The Black Scholar

Volume 39, No. 3/4FALL 2009
THE POLITICS OF BIRACIALISM
Contents
2	Introduction to “The Politics of Biracialism” / LAURA CHRISMAN
4	Interracial Intimacies, Barack Obama, and the Politics of Multiracialism / KIMBERLY MCCLAIN DACOSTA
13	Review Essay: Performing the Twenty-first Century Tragic Mulatto: Black, White, and Jewish: Autobio raphy of a Shifting Self, by Rebecca Walker / RALINAJOSEPH
23	Toward Black and Multiracial “Kinship” After 1997, or How a Race Man Became “Cablinasian” / HABIBA IBRAHIM
32	Poetry: “The Art of Loving” / MADELEINE CLIFFORD
33	Baby janay and Naomi Pabst: Negotiating Race Mixing, Adoption, and Transnationality / NAOMI PABST
41	Reframing the National Family: Race Mixing and Re-telling American History / CATHERINE SQUIRES
51	Race, Multiraciality, and Barack Obama: Toward a More Perfect Union? / G. REGINALD DANIEL
60	THEBLACKSCHOLAR Black Books RoundUp
63	THEBLACKSCHOLAR Books Reviews
70	Classified

Volume 39, No. 1-2SPRING-SUMMER 2009
RICHARD WRIGHT
Contents
2	Introduction: The Richard Wright Centennial in Paris / GUEST EDITOR, MELBA JOYCE BOYD
10	Poetry: “Images” / NAOMI LONG MADGETT; “Haiku for Michel Fabre” / TORU KIUCHI
11	Becoming: Richard Wright and the WPA / THADIOUS M. DAVIS
17	The Role of Violence in the Works of Wright and Fanon / PATRICK WILMOT
23	“White People to Either Side”: Native Son and the Poetics of Space / ISABEL SOTO
27	Not Everybody’s Protest Film, Either: Native Son among Controversial Film Adaptations / PAGE LAWS
34	Red, White, and the Blues: Translating the Existentialism in Richard Wright’s Fiction into Film / MELBA JOYCE BOYD
40	On “Third Consciousness” in the Fiction of Richard Wright / CHEN XU
46	Dissecting The Long Dream: The Revelation of Secrets on the Path to Manhood / CORRY A. COLONNA
51	Richard Wright, The Outsider and the Empire of Liberal Pluralism: Race and American Expansion after World War II / JOSEPH KEITH
59	Teaching Richard Wright’s Haiku in Japan / TORU KIUCHI
63	“Bigger in Nazi Germany”: Transcultural Confrontations of Richard Wright and Hans Jurgen Massaquoi / FRANK MEHRING
72	Jena, Abu Ghraib, and Katrina: Using Popular Culture to Teach Wright’s Works / MARK MADIGAN
78	Straightjacketed into the Future: Richard Wright and the Ambiguities of Decolonization / SOSTENE MASSIMO ZANGARI
84	THEBLACKSCHOLAR Book Reviews: “Bad Bitches” and Sassy Spermamas: Black Power Action Films, by Stephanie Dunn / RALINA L. JOSEPH
86	Classified
87	Contributing Authors

Volume 38, No. 4WINTER 2008
BARACK OBAMA 2009
Contents
2	Inaugural Address / PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
6	Is Barack Obama the End of White Politics? / CHARLES P. HENRY
11	Obama and the Media / HERB BOYD
19	The Red and Blue State Divide in Black and White: The Historic 2008 Election of President Barack Obama / HANES WALTON, JR., JOSEPHINE A. V. ALLEN, SHERMAN C. PUCKETT, DONALD R. DESKINS, JR.
32	“A Black Scholar Readers’ Forum on President Obama / ROBERT L. ALLEN ‧ JARED A. BALL ‧ LINDA BURNHAM ‧ CYNTHIA MCKINNEY ‧ THABITI ASUKILE ‧ DAVID COVIN
50	THEBLACKSCHOLAR 40th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: November 19-21, 2009
52	THEBLACKSCHOLAR Book Reviews: What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave to Poison, by Camile T. Dungy / SEAN HILL
54	THEBLACKSCHOLAR Books Received
56	Contributing Authors

Volume 38, No. 2-3SUMMER-FALL 2008
YARI YARI PAMBERI
Contents
2	“Globalology” / Poem for Opening Session of Yari Yari Pamberi 2004 / JAYNE CORTEZ
4	Sister Strength: Yari Yari Pamberi Conference of Black Women Writers from All Over the Globe, NYU, October 12-16, 2004 / BERNADETTE ADAMS DAVIS
5	Yari Yari Pamberi 2004 Conference Schedule
8	Literary Feminism in Africa and its Diaspora: Women Writers, Feminism and Globalization / SOKHNA BENGA
10	Biographies, Autobiographies, and Memoirs, Taking Poetic License: a Poet Writing About Poets / MELBA JOYCE BOYD
14	Globalization and the Media Industry / ROBERT CHRISMAN
17	Impact of New Technologies and Globalization on Literature, Publishing, and Distribution in the African Diaspora / PATRICIA SPEARS JONES
19	Globalizing Resistance: Crafting and Strengthening African Feminist Solidarities / PATRICIA MCFADDEN
21	Impact of New Technologies and Globalization on Literature, Publishing, and Distribution in the African Diaspora / LOUISE MERIWETHER
24	Globalization and International Labor / CHARLENE MITCHELL
27	War Against Women and Women Against War: Waging War on the Mind / NAWAL EL SAADAWI
33	YARI YARI PAMBERI POETRY
49	“I Thank You Yari Yari Pamberi”: Letter Accepting Prize for Modern Poetry / NANCY MOREJÓN
51	Closing Poem: “Revisiting Yari Yari: Black Women Writers and the Future, 1997 Conference” / JAYNE CORTEZ
54	REVIEW ESSAY: A Great Cartoonist Finally Gets Her Due: Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist, by Nancy Goldstein / JOHN WOODFORD
61	Black Books Roundup #33
65	THEBLACKSCHOLAR Books Received
68	THEBLACKSCHOLAR Classified
70	Contributing Authors / MAIZE WOODFORD

Volume 38, No. 1SPRING 2008
BARACK OBAMA
Contents
2	Preface / THE EDITORS
3	Obama ’08 – Articulate and Clean / CHARLES P. HENRY
17	"A More Perfect Union" / SEN. BARACK OBAMA
24	Obama’s Edge: Understanding Nation Time / RONALD WALTERS
34	“We Must Lead the World”: The Obama Doctrine and the Re-branding of U.S. Hegemony / CLARENCE LUSANE
44	Lest We Forget: An Open Letter to My Sisters / ALICE WALKER
47	Intersectionality: Race and Gender in the 2008 Presidential Nomination Campaign / DIANNE M. PINDERHUGHES
55	Barack Obama and the Complicated Boundaries of Blackness / RONALD WILLIAMS, II
62	Review Essay: Ralph Ellison and the Agony of the Token / ISHMAEL REED
69	THEBLACKSCHOLAR Classified
70	Poems / ROBERT CHRISMAN
73	BLACK SCHOLAR UNIVERSITY PRESS EXPO
77	THEBLACKSCHOLAR Books Received
80	Contributing Authors