> INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
>
> AFRICAN-AMERICAN NATIONALISM(S)
>
> University of Tours
>
> November 28-30, 2003
>
>
> As African-Americans enter the 21st century, the relative success of the
Civil Rights Movement's integrationist goals, the increasingly visible
social and sexual clivages within the community and the possibility, since
the census of the year 2000, to define oneself as part of more than just one
race or ethnicity, seem to carve out a new outline for an American
definition of blackness--or a Black definition of Americanness. Have the
destinies of African-Americans become definitely integrated into the
national (manifest) destiny ? Have panafricanism and Black nationalism
become symbolical political references without a consistent message for the
various generations composing the African-American " community " ?
> We will investigate the new historical perspectives on panafricanism in
the 19th and 20th centuries and analyze the different brands of
African-American nationalism, discuss the evolution of the Nation(s) of
Islam, the heritage of the Black Panther Party, and finally attempt at
appraising present attitudes of the community (or rather individuals?)
regarding spiritual and economic links with Africa and "modern" definitions
of the African-American identity, in terms of class, gender, or the "hip-hop
nation".
> The goal of this collective reflection is to see if and in what ways the
heritage of Black nationalism, coupled or not with the panafricanist ideal,
has retained some collective or personal meaning for the different
generations of people who define themselves as "Black" or "African-American"
today in the USA, and if the attacks of 9-11 have had any perceptible impact
on the articulation of such political heritage.
>
> The languages spoken at the conference will be English and French.
> Proposals should be submitted by April 25 (preferably by email) to the
following address :
>
> Contact : Cécile Coquet : ngelele@noos.fr
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