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Palimpsest: New Journal Announcement and CFP

Website and Submission Guidelines Information: www.vanderbilt.edu/aframst/palimpsest
Inquiries: PalimpsestJournal@vanderbilt.edu
Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender and the Black International is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes cutting edge interdisciplinary scholarship and creative work by and about women of the African Diaspora and their communities in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds.  A partnership between Vanderbilt University’s African American and Diaspora Studies Program and the [...]

CFS: Photobook!! The Photographer and the Self-Published Book

I’m writing to request you spread the word regarding our November 18 – December 19 exhibition, PHOTOBOOK!! It’s our first annual juried photobooks show. I’m a true believer in the photobook to bring one’s work to the attention of the public. I think it’s a natural for the end of the [...]

Annual powerHouse Arena Book and Tag Sale July 28 – September 6

FotoFest 2010 Biennial Catalogue – Contemporary U.S. Photography

From Red Dog News:
Covering two volumes, with more than 300 photographers featured and 507 pages and 382 compelling images, as well as an introduction by Charlotte Cotton, this is one catalogue you may want to add to your table-top collection.
Five curatorial essays on contemporary photography serves to complete the exhibitions in the volumes, and give voice to the illustrations.
Some of [...]

Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body by Harvey Young (Michigan, 2010)

“Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body” was just published by the University of Michigan Press. For more information, you can visit Michigan’s website (http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=235634). You can save 30% if your order it from Michigan and enter “YOUNG10″ in the shopping cart under Promotional Code.

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  • Life After Death: Interviews with artists September 3, 2010
    The exhibition is down, unfortunately. h/t Daily Hussy, via Tayari Jones’ blog […]
  • I know I’m just fostering him, but… September 3, 2010
    …he’s a sweet little guy, even though he sneakily took his opportunity to get on the sofa when I wasn’t looking (boy, my decor looks busy in this picture!) and I didn’t have the heart to oust him. I’d better watch it or I’m going to become a dog-blogger. […]
  • A Developing Story… September 3, 2010
    Thanks to Eliza for initiating this conversation with me and publishing it at http://www.adevelopingstory.org—I do go on in it but I stand by all of it! […]