In this Issue

Table of Contents

Introduction

Introductory Note

John A. McCluskey Jr.
pp. 1-3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2018.0048
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Poetry

Salutation to the Idiot

Dike Okoro
p. 37
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2018.0051
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From Be Holding

Ross Gay
pp. 61-84
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2018.0053
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Simone Biles: Goat Therapy

Len Lawson
pp. 85-90
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2018.0054
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A Mathematician's Work

Christina Dixie
pp. 91-93
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2018.0055
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That Ass!

Stephanie Jean
pp. 94-95
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2018.0056
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Ode to Ronaldinho After Making the Bernabéu Applaud

Jonathan Rowe
pp. 96-98
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2018.0057
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Ernie Barnes: July 15, 1938 – April 27, 2009

Gideon Young
pp. 99-100
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2018.0058
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The Secret Game: 5 Poems

Morgan Christie
pp. 124-131
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2018.0061
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Fiction

China

Charles Johnson
pp. 132-144
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2018.0062
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The Rind

Beto Caradepiedra
pp. 172-175
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2018.0065
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Personal Essay

Finish What You Start

Renée Westbrook
pp. 187-189
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2018.0068
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Articles

Kaepernick's Kneel: Performance, Protest, and the National Football League

Brett Carr
pp. 4-17
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2018.0049
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Black Female Athletes: The Politics of Resistance and the Struggle to…Be…Free…

Delia Douglas
pp. 18-36
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2018.0050
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At the Cut of the Boundary: On Cricket, Loss, and the Counterdoctrine's Play

Anjuli I. Gunaratne
pp. 38-60
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2018.0052
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In the Name of the Father: Creed, Mourning, and the Black Imagination

Michelle S. Hite
pp. 101-113
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2018.0059
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Pariahs of the Sports World: Reclaiming Autonomy Against White Supremacy Through Protest

Apryl Lewis
pp. 114-123
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2018.0060
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Oops Upside Yr Head: Black Speculative Fiction, Authenticityand the Political Metaphysics of Stick Fighting in Olufemi Terry's "Stickfighting Days"

Whit Frazier Peterson
pp. 145-156
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2018.0063
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Sweet Science, Cruel Profession: The Cold War Black Boxer in Post-1945 African American Literature

Brandy E. Underwood
pp. 157-171
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2018.0064
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Excerpt From The Prince of Jockeys: The Life of Isaac Burns Murphy (The University Press of Kentucky, 2013)

Pellom McDaniels III
pp. 176-180
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2018.0066
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Fugitively Speaking

C. LaSandra Cummings
pp. 181-186
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2018.0067
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Contributors

pp. 190-193
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2018.0069
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