liquid blackness

Editorial Office:
liquid blackness Limited
258 Garland Ave
Decatur, GA 30030
404-702-0405
journalsubmissions@liquidblackness.com

Editors in Chief:
Alessandra Raengo, Georgia State University
Lauren McLeod Cramer, University of Toronto
 
Editorial Board:
Sampada Aranke, Ohio State University
Charles “Chip” Linscott, Ohio University
Walton Muyumba, Indiana University
Michele Prettyman, Fordham University
James Tobias, University of California, Riverside
 
Managing Editor:
Corey Couch, Georgia State University

Associate Editors:
Marquis Bey, Northwestern University
Erica Edwards, Yale University
Ekow Eshun, Curator (London, UK)
Kevin Jerome Everson, University of Virginia
Keith M. Harris, University of California, Riverside
Amy Herzog, City University of New York
Uri McMillan, University of California, Los Angeles

Advisory Board:
Anne Anlin Cheng, Princeton University
Thomas F. DeFrantz, Northwestern University
Jonathan Eburne, Pennsylvania State University
Amy Elias, University of Tennessee
Tatiana Flores, Rutgers University
Bishnupriya Ghosh, University of California, Santa Barbara
R. A. Judy, University of Pittsburgh
Kara Keeling, University of Southern California
Barbara McCullough, Filmmaker (Los Angeles)
Amber Musser, City University of New York
Marina Peterson, University of Texas, Austin
Louis Ruprecht, Georgia State University
Christina Sharpe, York University
James Gordon Williams, University of California, Santa Cruz
 

liquid blackness follows the formatting and reference guidelines stipulated by The Chicago Manual of Style, seventeenth edition, and the liquid blackness style guide. We encourage submissions of bold and innovative contributions addressing points of convergence between Black studies and aesthetic theory, practice and praxis. We welcome submissions of traditional and experimental essays, visual and textual art, video, and other artistic work accompanied by an artist statement. All submissions, solicited and unsolicited, undergo single-blind peer review by at least two field specialists. Please submit manuscripts for consideration to https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/dup-lbk.
 
The Editorial Process

liquid blackness is committed to publishing issues that have a thematic, methodological, or formal consistency. We welcome work that responds to our current Calls for Papers and open call submissions.

Proposals for special issues from guest editors must include a title; abstract describing the theme; list of confirmed contributors with brief bios and paper abstracts; list of possible reviewers; and publication timeline (the expected date for the first drafts).
 
General Information on Formats

Articles should be 3,000–5,000 words in length.

Short Pieces (interviews, roundtables, artist statements and other commentary, art reviews, and other creative “nontraditional” scholarship) should be 1,500–3,000 words in length.

Questions about submitting visual and sonic material should be directed to journalsubmissions@liquidblackness.com
 
Additional Submission Guidelines

• All submissions that produce significant original thought in written, visual, or sonic form must include five keywords and an abstract of approximately 250 words that describes the piece’s topic, methodology, and central argument.
• Written submissions should be Word or RTF files, not PDFs.
• Written submissions must be accompanied by at least one image (with credit and permissions).
• Audiovisual submissions can be submitted in the following formats: mp3, .mp4, .wav, .wma, .au, .m4a, .mpg, .mpeg, .mov, .avi, .wmv., html. (Executable files (.exe) are not acceptable.)

Minimum image resolution is 300 dpi.

Indexed/abstracted in the following: DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH) PLUS, Humanities Source, Humanities Source Ultimate, OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson), Open Academic Journal Index (OAJI), Scopus, TOC Premier, Ulrichsweb