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34th Annual Conference
NEW ORLEANS, LA
March 17-20, 2010
Please join us as we celebrate our 34th annual conference
March 17-20, 2010 in
New Orleans, LA. The local arrangement committee will be working hard to make it a successful conference.
Abstract Submissions Due by October 16, 2009.
Please see Call for Papers
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CALL FOR PAPERS
 NCBS is accepting abstracts for individual paper, poster, panel, session, roundtable discussion, workshop, town hall meeting that explore the Black experience locally, nationally, and/or globally from a variety perspective. Of particular interest are presentations that comparatively explore these experiences, as well as those that examine the discipline of Africana/Black Studies using multi-layered frameworks and methodologies. Papers that incorporate various combinations of race/nationality, class, gender, and sexuality, through the lens of but not limited to Afrocentric, cross and multicultural, diasporic, feminist, postcolonial, postmodernist or transnational interpretative schemes are welcomed. Send a 150-400 word abstract for a panel (one for the panel subject and one for each panelist), and/or individual paper and poster presentations. For roundtable discussions submit a 500 word abstract that explores the discussion topic. For town hall meetings submit a 500 word abstract specifying the roles of the facilitator(s) and recorder(s).
SPACES ARE LIMITED!!
Submission Deadline is
October 16, 2009
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NCBS HIGHLIGHTS OUR MEMBERS' BOOK PUBLICATIONS
Black Women, Cultural Images and Social Policy
By
Julia S. Jordan-Zachery
Providence College
Published by Routledge Press
National Conference of Political Scientist Winner of the 2008 WEB DuBois Best Book Award
Book Description
This book examines the racing-gendering process of policy making to show how relations of power and forms of inequality are discursively constructed and impact the lives of African American women.
(product description from Amazon.com)
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Official journal of NCBS. Please click the link below for more information.
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CALL FOR ARTICLES
The Voice of Black Studies
The Voice of Black Studies is accepting articles to be considered for our upcoming editions. These articles (500-1000 words) may be on topics that approach the discipline of Africana Studies from a broad range of perspectives. If you are interested in submitting an article please click here for more information. |
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Greetings!
The National Council for Black Studies is pleased to provide you with another edition of our electronic newsleltter. Please feel free to click on the various underlined links for more information. We hope you enjoy this edition and we look forward to continue serving you. |
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NCBS HOSTED A SUCCESSFUL SUMMER INSTITUTE IN ATLANTA
The National Council for Black Studies hosted a two and a half day Institute for students currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Africana Studies or related disciplines (Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education). The Institute was designed to foster cross-fertilization of ideas, as participants learned from one another, and debated different disciplinary visions and approaches. It was directed by Dr. James B. Stewart of Penn State University, who was assisted by Mr. Jonathan Fenderson, a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D degree in Africana Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The presenters were Dr. Delores P. Aldridge of Emory University, Dr. Georgene Bess Montgomery of Clark Atlanta University, Dr. Terry Kershaw of Cincinnati University and Dr. Charles E. Jones of Georgia State University.
Five themes were explored over the course of the 2 ½ day Institute:
(1) Disciplinary Foundations/Philosophy; (2) Disciplinary and Organizational Development including Womanist Perspectives; (3) Research Methodology and Disciplinary Paradigms; (4) Literary Analysis/Humanistic Perspectives; and
(5)Publications/Professional Development/Organizational Networking
Summer Institute Participants
Kefentse Chike
Michigan State University
Field of Study: African American Studies
Antwanisha Alameen
Temple University
Field of Study: African American Studies
Lawrence Johnson
Virginia Tech
Field of Study: Sociology/Africana Studies
April F. Smith
Indiana University, Bloomington
Field of Study: Communication/Rhetoric
Iyelli Ichile Hanks
Howard University
Field of Study: History-African Diaspora
Efua Akoma
Virginia Tech
Field of Study: Sociology/Africana Studies
Nadia Brown
Rutgers University
Field of Study: Political Science
William Sturkey
The Ohio State University
Field of Study: History
Judy Anderson
University of Florida
Field of Study: Anthropology
Derrais Carter
University of Iowa
Field of Study: American Studies
Kevin Brooks
Purdue University
Field of Study: Education
Kathryn Buford
University of Maryland, College Park
Field of Study: Sociology
Dawn Hazelton
Michigan State University
Field of Study: African American Studies
Jamal Ratchford
Purdue University
Field of Study: African American History
Michael McGee
University of California, Berkeley
Field of Study: African American Studies
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FEATURE ARTICLE
 William M. King University of Colorado at Boulder Former NCBS President (1978-1980)
REFLECTING BACK TO THE BEGINNING
Almost thirty-five years have come and gone since the founding of the National Council for Black Studies. Having been there at the beginning, and having had occasion recently to reflect back to the spring, summer and fall of 1975 the year of beginning and reconsider our enthusiasm as we strove to create a framework that would aid in the institutionalization of Black Studies, an endeavor that had been part of the academic enterprise since the middle 1960s, I take up the pen to sketch out what I remember of that time and how we got started.
The direct origins of NCBS date back to a protest on the Charlotte campus of the University of North Carolina on 7 February 1969 that was itself a remembrance of the deaths of three students in Orangeburg, South Carolina the previous year. Subsequent to a series of meetings with several interested groups, one outcome of this process was the creation of a black studies program at UNCC directed by Bertha L. Maxwell. Because of university regulations, it soon became clear that further development of the program could not be realized without it being sanctioned by some validating agency that, at that time, did not yet exist.
A call for a national meeting to be held at UNCC 18-21 March 1975, was sent out. Although I first saw this call in Black World, in looking through the files at the school later on while collecting materials to write a history of the origins of the organization, I discovered that a copy of the announcement had been sent to the University of Colorado at Boulder, but had, somehow not made it to the Black Studies office, which program had been established in 1968. I attended this meeting, that was captioned, "Black Studies: Paradox With a Promise," that was also the title of Maxwell's doctoral dissertation done at the Union Graduate School that was a study of the origins and career of UNCC's program.
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 Please visit our website's Student's Corner. This page is specially designed for the student members and supporters of NCBS. Here students can get direct information on our annual student essay contest, the honor society or other resources. Students also have access to the student message board. Please feel free to post your comments, announcements, invitations and much more.
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International Journal of Africana Studies (IJAS)
