Africana Studies Conference: Citizenship, Identity, and Race 150 Years after, 11/06

Title : Africana Studies Conference: Citizenship,
Identity, and Race 150 Years after Dred Scott Location: Pennsylvania, United States Call for Papers Date: 2006-11-10 Date Submitted: 2006-09-02

This interdisciplinary conference will examine
contemporary and historical issues of citizenship,
identity, ethnicity and race in the African Diaspora
from the era of Dred Scott to the present. The struggle
for citizenship that Dred Scott underwent from 1847 to
1857 has been repeated in different forms across the
African world. The organizers welcome proposals for
individual paper and for complete panels from a wide
range of disciplines-history, law, economics,
literature, sociology, and more. Papers and panels
should investigate how people of African descent have
struggled for, shaped, challenged, or broadened notions
of citizenship, identity, ethnicity, and race from
disciplinary and inter/multi disciplinary perspectives
at both the national and transnational levels. The
conference will convene from March 30-31, 2007 at
Gettysburg College. Please visit the conference website
for a complete call for papers, and a fuller
description of panels and the conference.

Scott Hancock
Africana Studies Program
Gettysburg College
Box 2451
Gettysburg College
Gettysburg PA 17325
Email: africanastudiesconference@gettysburg.edu.
Visit the website at
http://www.gettysburg.edu/academics/african_american_studies/cpc_africanastudiesconference/index.dot

Announcement ID: 152520
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=152520

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