BLACKNESS AND THE 49TH PARALLEL
Papers are invited for a special issue of the Canadian Review of American
Studies that examines aspects of Canada-U.S. border crossings and Blackness,
both historically and in the present day.
Possible topics for consideration include but are not limited to:
-emigration and migration in early Black American culture and
literature(e.g. slave narratives, the work of Mary Shadd and Martin Delany,
etc.);
-intellectual and/or political identifications among Blacks in Canada and
the U.S.;
-rhetorical and artistic constructions of either nation by members of the
other nation;
-current cross-border exchanges and parallels in popular music, fashion,
literature, and the media;
-how continental Caribbean and African presences in Canada and the U.S.
influence cultural cross-border conversations about North American
Blackness;
-historiography and literary history in Black America and Black Canada;
-the current state of African American and Canadian studies in the academies
of both nations;
-how Blackness on both sides of the border is theorized within the academy;
6000 word limit
Please send papers by January 1st to:
Blackness and the 49th Parallel
Department of English, Room 208 Stong College York University
4700 Keele Street, North York, Ontario,
Canada M3J 1P3
Or email: Richard Almonte [Almonte@lpg.ca],David Chariandy
[chariand@yorku.ca], Jennifer Harris [jharris@yorku.ca]
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