About the Journal
Focus and Scope
The journal aims to disseminate scientific knowledge produced in the field of African and Afro-Brazilian studies by publishing original articles that bring an effective contribution to the advancement of research in the field of study.
The focus of the Journal is the African and Afro-Brazilian Studies, which correspond to a broad interdisciplinary field of study and that involve studies in the sub-areas: African Philosophy, Philosophy and Afro-Diaspora thought; History of Africa and History of Diaspora Africans, African and African Literatures of the Diaspora; Diaspora African and African culture; African, Diaspora African and Afro-Brazilian religions; Black Movement; Ethnic-racial relations; Ethnic-Racial Relations Education; Affirmative policies; Promotion of racial equality; Quilombola Communities and Traditional Communities; Anthropology of Afro-Brazilian Populations.
The African and Afro-Brazilian Studies Journal is a publication derived from a process of scientific exchange between the Federal University of Paraná, Federal University of Minas Gerais, State University of Ponta Grossa, Universitè de Yaoundè I and Bamenda University.
The editorial project also aims to disseminate the scientific production of the Afro-Brazilian Studies Centers of these universities and articulated by the National Consortium of NEABs (CONNEABS), operating in the process of consolidating institutional cooperation between these nuclei and national and international scientific production. It also aims to disseminate significant knowledge to combat ethnic-racial inequalities in our society.
Manuscripts are accepted that present: 1) empirical or theoretical research results; 2) Systematic and integrative critical reviews of scientific and academic production in the area. Thematic dossiers for issues emerging from African or Afro-Brazilian studies or review in the area are accepted. They must be original works, which have not been published in other periodicals. Articles with previously published research results published in Annals of events and reviewed will be accepted for evaluation.
Session Policies
● Editorial
● Dossier - Section devoted to the publication of thematic content on African, Diaspora African, and Afro-Brazilian studies.
● Continuous Demand - Section for the publication of research on African, Diaspora African, and Afro-Brazilian studies.
● Interviews - Section for the publication of interviews with reference authors for African or Afro-Brazilian studies.
● Reviews - Section for the publication of works reviews and dissemination of thesis and dissertation abstracts on African, Diaspora African, and Afro-Brazilian studies.
● Abstracts - Section for the publication of abstracts of theses and dissertations on African, Diaspora African, and Afro-Brazilian studies.
Peer Review Process
Peer Review Process
● The texts received will be sent to two (2) ad hoc referees, preserving the authors' anonymity.
● The entire process of communication between editorial staff, referees and authors occur in electronic form with identification only of the editorial team.
● The evaluators recommend, their acceptance, refusal or suggest reformulations. In the latter case, the reformulated manuscript is re-evaluated for a final opinion. The opinions prepared are forwarded to the author(s) and author(s). If divergent opinions occur, it will be sent to a third party consultant.
● Manuscripts that have already had a preliminary version published in scientific events are accepted for evaluation.
● Manuscripts are published in Portuguese, English, French, and Spanish.
Publication Frequency
JABS has semester periodicity.
Open Access Policy
JABS offers public access (Open Access) to all of its content, following the principle of making the access to research free, which produces a larger global interchange of knowledge. Such access is linked to an increasing in reading and mentioning the paper of a specific author. Extra information may be accessed at Public Knowledge Project – Open Journal System, the project that developed this system to improve the academic and public quality of research, distributing OJS, as well as other software to support the publication system of public access to academic data.
Sources of Support
Journal History
The African and Afro-Brazilian Studies Journal project was developed within the framework of the Afro-Brazilian Nucleus Consortium (CONEABs), which is linked to the Brazilian Association of Black Researchers (ABPN), with the proposal to strengthen the field in Brazil, with another qualified vehicle of diffusion of knowledge produced in the field of study.
With the development of the Discourse Research and Racial Relations Project (Approved by the Public Call 23/2013, Program to Support Emerging Nuclei of the Araucária Foundation) there were several exchanges between the research centers of the participating universities, namely: Afro- Brazilians Studies Nuclei, from UFPR (NEAB-UFPR); Affirmative Actions of UFMG (UFMG Shares); Center for Studies on Race, Gender and Sexuality Relations of UEPG (NUREGS-UEPG). There was also a process of cooperation with African universities, especially with two universities in Cameroon, Université Yaoundé I and Bamenda University. A cooperation agreement between UFPR and Bamenda University was signed on a mission to work in Cameroon and a further stage of cooperation between UFPR and the University of Yaoundé I. The most important scientific result of the events was the action that is underway: The creation of a new journal, the Journal of African and Afro-Brazilian Studies with the advisory board composed of researcher from the five universities involved (UFPR, UEPG, UFMG, UY and UB), and a joint editorial board of a Brazilian and an African researcher assuring the dissemination among researchers from both continents.
The work being carried out, therefore, involves international cooperation aimed at promoting South-South integration and internationally strengthening the scientific cooperation between Brazil and African countries, especially those of Francophone and Anglophone language, in the field of African and African Studies of the Diaspora.
