Kalfou, intersections, crossroads, is a new journal focused on social movements, social institutions, and social relations. We aim to build links between intellectuals, artists, and activists, in the social sciences and humanities, to promote the development of ethnic studies scholarship, and to disseminate the specialized knowledge produced within academe to a broader public. The editors are primarily interested in inviting articles focusing on ontologies, epistemologies, archives, and imaginaries of communities of color and though we are collectively concerned with advocating for multicultural reconciliation, the project of the journal is to do so by addressing the asymmetries of power that make such reconciliation necessary.

Kalfou thus invites articles about the distribution of opportunities and life chances of aggrieved communities of color in the past, present, and future, about the roles played by the state, capital, and social structures in promoting and suppressing social justice, and about the struggles, problems, programs, dreams, and hopes of such communities. We especially seek articles that explore what Ruth Wilson Gilmore describes as “fatal couplings of power and difference” and articles about activist, artistic, political and intellectual struggles for resources, rights, and recognition by communities of color.

Manuscript Submission Guidelines

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Authors should submit their manuscripts via e-mail to the Center for Black Studies Research at the University of California, Santa Barbara at kalfou@cbs.ucsb.edu. Manuscripts should be sent as attached documents in Word format. Submissions by mail should include three paper copies and an electronic copy. Manuscripts should be sent ATTN: George Lipsitz, Senior Editor. Book reviews should be sent ATTN: Gerald Horne, Book Review Editor. Authors’ names should appear on a separate title page so that manuscripts can be evaluated anonymously. Submissions should be in the range of five thousand to ten thousand words, including footnotes, and conform to the Chicago Manual of Style.

Send Manuscripts to:
Kalfou
George Lipsitz, Senior Editor or Gerald Horne, Book Review Editor
c/o Center for Black Studies Research
4603 South Hall
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3140