Navigating African and Black Diaspora: Crossing, Belonging and Presence

The new international journal of African and Black Diaspora (Routledge) seeks manuscripts that critically examine notions of crossing, belonging and presence in the context of African and Black Diaspora.

Given that diaspora is a distinctive historical experience, with its own particular history and forms of subjectivity and relationality, in what ways does the intersectionality of crossing, belonging and presence offer a conceptual grid for historicized analysis of the trans/national movement of individuals and groups of African and Black Diaspora? How might these notions articulate the particularities of African and Black Diaspora and their transoceanic, trans-imperial narratives in marking the terror of empire? How do notions of crossing, belonging and presence provide for a critical reading of the traveling cultures of the African and Black Diaspora? In what ways do crossing, belonging and presence serve as site for a critical discourse for African and Black Diaspora in the age of globalization?

The journal of African and Black Diaspora is devoted to a critical interrogation of the trans/national movements, locations and intersections of subjectivity within the African Diaspora in the context of globalization as well as in different discourses, practices and political contexts. The journal maps and navigates the theoretical and political shifts imposed by the nation-state to provide a counter-narrative of subject positions of people of the African diaspora, grounded in cultural and political responses.

The journal seeks to broaden and deepen the study of the African and Black Diaspora by providing a critical venue for new historical and theoretical interventions to map out the intersections and multiple narratives of the African and Black Diaspora with other diasporas in all parts of the globe and across time and space. The journal seeks to historicize these diasporic movements, and analyze their relationality across fields of social relations, subjectivities and identities.

How to Submit

Three complete copies of each manuscript should be submitted to any editor. They should be typed on one side of the paper, double spaced, with one inch margins, and bear the title of the article and name(s) of the author(s), along with a copy on 3.5 inch disk or CD in ASCII text, WordPerfect, Word for DOS, Word for Windows, Microsoft Word or RTF format. The full postal address of the author who will check proofs and receive correspondence should also be included. All pages should be numbered. Footnotes should be avoided. For advice in advance of submission contact one of the Editors

The deadline for submission is March 30, 2007. Manuscripts for the special issue should be sent to one of the Editors:

For information regarding the journal African and Black Diaspora, please contact the Editors:

Fassil Demissie
Public Policy Studies
DePaul University
2352 N. Clifton Ave
Chicago, IL 60614
fdemissi@depaul.edu

Sandra Jackson
Center for Black Diaspora
DePaul University
2320 N. Kenmore Ave
Chicago, IL 60614
sjackson@depaul.edu

Abebe Zegeye,
The School for Graduate Studies,
University of South Africa
PO Box 392, Pretoria 0003
South Africa
zegeya@unisa.ac.za