In this Issue

Table of Contents

Calling (Out) Our Names: An Editor's Note

Charles Henry Rowell
pp. 1-5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0061
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The Boy Who Played Cards with the Devil

Randall Kenan
pp. 8-24
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0035
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The Clearing

Carl Phillips
pp. 25-26
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0052
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Quarter-View, from Nauset

Carl Phillips
pp. 27-28
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0053
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Dead Reckoning

Carl Phillips
pp. 29-30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0054
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Moving Target

Carl Phillips
p. 31
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0055
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Golden

Carl Phillips
pp. 32-33
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0056
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Interlude

Carl Phillips
pp. 34-35
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0057
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The Store of a Million Items

Michelle Cliff
pp. 36-42
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0007
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Assimilation Blues

Constance Merritt
p. 43
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0047
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Too Late, My Mother Tells Me

Constance Merritt
p. 44
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0048
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Only Human

Constance Merritt
p. 45
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0049
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Jessehelms

Audre Lorde
pp. 46-47
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0038
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Women on Trains

Audre Lorde
pp. 48-49
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0039
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Dear Joe: For Joe Beam

Audre Lorde
pp. 50-51
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0040
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Above the Wind: An Interview with Audre Lorde

Charles H. Rowell, Audre Lorde
pp. 52-63
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0062
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Searching for Audre Lorde

Alexis De Veaux
pp. 64-67
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0010
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For Audre

Pat Parker
pp. 68-72
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0050
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For the White Person Who Wants to Know How to Be My Friend

Pat Parker
p. 73
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0051
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Climbing Montmartre

Melvin Dixon
p. 74
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0012
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One by One

Melvin Dixon
pp. 75-76
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0013
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Heartbeats

Melvin Dixon
pp. 77-78
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0014
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Turning Forty in the 90's

Melvin Dixon
p. 79
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0015
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I'll Be Somewhere Listening for My Name

Melvin Dixon
pp. 80-83
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0016
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A Conversation with Melvin Dixon

Jerome de Romanet, Melvin Dixon
pp. 84-109
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0059
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From Sky A Novel

G. Winston James
pp. 110-119
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0034
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From Black Quare Studies or Almost Everything I know about Queer Studies I learned from My Grandmother

E. Patrick Johnson
pp. 120-121
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0036
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The Scene in Wyoming: For Matthew Shepard

E. Patrick Johnson
pp. 122-124
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0072
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Living as a Lesbian at Forty-Five

Cheryl Clarke
p. 125
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0004
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Women in Uniform

Cheryl Clarke
pp. 126-128
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0005
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Movement

Cheryl Clarke
pp. 129-133
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0006
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Rubicon

Michelle Cliff
pp. 134-138
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0008
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An Interview with Helen Elaine Lee

Charles H. Rowell, Helen Elaine Lee
pp. 139-150
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0063
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On the Eve of the Hurricane

Thomas Glave
pp. 151-167
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0019
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Partial

Forrest Hamer
p. 168
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0025
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Caught

Forrest Hamer
p. 169
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0026
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In the Middle

Forrest Hamer
p. 170
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0027
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Second Telling

Forrest Hamer
p. 171
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0028
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Annual Visit of the Quiet, Unmarried Son

Forrest Hamer
p. 172
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0029
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Testimony

Forrest Hamer
p. 173
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0030
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A Ho's Hieroglyphic

Darieck Scott
pp. 174-185
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0068
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Ride of the Centaurs

Darieck Scott
pp. 174-185
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0069
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Hate

Nikky Finney
pp. 186-187
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0018
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Reeling Memories For My Father

Kate Rushin
pp. 188-189
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0065
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Word Problems

Kate Rushin
pp. 190-191
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0066
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After the Accident

Kate Rushin
pp. 192-193
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0067
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From The Pagoda

Patricia Powell
pp. 194-208
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0058
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Jumping the Fence 1910

Jewelle Gomez
pp. 209-211
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0021
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El Beso

Angelina Weld Grimke, Akasha Hull, Jewelle Gomez
pp. 212-213
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0022
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My Chakabuku Mama: A comic tale

Jewelle Gomez
pp. 214-215
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0023
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Sunday Lessons

Dawn Lundy Martin
pp. 216-217
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0041
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What the Memory Predicts: For Alexis

Dawn Lundy Martin
pp. 218-219
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0042
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Homecomings

Dawn Lundy Martin
p. 220
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0043
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Violent Rooms

Dawn Lundy Martin
p. 221
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0044
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Bearers of Arms 1775-1783

Dawn Lundy Martin
pp. 222-223
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0045
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Lost in Wisconsin

Alyssa Y. Alston
p. 224
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0001
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From Shoat Rumblin His Sensations and Ideas

Samuel R. Delany
pp. 225-246
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0011
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An Interview with Samuel R. Delany

Charles Rowell, Samuel R. Delany
pp. 247-267
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0064
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(Re-)Recalling Essex Hemphill: Words to Our Now

Thomas Glave
pp. 278-284
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0020
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Camping The Dirty Dozens: The Queer Resources of Black Nationalist Invective

Marlon B. Ross
pp. 290-312
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0060
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James Baldwin: Expatriation, Homosexual Panic, and Man's Estate

Mae G. Henderson
pp. 313-327
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0032
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Insolent Racing, Rough Narrative: The Harlem Renaissance's Impolite Queers

Michael L. Cobb
pp. 328-351
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0009
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"A Man Who Wants to Be a Woman": Queerness as/and Healing Practices in Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven

Nada Elia
pp. 352-365
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0017
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Reading Melvin Dixon's Vanishing Rooms: Experiencing "the ordinary rope that can change in a second to a lyncher's noose or a rescue line"

Vivian M. May
pp. 366-381
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0046
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Bill T. Jones, Tupac Shakur and the (Queer) Art of Death

Sharon P. Holland
pp. 384-393
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0033
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Passion(ate) Plays "Wherever We Found Space": Lorde and Gomez Queer(y)ing Boundaries and Acting In

Lynda Hall
pp. 394-421
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0024
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Any Love: Silence, Theft, and Rumor in the Work of Luther Vandross

Jason King
pp. 422-447
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0037
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Chasing Fae: The Watermelon Woman and Black Lesbian Possibility

Laura L. Sullivan
pp. 448-460
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0070
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"Take Me Home": Location, Identity, Transnational Exchange

Phillip Brian Harper
pp. 461-478
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0031
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Queer Black Studies: An Annotated Bibliography, 1994-1999

Nicholas Boggs
pp. 479-494
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0002
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This issue is dedicated to the Memory of Melvin Dixon and the Memory of Audre Lorde

pp. vi-viii
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0071
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Plum Nelly: New Essays in Black Queer Studies: Introduction

Jennifer DeVere Brody, Dwight A. McBride
pp. 285-288
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0003
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Contributors

pp. 495-498
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0073
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