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<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">*Apologies for cross-posting*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Cambridge University Press and the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) are excited to announce that Cambridge University Press will publish the Society's new Journal of Black Language and Culture (JBLAC) from 2027.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">JBLAC fosters a transdisciplinary conversation on Black language and culture through a global, diasporic lens. Building on the momentum of previous LSA discussions, JBLAC provides an inclusive scholarly venue dedicated
to centering Blackness as a framework of inquiry. The journal publishes original, high-quality research that explicitly engages Blackness as a social, cultural, and theoretical construct—examining the intersections of language, identity, and cultural practices
across Black communities worldwide. Submissions that do not take Blackness as an explicit analytic framework fall outside the scope of the journal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">JBLAC welcomes contributions from a wide range of disciplines, including Black/Africana studies, African American Studies, Linguistics, English, Modern/World Languages, Rhetoric and Composition, Communication Studies,
Education, Anthropology, Psychology, Sociology, Feminist and Gender Studies, Disability Studies, Latine Studies, and American Studies. We particularly encourage scholarship that challenges traditional boundaries within linguistics and related fields while
advancing new understandings of Black language and culture across the African diaspora.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The editorial team will be hosting an informational webinar about the journal on Friday November 7.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">You can find out more about the journal and webinar here:
<a href="https://www.lsadc.org/content.asp?admin=Y&contentid=485">https://www.lsadc.org/content.asp?admin=Y&contentid=485</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Kendra Calhoun, Ph.D. (she/her)</span></b><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Assistant Professor | Department of Anthropology</span><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign</span><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://anthro.illinois.edu/directory/profile/kendrac" title="https://anthro.illinois.edu/directory/profile/kendrac"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4E95D9;mso-ligatures:none">faculty page</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"> | </span><a href="https://kendrancalhoun.com/" title="https://kendrancalhoun.com/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4E95D9;mso-ligatures:none">website</span></a><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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