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Call for Publications Theme: To Turn this Whole World Over Subtitle: Black Women's Internationalism during the Twentieth Century Publication: Edited Collection Deadline: 30.12.2014 __________________________________________________ The scholarship on the Black International has been predominately male-centric, emphasizing individuals such as W.E.B. Du Bois, George Schuyler, Paul Robeson and C.L.R. James. With few exceptions, black women have been marginalized in historical narratives of black internationalism, which center on the global visions of black people in the United States and their sustained efforts to forge transnational collaborations and solidarities with people of color from across the globe. This volume is a collection of essays that analyze the gendered contours of black internationalism and explore the creative and critical ways women articulated black internationalism during the twentieth century. Highlighting the writings, speeches, performances, activism, and overseas travel of a diverse range of female actors, this collection moves black women from the margins to the center of the historical narrative. However, this anthology does more than just expand the paucity of scholarship on black women and internationalism. Indeed, this volume is both an assessment of the field as well as an attempt to expand the contours of black internationalism theoretically, spatially, and temporally. In contrast to studies that confine black internationalism to foreign policy agendas and political insurgencies, this collection captures the shifting meanings, complexities, and varied articulations of the term. The editors seek historical essays that employ a gender analysis, foreground black women’s voices, and reveal the underappreciated importance of women in shaping black internationalist movements and discourse(s) during the twentieth century. We are especially interested in manuscripts that reconceptualize internationalism beyond narrowly defined notions of political struggle to include consumption practices, leisure, and artistic expressions. We also seek manuscripts that expand the scholarly discourse on black internationalism to include the ideas and activities of the black working class. We encourage potential contributors to submit articles that explore topics that include but are not limited to the following: - Black women’s travels - Black women’s international activism - Expressions of cosmopolitanism - International consumer practices - Global Feminism(s) - International cultural exchanges/ practices - Working-class internationalism - Gender and Pan-Africanism - Global religious expressions - Global black beauty culture and adornment practices - Global performative and artistic expressions - Black women’s engagement with the Black Atlantic/ Black Pacific - Black women’s internationalist writings - Black women and the military - Black women’s engagement with foreign policy - Anti-colonial/ Anti-imperial discourses Completed manuscripts, due December 30, 2014, should be submitted electronically in Microsoft Word to <[email protected]>. Essays should be no more than 35 typed, double spaced pages (12 pt. font), including endnotes. Citations should follow the latest version of the Chicago Manual of Style. All entries should be accompanied by a title page, abstract, and an abridged version of the author’s C.V. Please direct all inquiries to the editors via email at <[email protected]>. For additional information, please visit our website: http://www.BWIAnthology.com Editors: Tiffany M. Gill (University of Delaware) Keisha N. Blain (Penn State) Contact: Keisha N. Blain Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Associate Department of African American Studies Pennsylvania State University 133 Willard Building University Park, PA 16802 USA Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.bwianthology.com __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
