ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE AND HISTORY®
THE 2021 BLACK HISTORY MONTH
VIRTUAL FESTIVAL CELEBRATING THE 95TH ANNUAL BLACK HISTORY THEME THE BLACK FAMILY: REPRESENTATION, IDENTITY, AND DIVERSITY
Representation, Ident ity, and Dive rsity
Dear ASALH Members and Friends, At the opening of Black History Month, ASALH announces the Black History theme for 2021—The Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity. We invite you to explore with us the many meanings of this theme in the month of February and especially through our virtual Black History Month Festival. And not only then, but throughout the year. No single word is more illustrative of our humanity—of who we are—than the word “family.” It stands at the heart of human relationships, representing the essence of ties that bind people together by blood, by race, by social affinity, by national heritage, and by religious conviction. We constitute, for example, parents and children, brothers and sisters, and descendants of ancestors. We claim fictive kin in aunts, uncles, and cousins not actually related to us by blood. We cherish the sisterhood and brotherhood of our sororities and fraternal organizations. People identify their national heritage with familial imagery, such as homeland, Motherland, or Fatherland. And we form the “household of faith” as “brothers” and “sisters” who look to the Fatherhood and Mother-heart of God. The history of the black family is an integral part of our nation’s heritage. Black family traditions of foodways and the arts, of sports and music, to name just a few, have been a significant progenitor of American culture and identity. The Black Family theme offers a window onto the African American experience over the generations, because family-oriented examples, stories, images, and concepts have long inspired and mobilized African Americans in individual and collective efforts of self-help and self-determination, as well as in their quest for racial equality and social justice. Despite the negative, pathological images of black families portrayed in nineteenth-century justifications for slavery and in twentieth-century governmental policy reports, the march of time has proved that the black family best represents the source of perseverance and resilience that brought African Americans through centuries of enslavement, Jim Crow laws, and the glaring racial inequalities and dangers that continue to this day. In the twenty-first century, ASALH celebrates African American families in all their historic diversity, recognizing that our families comprise a mélange of identities. The black family includes nuclear families, extended families, same-sex marriage and parented families, and heterosexual parents of LGBTQ children. Interracial marriage has created many black families in today’s America, but the origins of the interracial heritage of our families, as genetically black and white or black and Native American, date back to centuries of enslavement. Equally important, ASALH’s 2021 theme calls attention to a tapestry of other ethnic-heritage black identities—Afro-Hispanic families and also black family identities formed from immigrants who came to the United States from every part of Africa and its diaspora during the twentieth century and particularly after the mid-1960s. The most notable examples are the Forty-fourth President of the United States, Barack Obama of Kenyan and white ancestry, and the current Vice-President of the United States, Kamala Harris of Jamaican and Indian ancestry. We are all the Black Family. Sincerely,
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham ASALH National President
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ABOUT ASALH ESTABLISHED ON SEPTEMBER 9, 1915 BY DR. CARTER G. WOODSON, WE ARE THE FOUNDERS OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH AND CARRY FORTH THE WORK OF OUR FOUNDER, THE FATHER OF BLACK HISTORY. We continue his legacy of speaking a fundamental truth to the world–that Africans and peoples of African descent are makers of history and co-workers in what W. E. B. Du Bois called, “The Kingdom of Culture.” ASALH’s mission is to create and disseminate knowledge about Black History, to be, in short, the nexus between the Ivory Tower and the global public. We labor in the service of Blacks and all humanity. VISION
The vision of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History is to be the premier Black Heritage learned society with a strong network of national and international branches and partners whose diverse and inclusive membership will continue the Woodson legacy.
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The mission of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH®) is to promote, research, preserve, interpret and disseminate information about Black life, history and culture to the global community.
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The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH®) is head-quartered in Washington, D.C., temporarily at 301 Rhode Island Ave, NW in Washington, DC. The Association operates as local, state, and international branches promoting greater knowledge of African American history through a program of education, research, and publishing.
ASALH LEADERSHIP - OFFICERS Dr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham President Mrs. Barbara Spencer Dunn Vice President for Membership
Dr. Lionel Kimble, Jr. Vice President for Programs Mr. Gilbert A. Smith Treasurer
Dr. Karsonya Wise Whitehead Secretary Ms. Sylvia Y. Cyrus Executive Director
2021 EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEMBERS Mr. Jeff Banks Washington, DC
Mr. Maurice D. Gipson, Esq. University of Missouri
Dr. Annette Palmer Morgan State University (retired)
Dr. Sundiata Cha-Jua University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Eric Jackson Northern Kentucky University
Mrs. Anita Shepherd Bank of America James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH
Ms. Aaisha Haykal College of Charleston
Dr. Edna Greene Medford Howard University
2022 EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEMBERS Ms. Denise Rolark Barnes The Washington Informer
Dr. Natanya Duncan Lehigh University
Mrs. Gladys Mack Washington, DC
Ms. Zende Clark Manhattan Branch of ASALH and Roy L. Roulac Branch of Bergen County New Jersey
Dr. Anton House Delaware State University
Dr. Zebulon Vance Miletsky Stony Brook University
Dr. Randal Maurice Jelks University of Kansas
Ms. Camesha Scruggs University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2023 EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEMBERS Ms. Gloria Browne-Marshall, Esq. Manhattan Branch of ASALH
Mrs. Susan Simms Marsh, Esq. Pennsylvania American Water
Dr. David Walton Western Carolina University
Mr. Charles Ferrell Keiga Foundation
Mr. Moses Massenburg Michigan State University
Mrs. Kathie House-Vinson Detroit Branch of ASALH
Dr. Gladys Gary Vaughn Cabin John, MD
Dr. Tara White George Corley Wallace State Community College, Selma, AL
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MARQUEE EVENT PROGRAM
Saturday, February 20, 2021, 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. EST
A Conversation with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Joe Madison
Rev. William H. Lamar IV
Harvard University, Conversationalist
Harvard University, Conversationalist
SiriusXM Radio Host, Moderator
Metropolitan AME Church Washington, D.C., Invocation
Acclaimed for his scholarship, his documentary films about African, Afro-Latin, and African American History, and his popular television series, “Finding Your Roots,” Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has brought fascinating African American family stories to the wider public. The Black History Month Festival in 2021 is proud to feature a conversation between ASALH’s national president Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who will share his thoughts and motivations in popularizing Black History through the heritage of African American families and communities and their search for roots. This program will be moderated by Joe Madison, groundbreaking radio personality and human and civil rights activist. Reverend Lamar will offer the traditional invocation on behalf of the new Festival. Welcome from ASALH and introduction of the Host, Joe Madison Lift Every Voice and Sing 105 Voices of History Invocation Rev. William H. Lamar IV Presentation of the August Wilson Black Heritage Stamp
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ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE AND HISTORY®
THE 2021 BLACK HISTORY MONTH
VIRTUAL FESTIVAL CELEBRATING THE 95TH ANNUAL BLACK HISTORY THEME
The Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity Monday, February 1, 2021, 6:00 p.m. EST FREE COMMUNITY EVENT - OPEN TO PUBLIC
Announcement of the Black History theme and Introduction of ASALH’s Inaugural Virtual Black History Month Festival
Wednesday, February 3, 2021, 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. EST FREE COMMUNITY EVENT - OPEN TO PUBLIC
A Celebration of African American Life and History: Trailblazer featuring an Author Talk with Mae Jemison Encourage young people to join this conversation with the first African American woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour! This event launches the release of the second edition of the book, Find Where the Wind Goes, a children’s book about her life. With engaging humor, confidence, warmth and sense of wonder, Dr. Mae shares personal accounts of moments from her life that led from grow ing up on the Southside of Chicago not only to become an engineer, physician and astronaut, but also to work in rural East Africa, choreograph dance productions, appear on StarTrek and lead the 100 Year Starship initiative. Along the way, Dr. Mae discovered that becoming who she is intended could be as tricky as “Finding Where the Wind Goes.” This 2nd Edition of the book expands upon the variety and richness of Dr. Mae Jemison’s experiences and will inspire young adults and every reader who picks it up. 2021 BLACK HISTORY THEME THE BLACK FAMILY: REPRESENTATION, IDENTITY, AND DIVERSITY
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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Saturday, February 6, 2021, 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EST FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
From the Continent to the Americas: Foodways, Culture and Traditions in the African American Family
Gina Paige
Carla Hall
CEO and Founder of African Ancestry
Author and Celebrity Chef
Stephanie Evans
Scholar and Author, Georgia State University
Daphne Maxwell Reid
Actor (Fresh Prince of Bel Air) and author of “Grace, Soul and Mother Wit”
Jerome Grant Chef, National Museum of African American History
This event will feature a panel of authors, chefs and historians who will share their work and discuss the important role that food has played in Black family life throughout the diaspora. Panelists include: Gina Paige, CEO and Founder of African Ancestry; Carla Hall, author and celebrity chef; Stephanie Evans, scholar and author, Georgia State University; Daphne Maxwell Reid, actor (Fresh Prince of Bel Air) and author of “Grace, Soul and Mother Wit”; and Jerome Grant, executive chef of the historic National Museum of African American History who will join us for this exciting event!
Monday, February 7, 2021, 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. EST FREE COMMUNITY EVENT - OPEN TO PUBLIC
Manhattan Branch, Panel Discussion “How African American Families Have Been Portrayed in the Media”
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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Monday, February 10, 2021, 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. EST FREE COMMUNITY EVENT - OPEN TO PUBLIC
Presentation of the Inaugural ASALH Book Prize The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) will award an annual prize to recognize an outstanding book in the field of African American history and culture beginning in February 2021. A call for submissions went out in Spring 2020 and the selection committee received over sixty eligible books, all of which engaged archival sources while representing many disciplinary and interdisciplinary orientations. In broad term, the ASALH Book Prize committee is interested in monographs that model rigorous and imaginative approaches to this field of study; books that are beautifully written; books that have clear implications for how we teach and represent specific aspects of African American history and culture; books that have the capacity to introduce important aspects of African American experiences to broad publics; books that use sharp analyses of African American history and culture to speak boldly to the contemporary moment; books that engage new and/or previously underutilized archives; and books that use particular experiences in African American history and culture to illuminate universal aspects of the human experience. For the inaugural year, the ASALH Book Prize selection committee includes five jurors: Ula Taylor, University of California-Berkeley; Gerald Horne, University of Houston; Kellie Carter-Jackson, Wellesley College; Elizabeth ToddBreland, University of Illinois-Chicago; and Christopher Tinson, Saint Louis University. This selection committee received and read sixty-one books and have chosen five finalists (listed below). Congratulations to all the finalists for their outstanding work! Finalists: Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Gross, A Black Women’s History of the United States, Boston: Beacon Press, 2020 William Darity, Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen, From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2020 Aston Gonzalez, Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2020 Shana Redmond, Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson, Durham: Duke University Press, 2020 Quito Swan, Pauulu’s Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environment Justice, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2020 The inaugural winner(s) of the ASALH Book Prize will be announced on February 10, during ASALH’s 2021 Black History Month Virtual Festival. Additionally, the winning author(s) will be featured in a virtual book roundtable hosted by ASALH-TV in April 2021. 2021 BLACK HISTORY THEME THE BLACK FAMILY: REPRESENTATION, IDENTITY, AND DIVERSITY
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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Wednesday, February 24, 2021, 6:30 p.m. EST. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Diving with a Purpose: Recovering and Reexamining Our Roots
Justin Dunnavant Leader, Society of Black Archaeologists
Alexandra Jones Founder and CEO, Archaeology in the Community
Kamau Sadiki
Lead Instructor and Board Member, Diving With a Purpose
Ric Powell
Co-Founder & Member, Board of Directors, NABS
Mary Elliott
Curator, National Museum of African American History and Culture
This event will feature a panel discussion featuring divers who seek to preserve the heritage of Black people through discovering and investigating wreckages of slave ships and salvaging artifacts. Panelists include: Justin Dunnavant, Leader, Society of Black Archaeologists; Alexandra Jones, Founder and CEO, Archaeology in the Community; Kamau Sadiki, Lead Instructor and Board Member, Diving With a Purpose, National Black Scuba Divers (NABS); Ric Powell, Co-Founder & Member, Board of Directors, NABS; Mary Elliott, Curator, National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Sunday, February 28, 2021, 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EST FREE COMMUNITY EVENT - OPEN TO PUBLIC
Prince George’s County Truth Branch of ASALH Presents
Charlene Dukes on the Black Family and Education
Prince George’s County Truth Branch and Maple Springs Baptist Church Cultural Education Experience Ministry (CEEM) host a joint ASALH Branch program on the Black Family featuring Dr. Charlene Dukes on the Black Family and Education.
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Sunday, February 28, 2021, 7:00 p.m. EST FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
A Special Conversation between Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Nubia Kai & Sundiata Cha-Jua:
The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi & The Black Family
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Author
Nubia Kai Discussant
Sundiata Cha-Jua Moderator/Discussant
ASALH and PBS Books partner in presenting the final program of the 2021 Black History Month Festival, featuring renown author Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, author of The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi, in a conversation with retired Howard University Professor, Nubia Kai and Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. ChaJua will also moderate the conversation. These three noted scholar-activists will explore The Perfect Nine, a dazzling modern epic, myth, and feminist re-imaging of Kenya’s origins that subverts patriarchy and roots for social equity in the context of ASALH’s 2021 annual theme, The Black Family. They will discuss elements relevant to today’s struggles for social justice, gender equity, and spiritual rebirth, while illuminating eternal African values essential for wholesome family life.
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SOMETHING SPECIAL IN 2021 FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH: THE MUSIC IMPACT! The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) and choirs from the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are partnering to demonstrate the impact of music on the endurance of the Black Family across the diaspora. Leadership of the 105 Voices of History HBCU National Choir & Festival Conductors Team
Dr. Horace Carney Alabama A&M University
Dr. Walter Swan Elizabeth City State University
Dr. Cordelia Anderson Alabama State University
Dr. Loretta Galbreath Jackson State University CO-CHAIR
Dr. Gregory McPherson Wiley College CO-CHAIR
Renata Roy 105 Voices of History Founder & Visionary
In partnership with the 105 Voices of History, and presented with great excitement, talented university choir voices will provide music throughout the 2021 Black HistoryMonth Festival, the first held by ASALH. For each Festival program, the HBCU Festival Conductors Team will plan music featuring selections across genres from the vast literature-Negro spirituals, gospel, jazz, contemporary and classical-- to enlighten theFestival experience with music representing Black history.
The 105 Voices of History is the nation’s 1st and only HBCU national choir, establishedunder the 1964 Higher Education Act, as amended, and features voices from across theHBCU community. The Festival will include the 2020 virtual performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” arranged by Roland Carter. The inaugural performance of the 105Voices of History National Choir was held in 2008 at the John F. Kennedy Center for thePerforming Arts, Washington, DC.
Event: Virtual Festival Opening Performance: 105 Voices of History Song: Lift Every Voice and Sing (2020 edition) Conductor: Roland M. Carter
Event: Prince George’s County Truth Branch Performance: Spelman College Women’s Glee Club Song: Lift Every Voice and Sing Conductor: Dr. Kevin Johnson
Event: Virtual Festival Opening Performance: The Aeolians, Oakwood University Song: Joshua Fit de’ Battle of Jericho Conductor: Dr. Jason Max Ferdinand Event: PBS Books, Mae Jemison Performance: BethuneCookman University Concert Chorale Song: Lift Every Voice and Sing (2020 edition) Conductor: Professor Terrance Lane Event: PBS Books, Mae Jemison Performance: A Capella Choir, Wiley College
Song: Glory!!! Conductor: Dr. Gregory A. McPherson Event: Foodways Performance: Tuskegee University Song: Lift Every Voice and Sing Conductor: Dr. Wayne Barr Event: Foodways Performance: Elizabeth City State University Song: I’ve Been Buked Conductor: Dr. Walter Swan Event: Manhattan Branch Performance: 105 Voices of History Song: Lift Every Voice and Sing (Kennedy Center Performance, 2011) Event: Manhattan Branch Performance: Morgan State University Song: Old Time Religion Conductor: Dr. Eric Conway
Event: Prince George’s County Truth Branch Performance: Alabama A&M University Song: Oh Fix Me (Fix Me Jesus) Conductor: Dr. Horace Carney Event: Inaugural Book Prize Performance: Norfolk State University Song: Lift Every Voice and Sing Conductor: Dr. Harlen Zackery Event: Inaugural Book Prize Performance: Alcorn State University Song: To Sit & Dream Conductor: Dr. Alona Alexander Event: Marquee Performance: 105 Voices of History Song: Lift Every Voice and Sing
Event: Marquee Performance: 105 Voices of History Song: I Know I’ve Been Changed Event: Diving with a Purpose Performance: Festival of Spirituals, Oakwood University Song: Lift Every Voice and Sing Conductor: Dr. Jason Max Ferdinand Event: Diving with a Purpose Performance: Jackson State University Song: African Drum & Dance Ensemble Conductor: Dr. Lisa BeckleyRoberts Event: PBS Books, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Performance: 105 Voices of History Song: Lift Every Voice and Sing (2020 edition) Conductor: Roland M. Carter
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COMMITTEES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
Anton House
Jeff Banks, Co-chair
Lopez Matthews
Denise Rolark Barnes, Co-chair
Lionel Kimble
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Tony Holland
Gladys Mack
Sylvia Cyrus, Executive Director
Lionel Kimble
7 Pointe Planning Tony Scurry, CMP, Chief Events Officer Carrine Todman-Lewis, Ph.D., CMP, Event Strategist ASALH STAFF Sylvia Cyrus, Executive Director Crystal R. Boswell
Zebulon Miletsky
INAUGURAL ASALH BOOK PRIZE
Gladys Gary Vaughn
Jarvis Givens, Co-chair
Lopez Matthews
Lashawn Harris, Co-chair
Edgar Brookins
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Gilbert Smith
Kellie Carter Jackson
Charles Ferrell
Sylvia Cyrus, Executive Director
Anita Shepherd Edna Medford
FESTIVAL COMMITTEE
Sundiata Cha-Jua
Gladys Gary Vaughn, Co-chair
Barbara Spencer Dunn
Sharita Jacobs Thomas, Co-chair
Camesha Scruggs
Valerie Maholmes
Sylvia Cyrus, Executive Director
Louis Hicks
MARKETING/PR COMMITTEE Zebulon Miletsky, Chair Edgar Brookins, Vice-Chair Lopez Matthews Mesha Williams Kenvi Phillips Denise Rolark Barnes Janet Sims-Wood Sonya N. Woods Rose Chandler Kenya King
Cheryl Gresham
Andrea Young
Shafantae Desinord Danyell Taylor Jasmine Thomas SOCIAL MEDIA COMMITTEE Mesha Williams, Social Media Chair Ciara Brooks Euniqueca Jenkins Lisa Matthews Leon Valentine Andrea “Aunni” Young
Crystal Boswell
VOLUNTEER COMMITTEE
Tony Scurry
Cheryl Gresham, Volunteer Chair
Carrine Todman-Lewis
Dominic Archibald
Sylvia Cyrus, Executive Director
Reba N. Burruss-Barnes
105 VOICES OF HISTORY MUSIC PLANNING COMMITTEE
Felisha Berry Alana Colon
Renata Roy, 105 Voices of History Founder & Visionary
Lori Knapper
Gregory McPherson, Wiley College, Cochair
Juanita Patience Moss
Loretta Galbreath, Jackson State University, Co-chair
Louis Hicks
Rachelle Eloizin
Cheryl Lawrence Jamila Perry Kenvi Phillips
Horace Carney, Alabama A&M University
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2021 BLACK HISTORY THEME
The Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity THE 106TH ANNUAL MEETING AND VIRTUAL CONFERENCE SEPTEMBER 13-30, 2021 The 2021 ASALH Academic Program Committee invites proposals for individual papers, entire sessions, presentations, performances, films, round-tables, workshops, conversations, or alternative formats dealing with the 2021 theme, “The Black Family”.
THE BLACK FAMILY
The Black family has been a topic of study in many disciplines such as history, literature, the visual arts and film studies, sociology, anthropology, and social policy. Its representation, identity, and diversity have been reverenced, stereotyped, and vilified from the period of enslavement to our own time. Since family reunions and genetic-ancestry searches testify to the spread of family members across states, nations, and continents, the Black family knows no single location. Not only are individual Black families diasporic, but Africa and the diaspora itself have been long portrayed as the Black family writ large. While the role of the Black family has been described by some as a microcosm of the entire race, its complexity as the “foundation” of African American life and history can be seen in numerous debates over how to represent its meaning and typicality from a historical perspective—as slave or free, as patriarchal or matriarchal/matrifocal, as single-headed or dual-headed household, as extended or nuclear, as fictive kin or blood lineage, as legal or common law, and as Black or interracial, etc. Variation appears, as well, in discussions on the nature and impact of parenting, childhood, marriage, gender norms, sexuality, and incarceration. The Black family offers a rich tapestry of images for exploring the African American past and present.
Representation, Identity, and Diversity
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The Academic Program Committee seeks a diverse slate of presenters and panels representing a variety of professional and institutional backgrounds, perspectives, and voices. We are interested in detailed, comprehensive, and descriptive proposals that outline the theme, scope, and aim of participants. The committee particularly seeks presentations that probe the traditional fields of economic, political, intellectual, and cultural history; the established fields of urban, race, ethnic, labor, and women’s/ gender history as well as southern and western history; along with the rapidly expanding fields of sexuality, LGBT, and queer history; environmental and public history; African American intellectual history; literature; and the social sciences. We encourage proposals from scholars working across a variety of temporal, geographical, thematic, and topical areas in Black history, life and culture. We seek to foster a space of inclusion in the ASALH program and encourage submissions from anyone interested in presenting including: historians, students, new professionals, first-time presenters, activists, and practitioners from allied professions. Review this frequently asked questions link for more information. Deadlines for submission of proposals are as follows: Early Bird Submissions will be accepted until March 15, 2021 at 5PM (EST). Responses to Early Bird submissions will be sent out by April 15, 2021 at 5 P.M (EST). After this date, the committee will accept all submissions until the deadline of April 30, 2021. Regular Submissions will be responded to by June 15. Registration will be available in the Spring. 2021 BLACK HISTORY THEME THE BLACK FAMILY: REPRESENTATION, IDENTITY, AND DIVERSITY
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