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| In May 2007, Dr. Peggy Brooks-Bertram and Dr. Barbara Seals Nevergold of the University at Buffalo and members of ASALH, completed their fourth volume in the Uncrowned Queens: African American Women Community Builders series. The fourth volume, Uncrowned Queens: African American Women Community Builders, Oklahoma 1907-2007 was completed for the Centennial Celebration of the State of Oklahoma. The book features more than one hundred biographies and photos of Oklahoma's African American women from the first Land Runs to the present. The cover of the book features Drusilla Dunjee Houston, author, journalist, educator; the mother of historian John Hope Franklin, Eddie Faye Gates historian of the Tulsa Race Riots and other women who were pioneers in pre-territorial Oklahoma and who made enormous contributions to the building of the State of Oklahoma. The book is available through Uncrowned Queens Publishing at www.uncrownedqueens.com. |
| Dr. Peggy Brooks-Bertram has recovered and published one of the lost manuscripts of Drusilla Dunjee Houston. The manuscript is the second in the Wonderful Ethiopians series, begun in 1926, and has been lost for at least eight decades. It is titled Origin of Civilization from the Cushites. She will be presenting the book to the Dunjee Family Reunion on August 3, 2007 in Richmond, Virginia. Dr. Brooks-Bertram has been researching the life of Houston for more than a decade and is completing a biography on Dunjee Houston to be published by the University of Oklahoma Press. |
| If you would like to post your own announcement, please email phughes@asalh.net. Postings will stay on the Community Board for 180 days (or until the event has passed) and are subject to editing. |
Dr. Peggy Brooks-Bertram
July 27, 2007
July 27, 2007
Dr. Peggy Brooks-Bertram
July 27, 2007
July 27, 2007
Founders of Black History Month
| In one week, American Radio Works will begin broadcasting a radio documentary called An Imperfect Revolution: Voices from the Desegregation Era. The hour-long program features the personal stories of several Charlotte , N.C. residents who crossed racial lines in public schools as they were desegregated between the 1950s and the '80s. In addition to the audio portion of the documentary, there will be a web component available at the American Radio Works site after September 13th. On this site, we’ll soon be launching a moderated area where we hope people across the country will share their own stories of school desegregation. Would you be willing to alert staff, readers, or contributors to The Journal of African American History of this project? We hope that their stories will help people better understand how this momentous change unfolded in students’ lives, their schools, and their communities. Click Here to Tell American Radio Works About Your Experience. |
| African Athena: Black Athena 20 Years On... Call for Papers 6-8 November 2008, University of Warwick, United Kingdom African Athena was Bernal's original title for Black Athena, his "infamous" work that has confronted the modern academy with some of the most challenging questions it has faced over the last twenty years. This interdisciplinary conference seeks neither to demonize nor lionize Bernal's book, but to open dialogue on the issues it has posed: can a myth of Afrocentrism ever be a useful narrative in contemporary culture? How do Africanizing and classicizing cultures interface and interpenetrate in the arts and lives of Africans, Europeans, Caribbeans and Americans? Does Black Athena offer new possibilities for comparison between African and Jewish diasporas, cultures and struggles? How do we deal with the difficult collusion of essentialist and poststructuralist discourses in "postcolonial" thought? These issues are only a point of departure. Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Professors Martin Bernal, Paul Gilroy, Stephen Howe, Partha Mitter, Valentin Y. Mudimbe, Patrice Rankine and Robert J.C. Young. This is a Call for Papers from scholars of African Studies, Black British Studies, African American Studies, of South Asia, of the Middle East, of classicists, philologists, anthropologists, sociologists, and any intellectual beyond these borders. Send proposals of up to 500 words by March 31 2008 to Dr. Daniel Orrells, Department of Classics, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK. Email: D.Orrells@warwick.ac.uk Click here for Complete Details |
| An African American Philosophy of Medicine (Conquering Books, Charlotte) by Frederick Newsome, MD, MSc received the 2007 John Henrik Clarke Award for Literature (nonfiction) at the 16th Annual 2007 Summer Independent Black Writers Conference held at Southampton County, Virginia. The author, a faculty member of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Harlem Hospital Center of New York, is a life member of the ASALH. Contact author for book orders: fvn1@columbia.edu or 212-939-1411. ($15.00 plus $2.50 S/H). |
| Encyclopedia of African American History Call for Contributions Contributors are still needed for The Encyclopedia of African American History, co-edited by Professors Leslie Alexander and Walter Rucker and published by ABL-CLIO, Inc. Scheduled to appear in 2008, this three-volume encyclopedia will be part of an ongoing series on American ethnic history. Aimed at general audiences and college students, this project will include more than 700 alphabetically arranged entries divided into five major chronological and thematic sections. In addition, we also have an editorial board of distinguished scholars in the field of African American History. For a listing of the remaining entries, visit our website at http://home.earthlink.net/~drwrucker/eaah/. If you are interested in contributing to this project, please send a brief C.V. and a list of preferred entries to: eaah@earthlink.net. Completed entries will have deadlines ranging from May 1 to September 15, 2008. As is usually the case with reference works, compensation is limited to a very modest honorarium or a copy of the published encyclopedia, depending on the length of entries. |
| CALL FOR PAPERS John Brown Remembered: 150th Anniversary of the Raid on Harpers Ferry. Multi-disciplinary, academic symposium Plenary Speakers: Dr. David Blight, Dr. Spencer Crew, Dr. Paul Finkelman. Content areas: John Brown's plan, John Brown and Frederick Douglass, Events leading up to the raid, Individual raiders, Survivors of the raid, the Secret Six, the trial, Press coverage of the raid, Lincoln's response, Responses in the North and/or the South, Governor Wise, Political responses to the raid. Submissions: 300 word proposals by 15 January 2009. Conference dates: 14-17 October 2009 Location: Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Harpers Ferry, WV. Contact: Dr. Peggy A. Russo Assistant Professor of English Penn State University 1 Campus Drive Mont Alto, PA 17237 Phone: (717) 749-6231 Email: u7k@psu.edu See web site for further details: http://www.harpersferryhistory.org/johnbrown |