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Global Afro/Indigeneities – Proposals Due 3/30/26

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Global Afro/Indigeneities

Global Afro/Indigeneities
A Call for Proposals from the Radical History Review
Issue number 160 (January 2028)
Abstract Deadline: March 30, 2026
Co-edited by Alan Shane Dillingham, Joan Flores-Villalobos, Justin Leroy

Radical History Review seeks proposals for articles that explore the entanglements, contradictions, and solidarities at the meeting point of Black and Indigenous histories in the Americas and globally. We invite work that moves across national and continental boundaries, centering the hemisphere as a space of shared struggle, dispossession, intimacy, and world-making. From Patagonia to Nova Scotia, South Africa to Palestine, the experiences of conquest, land theft, enslavement, social reproduction, extermination, isolation, and exploitation—alongside freedom, interrelation, and solidarity—connect Black and Indigenous communities in ways that cannot be contained by national histories or a regional focus on the Americas alone. A global scope invites us to imagine Afro-Indigenous relationality as a set of encounters that continually cross oceans, languages, and empires.

We encourage contributions that place gender and sexuality at the heart of these histories. Colonial violence often targeted kinship, reproduction, and desire as means of domination. At the same time, Afro-Indigenous relationships—whether in the intimacy of households, the solidarities of marronage, or the collective experiments of social movements—reveal the possibilities of imagining otherwise. Paying attention to embodied experience, to the regulation of sexuality, and to the creative reworking of gendered roles opens fresh avenues for understanding Afro-Indigenous histories.

Too often, Black and Indigenous histories are siloed in archives, classrooms, and political discourse. This issue asks: what becomes possible when we refuse those separations? How do Afro-Indigenous encounters—from early imperial borderlands to the solidarities of the Red Power and Black Power movements—reframe our understanding of settler colonialism, capitalism, sovereignty, freedom, and justice? What kinds of epistemologies and political projects emerge when Black and Indigenous struggles are read together, not as parallel stories but as deeply entangled ones?

We invite historically grounded, archivally rich work from any time period that attends to these questions. We especially welcome submissions that experiment with form, method, and voice to rethink how Afro-Indigenous relationalities are narrated and remembered.

Some topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Dreams, cosmologies, and spiritual practices as sites of Afro-Indigenous relation
  • Aesthetics, performance, and sound—music, dance, and visual culture as archives of encounter
  • Gendered and queer forms of kinship, care, and refusal
  • Foodways, agriculture, and ecological practices that intertwine Black and Indigenous knowledge
  • Storytelling traditions, oral histories, and speculative futures
  • Technologies of survival—from canoe-building to digital activism—as relational practice
  • Sacred geographies and contested landscapes: rivers, mountains, oceans, and skies
  • Play, humor, and everyday intimacies as strategies of endurance
  • Afro-Indigenous presences in literature, film, and popular culture
  • Temporalities that unsettle linear narratives of conquest, slavery, and resistance

Procedure for submission of material:

By March 30, 2026, please submit a 1-2 page abstract summarizing the material you wish to submit to our online journal management system, ScholarOne. To begin with ScholarOne, sign in or create an account at https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/dup-rhr. After signing in, select “Author” from the menu up top, and click “Begin Submission” or “Start New Submission.” Please include “Issue 160” in addition to the rest of your proposal title the “Title” field when filling in the form that follows. Upload a Word or PDF document, including any images within the document. After uploading your file, select “Proposal” as the submission type and follow the on-screen instructions. Feel free to write to the journal’s managing editor at contactrhr@gmail.com if you encounter any technical difficulties or have any other questions about the process.

By April 30, 2026, authors will be notified whether they should submit a full version of their article for further consideration. The due date for completed submissions is expected to be in August, 2026. Those submissions selected for publication will be included in issue 160 of the Radical History Review, scheduled to appear in January 2028.

Abstract Deadline: March 30, 2026
Contact: contactrhr@gmail.com

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