In this Issue

Table of Contents

Reading the “Veil of Black” in Frederick Douglass and Thomas Jefferson: Affective Legibility and National Belonging

Gabrielle Everett
pp. 163-180
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2020.0029
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Aesthetic Resistance: Racist Visual Tropes and the Oppositional Gaze in Joel Christian Gill’s Tales of the Talented Tenth

Amanda M. Greenwell
pp. 181-200
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2020.0030
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Of Trips Taken and Time Served: How Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing Grapples with Faulkner’s Ghosts

Greg Chase
pp. 201-216
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2020.0031
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Tangled Roots, a Bloody Forest: Trees, Trauma, and Black Female Bodies in Beloved

Paul Henderson
pp. 217-230
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2020.0037
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Salt Water Undoing

D. S. Harr
pp. 231-237
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2020.0036
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for jim who pulls my lapel and calls me bro, and: 51 Fletcher and Them

Durell Thompson
pp. 238-239
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2020.0041
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Love

Mary Weems
p. 240
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2020.0028
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The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison ed. by John F. Callahan and Marc C. Conner (review)

Ross Posnock
pp. 241-243
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2020.0040
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After August: Blues, August Wilson, and American Drama by Patrick Maley (review)

Alan Nadel
pp. 244-246
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2020.0039
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Transforming the Elite: Black Students and the Desegregation of Private Schools by Michelle A. Purdy, and: Upending the Ivory Tower: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League by Stefan Bradley (review)

Jon N. Hale
pp. 246-249
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2020.0035
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Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism by Jelani Favors (review)

Marybeth Gasman
pp. 249-251
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2020.0034
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Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry, and: Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart directed by Tracy Heather Strain (review)

Amani C. Morrison
pp. 251-254
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2020.0038
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Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America by Sharon Block (review)

Antonio T. Bly
pp. 254-256
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2020.0032
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Contributors

p. 257
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2020.0033
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