> > CALL FOR PAPERS
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> > Kwame Ture and Black Power: The Caribbean
> >Revolutionary
> >
> >An international Black Power Conference is to be held
> >at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine,
> >Trinidad, during 13th - 15th August 2005. Co-sponsor
> >is the prestigious African New World Studies at
> >Florida International University, United States.
> >
> >The conference is to honour the life and work of Kwame
> >Ture (formerly Stokely Carmichael), who coined the
> >term "Black Power". He served in the Civil Rights
> >Movement and later led the vibrant and radical Black
> >Power movement in the United States.
> >
> >The theme of the conference is Kwame Ture and Black
> >Power: The Caribbean Revolutionary. The historic
> >conference intends to explore the links among Black
> >Power, Pan-Africanism, Garveyism and neocolonialism.
> >There will be speakers from North America, the
> >Caribbean, Africa and England.
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> >Proposals for panels or individual presentations are
> >invited on any of the following topics:
> >
> >1. Pan-Africanism and Garveyism: The Origins of Black
> >Power ?
> >2. The early years: Kwame Ture in Trinidad
> >3. Kwame Ture, the Civil Rights Movement and Malcolm
> >X
> >4. Black Power and its influence on Black Studies
> >5. Kwame Ture and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating
> >Committee (SNCC)
> >6. Kwame Ture and the Black Panthers.
> >7 Kwame Ture and the Nation of Islam.
> >8. Caribbean Personalities and Black consciousness:
> >Walter Rodney, Marcus Garvey, Frantz Fanon, Eric
> >Williams, T.A. Marryshow, T.U Butler, Makandaal Daaga,
> >Khafra Kambon, CLR James
> >9 Kwame Ture in Guinea
> >10. Kwame Ture and Politics in Africa: Influence of
> >his All-African People's Revolutionary Party (AAPRP).
> >11. Relations with African leaders: Kwame Ture, Sekou
> >Toure and Kwame Nkrumah.
> >Impact of Black Power on Literature and Art.
> >12. Black Power in Britain and Europe
> >13. Black Power in Canada
> >14. Women and Black Power
> >15. Impact of the historical work: Black Power: The
> >Politics of Liberation in America (1967) by
> >Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton
> >16. Change for the Better or Worse ?: Culture and
> >Black Power
> >17. Relevance of Black Power in the 21st century.
> >18. Afrocentric organizations and celebrations
> >19. Non-Blacks within the Black Power movement.
> >20. Impact of Black Power on Sports and Black
> >Athletes
> >21. The effect on Blacks in Christianity and Islam.
> >
> >22. Black Power and the Labour movement
> >
> >23. Analysis of Kwame Ture's autobiography "Ready for
> >Revolution"
> >
> >
> >Persons interested in presenting a paper can send an
> >abstract (not more than 600 words), a brief curriculum
> >vitae and relevant contact information (before 10th
> >March 2005) to the organizers at the following e-mail
> >and postal addresses:
> >
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> >Jerome Teelucksingh
> >Riverside Drive
> >Lange Park
> >Chaguanas
> >Trinidad
> >West Indies.
> >
> >
> >or by snail mail :
> >
> >Dr. Fitzroy Baptiste
> >Department of History
> >University of the West Indies,
> >Mona,
> >Jamaica
> >West Indies
> >
> >fax: 1-876-927-1999
> >
> > The selected presenters will be informed in April
> >2005.
> >Participants are responsible for their travel and
> >accommodation arrangements.
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