Contributors: The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Black British Writing
Toyin Falola
From:
Kwame Essien <kwame6...@gmail.com>
Date: Monday, May 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
To: Toyin Falola <toyin...@austin.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: Encyclopedia Details
Dear Dr/Prof./Mr./Ms,
Re: The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Black British Writing. Volume 1 (1723-1914)
We would like to invite you to submit any of the entries listed below that you would like to write about. Please check the word count for each entry.
For example, 1. Prince, Mary. Section 1 (PEOPLE). Word Count: 3000 words etc.
Our deadline for submission is 1 September 2025.
We are asking at this stage that you kindly confirm your interest in the submission.
Please see, also, details about the volume below. We look forward to hearing from you.
Very best wishes,
XXX
Anyaa Anim-Addo
Kwame Essien
Joan Anim-Addo
About Volume 1 and Your Submission
To guide your submission, we attach, below, a brief write up on the Volume’s focus.
Volume 1: Scope and Focus:
Our timeline in volume 1 covers histories of the British slave trade, British colonization
of the Caribbean and Africa, slave emancipation, and anti -colonial agitation in
Caribbean and African colonies. It is against these consequential historical contexts that
we examine movements of Black people into Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. Our volume aims to examine how Black British experiences
impacted society and culture in Britain, the Americas and Africa, and particularly, how
they shaped the Black British writing that emerged from this period. We have structured
Volume 1 in the following broad sections to reflect different aspects of life and endeavor
during this period.
Section 1: PEOPLE (Activists, writers, politicians, cultural and religious leaders).
We have uncovered personalities whose lives, experiences. activism and creativity
shaped Black British experience in Britain, the Americas and Africa.
Section 2: TEXTS (Key books, petitions, treatises and philosophical works that embody
different and competing responses to Black British experience)
Section 3: CONTEXTS (Histories, key events, political movements, theoretical
perspectives and schools of thought that embodied Black British experiences and
shaped their forms of expression)
If you have any questions, please get back to us.
Sincerely,
XXX
CC. AAA,KE,JAA.
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Kwame Essien Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History & Africana Studies
Director of 2014-16 Lee Iacocca Internship in Ghana & Lehigh in Ghana Study Abroad Program
Department of History & Africana Studies
Lehigh University
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Bethlehem, PA 18015
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