Seeking proposals for a roundtable discussion on defining qualities of 21st Century African American literature and cultural production and the process of creating collaborative scholarly projects on this emerging, multifaceted, and evolving body of work.

Prominence and Precarity is the name of the seventeenth volume of the Cambridge University Press series African American Literature in Transition. Focused on 21st century African American literature and cultural production, the chapters in this volume explore the tension between African American cultural prominence and African American vulnerability and precarity in contemporary US society. 

This roundtable invites speakers interested both in discussions of the defining qualities of 21st Century African American literature and cultural production and in the process of creating collaborative scholarly projects on this emerging, multifaceted, and evolving body of work.