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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Just sharing the call for
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">Spark’s</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> 2020 volume, “Black Studies, Activism & Emergence.” For this volume, we
are looking for submissions that discuss Black studies’ activist origins and raise questions about how this history shapes our present and future approaches to activism and social change inside and outside academic institutions. The submission deadline is
30 December 2019. Submissions are open to scholar-activists at all levels--from UG students to faculty of all ranks. Here’s the link to the call in full:
</span><a href="https://sparkactivism.com/volume-2-call/" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none;">https://sparkactivism.com/volume-2-call/</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">Spark</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> is an open-access,
peer-reviewed,</span><a href="http://www.firstpersonscholar.com/the-case-for-the-middle-state/" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">publication for activist students, teachers, and researchers in writing, rhetoric, and literacy studies as well as adjacent areas of inquiry. Unlike academic journals focused
on narrow disciplinary arguments, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">Spark</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> provides readers with an inside view of
activism and community organizing. Submission types range from approx. 2000-word columns, to 2500-word scene reports about activism in one place or through a particular campaign, to approx. 6000-word extended essays. In the 2020 call, we also ask for 1500-word
retrospectives that address the lasting impact of important works in Black studies (e.g., books, articles, films, etc.). Details about the journal and submission types are available in the call and at
</span><a href="https://sparkactivism.com/submission-guidelines/" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none;">https://sparkactivism.com/submission-guidelines/</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Sherri Craig at
</span><a href="mailto:scraig@wcupa.edu" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none;">scraig@wcupa.edu</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
or Dr. Karrieann Soto Vega at </span><a href="mailto:ksotovega@uky.edu" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none;">ksotovega@uky.edu</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thank you for your time.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:3pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Don Unger, PhD</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:3pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">Spark</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Editorial
Collective Member,</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:2pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Department of Writing and Rhetoric,</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:2pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The University of Mississippi</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:2pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(32, 51, 102);">dunger@olemiss.edu</span></p>
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