In this Issue

Table of Contents

Special Section on Anna Julia Cooper
Guest editor: Shirley Moody-Turner

Preface: Anna Julia Cooper: A Voice beyond the South

Shirley Moody-Turner
pp. 6-9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.0.0027
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Black Feminist Studies: The Case of Anna Julia Cooper

Beverly Guy-Sheftall
pp. 11-15
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.0.0019
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Writing the Self into Being: Anna Julia Cooper's Textual Politics

Vivian M. May
pp. 17-34
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.0.0013
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Gendering Africana Studies: Insights from Anna Julia Cooper

Shirley Moody-Turner, James Stewart
pp. 35-44
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.0.0008
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"In Service for the Common Good": Anna Julia Cooper and Adult Education

Karen A. Johnson
pp. 45-56
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.0.0023
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A Voice beyond the South: Resituating the Locus of Cultural Representation in the Later Writings of Anna Julia Cooper

Shirley Moody-Turner
pp. 57-67
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.0.0034
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Articles

Living Witness: An Interview with Cyrus Cassells

Mary Frances Jiménez
pp. 69-77
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.0.0016
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Communion, and: The Pine-Tree Sweetens My Body, and: I'll Take You to Africa

Cyrus Cassells
pp. 79-82
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"Uncle Tom is Dead!": Wright, Himes, and Ellison Lay a Mask to Rest

Joel Dinerstein
pp. 83-98
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.0.0021
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Punked for Life: Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle and Radical Black Masculinities

L. H. Stallings
pp. 99-116
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.0.0001
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"Just Enough for the City": Limitations of Space in Baldwin's Another Country

Amy Reddinger
pp. 117-130
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Where Confusion Is: Transnationalism in the Fiction of Jessie Redmon Fauset

Valerie Popp
pp. 131-144
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Poetry

Haitienne

Sarah Estime
p. 145
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.0.0035
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Unseen Ancestors

Abayomi Animashaun
p. 147
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.0.0040
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Palms Up

Eddie Bartók-Baratta
p. 149
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.0.0024
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Before the (Re)showing of Medgar Evers, His Son Sits Alone

Curtis L. Crisler
p. 151
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Octopus Surprise, and: Wrestling the Waves at Brenu Akyinim

Anthony Grooms
pp. 153-155
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.0.0012
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Fiction

Shining City

Felix Brandon Lloyd
pp. 157-164
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.0.0043
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The Molestation of Skinny Boys

Jackson Bliss
pp. 165-170
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willianajohnson

Jody S. Lester
pp. 171-174
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Book Reviews

Anna Julia Cooper, Visionary Black Feminist: A Critical Introduction (review)

Candice M. Jenkins
pp. 175-176
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0000
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Black Women in New South Literature and Culture (review)

Riché Richardson
pp. 176-178
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.0.0025
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Toni Morrison's Beloved: Origins (review)

Susan Neal Mayberry
pp. 178-180
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.0.0020
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Black Masculinity and the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta (review)

Murali Balaji
pp. 181-182
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.0.0010
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The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade (review)

Willie J. Harrell Jr.
pp. 183-184
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.0.0026
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Charles Johnson: The Novelist as Philosopher (review)

Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
pp. 184-186
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James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays (review)

Brenda R. Smith
pp. 186-188
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The Color of Stone: Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-Century America (review)

Eric Gardner
pp. 188-189
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.0.0042
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In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America (review)

Kimberly J. Banks
pp. 190-191
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.0.0017
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Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction (review)

Reggie Scott Young
pp. 192-193
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The Definition of Place (review)

Michael A. Antonucci
pp. 193-195
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African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame, and: The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech (review)

Furukawa Tetsushi
pp. 195-197
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.0.0015
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Courting Communities: Black Female Nationalism and "Syncre-Nationalism" in the Nineteenth-Century North (review)

John Ernest
pp. 197-198
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Historical Dictionary of African American Theatre (review)

James V. Hatch
p. 199
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Choreographing the Folk: The Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston (review)

Gloria L. Cronin
pp. 200-201
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Ira Aldridge: The African Roscius (review)

David Krasner
pp. 202-203
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Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey (review)

Paul M. Heideman
pp. 203-204
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Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949, and: Blackening of the Bible: The Aims of African American Biblical Scholarship (review)

Kathy L. Glass
pp. 205-206
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Performing Americanness: Race, Class, and Gender in Modern African-American and Jewish-American Literature (review)

Julie Cary Nerad
pp. 206-208
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.0.0041
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American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture (review)

Allan M. Winkler
pp. 208-210
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.0.0022
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Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era (review)

Edward Margolies
pp. 210-211
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Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories (review)

Lawrence E. Hussman Jr.
pp. 211-213
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Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles (review)

Julie Cary Nerad
pp. 213-215
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Understanding White Privilege: Creating Pathways to Authentic Relationships across Race (review)

Candice M. Jenkins
pp. 215-216
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Contributors

pp. 217-218
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