AFRICANAS

Africana identities, histories, and cultural productions have never been singular. AFRICANAS centers books that transgress and collapse geographical, chronological, and disciplinary boundaries and upend expectations for the field. Intentionally broad and multidisciplinary in its shape and scope, the series interrogates African and African-diasporic histories, lived experiences, and potential futures, and it creates space for new methodologies and genres of writing. Emphasizing often-overlooked Africana experiences and their historical and contemporary implications, books in the series seek to disrupt default notions of “Africanness” and complicate the way we map Africana geographies.

We welcome books that range in chronology from the medieval to the contemporary, written by scholars working in, among, and across an array of disciplines, including (but not limited to) art and architecture, history, communication studies and rhetoric, gender and sexuality studies, environmental studies, science and technology studies, and Indigenous studies. We encourage projects that focus on a range of geographies, including (but not limited to) West Asia, Sub-Saharan and North Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Caribbean, the Americas, and the Pacific.

Questions or submissions should be directed to Penn State University Press:

Archna Patel, Acquisitions Editor

Eleanor H. Goodman, Executive Editor

Advisory Board:
Cécile Fromont
Paul Kaplan
Oludamini Ogunnaike
Yoon Jung Park