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Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Kyla Kupferstein Torres
p. 1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980644
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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
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Big Mama's Gun

KC Lehman
pp. 19-26
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980646
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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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The Candidate

Lanre Akinsiku
p. 33
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980648
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Vortex, Baba

Gerald Majer
pp. 34-49
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980649
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Most Memorials Lie

Tara Betts
p. 50
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980650
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Say My Name

Gbolahan Badmus
p. 51
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980651
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¡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
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Borderline

Annastecia Ebisike
pp. 69-80
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980653
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One More Question

Tricia De Souza
pp. 81-85
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980654
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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
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Qi'arra Explains That Time of the Month

Nefertiti Asanti
p. 96
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980656
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Two

Angela Redmond-Theodore
p. 97
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980657
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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
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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
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The Austin School Manifesto: A Retrospective

João Costa Vargas
pp. 117-123
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980660
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Untitled

Michael Ray Charles
p. 124
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980661
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In All Directions of Time

Sharon Bridgforth
pp. 125-129
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980662
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The Queerdo They Didn't Know What to Do With

Shaka McGlotten
pp. 130-133
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980663
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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
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The Commitment to Showing Up

Jodi Skipper
pp. 137-139
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980665
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"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
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Self Portrait

Minnie Marianne Miles
p. 145
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980667
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Black Mystery Schools

Roger Reeves
pp. 146-149
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980668
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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
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Back to School, With Love

Jafari Sinclaire Allen
pp. 152-153
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980670
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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
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Lessons to Live By

Alix Chapman
pp. 156-157
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980672
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Bridging Grassroots Principles, Arts and Academic Insights for Equity

Priscilla A. Hale
pp. 158-159
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980673
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From African Diaspora Studies to Brazilian Anthropology

Jacqueline Britto Pólvora
pp. 160-161
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980674
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The Austin School Manifesto: One Career Later

Kevin Foster
pp. 162-163
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980675
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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
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Love, Administration, Iteration

Cherise Smith
pp. 166-167
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980677
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Final Exam

Daniel Alexander Jones
p. 168
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980678
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Blackness Beyond Borders

Damien M. Sojoyner
pp. 169-170
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980679
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Tellin'

Stephanie L. Lang
pp. 171-172
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980680
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Abiding by Black Liberation

Mohan Ambikaipaker
pp. 173-174
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980681
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Blackness As a Call For Action

Jaime A. Alves
pp. 175-176
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980682
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Talking to the Dead

Courtney Desiree Morris
pp. 177-178
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980683
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Black Studies: Research, Activism, and my Blackness In-Between

Abimbola A. Adelakun
p. 179
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980684
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Collective Work: The Austin School Manifesto in Motion

Luciane Rocha
pp. 180-181
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980685
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The Austin School Manifesto: A '20 Years Later' Reflection

Charles Hale
pp. 182-183
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980686
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Black Joke

Douglas Silver
pp. 184-198
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980687
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Progress

Quan Harris-Holley
pp. 199-201
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980688
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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
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Here Is a Forest

Itoro Bassey
pp. 216-221
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980690
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An Evening with Vieux Farka Touré

Kai Mora
pp. 222-227
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980691
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The Warlike, and: Persona Poem

Chiagoziem Jideofor
pp. 228-229
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980692
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You Gonna Say It?

Jalen Giovanni Jones
p. 230
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980693
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One Strange Day with a Predator

Lee Anna Jackson
pp. 231-234
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980694
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Mama's Dead

Oak Morse
pp. 235-236
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980696
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Paterson

Sebastian Bronson Boddie
p. 237
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980697
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Memory as Medicine

Yvonne McBride
pp. 238-248
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980698
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Sunday Morning, Sea Lots, and: Funeral of a Zesser

Amílcar Peter Sanatan
pp. 249-250
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980700
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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
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The Book of Alice by Diamond Forde (review)

Luke Hankins
pp. 253-256
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980702
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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
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Asked What Has Changed by Ed Roberson (review)

Fiona Hartmann
pp. 258-259
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980705
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Artist's Statement

Deborah Roberts
p. 260
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980707
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Contributors

pp. 261-270
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a980708
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