April 13, 2020

  • The 2020 Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Book Prize For Outstanding Original Scholarship on Gender and Sexuality in the African Diaspora
  • The 2020 Sterling Stuckey Book Prize
  • 2020 Outstanding First Book Prize
  • Outstanding Article Prize
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The Department of Art and Art History at William & Mary invites applications for a one year, non- tenure-track visiting position that will begin August 10, 2020. We seek an individual with expertise in the history of African and/or African Diaspora Art (region and historical period open). Read More...

We are pleased to announce the publication of  Looking for Black Miami . In this issue, six leading Black academics from various disciplines reflect on growing up in Miami. Spanning neighborhoods and generations, their essays reveal the hemispheric, multilingual, multiethnic Blackness that rarely Read More...

South Africa was one of the first countries in Africa to embrace hip hop culture. Since the 1980s, hip hop culture has grown and spread throughout South Africa, where multiple hip hop communities have emerged across the country to shape distinctly South African hip hop cultures. Read More...

The Department of English at Tulane University seeks to hire a Visiting Assistant Professor in African and/or African Diaspora Literature (including African-American Literature). The successful candidate will hold a joint appointment with the Program in Africana Studies, Read More...