CAAR News
Find a number of our most recent articles and announcements below.
25.08.2010
Colin Quashie: Service (Frank Martin/Daily Serving)
An in-depth analysis of Quashie's mural Service by CAAR member Frank Martin on Daily Serving: "Colin Quashie’s recently completed mural, entitled Service, focuses onthe intricacy of interactions between art and...[more]
25.08.2010
In Haiti, the Displaced Are Left Clinging to the Edge
A tangible update on the situation on the ground in Haiti from Deborah Sontag (New York Times): "PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Hundreds of displaced families live perilously in a single file of flimsy shanties planted along the...[more]
15.08.2010
Hollywood, Hip Hop and Haiti (Ezili Danto)
"Two things we know for sure: Hollywood and Hip Hop get media attention. And, for Haiti that translates into big media hype and megaphones for actor Sean Penn and rapper-turned-presidential candidate, Wyclef Jean. Forget...[more]
15.08.2010
CFP: FIRE!!! The Multimedia Journal of Black Studies
The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) proudly announces the creation of Fire!!!: The Multimedia Journal of Black Studies. Designed to connect Black Studies scholarship with the Digital...[more]
05.08.2010
Haiti’s Colonial Overlord (Ashley Smith)
"Amid the hoopla over Chelsea Clinton’s wedding at a posh estate north of New York City, there were plenty of toasts in the media to Bill Clinton and the good works he’s performed since leaving the White House. In...[more]
05.08.2010
"Toni Morrison’s Beloved: Origins" (J. Tally) in Paperback Soon
I am extremely pleased to announce that Routledge Publishers has decided to offer my latest book, Toni Morrison’s Beloved: Origins (2009), in an on-line, on-demand paperback format, available at the end of August, 2010. While the...[more]
05.08.2010
CFP: Palimpsest - A Journal on Women, Gender and the Black International
Mission:Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender and the Black International is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes cutting edge interdisciplinary scholarship and creative work by and about women of the African Diaspora and...[more]
28.07.2010
Call for Papers: Intellectual History of Black Women
Call for Papers on the Intellectual History of Black Women The Black Women’s Intellectual and Cultural History Collective (BWICH) is seeking paper submissions for a broad-ranging conference on black women’s contributions to...[more]
28.07.2010
New Book: Embodying Black Experience (H. Young)
In 1901, George Ward, a lynching victim, was attacked, murdered, and dismembered by a mob of white men, women, and children. As his lifeless body burned in a fire, enterprising white youth cut off his toes and, later, his fingers...[more]
27.07.2010
New Book: Germans and African Americans Two Centuries of Exchange
A wide-ranging look at the interplay between one European people and African Americans With essays by Eva Boesenberg, Sabine Broeck, Astrid Haas, Maria Höhn, Mischa Honeck, Leroy Hopkins, Frank Mehring, Berndt Ostendorf, Damani...[more]
13.07.2010
Haiti, Six Months After the Quake. An interview with Robert Roth
Half a year following the earthquake, conditions in Haiti are worse than ever. Still, there is “a lot to be hopeful for”, according to Robert Roth of the activist network Haiti Action Committee who recently visited the Caribbean...[more]
13.07.2010
"We are a people who can fend for ourselves"
Haiti remains a nation in ruins, six months after one of the world’s worst natural disasters killed more than 300,000 people. Thousands of bodies still lay under rubble. Today’s show of Democracy Now begins in Port-Au-Prince...[more]
13.07.2010
Displaced Haitians: "We Can’t Continue In This Situation Anymore"
Democracy Now visited Camp Corail, one of the hundreds of camps for displaced people in Haiti. They spoke to two displaced Haitians Romain Arius and Fenel Domercant. They talked about how little aid has trickled down to the 1300...[more]
10.07.2010
CFP: Black Motherhoods
Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection onBlack Motherhoods Editors: Karen T. Craddock,Ph.D., Nicole Banton, Ph.D., and Saundra Murray Nettles, Ph.D. Pub Date: 2012/2013 DescriptionThis anthology will...[more]
10.07.2010
CFP: The State of African American Studies
The State of African American Studies: Methodology, Pedagogy, andResearch The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Institute forResearch on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean atthe City...[more]