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
Book Reviews:
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
Book Reviews:
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
Summer 2015
Vol 45, No. 2
Dominican Black Studies
Introduction: The Challenge and Promise of Dominican Black Studies
Raj Chetty and Amaury Rodríquez
Translating Blackness: Dominicans Negotiating Race and Belonging
Lorgia Garcia-Peña
An Epidemic of Negrophobia: Blackness and the Legacy of the US Occupation of the Dominican Republic
Micah Wright
Race, Legacy, and Lineage in the Dominican Republic: Shifting Paradigms
Eva Michelle Wheeler
Salomé Ureña’s Blurred Edges: Race, Gender, and Commemoration in the Dominican Republic
Dixa Ramirez
The Heart of La Vega … is Haitian!
Dió-genes Abréu
Poetry
Lemba
Ramón Francisco
I’m Trying to Tell You of My Country
Jacques Viau Renaud
Choral Salute to the Poet Leopold Sedar Senghor
Juan Sánchez Lamouth
El Corte
Marianela Medrano
Book Reviews:
Sin haitianidad no hay dominicanidad: Cartografía de una identidad que se bifurca, by Dió-genes Abréu / Amarilys Estrella; The African Presence in Santo Domingo, by Carlos Andújar / Charlton W. Yingling; Masculinity after Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature, by Maja Horn / Alaí Reyes-Santos; The Mulatto Republic: Class, Race, and Dominican National Identity, by April Mayes / Anne Eller
Spring 2015
Vol 45, No. 1
Scandalous
Introduction
Louis Chude-Sokei
A Roundtable Conversation on Scandal
Mia Mask
Shonda Rhimes, Scandal, and the Politics of Crossing Over
Maryann Erigha
If Loving Olitz is Wrong, I Don’t Wanna Be Right: ABC’s Scandal and the Affect of Black Female Desire
Kristin J. Warner
The Sound of Scandal: Crisis Management and the Musical Mediation of Racial Desire
Brandeise Monk-Payton
Trope and Associates: Olivia Pope’s Scandalous Blackness
Tara-Lynne Pixley
Scandalicious: Scandal, Social Media, and Shonda Rhimes’ Auteurist Juggernaut
Anna Everett
Silence: On the History of Hearing and Seeing Blind Tom
Jeffery Renard Allen
Looking Back, Facing Forward: (Re)-Imagining a Global Africa
Olúfémi Táíwò
Film Review: The New Black, directed by Yoruba Richen
Charles I. Nero
Documenting the Intersection of Race, Sexuality, and Faith: An Interview with Yoruba Richen
Charles I. Nero
Book Review: Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century, by Kyla Wazana Tompkins
Natasha O’Neill
Coming Up. . .Dominican Black Studies, the 10th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Black Feminism, Black Dance, Blacks and Climate Change, and more!
Winter 2014
Vol 44, No. 3
The Black Scholar Classics: Issues of Continuing Relevance
with special Maya Angelou Memorial Cover
Introduction
Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua
“Past Due: The African American Quest for Reparations,” TBS 28, no. 2, Black Special Issues (Summer 1998)
Robert Allen
Robert L. Allen’s “Past Due: The African American Quest for Reparations”: A Contemporary Observation
Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua
“Making Waves: The Theory and Practice of Black Feminism,” TBS 28, no. 2, Black Special Issues (Summer 1998)
Ula Y. Taylor
Ula Y. Taylor’s “Making Waves: The Theory and Practice of Black Feminism”: A Contemporary Observation
Treva B. Lindsey
“Culture: Negro, Black and Nigger,” TBS 1, no. 8, Black Culture (June 1970)
Johnnetta B. Cole
Johnnetta B. Cole’s “Culture: Negro, Black and Nigger”: A Contemporary Observation
Louis Chude-Sokei
Book Review
And Bid Him Sing: A Biography of Countée Cullen by Charles Molesworth
Christine L. Montgomery
