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  1. Introduction: On Black Performance
  2. Soyica Colbert
  3. pp. 275-276
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0061
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  1. Aria for Ethiopia: The Operatic Aesthetic of Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood
  2. Nicole N. Aljoe
  3. pp. 277-290
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0067
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  1. The Science of Freedom: Counterarchives of Racial Science on the Antebellum Stage
  2. Britt Rusert
  3. pp. 291-308
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0039
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  1. “Spectacular Opacities”: The Hyers Sisters’ Performances of Respectability and Resistance
  2. Jocelyn L. Buckner
  3. pp. 309-323
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0044
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  1. A New Kind of Black Soldier: Performing Revolution in The Spook Who Sat by the Door
  2. Elizabeth Reich
  3. pp. 325-339
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0049
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  1. Utopian Movements: Nikki Giovanni and the Convocation Following the Virginia Tech Massacre
  2. Robin Bernstein
  3. pp. 341-353
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0054
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  1. “Fasten Your Shackles”: Remembering Slavery and Laughing about It in George C. Wolfe’s The Colored Museum
  2. Christina Knight
  3. pp. 355-369
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0059
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  1. “The People Inside My Head, Too”: Madness, Black Womanhood, and the Radical Performance of Lauryn Hill
  2. La Marr Jurelle Bruce
  3. pp. 371-389
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0065
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  1. “Sound of Kuduro knocking at my door”: Kuduro Dance and the Poetics of Debility
  2. Hershini Young
  3. pp. 391-402
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0037
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  1. She Wears the Masks: Bluefacing in Nilaja Sun’s Black and Blue and La Nubia Latina
  2. Patricia Herrera
  3. pp. 403-418
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0042
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  1. The Case of Rihanna: Erotic Violence and Black Female Desire
  2. Nicole R. Fleetwood
  3. pp. 419-435
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0047
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Poetry & Fiction

  1. 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
  2. Vickie Cimprich
  3. pp. 437-440
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0052
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  1. Come and Find Me, and: Carriage House on John Street, Providence, RI
  2. Zinzi Clemmons
  3. pp. 441-442
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0057
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  1. What We Say to the Water
  2. TJ Jarrett
  3. p. 443
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0063
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  1. Dry Spell, and: Home Song, and: Stand-In for a Shooting Star
  2. Cindy King
  3. pp. 444-445
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0068
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  1. This Murdered Earth, and: Haiku
  2. David Mills
  3. p. 446
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0040
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  1. Amputation, and: Cauchemar
  2. Philana Omorotionmwan
  3. pp. 447-448
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0045
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  1. Conversation: Tree & Cotton, and: Vapor, and: I Ararat (First Ararat)
  2. Phillip B. Williams
  3. pp. 449-451
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0050
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  1. Mrs. Watson
  2. Charles Francis Gould
  3. pp. 453-458
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0055
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Book Reviews

  1. 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)
  2. Carole Boyce-Davies
  3. pp. 459-463
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0060
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  1. Toni Morrison’s A Mercy: Critical Approaches ed. by Shirley A. Stave and Justine Tally (review)
  2. Susan Neal Mayberry
  3. pp. 463-466
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0066
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  1. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (review)
  2. Terrence Tucker
  3. pp. 466-468
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0038
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  1. Race, Trauma, and Home in the Novels of Toni Morrison by Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber (review)
  2. Nancy Jesser
  3. pp. 469-470
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0043
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  1. In Search of Asylum: The Later Writings of Eric Walrond ed. by Louis J. Parascandola and Carl A. Wade (review)
  2. Michael Niblett
  3. pp. 470-472
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0048
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  1. 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)
  2. P. Gabrielle Foreman
  3. pp. 472-476
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0053
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  1. The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X ed. by Robert E. Terrill (review)
  2. Robert Eddy
  3. pp. 476-478
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0058
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  1. Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle by Leigh Raiford (review)
  2. Duganne Erina
  3. pp. 479-480
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0064
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  1. Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body by Cassandra Jackson (review)
  2. Jennifer McFarlane-Harris
  3. pp. 480-485
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0069
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  1. Black on Earth: African American Ecoliterary Traditions by Kimberly N. Ruffin (review)
  2. Scott Hicks
  3. pp. 485-487
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0041
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  1. Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership by Erica R. Edwards (review)
  2. Bryan Wagner
  3. pp. 487-488
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0046
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  1. To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death by Suzanne E. Smith (review)
  2. Ronald K. Barrett
  3. pp. 489-490
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0051
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  1. Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment ed. by Richard Carlin and Kinshasha Holman Conwill (review)
  2. Lionel C. Bascom
  3. pp. 490-491
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0056
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  1. Contributors
  3. pp. 493-494
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0062
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