18202: Philogene: Re: Fwd: CFP: Communities of the Haitian Diaspora (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Jerry Philogene <jqp7197@nyu.edu>


Out of One, Many: The Communities of the Haitian Diaspora

Call for Papers:

Out of One, Many is an edited volume of essays featuring new research on the
diverse communities in American cities, the Caribbean, Canada, Europe and
Africa that make up the Haitian diaspora.

New York City and Miami are important symbolic sites in the Haitian landscape; but they have come to represent the entirety of the Haitian diaspora - obscuring range of  experiences and challenges to (re)constructing a sense of community.  As the population of Haitians émigrés continues to grow and spreads to additional areas around the world, charting the formation of new communities and assessing the consequences of different settlement contexts becomes even more important.  Haitian communities differ across time and place, more or less highly concentrated areas, or with regard to how migrants adjust to different racial realities, and yet a strong sense of connectedness to Haiti and to other Haitian settlements endures.

We seek empirical and theoretical works that: 1.) highlight the distinctive
features of particular communities; 2.) discuss the challenges of community
formation in specific locations; and 3.) imagine new ways of constructing
community.  Ethnographic essays on Haitians in Guadeloupe, the Bahamas, Boston, Montreal and Paris; as well as innovative scholarly work on the role of the internet in creating a new Haitian public sphere and the  interconnections between the experiences of diasporization and racialization have already been confirmed.

Several areas of research are particularly welcome:
*       Haitians in Senegal or West Africa generally
*       Haitians in mid-western American cities like Chicago
*       Haitians in traditional Black metropolises or new multi-ethnic cities like Washington, DC and Atlanta
*       Haitians in 19th century Jamaica or Cuba
*       Refugee communities in non-traditional immigrant cities

Taken together, the essays will point out the limits of both single site
ethnographies and the generalizations that come from large-scale studies.  But most importantly, the goal of this collection is to demonstrate the
multiplicity that is the Haitian diaspora.

Deadlines:
1 March 2004    Descriptive title, abstract (limit 200 words), and biographical
information: current contact information, affiliation, rank, course specialty,
major grants/ fellowships /awards, and relevant publications (limit 5)

15 April 2004       Deadline for receipt of manuscripts

For more information, please contact Regine O. Jackson at rojacks@emory.edu.