October 13, 2014
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Symposium in Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God, October 17, 2014
CALL FOR PAPERS African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal Special Issue, "Afro-Brazilian Citizenship and the Politics of History"

Symposium in Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of
Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God, October 17, 2014

 

The Department of African American Studies at Syracuse University will be holding a symposium in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God.The symposium is a part of ongoing international commemorations following the passing away of the late Achebe in March 2013, designed to honor his legacy as an icon of African and World literature.

 

Date:     Friday, October 17, 2014

Time:    8.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m.

Place:    Crowne Plaza Hotel, 701 East Genesee St., Syracuse NY 13210

 

*Unreserved seats for this event's lunch and dinner are now open to the general public. Please RSVP with the Department of African American Studies at Syracuse University via return email: aas@syr.edu.For more information, please visit:  http://aas.syr.edu/about/achebecommemoration.html. 

 

I will be in attendance for the Symposium lunch,
Friday, 10/17/14
(12.00-1.15 p.m.) ______(Yes/No)

 

I will be in attendance for the Symposium's dinner,
Friday, 10/17/14
(6.30-8.30 p.m.) ______(Yes/No)

 

Meal choice:

Beef 

Chicken 

Vegetarian 

 

Dietary Restrictions  _______

 

Sponsors:

The Department of African American Studies, Office of the Vice Chancellor, College of Arts and Sciences, Dean of David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics,Dean of Graduate School, Dean of School of Education, Dean of S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Africa Initiative, African Students Union, Community Folk Art Center, Ghana Society of Central New York, The Humanities Center, Martin Luther King Library, Pan African Community of Central New York, Student African American Society, United Women of Africa Organization, and the Departments of Anthropology, Communications and Rhetorical Studies, History, Political Science.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal
Special Issue, "Afro-Brazilian Citizenship and the Politics of History"

Special Issue Editors:
Merle L. Bowen, University of Illinois
Sean T. Mitchell, Rutgers University-Newark
LaShandra Sullivan, Purdue University

After the abolition of Brazilian slavery in 1888, national elites attempted to relegate blackness and Afro-Brazilian people to Brazil's past, through explicit policies of National branqueamento, or whitening. Today, during a period of flourishing Afro-Brazilian activism that emerged on the national scene with the end of a military regime in 1985 and the centenary of abolition in 1988, each new national survey shows more of the population identifying as black. Early 20th century elites hoped to banish blackness to
history, but a century later, the nation's future seems increasingly Afro-Brazilian. The politics of race, citizenship, history, and the future in Brazil were and are linked. Today, debates about blackness and Afro-Brazilian rights and practices conducted within the state and by a myriad of civil society actors have been especially forceful in configuring and thus in imagining, national pasts, presents, and futures.

This special issue of African and Black Diaspora: an International Journal addresses the changing relations between race, citizenship, history, and the future in Brazil with research that address these central questions: how do the material vestiges and contemporary interpretations of history impact politics oriented towards the present and the future? How are history and its traces used and understood by proponents and opponents of the contemporary politics of Afro-Brazilian rights and reparations? How and
why do social actors assume blackness, and become marked as black via relations to changing conceptions of history and material objects such as land, the built environment, and ethno-racial commodities?

In recent years these question have been at the forefront of Brazilian politics, with historical memory, slavery, and heritage key topics of contestation in the nation's politics of race. We seek papers that address these questions from the perspective of research in historical and contemporary sources and from scholars in both the humanities and the social sciences.

The guest co-editors welcome submissions, which may include, but not limited to the following topics:
  • Contemporary Brazilian Quilombos.
  • The politics of reparations.
  • Transforming forms of racial identification.
  • Heritage as a site of political struggle.
  • Ideologies of branqueamento and "racial democracy" in historical and contemporary perspective.
  • The politics of teaching Afro Brazilian history.
  • Conceptions of African history in contemporary Brazilian politics.
  • Intersections of gender and sexuality with politics of race and recognition.
We welcome papers that address these and related themes from both contemporary and historical perspectives.

Those interested should send their paper title and abstract (250 to 300 words maximum) in English or Portuguese, as well as a short bio (150 words) to the three co-editors: Drs. Merle L. Bowen, Sean T. Mitchell and LaShandra Sullivan at afrobraziliancitizenship@gmail.com.

The deadline for sending abstracts to co-editors is November 15, 2014
Notification of acceptance will be given by November 30, 2014
Submission of complete papers is February 2015

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