CAAR News Archive
Find a number of articles and announcements which are older than three months below.
"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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
"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]
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]
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]
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]
Robert Roth: "Haiti Five Months After the Quake"
It is now more than five months since the January 12th earthquake devastated Haiti. Over 200,000 people have died, and1.5 million are still living under sheets, tarps and plastic in internal refugee camps. An Interim...[more]
Lawyers: Murder of Patrice Lumumba was war crime
From The Guardian, June 21 2010: "Belgian lawyers have asked prosecutors to bring war crimes charges against Belgian officials allegedly involved in the assassination of Congo's first democratically elected prime minister...[more]
Guest Column on Haiti: "Where Was the New York Times call for investigation when..."
Since this past Sunday, I've been reading articles about the slaughter of prisoners in Le Cayes, Haiti. "According to an investigation in The Times by Deborah Sontag and Walt Bogdanich, a dozen or more prisoners were killed...[more]
Conference: "From Duvalier to Préval: Haiti Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" (21-22 June 2010)
Recent events in Haiti underscore more than ever the urgency of understanding the history, politics, development and future prospects of this Caribbean nation. This international conference will bring together academics,...[more]
Guest Column: "When the Media Is the Disaster: Covering Haiti"
Soon after almost every disaster the crimes begin: ruthless, selfish, indifferent to human suffering, and generating far more suffering. The perpetrators go unpunished and live to commit further crimes against humanity....[more]