Five Years Out: Navigating the Tensions between Stability and Change in Black/African American Scholarship

• In Event: Five Years Out: Navigating the Tensions between Stability and Change in Black/African American Scholarship

Abstract

This session will explore the significance of the Black Caucus, NCA’s first caucus, and that of the African American Communication and Culture Division from a disciplinary and global perspective. We will highlight how historically and contemporarily, Blackness has been everywhere and nowhere; visible and invisible; exploited and consumed, but rarely understood and respected. Utilizing the insights of scholars across generations, we will celebrate our progress and answer President Barack Obama’s call for transparency and service.

Authors

• Jamel Bell, Boston College

• Rex Crawley, Robert Morris University

• Melbourne Cummings, Howard University

• Jack Daniel, Univ of Pittsburgh

• Sonja Brown Givens, University of Alabama, Huntsville

• Rachel Griffin, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

• Mark Hopson, George Mason Univ

• Dorthy Pennington, University of Kansas