Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in African Diaspora since the Twentieth Century

Dear Colleagues,

The intersectionality of race, ethnicity, class, and gender has continued to shape the lived experiences, identities, ideologies, imaginings, and perceptions of African Diasporic women across the globe. Similarly, the cultural and geographical contexts of global African communities, especially in Afro-Asian, Afro-American, and Afro-European sites, have continued to determine the different meanings, diversity, and specificity of the experiences of African Diasporic women. Articles in this Special Issue focus on African Diasporic women in the Americas with special attention given to the United States, who are embodiments of multiple identities and multifaceted experiences. The Special Issue recognizes the important role of feminist scholars in championing the gendering of African Diasporic studies, discourses and counterdiscourses, and the diversity within specific African Diasporic communities. Its primary goal is to illuminate the ways in which diverse women of African descent in the diaspora have continuously navigated the thorny issues of class, ethnicity, gender, and race in their various walks of life. It acknowledges the complexities of different migratory epochs and African Diasporic crossings fueled by the transatlantic slave trade, European colonial legacy, educational pursuit, and postcolonial neoliberal privatization and economic hardships, as well as displacements caused by political instability, disenfranchisement, human rights violations, wars, and climate change.

Relying on a diverse array of sources and using interdisciplinary, transnational, and comparative perspectives, contributors bring to bear their expertise in finding innovative ways to analyze and theorize how race, ethnicity, class, gender, and age have contributed to shaping the lived economic, educational, health, judicial, religious, and social experiences of women in the African Diaspora. African Diasporic women’s performative roles and experiences, and questions about their agency, authority, power, and leadership, in addition to how they are represented in different literary genres, are meticulously discussed. Their central roles in shaping cultural versatility, intellectual, economic, and political contours, as well as knowledge production and human capital development across African Diasporic communities, are emphasized. Questions about their imagined and real communities, homelands, cultural hybridity, and their diverse modes of resistance to othering, exclusion, social invisibility and isolation, oppression, and discrimination receive deserving treatments in this Special Issue. African Diasporic women as activist-intellectuals have continuously demonstrated their agency, perseverance, resilience, and determination through reimagined possibilities and divergent strategies to forge effective and affective intranational and transnational bonds, connections, networks, and solidarity across spaces and times within diasporic communities, and to challenge and subvert racial and gender expectations and barriers.

We expect the length of each paper to be around 6000–8000 words with a submission deadline of August 15, 2024. A member of the Genealogy Editorial Team will likely contact you individually with more information.

Prof. Dr. Gloria Chuku
Guest Editor

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• race
• ethnicity
• gender
• African diaspora