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Black Activism in the Post-Civil Rights Era
| Location: | Nevada, United States |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2011-03-12 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2011-03-09 |
| Announcement ID: |
183734 |
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This session invites submissions of scholarly work on community organizing in Black
communities in the American Post-Civil Rights era for the annual Association of Black Sociologists Conference,
August 18-20, 2011, in Las Vegas, Nevada. How have the changing social,
economic, and political conditions shaped the organizing of Black communities Post-
1985? Are organizers today articulating their demands in the same language of the
past or have they embraced alternate models for social change? How have mainstream
discourses of “diversity,” “multiculturalism,” and “post-racial” influenced Black
organizing traditions? With increasing immigration, how have Black groups joined with
Brown groups to achieve particular aims voicing a common oppression? In the absence
of widespread social movements in the United States and with the existence of continuing
institutional inequality, how are Black activists, organizations, and communities
envisioning different realities for their future?
Paper topics should focus on events, activities, and movements Post-1985 and may
include, though are not limited to:
*Organizing in the wake of the murders of Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell, Oscar Grant, and
other anti-police murder and harassment campaigns
*Environmental Justice Movements and/or policitizing black identities for quality of life
issues
*Organizing around the cases of Mumia Abu-Jamal and other political prisoners
*Anti-prison and criminal justice system activism
*Contemporary community control movements around redevelopment and gentrification
*Multi-religious community movements
*Black student activism
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