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Please excuse any duplications.
Greetings everyone and thanks to all who wrote this week, giving us
their support, suggestions, requesting subscriptions, presenting papers, etc.
Due to demand, we have ordered a second printing of our inaugural issue
from our publisher; also the second printing will be in a 6x9 size, with
wider margins. We expect it to be ready by the end of the first week of April.
Our next Jalas&L, the Spring issue, which is dedicated entirely to
Brazil, is now in production. It will be out the second week of May and
will be an important resource for those with a research interest in Brazilian
racial relations. Please help us spread the word about this issue among
your friends, colleagues, and your library. Thanks!
As stated in our last post, plans for a Spring 1995 Annotated
Bibliographical Issue are now concrete. This issue will cover works published
between 1989-1994 (books, articles, interviews, and bibliographies). Its
different sections will be: History, Sociology, Anthropology, and
Literatures (Lusophone, Hispanophone, Francophone--the Literary
Bibliography will cover novel, drama, poetry, and essay). A large
and very important project which will have respected and prominent scholars
of these various fields as Head Bibliographers. We can keep those
interested in this project with more details, as they become available. This
Annotated Bibliographical Issue will be a bi-annual publication, after its
first release in the Spring of 1994. We would greatly welcome your suggetions
about this issue, or any other aspect of Jalas&L.
This week, we were also contacted by the Press Secretary of the
Organization of American State, in DC, who, at the request of its Secretary
General, called us to express their excitement about the nature of our
publication, and its broad academic spectrum, and to express their desire to
collaborate with Jalas&L; he also suggested a special joint project between
the OAS' Library and historians, and Jalas&L. Details on this development
will also be given to those interested, as it becomes available. By the
We are have been compiling an -E-mail List. This is simply a listing of
discussion groups and individuals who are interested in the nature of
the Journal. Requests to be included should be sent to our Technical
Editor, Kathy King at pgkpking@cyber.widener.edu. Please write Jalas&L in
the header, thank you. THIS IS NOT A LISTSERV :) we simply distribute
messages about the Journal, including excerpts and updates. It is a won-
derful (and free!) way to enhance you subscription to Jalas&L. Also, if
you need subscription forms for the Journal itself, please use the same address.
In our next post, we will highlight the last article of Jalas&L's inaugural
issue. The excerpts to be published next week will come from Professors
Carlos Hasenbalg and Nelson do Valle Silva's Portuguese article: "Familia,
cor e acessoa 'a escola no Brasil--Family, color and access to schools in
Brazil." Hope you have enjoyed reading samples of these excellent essays.
Please let us know if you think this represented a valid and informative
effort, so we may plan future ways of keeping you informed of the
developments at Jalas&L.
Hoping to hear from you again, we remain,
Sincerely,
Rosangela Maria Vieira, Editor of Jalas&L
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Howard University
Internet: rmvieira@cldc.howard.edu (comments and submissions)
Manuel Garcia-Castellon, Associate Editor of Jalas&L
Foreign Languages Department, University of New Orleans
Kathleen Palombo King, Technical Editor of Jalas&L
Engineering Department, Pennsylvania Institute of Technology
Internet: pgkpking@cyber.widener.edu
Subscription and "Call for Papers"- Fall 1994 information.)