The Journal of Black Language and Culture (JBLAC), published by the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), fosters a transdisciplinary conversation on Black language and culture through a global, diasporic lens. JBLAC provides an inclusive scholarly venue that centers Blackness as a framework of inquiry. The journal publishes original, high-quality research that explicitly engages with Blackness as a social, cultural, and theoretical construct, examining the intersections of language, identity, and cultural practices across Black communities worldwide. Submissions that do not take Blackness as an explicit analytic framework fall outside the scope of the journal.

JBLAC welcomes contributions from a wide range of disciplines, including Black/Africana studies, African-American Studies, Linguistics, English, Modern Languages, Rhetoric and Composition, Education, Anthropology, Psychology, Sociology, Feminist and Gender Studies, Disability Studies, Latinx Studies, World Languages, Communication Studies, and American Studies. We particularly encourage scholarship that challenges traditional boundaries within linguistics and related fields while advancing new understandings of Black language and culture across the African Diaspora.