Recent Issues

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

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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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

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