KALFOU
Kalfou, (meaning "intersections" or "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.
Inaugural Issue, Spring 2010
Affect, Intimacy, Justice, and Power
- "Ethnic Studies at the Crossroads" George Lipsitz
- "Witnessing and the Poetics of Corporality" Rosa-Linda Fregoso
- "The Challenges of Blues and Hip Hop Historiography" Clyde Woods
- "Slaying the Beast: Reflections on Race, Culture, and Species" Claire Jean Kim
- "The Indigenous Peoples’ Movement: Theory, Policy, and Practice" Duane Champagne
- Talkative Ancestors: Fannie Lou Hamer
- Keyword: "Now" George Lipsitz
- "The 2009 Latina/o Education Summit: Critical Issues for 109 Immigrant and Undocumented Students in the Latina/o Education Pipeline" Denise Pacheco
- Art and Social Action "The Sacred Drum Theatre Company: Bringing Africa to America" 119 Susan Fitzpatrick Behrens
- Mobilized 4 Movement "Immigrant Women Workers at the Center of Social Change: AIWA Takes Stock of Itself" Jennifer Chun, George Lipsitz, and Young Shin
- Teaching and Truth "This piece is for my student César" Renée Floresca
- In Memoriam "Against the Current, Red Salmon Dreams: raúlrsalinas, 1934-2008" Alan Eladio Gómez
- Book Review "Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, a Haitian Anthropologist, and Self-Making in Jamaica by Gina A. Ulysse" Reviewed by Eileen Boris
