Category Archives: CFP

Beyonce & the New Niggerati

Posted on May 5, 2018 by LM

Fitts Ward, Mako. “Queen Bey and the New Niggerati: Ethics of Individualism in the Appropriation of Black Radicalism”, Black Camera, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Fall 2017), pp. 146-163: ABSTRACT: This essay explores the contributions of Beyoncé to what I call … Continue reading →

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Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability

Posted on February 22, 2018 by LM

At this point in time, PoMo academia is beyond parody. Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability is a book edited by Pamela Block, Nick Pollard, Devwa Kasnitz, and Akemi Nishida. This book explores the concept of … Continue reading →

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CFP: Interdisciplinary Resistance to Nationalist Borders

Posted on December 30, 2017 by LM

A CFP for radical pomo resistance! #NeverTrump! #MeToo! #OtherRandomHashtags! deadline for submissions: March 1, 2018 full name / name of organization: Contention: A Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest contact email: jbutcher@ccga.edu Contention Special Edition Proposal Editors: Jeffrey Butcher and Michael Noschka … Continue reading →

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CFP: (Un-)Boundedness: On Mobility and Belonging

Posted on August 14, 2013 by LM

It’s time for a little CFP humor. This one is so full of impenetrable language and pomo cliches — especially the liberal use of conspicuously-placed hyphens, bracket[s], and (odd) parentheses. It’s almost indistinguishable from something spit out by the Postmodern … Continue reading →

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CFP: Post-Black but not Post-Race. Got that?

Posted on June 5, 2013 by LM

It’s time for CFP, where we check-in to see what trendy claptrap our contemporary Humanitites professoriate are preoccupying themselves (and young college kids) with. Today’s installment: 50 Years after the Civil Rights Act: Post-Black but not Post-Race Event: 04/03/2014 – … Continue reading →

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Posted on May 15, 2013 by LM

Within academia today, the Calls For Papers (CFP) in humanities areas are still as hilariously pomo as they were in the early ’90s. It’s still difficult to tell apart a real pomo abstract vs. something spit out by the Postmodern … Continue reading →

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