Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies - LACES
Call for papers
AFRICAN ROUTES, CARIBBEAN ROOTS, LATINO LIVES
Special Issue on Afro-Latin Americans of West Indian Descent
Guest Editor: Ifeoma C.K. Nwankwo (Vanderbilt University)
LACES Editors: Peter Wade (University of Manchester) and Rhoda Reddock
(University of the West Indies, St. Augustine)
Race and ethnicity are not just identity categories, but also tools used
by states to mete out rewards or punishments and factors that determine
the paradigms scholars use to study populations as well as the issues to
which they choose to be attentive. This special issue will argue for the
significance of the literatures, cultures, and lives of Afro-Latin
Americans of British Caribbean origin for scholars’ attempts to fully
comprehend the past, present, and future dynamics of ethnic, racial,
national, and transnational identification and relation in the Americas.
Existing between overlapping, linked, and often conflicting histories and
realities, these populations work generation by generation to carve out
spaces for themselves, producing intellectual work, popular cultures,
social movements, institutions, ways of speaking, and approaches to
self-definition and articulation. As such, their struggles to balance Old
World inheritances with the creations of the New, to make sense of systems
of relationality within the “New World” itself, and to envision a future
while not forgetting the past constitute a microcosm of the challenges
faced and decisions made by all the peoples of the Atlantic World in the
wake of Columbus’ fateful journeys.
We invite submissions of original work from any discipline that advances
the prevailing discourses on Afro-Latin Americans of British Caribbean
origin and the relevant dynamics of race, ethnicity, gender, and identity
in the U.S., Latin America, and the Caribbean. We are especially
interested in articles, shorter research essays, and book reviews.
Questions authors may wish to consider include:
• How does work on and by these communities implicitly interrogate the
conventional boundaries of Latino Studies, Latin American Studies,
Caribbean Studies, post-colonial studies, and African American Studies and
how do they help us to think critically about the future structure and
orientation of these fields?
• As the products of multiple colonial mother countries (England and
Spain), multiple national imaginaries (e.g. Panama, the United States,
Barbados), and multiple popular cultures and political movements (e.g.
Hip-hop, U.S. civil rights), to what extent do Afro-Latin Americans of
West Indian descent differ from other communities such as U.S. African
Americans and Black Britons that have been more frequently the subject of
scholarly discourse?
• How do they represent a distinctive departure point for rethinking the
meanings of theoretical and conceptual frameworks such as the Black
Atlantic, transculturation, mestizaje, and creolization
• How have relations between Afro-Latin Americans of British Caribbean
origin and other Afro-Latin Americans shaped these communities’ social and
political possibilities?
• What is the nature and impact of women’s movements arising from within
these communities and how have they affected these populations’
international visibility and engagement?
One- page abstracts should be sent to <[log in to unmask]> by
May 28, 2007. Confirmed contributors will be required to submit completed
manuscripts by December 1, 2007.
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Latin American & Caribbean Ethnic Studies
published by Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
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University of California, San Diego
Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies
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