Call for Papers: Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts (Winter 2012) — “500 Years Later: Reverberations of the Transatlantic Slave Trade”

 
Call for Papers:  Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts (Winter 2012) — “500 Years Later: Reverberations of the Transatlantic Slave Trade”

For the detailed call for papers for this issue, click here.

DEADLINE:  Papers must be received by July 6, 2011 to be considered for publication in this issue.

There is little doubt that from its origins in the 16th century through its end in the 19th century the transatlantic slave trade dramatically shaped the trajectories of many millions of lives on at least four continents (Africa, Europe, North America, and South America, and the Caribbean). Whether, in what forms, by what means, and to what effect the slave trade continues to leave social, cultural, institutional, familial and personal impressions in the present day are matters of considerable debate and even tension – in the former slave-trading and slave-hosting nations, in West and Central Africa, but also in countries whose involvement was less obvious.

Guest editor David Anderson Hooker, Director of Research and Training for Coming to the Table: Taking America (USA) Beyond the Legacy of Enslavement, and the editorial staff of Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts, invite submissions for the first issue of its fifth volume, entitled “500 Years Later: Reverberations of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.” The Transatlantic Slave Trade most immediately touched societies and lives in France, Great Britain, Portugal and Brazil, the Netherlands, North America, the Caribbean, West Africa and Central Africa. We especially welcome analyses, critiques, reflections, and documentation by activists, community-based organizations, and others living and working in these countries and regions or working on issues that implicate developments and dynamics in these places. Of course, the work of scholars, advocates, activists and practitioners in all disciplines working elsewhere are also welcome.

KJ