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GUEST EDITORS
OVERVIEW
Dr. K. Natanya Duncan
The decades between the First and Second World Wars
witnessed intensified challenges to both European and US
imperialism in the Caribbean. Issuing demands for selfdetermination and full citizenship rights, activists utilized new
mass organizations—such as trade unions, political parties,
and nationalist associations—as well as older collectives such
as mutual aid societies, religious groups, and cultural clubs to
contest the legitimacy of foreign rule. The duration, scale,
and militancy of anti-colonial mobilizations varied widely
across the region, as activists employed tactics ranging from
formal negotiation with the state to armed guerrilla warfare.
Yet, as an interdisciplinary literature has demonstrated, the
surge in grassroots protest during the interwar years occurred
throughout the colonial Caribbean as well as in the formally
independent nation-states of Cuba, Haiti, and the
Dominican Republic. Thus, the political ferment of the
interwar era not only laid the groundwork for post-World War
II independence movements, but also created an opening
to contest hegemonic constructions of race, gender, and
nation.
Assistant Professor of History
Lehigh University, USA
nad415@lehigh.edu
and
Dr. Reena N Goldthree
Assistant Professor of African and
African American Studies
Dartmouth College, USA
Reena.N.Goldthree@dartmouth.edu
DEADLINES
Abstracts – September 1, 2016
Manuscripts – January 5, 2017
All correspondence or questions
regarding submissions for the
Caribbean Review of Gender
Studies should be addressed to:
Ms Tivia Collins
Editorial Assistant,
CRGS, IGDS
The UWI, St Augustine Campus
Email: tivia.collins@my.uwi.edu
and/or igds.crgs@sta.uwi.edu
July 2016
This special issue will examine how gender shaped anticolonial thought and praxis in the interwar Caribbean
(1919-39). Studying the global origins of anticolonialism,
feminist scholars have deconstructed the “citizen/subject”
binary, highlighting the relationship among political exclusion,
racial hierarchies, and gender inequality. They have also
illuminated how oppositional movements throughout the
colonized world reconfigured and reproduced ideas about
sexual difference, articulating citizenship claims through
gendered ideologies that often affirmed—rather than
dislodged—patriarchy.
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Intervening in this burgeoning literature,
Caribbeanist scholars have investigated how
local understandings of “womanhood” and
“manhood” shaped resistance to colonialism in
the turbulent 1920s and 1930s. In addition, they
have documented women’s myriad roles in
struggles against colonial rule, excavating the
forgotten connections between anti-colonial
and feminist movements. Disrupting the
longstanding focus on the “fathers” of
Caribbean nationalism, groundbreaking
biographical accounts of female activists have
revealed women’s crucial contributions as
intellectuals, organizers, and foot soldiers
during the interwar years. Building on these
foundational works, an important body of
scholarship has also begun to interrogate “the
sexual inheritances of nationalism” and the
“heterosexual imperative of citizenship” in the
postcolonial era (Alexander 1994: 11, 6).
For this special issue, we invite submissions that
deepen the literature on gender and
anticolonialism in the interwar Caribbean
(including the global Caribbean diaspora). We
hope to include essays based on specific case
studies as well as theoretical works that
grapple with the gendered implications of
anticolonialism in a region forged through
centuries of colonial incursions. Possible topics
for exploration include (but are not limited to):
● Constructions of masculinity and
femininity in interwar anti-colonial
movements
● Organized labor in the Caribbean
and the fight against colonialism
● Caribbean feminist thought in the
interwar era
● Nationalism, gender, and the
circum-Caribbean press
● The campaign against the U.S.
occupation of Haiti and the
Dominican Republic
● Challenges to Canadian annexation
campaigns in the British Caribbean
● Anti-colonial currents in literary and
cultural movements (e.g. Négritude,
surrealism, indigenism, and
Afrocubanismo)
● The ideology and praxis of the
Universal Negro Improvement
Association (UNIA)
● The role of Caribbean activists in the
Communist International and other
leftist organizations
● Movements for Puerto Rican
independence
● Transnational ties between
Caribbean anti-colonial activism
and post-World War I nationalism in
Asia and Africa
● The role of religion and spirituality in
anti-colonial movements
All correspondence or questions regarding submissionss forr the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies should be
addressed to:
Ms Tivia Collins
Editorial Assistant,
CRGS, IGDS
The UWI, St Augustine Campus
Email:
tivia.collins@my.uwi.edu
and/or
igds.crgs@sta.uwi.edu
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PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS
We welcome essays that address the
special issue theme from a variety of
disciplinary perspectives. In addition to
scholarly articles, we would be pleased to
consider proposals for review essays and
c r i t i c a l r e f l e c t i o n s o n s o u rc e s a n d
methodology. We will not consider essays
that have been published previously or
that are currently under review by another
journal.
AUTHOR GUIDELINES
Founded in 2007, the Caribbean Review of
Gender Studies follows internationally
accepted double-blind review procedures.
Prior to submission, please carefully review
the publication guidelines on the website
of the Caribbean Review of Gender
Studies. The guidelines can be accessed
at:
http://sta.uwi.edu/crgs/authorguidelines.asp
DEADLINES
For full consideration, potential contributors
should submit a 500-word article abstract
no later than 1 September 2016. Full article
manuscripts of no more than 7000 words
must be submitted to the editors by 5
January 2017 for peer review. The special
issue will be published in 2018.
SUBMISSION OF BIOS
A brief biographical note of not more than
80 words about each author of
manuscripts or artists of artwork accepted
for publication should be supplied on a
separate page. The biographical note
should include information about your
current academic affiliation, education,
and recent publications or exhibitions.
CONSENT TO PUBLISH
Authors are responsible for obtaining
written permission to reprint any material
not covered by fair use (text, illustrations,
images, etc.). Submission of work to this
journal will be taken to imply that it
presents work not under consideration for
publication elsewhere. On acceptance of
work, the authors agree that the rights to
reproduce and distribute the article have
been given to the Caribbean Review of
Gender Studies.
Permission to quote extensively from or
reproduce copyright material must be
obtained by the authors before submission
and any acknowledgements should be
included in the typescript, preferably in
the form of an acknowledgements section
at the beginning of the paper.
All correspondence or questions regarding submissions
ssionss for tthe Caribbean Review of Gender Studies should be
addressed to:
Ms Tivia Collins
Editorial Assistant,
CRGS, IGDS
The UWI, St Augustine Campus
Trinidad and Tobago
Email:
tivia.collins@my.uwi.edu
and/or
igds.crgs@sta.uwi.edu