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>[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Patrick Wurster
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>From: "Paul Finkelman" <[log in to unmask]>
>       University of Tulsa College of Law
>
>
>Oxford University Press is pleased to announce plans to
>publish a major six-volume reference work entitled the
>African-American History Reference Series. The work's
>nearly 2500 articles have been carefully selected by a
>distinguished group of editors and advisers and will
>cover all aspects of African-American history and
>culture. Each volume approaches African-American
>history chronologically. Four of the six volumes center
>on one person around whose life and career the
>African-American experience at a given period of time
>can be organized.  Far more than just a biographical
>survey, each volume focuses on the age, the times, the
>events, and the people who affected the life of the
>central figure (and who were in turn affected by that
>central figure)  and the development of
>African-American history and culture during the period.
>
>We are currently finishing up the assignment of entries
>for Volumes One and Two:
>
>THE COLONIAL WORLD AND THE YOUNG NATION, Volume 1,
>edited by Graham Russell Hodges.
>
>This volume focuses on the making of African American
>society in early America. The transition from Africa to
>America is covered as well as and the way an African
>presence shaped the development of American society.
>Entries include important slave revolts (like the 1739
>Stono Rebellion)  and the slave trade (African and
>domestic). The entries chart the development of African
>American religion in the colonies and the new nation;
>the role of blacks and slavery in the Revolution and
>the making of the Constitution; the ideology of race;
>the laws creating slavery in the 17th century; and the
>end of slavery in the North. There are biographical
>entries on important blacks, like Crispus Attucks,
>Benjamin Banneker, and Phillis Wheatley, and whites who
>helped shape slavery and the culture of race, such as
>Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and early
>opponents of slavery like Samuel Sewell, John Woolman,
>and Anthony Benezet.
>
>THE WORLD OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Volume 2, edited by
>Paul Finkelman and L.  Diane Barnes.
>
>This volume covers the important events in African
>American history during the nineteenth century,
>spanning Douglass's life. It begins with slavery, and
>covers antislavery, the fugitive slave controversy, the
>underground railroad, the Civil War, Reconstruction,
>and blacks in politics. Douglass is at the center of
>all these issues: he met with Lincoln, consulted with
>John Brown, recruited black troops (his sons were
>noncommissioned officers in the Union Army), traveled
>to Europe, spoke everywhere, and met almost everyone
>important. His autobiography, The Life and Times of
>Frederick Douglass, remains a classic in American
>history and literature.
>
>We are looking for authors for the following entries:
>
>Africa, Idea of (Vol. 1: 1619-1830), 2,000 words
>Africa, Idea of (Vol. 2: 1830-1895), 2,000 words
>African Diaspora (Vol. 2: 1830-1895), 3,000 words
>Antiquity (Vol. 1: 1619-1830) 3,000 words
>Black Capitalism/Economic Self-help (Vol. 2: 1830-1895), 750 words
>Black Family (Vol. 2: 1830-1895), 3,000 words
>Black Politics (Vol. 2: 1830-1895), 2,500 words
>Blacks and the West, (Vol. 2: 1830-1895), 3,500 words
>Crime and Punishment (Vol. 2: 1830-1895), 3,000 words
>Dance (Vol. 2: 1830-1895), 1,500 words
>Demographics (Vol. 1: 1619-1830), 3,000 words
>Demographics (Vol. 2: 1830-1895), 3,000 words
>Discrimination (Vol. 2: 1830-1895), 2,500 words
>Economic Life (Vol. 1: 1619-1830), 3,000 words
>Economic Life (Vol. 2: 1830-1895), 3,000 words
>Education (Vol. 1: 1619-1830), 4,000 words
>Education (Vol. 2: 1830-1895), 4,000 words
>Emancipation (Vol. 1: 1619-1830), 1,000 words
>Folklore (Vol. 1: 1619-1830), 2,500 words
>Gender (Vol. 2: 1830-1895), 1,000 words
>Integration (Vol. 2: 1830-1895), 2,500 words
>Language (Vol. 1: 1619-1830), 2,000 words
>Oratory and Verbal Arts (Vol. 1: 1619-1830), 2,000 words
>Political Participation (Vol. 2: 1830-1895), 2,000 words
>Segregation (Vol. 1: 1619-1830), 1,500 words
>Segregation (Vol. 2: 1830-1895), 2,500 words
>Slave Narratives (Vol. 1: 1619-1830), 2,000 words
>Voting Rights (Vol. 2: 1830-1895), 3,000 words
>
>We are offering $.20/word for all entries received by
>15 Oct 04. For all entries received after the 15th, we
>are offering $.15/word. However, our production
>schedule is now very tight and so all entries must be
>in no later than 22 Oct 04, without exception. If you
>agree to write more than 5000 words by 15 Oct 04, in
>addition to your honorarium, we will send you a
>complimentary copy of the recently published African
>American Lives, a one-volume biographical encyclopedia
>edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn Brooks
>Higginbotham.
>
>If you are interested in contributing, please contact
>Anthony Aiello at [log in to unmask] or
>212-726-6144. Mr. Aiello will provide all background
>information on the project and information specific to
>the entries themselves. Please include a copy of your
>resume or CV in any email correspondence, and be
>prepared to do so if contacting Mr. Aiello by phone.
>
>On behalf of the editorial board and Oxford University
>Press, we look forward to working together this very
>important project.

Cheryl Johnson
Director, Women's Studies
Associate Professor of English
126 MacMillan Hall
Office: 513 529-4616
Fax:    513 529-1890
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