Event Details

End: May 1, 2021
Contact: black1968@protonmail.com

To celebrate our fiftieth anniversary, the Department of African and African American Studies at Washington University will hold a conference on “Black 1968” and compile a published volume of conference papers. We invite scholars from across the disciplines to submit essays interpreting the turbulent events of the late 1960s from the perspective of their particular fields and areas of expertise. We are interested to know more about how global forces like capitalism, imperialism, informal and institutionalized racism, migration, youth and labor activism, and cold war politics shaped local black experiences. Topics like the civil rights movement, African liberation, the black power movement, freedom and Black liberation schools, and student activism will likely appear in our collection, but we also strongly welcome papers that explore the role of peoples of African descent in the larger key events of the period. What can the study of food, music, literature, film, gender, material culture, medicine, and incarceration tell us about Black 1968 that archives and other more conventional sources cannot? 

To respond to this call for papers, please send a one page paper proposal and CV to Black1968@protonmail.com by 01 May 2021. The conference(s)to discuss these papers will be held on Zoom in the fall of 2021.