Border Research Group invites academics to submit individual paper … [Read more...] about [CFP] The Border Project – December 2011 Symposium
[CFP] WHA 2012 – Boundary Markers and Border Crossers: Finding the West and Westerners
The topic for the Western History Association 52nd Annual Conference has been announced. Set for October 4-7, 2012, the WHA conference is titled, "Boundary Markers and Border Crossers: Finding the West and Westerners." Both the Funk & the Beans are interested in the way borders are created and reified, but also how they are crossed and broken. The 2o12 WHA will be in … [Read more...] about [CFP] WHA 2012 – Boundary Markers and Border Crossers: Finding the West and Westerners