In this Issue

Table of Contents

Introduction: On Black Performance

Soyica Colbert
pp. 275-276
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0061
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Aria for Ethiopia: The Operatic Aesthetic of Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood

Nicole N. Aljoe
pp. 277-290
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0067
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The Science of Freedom: Counterarchives of Racial Science on the Antebellum Stage

Britt Rusert
pp. 291-308
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0039
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“Spectacular Opacities”: The Hyers Sisters’ Performances of Respectability and Resistance

Jocelyn L. Buckner
pp. 309-323
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0044
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A New Kind of Black Soldier: Performing Revolution in The Spook Who Sat by the Door

Elizabeth Reich
pp. 325-339
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0049
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Utopian Movements: Nikki Giovanni and the Convocation Following the Virginia Tech Massacre

Robin Bernstein
pp. 341-353
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0054
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“Fasten Your Shackles”: Remembering Slavery and Laughing about It in George C. Wolfe’s The Colored Museum

Christina Knight
pp. 355-369
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0059
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“The People Inside My Head, Too”: Madness, Black Womanhood, and the Radical Performance of Lauryn Hill

La Marr Jurelle Bruce
pp. 371-389
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0065
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“Sound of Kuduro knocking at my door”: Kuduro Dance and the Poetics of Debility

Hershini Young
pp. 391-402
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0037
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She Wears the Masks: Bluefacing in Nilaja Sun’s Black and Blue and La Nubia Latina

Patricia Herrera
pp. 403-418
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0042
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The Case of Rihanna: Erotic Violence and Black Female Desire

Nicole R. Fleetwood
pp. 419-435
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0047
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Poetry & Fiction

William Brewster at Niskeyuna, 1778, and: Mother’s Abduction, and: Anna Middleton, 1786-1861, and: Dinah the African, and: My Daddy General Montgomery, and: The Black Family

Vickie Cimprich
pp. 437-440
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0052
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Come and Find Me, and: Carriage House on John Street, Providence, RI

Zinzi Clemmons
pp. 441-442
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0057
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What We Say to the Water

TJ Jarrett
p. 443
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0063
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Dry Spell, and: Home Song, and: Stand-In for a Shooting Star

Cindy King
pp. 444-445
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0068
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This Murdered Earth, and: Haiku

David Mills
p. 446
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0040
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Amputation, and: Cauchemar

Philana Omorotionmwan
pp. 447-448
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0045
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Conversation: Tree & Cotton, and: Vapor, and: I Ararat (First Ararat)

Phillip B. Williams
pp. 449-451
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0050
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Mrs. Watson

Charles Francis Gould
pp. 453-458
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0055
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Book Reviews

In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-1939 by Minkah Makalani, and: Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995 by Cheryl Higashida (review)

Carole Boyce-Davies
pp. 459-463
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0060
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Toni Morrison’s A Mercy: Critical Approaches ed. by Shirley A. Stave and Justine Tally (review)

Susan Neal Mayberry
pp. 463-466
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0066
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (review)

Terrence Tucker
pp. 466-468
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0038
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Race, Trauma, and Home in the Novels of Toni Morrison by Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber (review)

Nancy Jesser
pp. 469-470
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0043
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In Search of Asylum: The Later Writings of Eric Walrond ed. by Louis J. Parascandola and Carl A. Wade (review)

Michael Niblett
pp. 470-472
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0048
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A Hairdresser’s Experience in High Life by Eliza Potter, and: Speaking Lives, Authoring Texts: Three African American Women’s Oral Slave Narratives ed. by DoVeanna S. Fulton Minor and Reginald H. Pitts (review)

P. Gabrielle Foreman
pp. 472-476
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0053
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The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X ed. by Robert E. Terrill (review)

Robert Eddy
pp. 476-478
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0058
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Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle by Leigh Raiford (review)

Duganne Erina
pp. 479-480
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0064
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Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body by Cassandra Jackson (review)

Jennifer McFarlane-Harris
pp. 480-485
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0069
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Black on Earth: African American Ecoliterary Traditions by Kimberly N. Ruffin (review)

Scott Hicks
pp. 485-487
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0041
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Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership by Erica R. Edwards (review)

Bryan Wagner
pp. 487-488
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0046
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To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death by Suzanne E. Smith (review)

Ronald K. Barrett
pp. 489-490
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0051
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Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment ed. by Richard Carlin and Kinshasha Holman Conwill (review)

Lionel C. Bascom
pp. 490-491
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0056
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Contributors

pp. 493-494
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0062
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