Introduction: The Political Legacy of Chokwe Lumumba
Akinyele Umoja
The People Must Decide: Chokwe Lumumba, New Black Power, and the Potential for Participatory Democracy in Mississippi
Akinyele Umoja
The 2013 Election of Mayor Chokwe Lumumba: Implications for Black Self-Determination in the Twenty-First Century
Michael Simanga
Living Lumumba’s Legacy and Manifesting the People’s Platform: A Conversation with Rukia and Chokwe Antar Lumumba
Asantewa Fulani Sunni-Ali
No More Strange Fruits: In Memory of Chokwe Lumumba
Jesus “Chucho” Garcia
Repression and Black Liberation, by Chokwe Lumumba With Introduction by Akinyele Umoja
Perspectives on Human Rights: A Question of Alliances in a State of War, by Chokwe Lumumba With Introduction by Akinyele Umoja
Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence and Performance in Brazil, by Christen A. Smith/Geísa Mattos; Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South, by Talitha L. LeFlouria/Fabian Eggers; Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy, by LaShawn Harris/LaKisha Michelle Simmons; Battle for Bed-Stuy: The Long War on Poverty in New York City, by Michael Woodsworth/Courtney Pierre Cain; Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage, by Sowande’ M. Mustakeem/Lewis B.H. Eliot
Introduction: The Black Mise-en-Femme
Mia Mask
“Don't Be a Martyr”: Kinship, Intimacy, and Carceral Care in Ava DuVernay's Middle of Nowhere
Marquita R. Smith
Black Women Having It All: The Rise of Professional Women in African American Romance Films
Maryann Erigha
American Dreams and Demons: Television's “Hollow” Histories and Fantasies of Race
Lynne Joyrich
Trending Topics: A Cultural Analysis of Being Mary Jane and Black Women's Engagement on Twitter
Felicia L. Harris & Loren Saxton Coleman
Caught Between a Thot and a Hard Place: The Politics of Black Female Sexuality at the Intersection of Cinema and Reality Television
April D. Lundy
Jam in the Vine, by Lashonda Katrice Barnett/David B. Green Jr.; Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State, by Ira Dworkin/Brenda Gayle Plummer; The Black Jacobins Reader, edited by Charles Forsdick and Christian Hogsbjerg/Jesse Olsavsky; The Poitier Effect: Racial Melodrama and Fantasies of Reconciliation, by Sharon Willis/Allissa V. Richardson; New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South, by Claudrena N. Harold/Erik S. Gellman
Winter 2017
Vol.47, No.4
Introduction: Blackness as Method
Louis Chude-Sokei
Lerone Bennett, Jr.: A Life in Popular Black History
E. James West
Notions of Blackness in the Context of HIV/AIDS Disparities and Research
Chandra L. Ford
Black on Black Love: Black Lesbian and Bisexual Women, Marriage, and Symbolic Meaning
Siobhan Brooks
August Wilson and American Theater: An Interview with Frank Rich
Nathaniel G. Nesmith
Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique, by Robert F. Reid-Pharr/Colton Saylor; The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and Black Panther Party in Oakland, by Robyn C. Spencer/Akinyele Umoja; In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs, by Stephen M. Ward/Joy Huang Stoffers
Review Essay: “They Call it Bronzeville”: Revisiting Chicago’s South Side/Jennifer D. Williams
Introduction: Wild Seed in the Machine
Jessica Marie Johnson & Mark Anthony Neal
Coal: Black Matter Oracle
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Freeing Black Codes: liquid blackness Plays the Jazz Ensemble
Lauren McLeod Cramer & Alessandra Raengo
Decoding Black Feminist Hashtags as Becoming
Tara L. Conley
“New Genres of Being Human”: World Making through Viral Blackness
Ashleigh Greene Wade
Black Scholars Matter: #BlkTwitterstorians Building a Digital Community
Aleia M. Brown & Joshua Crutchfield
Color Coded: Mendi + Keith Obadike’s Black.Net.Art Actions and the Language of Computer Networks
Megan Driscoll
Cracking the Codes of Black Power Struggles: Hacking, Hacked, and Black Lives Matter
Ahmad Greene-Hayes & Joy James
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy, by Heather Thompson/James Kilgore; Emmett Till in Different States: Poems, by Phllip C. Kolin/Beth Wilson; The Myth of Post-Racialism in Television News, by Libby Lewis/Allissa V. Richardson; Freedom Is a Constant Struggle, by Angela Davis/Mahmoud Zidan
Introduction: Black Studies, South Africa, and the Mythology of Mandela
Litheko Modisane, Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi & Christopher Ouma
The Case for Black Studies in South Africa
Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi
The Violence of Belonging
Khwezi Mkhize
I'm Always More Interested in the Shadow than the Light: An Interview with Yewande Omotoso
Christopher Ouma & Sarah Smit
Politics by Other Means? The Political Economy of Xenophobic Violence in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Jean Pierre Misago
Beyond the Elder Statesman: Reflections on Teaching About Mandela and South Africa in Neo-liberal Times
Tshepo Masango Chéry
Imagine the Sound: Experimental African American Literature After Civil Rights, by Carter Mathes/Jeramy DeCristo; A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life, by Allyson Hobbs/Fabian Eggers; Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment, by Michael Javen Fortner/Mary Pattillo; Street Poison: The Biography of Iceberg Slim, by Justin Gifford/Alexandra Smith
Introduction: Black Experimental Poetics
David Marriott
Nation Times
Aldon Lynn Nielsen
Song of the Andoumboulou: 158
Nathaniel Mackey
The Erotics of Mourning in Recent Experimental Black Poetry
Anthony Reed
“Please feel free to perform the text”: Making Slavery Work in a “Colorblind” Era
Evie Shockley
Lucy & All of Us
Ronaldo Wilson
An Ars Poetica from the Blue Clerk
Dionne Brand
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Winter 2016
Vol.46, No.4
Editor's Note: Backlash Blues
Louis Chude-Sokei
Tribute to Cedric Robinson: Constructing a History of the Future
W.F. Santiago-Valles
“The Monk Variations”
Anthony Walton
Courting the Senses: Experiential Learning and Civil Rights Movement Pedagogy
Françoise N. Hamlin
When We Enter: the Blackness of Rachel Dolezal
Marquis Bey & Theodora Sakellarides
Race, Pornography, and Desire: A TBS Roundtable
Louis Chude-Sokei, Ariane Cruz, Amber Jamilla Musser, Jennifer C. Nash, L.H. Stallings & Kirin Wachter-Grene
The Black Pacific: Anti-Colonial Struggles and Oceanic Connections, by Robbie Shilliam/Quito Swan; F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature, by William J. Maxwell/Margo Natalie Crawford; Malcolm X’s Michigan Worldview: An Exemplar for Contemporary Black Studies, edited by Rita Kiki Edozie and Curtis Stokes/Laura Warren Hill; Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson, by Barbara Ransby/Edward Onaci
Introduction: Climate Justice: Blacks and Climate Change
Shireen K. Lewis
An Interview with Dr. Robert D. Bullard
Shireen K. Lewis
A Policy Approach Toward Climate Justice
Jalonne Lynay White-Newsome
Ecowomanism: Black Women, Religion, and the Environment
Melanie L. Harris
What Do We Know About Climate Change: The Jamaican Pedro Cays Fishers' Case
April Karen Baptiste
Mercy Mercy Me, A (Climate) Change is Going to Come
Leslie G. Fields
Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II, by Farah Jasmine Griffin/Stephanie Batiste; Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors, by Carolyn Finney/Stephanie Hankinson; Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music and Pan-African Solidarity, by Tsitsi Ella Jaji/Adwoa K. Opong; The Dominican Republic Reader: History, Culture, Politics, edited by Eric Paul Roorda, Lauren Derby, and Raymundo González/Juan José Ponce-Vázquez
The #BlackFeministFiyah Re-Up: An Introduction
Treva B. Lindsey
Finding Olive Morris in the Archive: Reflections on the Remembering Olive Collective and Community History
Tanisha C. Ford
"Technology of Living": Toward a Black Feminist Religious Thought
Tamura A. Lomax
More than Human: Black Feminisms of the Future in Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories
Susana M. Morris
Between Rocks and Hard Places: Introducing Black Feminist Professional Philosophy
Kristie Dotson
Chicago Hustle and Flow: Gangs, Gangster Rap, and Social Class, by Geoff Harkness/Christian L. Bolden; Freedom’s Children: The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica, by Colin A. Palmer/Mark Christian; The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s, by Mary Helen Washington/Brian Dolinar; The Age of Garvey: How A Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics, by Adam Ewing/Robert Trent Vinson; The Post-Racial Mystique: Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century, by Catherine R. Squires/Myra Washington
Introduction: Black Moves: New Research in Black Dance Studies
Thomas F. DeFrantz & Tara Aisha Willis
Stumbling into Place: Seeing Blackness in David Thomson’s Choreographies of Ambiguity
Tara Aisha Willis
Beyond Hierarchy: Reimagining African Diaspora Dance in Higher Education Curricula
Takiyah Nur Amin
Un/Natural Disaster and Dancing: Hurricane Katrina and Second Lining in New Orleans
Rachel Carrico
“Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around”: Spirituals as Embodied Acts of Resistance
P. Kimberleigh Jordan
Katherine Dunham’s Southland and the Archival Quality of Black Dance
Tayana L. Hardin
The Diasporic Re-membering Space of Jean Appolon’s Afro-Haitian Dance Classes
Dasha Chapman
Bone-Breaking, Black Social Dance, and Queer Corporeal Orature
Thomas F. DeFrantz
Divergent Dictions: Contemporary Dominican Literature, by Néstor E. Rodríguez / Sharina Maillo-Pozo; Afro-Nordic Landscapes: Equality and Race in Northern Europe, edited by Michael McEachrane / Trica Danielle Keaton
Winter 2015
Vol.45, No.4
Introduction: A Love Letter to Black Feminism
Treva B. Lindsey
Love No Limit: Towards a Black Feminist Future (In Theory)
Brittney C. Cooper
(Re)Presenting Shug Avery and Afrekete: The Search for a Black, Queer, and Feminist Pleasure Praxis
Kaila Adia Story
Why We Get Off: Moving Towards a Black Feminist Politics of Pleasure
Joan Morgan
Alter Egos and Infinite Literacies, Part III: How to Build a Real Gyrl in 3 Easy Steps
Jessica Marie Johnson & Kismet Nuñez
Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era, by Dan Berger / Lee Bernstein; Visible Man: The Life of Henry Dumas, by Jeffery B. Leak / Melvin G. Hill; / The East is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination, by Robeson Taj Frazier / Bill V. Mullen; / Black Women Against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil, by Keisha-Khan Y. Perry / Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor; / The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography, by Jennifer C. Nash / Kirin Wachter-Grene
Fall 2015
Vol.45, No.3
High Tides and New Formations
Introduction: High Tides and New Formations
Louis Chode-Sokei
News Orleans Revisited: Notes of Native Daughter
Lynnell L. Thomas
In the Wake of the Storm: Mentoring Programs, Community Groups, and a New Civil Rights Movement After Hurricane Katrina
Nikki Brown
Saving St. Paul: Race, Development, and Heritage Politics in Dallas, Texas
Jodi Skipper
Food for Thought: Using Critical Pedagogy in Mentoring African American Adolescent Males
Horace R. Hall
‘No tienes que entenderlo”: Xiomara Fortuna, Racism, Feminism, and Other Forces in the Dominincan Republic
Rachel Afi Quinn
Desire & Disaster in New Orleans: Tourism, Race, and Historical Memory, by Lynnell L. Thomas / Stephanie Hankinson; Stokely: A Life, by Peniel E. Joseph / Toivo Asheeke