Callaloo has a CFP on Black Diasporic Cinema Deadline: November 30, 2014. Callaloo invites papers for a special issue on Black Diasporic Cinema (Black Latinidad,  African, Caribbean, etc.) guest edited by Michael B. Gillespie (Ohio University) and Keith M. Harris (University…

In response to the 2015 MLA Presidential Theme, “Negotiating Sites of Memory,” this panel seeks to explore the possibilities and limitations of migration for Black subjectivities and Black texts. We welcome papers that address various aspects of Black migration narratives, inclusive…

The End of Black Rage?

  In class discussions, when my students speak about race and violence and the world in which we live, I often wonder what is going—is it our public schools? The textbooks? The teachers? Or something else? All of these? In…