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Recent Issues

Fall 2021
Vol.51, No.3

Antidoting

Press Release

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

Book Reviews

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

Summer 2021
Vol.51, No.2

Caribbean Global Movements

Press Release

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

Book Reviews

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

Spring 2021
Vol.51, No.1

Black Privacy

Press Release

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

Book Reviews

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

Winter 2020
Vol.50, No.4

Black Girlhood

Press Release

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

Book Reviews

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

Fall 2020
Vol.50, No.3

What Was Black Studies?

Press Release

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

Book Reviews

Summer 2020
Vol.50, No.2

At the Limits of Desire: Black Radical Pleasure

Press Release

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

Book Reviews

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

Spring 2020
Vol.50, No.1

Going Imperial

Press Release

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

Book Reviews

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

Winter 2019
Vol.49, No.4

Black Performance II: Knowing and Being

Press Release

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

Book Reviews

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

Fall 2019
Vol.49, No.3

Black Performance I: Subject and Method

Press Release

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

Book Reviews

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

Summer 2019
Vol.49, No.2

Black Masculinities and the Matter of Vulnerability

Press Release

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

Book Reviews

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

Spring 2019
Vol.49, No.1

Black Queer and Trans* Aesthetics

Press Release

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

Book Reviews
Today I Shall Judge Nothing That Occurs: Selections from the Ektachrome Archive, by Lyle Ashton Harris/Lyndon K. Gill;Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States, by Su’ad Abdul Khabeer/Hayley Blackburn; Harambee City: The Congress of Racial Equality in Cleveland and the Rise of Black Power Populism, by Nishani Frazier/Dara Walker; The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood, by Tommy J. Curry/Jesús Gregorio Smith; Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America, by George Yancy/Travis Franks

Winter 2018
Vol.48, No.4

Returnings

Press Release

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

Book Reviews

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

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