[Linganth] New journal! Journal of Black Language and Culture (JBLAC)

[Calhoun, Kendra]

*Apologies for cross-posting*



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.



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.



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.



The editorial team will be hosting an informational webinar about the journal on Friday November 7.

You can find out more about the journal and webinar here: https://www.lsadc.org/content.asp?admin=Y&contentid=485


Kendra Calhoun, Ph.D. (she/her)
Assistant Professor | Department of Anthropology
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
faculty page<https://anthro.illinois.edu/directory/profile/kendrac> | website<https://kendrancalhoun.com/>

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