Introduction: Going Electric
Paul J. Edwards
Violent Illumination: Street Lamps as Sites of Lynching and Black Resistance
Leah S. Yared
When Militancy Was in Vogue: Amiri Baraka, Langston Hughes, and the Precarious Desires of White Audiences
Zachary Manditch-Prottas
Sex and the Future of History: Black Politics at the Limit in Sutton E. Griggs’ Imperium in Imperio
Melissa A. Wright
Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America by E. James West / Sid Ahmed Ziane; Dear Science and Other Stories by Katherine McKittrick / Cera Smith; Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature: Memories and Futures Past by Christopher E.W. Ouma / Daniel Chukwuemeka; Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights by Samantha Pinto / Margarita Lila Rosa; Black Sexual Economies: Race and Sex in a Culture of Capital
edited by Adrienne D. Davis / Kirin Wachter-Grene
Introduction: Vaccines, Antidotes, Cures
Louis Chude-Sokei
Antidoting
Jared Sexton
Interview: Howard University & the Challenge of the Black University A Conversation with Andrew Billingsley & Greg E. Carr
Amy Yeboah
Roundtable: What Was African Fiction? A Roundtable on Mukoma Wa Ngugi’s The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity and Ownership (University of Michigan Press, 2018)
Madhu Krishnan, Christopher Ouma, Laura Chrisman & Mukoma Wa Ngugi
A Conversation with Cover Artist Abu Qadim Haqq
Louis Chude-Sokei
Review Essay: Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women; Flaming?: The Peculiar Theopolitics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance; Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy Across the Black Diaspora
Paul J. Edwards
1919 by Eve L. Ewing / Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu; A Black Women’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross / Channon S. Miller
Caribbean Global Movements: An Introduction
Carole Boyce-Davies & Angelique V. Nixon
Reflections on Haiti
Angela Y. Davis
The Mobility of the Haitian Revolution: Mingo, Obeah and the Struggle for Freedom in Barbados
Patrick D. M. Taylor
Antillean Women and Black Internationalism: The Feminine Genealogy of Negritude
Myriam Moïse
Site Memory (Art)
Philippe W. Dodard
Caribbean Health and Sustainability through Cuban Model: A Personal Professional Assessment
Evelyn Erickson , MD
Decolonial Migration, Crimmigration, and the American Dream Nightmare in Ibi Zoboi’s Spirit Worlds
Marsha Jean-Charles
Caribbean Archipelagos and Mainlands: Building Resistance against Climate Change
Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
The Universal Declaration of Marronage
Attillah Springer
The Point is to Change the World: Selected Writings of Andaiye edited by Alissa Trotz /Aaron Kamugisha; Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty by Ana-Maurine Lara / Angelique V. Nixon; Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization by Monique Bedasse / Shamara Wyllie Alhassan; Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War by Vincent Brown / Edward E. Baptist
Introduction: Black Privacy: Against Possession
Samantha Pinto & Shoniqua Roach
Confinement, Interiority, Black Feminist Study: A Forum on Davis’s “Reflections” at 50
Sarah Haley, Shoniqua Roach, Emily Owens & Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Impossible Privacy: Black Women and Police Terror
Christen A. Smith
The Sound of Luxury: Antiblackness, Silence, and the Private Island Resort
Petal Samuel
Minor Characters, Major Silences, or Against the Compulsion to Talk
Roger Reeves
Black Lyric Privacy
Kevin Quashie
The History of Micro-Organisms, Black Genealogies, and the Matter of Privacy
Deirdre Cooper Owens
Capture, Illegibility, Necessity: A Conversation on Black Privacy
Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman & Simone Browne
White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture by Priscilla Layne / Paul J. Edwards; Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies edited by Leslie M. Harris, James T. Campbell, and Alfred L. Brophy / Vineeta Singh; After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life by Joshua Chambers-Letson / Anna Ziering
Introduction: Black Girlhood
Shireen K. Lewis
Voices of Black Girls in SisterMentors on COVID-19 and Racism
Multiple
Black Girl Interiority in Toni Cade Bambara’s Gorilla, My Love
Nazera Sadiq Wright
Black Girl Bodies: Notes on the Legacy of Colonialism in South America and the Urgency of a Black Liberation Project for Black Girls
Maria Ximena Abello-Hurtado-Mandinga
Ironheart, Marvel Comics, and The Crisis of Black Girl Representation
Kiana T. Murphy
Nou pa gen vizibilite: Haitian Girlhood beyond the Logics of Visibility
Régine Michelle Jean-Charles
Young, Bubbly, and Black: The Affective Performance of Black Girlhood in Kirsten Childs's The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin
Jordan Ealey
Digital Communities of Black Girlhood: New Media Technologies and Online Discourses of Empowerment
Maryann Erigha & Ashley Crooks-Allen
Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean, by Lyndon K. Gill / Ryan Joyce; Mapping Diaspora: African American Roots Tourism in Brazil, by Patricia de Santana Pinho / Theresa Hice Fromille; Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, by Reni Eddo-Lodge / DeReef F. Jamison; Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy, by Alisha Gaines / Justin Smith
Introduction: What Was Black Studies?
Louis Chude-Sokei
“Western Civilization is Neither”: Black Studies’ Epistemic Revolution
Robin D.G. Kelley
The Souls of Black Queer Female Folk
Michelle M. Wright
The Radical “Possibilities” of Black Studies
Kehinde Andrews
Afropessimism and Futures of … : A Conversation with Frank Wilderson
Linette Park
Shifting the Geography of Reason in Black and Africana Studies
Lewis R. Gordon
Africology, Afrocentricity, and What Remains to Be Done
Molefi Kete Asante
Reflections on Chairing African American Studies from a Black Girl Exile
Siobhan Brooks
Contours, Continuities, and Evolutions in Africana Radical Thought: A Conversation with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Keisha-Khan Y. Perry & Tasneem Siddiqui
Excerpt from the Journal of Allan Ross, TBS co-Founder
Introduction: Black Radical Pleasure
Kirin Wachter-Grene & Louis Chude-Sokei
Undisciplining the Black Pussy: Pleasure, Black Feminism, and Sexuality in Issa Rae’s insecure
Carmel Ohman
Something in the Holy Water Ain’t Clean: Time and Religious Inversion in Hal Bennett’s Lord of Dark Places
Omari Weekes
A Black Church, Black Woman, and the Lure of Black BDSM
K. Thomas
The Limits of Desire: Jacolby Satterwhite and the Maternal Elsewhere
Amber Jamilla Musser
Caretaking in So Many Ways: A Conversation with Mistress Velvet
Kirin Wachter-Grene
Finding Family
Heather Raquel Phillips
“They Are Busy With This Woman”: The Abject Erotics of Gayl Jones’s Eva’s Man
Anna Ziering
Closing the Distance or, The (Im)possible Politics of The Yield in Carrie Mae Weems’ Not Manet’s Type
Amaris Diana Brown
Chez Jolie Coiffure (film), by Rosine Mbakam/Lauren Siegel; Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton / Tiffany Lethabo King
Introduction: Going Imperial
Louis Chude-Sokei
Intellect, Art, Culture: Legacies of The New Negro; A Forum on Jeffrey C. Stewart’s Biography of Alain Locke
Stephanie Leigh Batiste
Interview with Jeffrey Conrad Stewart, author of The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
Stephanie Leigh Batiste
Alain Locke and the Project of Black Studies
Cheryl A. Wall
Cosmopolitanism as Conscience
Gilbert NMO Morris
On Black Bottom Epistemologies and The New Negro
Terrance Wooten
African Fugitivities
Matthew Omelsky
Rites, Rights and Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia’s Black Pacific, by Michael Birenbaum Quintero/Bettina Ng’weno; The Scramble for Europe: Young Africa on Its Way to the Old Continent, by Stephen Smith/Julien Brachet; Technicolored: Reflections on Race in the Time of TV, by Ann duCille/Michael Litwack
Introduction Black Performance II: Knowing and Being
Stephanie Leigh Batiste
“Presencing” Pleasure and Pain in Hispanophone Caribbean Performance
Melissa Blanco Borelli
A Politics of Tenderness Camille A. Brown and Dancers’ BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play
Jasmine Elizabeth Johnson
Gestural Refusals, Embodied Flights Janelle Monáe’s Vision of Black Queer Futurity
Aleksandra Szaniawska
Of Treads and Thunder The Insurgent Listening of Lorraine Hansberry and James Baldwin Shana L. Redmond
Shana L. Redmond
Embodying the Break in Sidney Bechet’s “Summertime”
Rashida K. Braggs
Radical Intellect: Liberator Magazine and Black Activism in the 1960s, by Christopher M. Tinson/Omar Swartz; Work, Social Status, and Gender in Post-Slavery Mauritania, by Katherine Ann Wiley/Darryl L. Jones II; White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, by Robin DiAngelo/Unique Cooper and & Diana Santay
Introduction Black Performance I: Subject and Method
Stephanie Leigh Batiste
Solano Trindade’s Gift to Alvin Ailey: New Evidence from the Black Archives of Mid-America
Ananya Jahanara Kabir & Francesca Negro
Afrosporic Intimacies: Breath, Song, and Wind in M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!
Sasha Ann Panaram
Feeling and Falling in Arthur Jafa’s Love is the Message, the Message is Death
Christina Knight
Reppin’ Blackness: Five Beats on the Art of Derrick Adams
Isaiah Matthew Wooden
The Afterlife of Aretha Franklin's “Rock Steady:” A Case Study in DJ Scholarship
DJ Lynnée Denise
The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil by Jaime Amparo Alves/Stephanie Reist; The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages by François-Xavier Fauvelle/John K. Thornton; Ezili’s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders
by Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley/Darius Bost; Street Players: Black Pulp Fiction and the Making of a Literary Underground by Kinohi Nishikawa/Zachary Manditch-Prottas
Introduction: Black Masculinities and the Matter of Vulnerability
Darius Bost, La Marr Jurelle Bruce & Brandon J. Manning
“Are We MEN!!” Blackness, (Non)masculinities, and the Grammar of the Interrogative in Early Anti-slavery Discourse
Frederick C. Staidum Jr.
Buck Theory
Joshua Bennett
A Tenuous Hold
Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman
Reflections: On Black Masculinity and Bereavement
Javon Johnson
Uncertain Freedom: RuPaul, Sylvester, and Black Queer Contingency
GerShun Avilez
Afterword
L.H. Stallings
Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women, edited by Brittney C. Cooper/Martasia M. Carter; Rhodes Must Fall: The Struggle to Decolonise the Racist Heart of Empire, edited by R. Chantiluke, B. Kwoba, and A. Nkopo/Tovio Asheeke; Scandalize My Name: Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life, by Terrion L. Williamson/Shoniqua Roach; An Unseen Light: Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee, edited by Aram Goudsouzian and Charles W. McKinney Jr./Brian Kwoba
Introduction An ImPossibility: Black Queer and Trans* Aesthetics
Shanté Paradigm Smalls & Elliott H. Powell
Black Femme Praxis and the Promise of Black Gender
Treva Carrie Ellison
Performing Bafflement: Time and Space in Photographer Ayana Jackson’s To Kill or Allow to Live
Sarah Stefana Smith
Unmastered: The Queer Black Aesthetics of Unfinished Recordings
Elliott H. Powell
Play Aunties and Dyke Bitches: Gender, Generation, and the Ethics of Black Queer Kinship
Savannah Shange
Black Fugitivity Un/Gendered
Marquis Bey