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Callaloo journal looking for articles on HBCUs THE IDEA OF THE HBCU IN THE 21ST CENTURY.
From Nella Larsen's fictional Naxos College in Quicksand to Ralph Ellison's nameless state college for blacks in Invisible Man to the 1980s sitcom A Different World, Spike Lee's School Daze, and Lawrence Otis Graham's more recent tome Our Kind of People, the idea of the historically black college/university (HBCU) has figured prominently in how "authentic blackness" has been conceived in the American cultural/millennial imagination. However, recent anthologies about black authenticity and black studies rarely mention HBCUs and contain few, if any, essays by scholars who work in blacademia. If such texts even partly represent valid indicators of an intellectual trend, then it would seem that HBCUs are becoming insignificant, increasingly marginalized by these important discussions about black studies, black identities, and black representations. Yet HBCUs continue to market themselves and are appropriated as authentic sites for those in search of "black realness," "real blackness," or "the black experience." Although scholarly production has clearly shown that HBCUs may not be "essential" to discussions about black studies and blackness in the academy, has this proliferation of discourses about blackness in the academy created an intellectual apartheid, of sorts, within the academy? How, then, do we re-imagine, re-investigate, and re-assess how HBCUs impact our thinking, talking, writing, and acting about representations of blackness both within and beyond the academy? Callaloo invites black and non-black faculty, staff, administrators, and thinkers-at-large to submit provocative "traditional" papers, case studies, interviews, collaborative projects, and creative non-fiction that blend theory with praxis in addressing both the idea and the thing called the HBCU. We also welcome submissions from individuals who are not currently employed at HBCUs but who are knowledgeable of them. Papers may address but are not limited to the following:
· Affirmative Action, Reverse Discrimination, and the Future of the
HBCU
· Examining, Defining, and Redefining Relationships between
Blacademia and Academia
· The Role of HBCUs in Re-Politicizing Blackness and Black
Cultural Production
· Promoting and Increasing Scholarly, Professorial, and Student
Exchange Between HBCUs and HWCUs
· Critiquing Whiteness at HBCUs
· The Politics of Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality at the HBCU · The Role of the HBCU in Priming Students and Professors for
Black Studies
· Rhetoric, HBCUs, and Writing Successful Grants/Proposals
· The Black Student-Athlete and the Marketing of Sports at HBCUs
and HWCUs
· The Impact of Historically Black Graduate and Professional
Schools on National and Global Communities
· Connecting/Re-connecting Blacademia to the Community
· Black Studies, HBCUs, Faculty Governance, and Effective
Administrative Policy
· Building Bridges Between Administrators, Faculty, Staff, and
Students at HBCUs
· Art, Artifact, and the Fact of Black Artistic Production in
Blacademia and the Academy
· HBCUs as Facilitators for Global Expressions of Blackness
· Imagining the HBCU in Speculative and Virtual Realms
· Connecting HBCUs with Hip-Hop to Bridge Generational,
Gender, and Socioeconomic Gaps in the Community
· HBCUs and the Future of Black Expressions in the Fine Arts
Paper submissions should be 3000-5000 words and follow MLA format; include a 200-word bio with your submission. Submit manuscript in triplicate, along with contact information by July 1, 2003, to
Charles H. Rowell, Editor
Callaloo/HBCUs in the 21st Century
Department of English
Texas A&M University
4227 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4227
Direct questions and any other correspondence to guest editors, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers and James W. Richardson, Jr., at [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]