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Table of Contents

from The Louis Till Blues Project

John Edgar Wideman
pp. 1-17
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0006
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"Drunk with what?: With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you please. But get drunk"

Dawn Lundy Martin
pp. 18-19
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0012
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"No map or directions"

Dawn Lundy Martin
pp. 20-21
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0018
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"He touched the person, meaning to heal them, but instead, they pass away"

Dawn Lundy Martin
pp. 22-23
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0025
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"A voluptuous vibration constantly stirs . . . in the most chaste of cities"

Dawn Lundy Martin
p. 24
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0030
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Snowing

Carl Phillips
p. 25
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0037
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Black Swan on Water, in a Little Rain

Carl Phillips
p. 26
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0003
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Dolls

Toi Derricotte
pp. 27-29
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0010
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When the Goddess Makes Love to Me

Toi Derricotte
p. 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0015
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Ralph Ellison Remembered: An Interview with Albert Murray

Xavier Nicholas
pp. 31-40
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0022
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Gone Pop: Michael Joseph Jackson

Thomas Sayers Ellis
pp. 42-62
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0028
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Little Road Trips from Hell

Louis Edwards
pp. 63-68
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0034
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The Moon That Night

Amber Flora Thomas
p. 69
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0001
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Route 44 to Route 52

Alena Hairston
pp. 70-71
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0008
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My Imperfect Mouth Names

Alena Hairston
pp. 72-73
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0013
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Grandma's Four Stories

Lyzette Wanzer
p. 74
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0020
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American Visual Artist: A Special Section Interview Portfolio

Michael K. Taylor
pp. 79-80
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0026
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Excerpts from An Interview with Michael K. Taylor

Charles Henry Rowell
pp. 81-88
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0032
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From Stokely Carmichael to Kwame Ture

Charles E. Cobb Jr.
pp. 89-97
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0000
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Zora Neale Hurston's Herod the Great: A Study of the Theological Origins of Modernist Anti-Semitism

Michael Lackey
pp. 100-120
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0005
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from Herod the Great

Zora Neale Hurston
pp. 121-125
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0011
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Cartographies of Desire: Mapping Queer Space in the Fiction of Samuel Delany and Darieck Scott

GerShun Avilez
pp. 126-142
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0017
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In the Place of Clare Kendry: A Gothic Reading of Race and Sexuality in Nella Larsen's Passing

Johanna M. Wagner
pp. 143-157
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0024
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Theresa and Blake: Mobility and Resistance in Antebellum African American Serialized Fiction

Jean Lee Cole
pp. 158-175
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0029
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Nina Simone's Triple Play

Daphne A. Brooks
pp. 176-197
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0036
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Writing the Future of Black America: Literature of the Hip-Hop Generation (review)

Julie Elizabeth Tyler
pp. 198-201
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0014
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Rumba Rules: The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu's Zaire (review)

Matthew J. Forss
pp. 201-203
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0021
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Digital Diaspora: A Race for Cyberspace (review)

Cassandra L. Jones
pp. 203-205
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0027
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Identity and the Failure of America: From Thomas Jefferson to the War on Terror (review)

Justin A. Joyce
pp. 205-207
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0033
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Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism (review)

Kirin Wachter-Grene
pp. 208-210
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0007
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Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian-American Poetry Since 1965 (review)

Ashanti L. White
pp. 210-213
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0019
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Open Wound: The Long View of Race in America (review)

Jeffrey Aaron Snyder
pp. 214-216
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0031
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Riot and Remembrance: America's Worst Race Riot and Its Legacy (review)

Guy Lancaster
pp. 217-219
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0004
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Against the Unspeakable: Complicity, the Holocaust, and Slavery in America, and: Performing Americanness: Race, Class, and Gender in Modern African-American and Jewish-American Literature (review)

Lori Harrison-Kahan
pp. 219-224
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0016
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The Coolie Speaks: Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba (review)

Bill V. Mullen
pp. 224-228
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0023
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Captives and Voyagers: Black Migrants Across the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World (review)

Tara Bynum
pp. 228-230
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0035
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Contributors

pp. 231-234
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0009
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