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Kyla Kupferstein Torres

p. 1

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980644

Poetry

I Come from a Continent Where Women Are Told to Shut Up, and: We Got This Far, and: Thursdays

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

pp. 27-32

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980647

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Most Memorials Lie

Tara Betts

p. 50

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980650

Say My Name

Gbolahan Badmus

p. 51

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980651

Qi'arra Explains That Time of the Month

Nefertiti Asanti

p. 96

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980656

Two

Angela Redmond-Theodore

p. 97

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980657

Progress

Quan Harris-Holley

pp. 199-201

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980688

The Warlike, and: Persona Poem

Chiagoziem Jideofor

pp. 228-229

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980692

You Gonna Say It?

Jalen Giovanni Jones

p. 230

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980693

Mama's Dead

Oak Morse

pp. 235-236

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980696

Paterson

Sebastian Bronson Boddie

p. 237

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980697

Sunday Morning, Sea Lots, and: Funeral of a Zesser

Amílcar Peter Sanatan

pp. 249-250

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980700

Fiction

Big Mama's Gun

KC Lehman

pp. 19-26

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980646

The Candidate

Lanre Akinsiku

p. 33

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980648

Borderline

Annastecia Ebisike

pp. 69-80

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980653

Black Joke

Douglas Silver

pp. 184-198

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980687

Here Is a Forest

Itoro Bassey

pp. 216-221

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980690

Memory as Medicine

Yvonne McBride

pp. 238-248

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980698

Articles

¡NO ES FÁCIL! Afro-Cuban Woman and Rap: The Case of La Reyna y La Real

Silvia Roca-Martinez

pp. 52-68

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980652

Unlocking Secrets and Advocacy in Toni Cade Bambara's "A Girl's Story"

Crystal Harris

pp. 202-215

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980689

Personal Essay

One More Question

Tricia De Souza

pp. 81-85

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980654

Vortex, Baba

Gerald Majer

pp. 34-49

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980649

One Strange Day with a Predator

Lee Anna Jackson

pp. 231-234

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980694

Interviews

An Interview with the Editors of Love Is A Dangerous Word: The Selected Poems Of Essex Hemphill

Marlon B. Ross

pp. 2-18

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980645

Writing as History, Invention and Becoming: An Interview with Shara McCallum

Lauren K. Alleyne

pp. 86-95

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980655

Reflections on the Power of African Diaspora Studies for Personal and Institutional Transformation

Kia Lilly Caldwell

pp. 134-136

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980664

Reviews

Love Is a Dangerous Word: Selected Poems by Essex Hemphill (review)

Daniel Summerhill

pp. 251-253

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980701

The Book of Alice by Diamond Forde (review)

Luke Hankins

pp. 253-256

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980702

The Second Battle for Africa: Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Black Freedom by Erik S. McDuffie (review)

Marc Blanc

pp. 256-258

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980704

Asked What Has Changed by Ed Roberson (review)

Fiona Hartmann

pp. 258-259

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980705

SPECIAL SECTION: “The Austin School Manifesto”:

Black Studies at the University of Texas at Austin: Then, Now, and Beyond

The Austin School Manifesto: An Approach to the Black or African Diaspora

Edmund T. Gordon, Celeste S. Henery, Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Edmund T. Gordon

pp. 101-104

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980658

Looking Back at the Austin School Manifesto: A Conversation with Edmund Gordon and Omi Osun Joni L. Jones

Kyla Kupferstein Torres

pp. 105-116

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980659

The Austin School Manifesto: A Retrospective

João Costa Vargas

pp. 117-123

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980660

Untitled

Michael Ray Charles

p. 124

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980661

In All Directions of Time

Sharon Bridgforth

pp. 125-129

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980662

The Queerdo They Didn't Know What to Do With

Shaka McGlotten

pp. 130-133

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980663

An Evening with Vieux Farka Touré

Kai Mora

pp. 222-227

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980691

The Commitment to Showing Up

Jodi Skipper

pp. 137-139

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980665

"Knowledge Production Is Always Happening": A Conversation on the Radical Legacy of the Austin School of African Diaspora Studies

Lisa C. Moore, Keisha-Khan Y. Perry

pp. 140-144

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980666

A Collage of Perspectives: Voices from The Austin School

Self Portrait

Minnie Marianne Miles

p. 145

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980667

Black Mystery Schools

Roger Reeves

pp. 146-149

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980668

The Austin School, Afro-Latin American Studies, and Hemispheric Black Studies

Juliet Hooker

pp. 150-151

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980669

Back to School, With Love

Jafari Sinclaire Allen

pp. 152-153

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980670

An Afrobrazilian Female Point of View of the Austin Manifesto

Sônia Beatriz dos Santos

pp. 154-155

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980671

Lessons to Live By

Alix Chapman

pp. 156-157

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980672

Bridging Grassroots Principles, Arts and Academic Insights for Equity

Priscilla A. Hale

pp. 158-159

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980673

From African Diaspora Studies to Brazilian Anthropology

Jacqueline Britto Pólvora

pp. 160-161

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980674

The Austin School Manifesto: One Career Later

Kevin Foster

pp. 162-163

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980675

A Phase of Concrete Action: Performance, African Studies, and Black Studies at the University of Texas, Austin

Dotun Ayobade

pp. 164-165

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980676

Love, Administration, Iteration

Cherise Smith

pp. 166-167

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980677

Final Exam

Daniel Alexander Jones

p. 168

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980678

Blackness Beyond Borders

Damien M. Sojoyner

pp. 169-170

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980679

Tellin'

Stephanie L. Lang

pp. 171-172

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980680

Abiding by Black Liberation

Mohan Ambikaipaker

pp. 173-174

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980681

Blackness As a Call For Action

Jaime A. Alves

pp. 175-176

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980682

Talking to the Dead

Courtney Desiree Morris

pp. 177-178

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980683

Black Studies: Research, Activism, and my Blackness In-Between

Abimbola A. Adelakun

p. 179

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980684

Collective Work: The Austin School Manifesto in Motion

Luciane Rocha

pp. 180-181

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980685

The Austin School Manifesto: A '20 Years Later' Reflection

Charles Hale

pp. 182-183

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980686

Artist's Statement

Deborah Roberts

p. 260

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980707

Contributors

pp. 261-270

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980708

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