SEEKING CHAPTER PROPOSALS FOR EDITED VOLUME-
Description
To be submitted to Lexington Press, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, this edited collection The Asian Caribbean in the Caribbean Diaspora focuses
on the historical and contemporary issues faced by Caribbean immigrants
of Asian descent in the Caribbean diaspora, particularly, but not
exclusively in the global north. Chapters will center and include
Indo-Caribbean, Chinese-Caribbean, Javanese-Caribbean,
Japanese-Caribbean, and other Asian-Caribbean immigrant groups and
communities in diasporic spaces. It is of course foregrounded by the
legacies of indentureship, contract labor, and later migrations to the
greater Caribbean region, such as the migration of Japanese migrants to
the Dominican Republic in the 1950s, to now interrogate the movement of
such beyond Caribbean borders. It seeks to expand our notion of the
Caribbean diaspora which is often cast in very specific ways, so as to
account for the Asian as part of the Caribbean diaspora. It seeks to be
both descriptive, while also countering a limited discourse on the
Caribbean diaspora.
Your book chapter could contribute to one or more of the following
topics as it relates to Asian-Caribbean immigrant groups and communities
in the Caribbean diaspora:
- Identity formation – race, ethnicity and racialization/racial group consciousness
- Experiences and understandings of anti-Blackness and Blackness
- Experiences of racism, discrimination, anti-Asian hate
- Mixedness, and mixed-race identities
- The politics of transnational identity and transnational attachments
- Religion, religious practice, religious spaces and material culture
- Cultural production
- Language and assimilation
- Gender, sex, and sexuality
- Notion of homeland
- Political behavior/practices
- Differences between the first and second generation, widely speaking
- Caribbeanization of diasporic spaces
- Visibility, census, data disaggregation, cultural alienation
- Oral histories and ethnographies
- Literature and literary intersections
Interested contributors are hereby invited to submit their chapter
proposals of between 250 and 300 words, and a brief bio of 250 words on,
or before December 15, 2023 to the editor, Aleah N. Ranjitsingh: Aleah.Ranjitsingh03@brooklyn.cuny.edu
A detailed publication schedule will be provided after negotiations with the publishers
Submission Deadline – December 15th, 2023
Notification of selection – January 15th, 2023
Full Chapters Due – May 30th, 2024
Editor
Aleah N. Ranjitsingh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Africana Studies
Department and Caribbean Studies Program, Brooklyn College, City
University of New York (CUNY)
Contact Information
Aleah N. Ranjitsingh, Ph.D. - Aleah.Ranjitsingh03@brooklyn.cuny.edu