[EQ] Conference: The Great Scattering: Solving the Puzzle of Slavery, Race, and Contemporary Health in the African Diaspora of the Americas

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
Conference:
The International Conference on Health in the African Diaspora of the Americas - ICHAD2012

 

The theme:
The Great Scattering:
Solving the Puzzle of Slavery, Race, and Contemporary Health in the African Diaspora of the Americas

Baltimore, Md. U.S.A. - July 4-8, 2012
Host:  Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Funder: WK.K. Kellogg Foundation

Conference website: http://bit.ly/kJkxAQ

Abstract Deadline: Sept 1, 2011.

“……The International Conference on Health in the African Diaspora of the Americas-ICHAD2012- seeks to gather a dynamic, interdisciplinary group of scholars and health and social science leaders from across the world.  Scholars from diverse disciplines, including political science, sociology, anthropology, economics, public health, and medicine are invited to submit papers for presentation at the conference. 

 

Selected authors will be invited to present their work at plenary sessions and their work will be included in a published book of the conference proceedings.

 

The conference will explore how the legacy of slavery and the concept of race inform our understanding of contemporary health patterns and major health challenges in the African Diaspora of the Western Hemisphere.   As the conference is focused specifically on the African descent populations of the Western Hemisphere, papers focused on Africa that do not make a clear connection to the experiences of African descent populations in the Americas will not be accepted.

Book chapters under consideration include:

*         History of the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean

*         Conceptualizing Race in the Western Hemisphere

*         Health Status of Slave Descendants in the Western Hemisphere

*         Nature versus Nurture (Genetics, Race, and Health)

*         The Social Determinants of Health

*         Pathways to Partnership in the African Diaspora of the Americas

Abstracts should be emailed to  submissions@ICHAD.org

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