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Call for submissions: Hands Up. Don't Shoot! Critical and Creative Responses to Violence Toward Black Bodies in the 21st Century (CLAJ special issue)
From Thursday, January 29, 2015
To Sunday, February 15, 2015
To Sunday, February 15, 2015
The editorial board of the College Language Association Journal (CLAJ) invites the submission of essays, poetry, short prose, short drama, or book reviews for its special issue entitled, "Hands Up. Don't Shoot: Critical and Creative Responses to Violence Toward Black Bodies in the 21st Century." All submitted works must be previously unpublished.
CLAJ welcomes submissions of essays, poetry, short prose, or drama that engage the brutalization of black bodies in twenty-first century America with a particular focus on one or more of the following:
the militarization of the police
the criminalization of black bodies
the intersections between gender, sexuality, and race
Categories
Essays (18-25 pages)
Poetry (3 poems; 30 line maximum)
Short story (1 story; 2500 word maximum)
Drama (1 play; 5000 word maximum)
Book Review (1500 word maximum)
CLAJ also welcomes book reviews of the following:
Koritha Mitchell, Living With Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930 (2011)
Radley Balko, Rise of the Warrior Cop: the Militarization of America’s Police Forces (2013)
Charles E. Cobb Jr, This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible (2014)
Please send all special issue submissions to Dr. Sandra Shannon, CLAJ Editor, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. no later than FEBRUARY 15, 2015. All submissions must adhere to MLA Guide to Scholarly Publishing (3rd edition)
For more information, please visit: http://www.cfplist.com/cfp.aspx?cid=3797
CLAJ welcomes submissions of essays, poetry, short prose, or drama that engage the brutalization of black bodies in twenty-first century America with a particular focus on one or more of the following:
the militarization of the police
the criminalization of black bodies
the intersections between gender, sexuality, and race
Categories
Essays (18-25 pages)
Poetry (3 poems; 30 line maximum)
Short story (1 story; 2500 word maximum)
Drama (1 play; 5000 word maximum)
Book Review (1500 word maximum)
CLAJ also welcomes book reviews of the following:
Koritha Mitchell, Living With Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930 (2011)
Radley Balko, Rise of the Warrior Cop: the Militarization of America’s Police Forces (2013)
Charles E. Cobb Jr, This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible (2014)
Please send all special issue submissions to Dr. Sandra Shannon, CLAJ Editor, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. no later than FEBRUARY 15, 2015. All submissions must adhere to MLA Guide to Scholarly Publishing (3rd edition)
For more information, please visit: http://www.cfplist.com/cfp.aspx?cid=3797
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