The African/African American Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth invites submissions for its 4th Biennial Conference to be held April 1-3, 2004. The theme of the conference will be Brown v. Board of Education: A Reflection on Fifty Years. Proposals can be submitted in the form of abstracts, completed articles, group projects, interactive workshops, roundtable discussions, poetry, creative arts presentations: drama, dance, musical performance, documentary, film/video imagery.

Proposals can be designed to address any of the following topics:

• Assessing the Impact of Brown v. Board of Education
• The Persistence of Inequalities in Education
• New, Invisible and Emerging Barriers to Educational Access
• The Role that Black, Latino, Asian and Women’s Studies have played in the desegregation of Higher Education
• Quality Education as a Civil/Human Rights Issue
• The Impact (Lessons and Experiences) of the Brown ruling in the local school districts
• Factors contributing to the persistence of inequalities in education
• The role of the Brown decision in the shaping of National Educational policy
• Historical overview of events and circumstances leading up to the Brown decision
• The Evolution of charter schools and school vouchers
• K-12 issues relating to the Brown v. Board of Education ruling
• Higher education issues relating to the Brown v. Board of Education ruling
• Access to Higher Education: Pre and Post-Brown
• The Lingering Presence of de facto segregation in higher education today;
• The Legacy of the Brown ruling on American society today
• The Impact of the Brown decision on the civil rights movement

The above sub-themes are not intended to be restrictive, and proposals should by no means be limited to them. Imagination is valued. Presenters are welcomed to add to the list any topic relating to the conference theme.

Submissions, which must include the name, email and postal address of the author(s), should be mailed to: