Recent Issues

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

Black Studies Post-Janus
Jonathan Fenderson

Interview with John Jennings, Featuring Alternate and Draft Panels from Kindred: the Graphic Novel Adaptation
Stephanie L. Batiste, Mary Anne Boelcskevy & Shireen K. Lewis

Revisiting the Gomez Imperative: Exchanging Our Country Marks and the Africana Studies Tradition, ASWAD, 2017
Monique Bedasse

Organized Disorder: The New York City Jail Rebellion of 1970
Orisanmi Burton

Blackness and Becoming: Édouard Glissant’s Retour
Louis Chude-Sokei

The Political Legacy of Thabo Mbeki
Sanya Osha

Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era, by Ashley Farmer/Jasmin Young; Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom, by Keisha N. Blain/Errol A. Henderson; Class, Race, and Marxism, by David R. Roediger/Siddhant Issar; The Anticolonial Front: The African American Freedom Struggle and Global Decolonisation, 1945–1960, by John Munro/Ryan Irwin; Ghosts of the African Diaspora: Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity, by Joanne Chassot/Adishree Vats & Anurag Kumar

Introduction
Shireen K. Lewis

Get in Formation: Black Women’s Participation in the Women’s March on Washington as an Act of Pragmatic Utopianism
Tehama Lopez Bunyasi & Candis Watts Smith

“Where Paradise Will Hopefully One Day Be”: An Interview About Sexuality, Home, and Diaspora with Chinelo Okparanta
Bernie Lombardi

Challenging the Stigma of an All-Black School: The Selma High Story
Erik Gleibermann

“We Are Not an Organically City People”: Black Modernity and the Afterimages of Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust
Pacharee Sudhinaraset

Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law, by James Q. Whitman/Gerald Early; The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam, by Ula Yvette Taylor/Kayla Wheeler; Fault Line: Views Across Haiti’s Divide, by Beverly Bell/Angel Adams Parham; First Martyr of Liberty: Crispus Attucks in American Memory, by Mitch Kachun/Christopher Cameron; Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, by Ibram X. Kendi/T. Owens Moore

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

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