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Submission Deadline: January 15, 2009 Researchers and independent scholars are invited to submit papers for a multi-disciplinary edited collection and sourcebook entitled Gender and Lynching, to be published by a university press. This project will situate original essays alongside primary text sources and visual representations—legal documents, literature, photographs, political cartoons, post cards—bound by the common theme of racial and sexual violence during the post-Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras in the United States. Gender and Lynching will offer corrective examinations of the history of the sexual violation and criminalization of African American women, and contributors will probe the economic, political, institutional, and social reasons underpinning their deaths and torture at the hands of vigilante mobs. Where much of the scholarship on lynching and its victims is interested in African American men, Gender and Lynching seeks to center African American women in this history. By revisiting the topic of gender and lynching, this collection will assist scholars and teachers in framing a discussion of the Long Civil Rights Movement that originates civil rights activism before the classic years of 1954-65, and that makes visible how African American women played leadership roles in this activism. Submissions from a variety of disciplines—for example, the social sciences, humanities, arts, and public policy—are welcome. Contributors are encouraged to advance innovative methodological approaches including, but not limited to, participant observation and in-depth interviews, comparative historical work, content and media analysis, or social survey and census type analyses. Promising topics might include rural women and lynching; African American women’s responses in the press and media to lynching; twenty-first century lynchings and/or reopened cold cases in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; musical, theatrical, literary, or artistic representations of women and lynching; the role of the NAACP, SNYC, and other civil rights organizations in documenting and publicizing lynchings of southern African American women; dialogues and coalitions between black and white women; symbolic lynchings of African American women in literature and life; gender and lynching on the international stage; oral, local or community histories of anti-lynching activism. PLEASE SUBMIT ESSAYS (20-25 pp.) BY JANUARY 15, 2009 Direct queries and proposals to Dr. Evelyn M. Simien, University of Connecticut, Dept. of Political Science, 341 Mansfield Road, U-1024, Storrs, CT 06269 |
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