In this Issue

Table of Contents

In Memoriam: Phebus Etienne (1966-2007)

Rachel Eliza Griffiths
p. 695
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0063
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Poetry

Sixty ft. of Bubble Gum, Endorphins, and a Mortgage

John Franklin Dandridge
p. 1019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0074
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Bessie's Hymn

Nehassaiu de Gannes
pp. 1012-1013
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0076
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Undressing the River

Nehassaiu de Gannes
pp. 1010-1011
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0042
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A Lesson from My Neighbor

Phebus Etienne
p. 973
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0066
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Avenues Revisited

Phebus Etienne
pp. 968-969
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0072
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Family Soil

Phebus Etienne
p. 970
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0038
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First Departure-February 1973

Phebus Etienne
pp. 974-975
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0044
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Mirror Image

Phebus Etienne
p. 971
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0050
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Skeleton Key

Phebus Etienne
p. 972
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0057
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The Family Voice

John Frazier
p. 1033
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0064
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A House Is Not a Home

Terrance Hayes
pp. 985-986
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0048
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Small Flames in my Hands

Goddonny Normil
p. 1079
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0051
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May

Nadia Nurhussein
p. 1017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0058
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Ode to Ethiopia--after Paul Laurence Dunbar

Nadia Nurhussein
p. 1018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0065
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All Your Sadness Will Be Arkansas

Iain Haley Pollock
p. 978
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0037
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Statues in the Park

D. Antwan Stewart
p. 1034
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0075
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Reclining Nude, c. 1977, Romare Bearden

Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
pp. 1031-1032
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0069
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Sweet Blood

Kevin Young
pp. 1069-1070
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0060
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Drama

Northeast

Kyle Bass
pp. 1071-1078
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0055
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Toxic Prayers

Christine Jean Chambers
pp. 1020-1030
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0062
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Fiction

from The Outside Child

Tayari Jones
pp. 979-984
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0061
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Muzungu

Namwali Serpell
pp. 1081-1089
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0056
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Non-Fiction Prose

Future Imperfect: An Introduction

Keith D. Leonard, Kyle Dargan
pp. 959-963
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0070
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Shrinking Violet

Joseph O. Legaspi
pp. 976-977
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0073
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In Memoriam: Phebus Etienne

January O'Neil
pp. 966-967
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0071
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Literary and Cultural Criticism

Dionne Brand's Poetics of Recognition: Reframing Sexual Rights

Greg A. Mullins
pp. 1100-1109
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0045
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Haunting and Haunted Queerness: Randall Kenan's Re-inscription of Difference in A Visitation of Spirits

Maisha Wester
pp. 1035-1053
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0041
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Black Power: Minstrelsy and Electricity in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

Johnnie Wilcox
pp. 987-1009
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0047
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Interviews & Conversations

A Burden of Flame: An Interview with Amanda Johnston

Kyle G. Dargan, Amanda Johnston
pp. 1096-1099
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0040
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"Bx Worldwide": An Interview with Miles Marshall Lewis

Kyle G. Dargan, Miles Marshall Lewis
pp. 1090-1095
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0046
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Everything We Can Imagine: An Interview with Harryette Mullen

Kyle G. Dargan, Harryette Romell Mullen
pp. 1014-1016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0052
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First Questions: The Mission of Africana Studies:An Interview with Hortense Spillers

Keith D. Leonard
pp. 1054-1068
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0039
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Reviews

Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinityin the Hip-Hop Generation, and: From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism (review)

Eve Dunbar
pp. 1114-1117
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0059
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Like Trees, Walking (review)

Jacqueline Jones LaMon
pp. 1117-1119
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0067
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Red Summer, and: Tokyo Butter (review)

Jacquelyn Pope
pp. 1110-1113
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0043
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"Yet what connects those dots": The Slim Rim of Fear in Major Jackson's Hoops

Page Richards
pp. 1119-1121
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0049
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Recyclopedia, and: a half red sea (review)

Tyrone Williams
pp. 1121-1126
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0053
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Contributors

Contributors

pp. 1127-1129
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0068
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Index to Volume 30

Author and Title Index to Callaloo Volume XX (Whole Numbers 110-113)

Florence S. Davies
pp. 1131-1141
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2008.0054
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