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Blurring Borders and the Journey into Disability Writing: An Interview with Anand Prahlad

Jocelyn Cullity, Anand Prahlad
pp. 141-152
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a984286
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Family Homes, Inverted: Illicit Occupations and Black Intimacies in and beyond the Loophole of Retreat

Faith Barter
pp. 153-172
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a984287
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Nella Larsen's Paperwork: Reading to Black Children in the Harlem Branch Library

Barbara Hochman
pp. 173-200
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a984288
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Ursa Corregidora's "New World Song" and the (Im)possibilities of a Blues Aesthetics

Keith Jones
pp. 201-217
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a984289
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Teaching Masculinity in A Lesson Before Dying

Benjamin Schwartz
pp. 219-230
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a984290
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Answers in Progress: Amiri Baraka's Black Communications Archive and the Massification of Call and Response

Andrew Michael Gorin
pp. 231-267
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a984291
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Queer and Crip Caregiving in Rivers Solomon's An Unkindness of Ghosts

Lydia R. Cooper
pp. 269-284
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a984292
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On Wind and: To Get Over the Mountain You Step Your Stones

C. LaSandra Cummings
pp. 285-286
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a984293
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For Sterling Plumpp and: Fasting

Sirnovia Laurie
pp. 287-289
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a984294
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What's the Colour of Sin?

Ant Mac
p. 290
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a984295
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Found in a Connecticut Used Book Store: Africa Section (Farthest from the Door) and: Marabou and: The Island and: Found in the African Art Collection of a New Haven Gallery after the Guard Asks Whether My Son Knows the Rules

Rohanna Ssanyu
pp. 291-293
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a984296
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King June

Corey A. Stephens
pp. 295-298
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a984297
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Ain't I An Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon by Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall (review)

Daphne Lamothe
pp. 299-302
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a984298
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King's Vibrato: Modernism, Blackness, and the Sonic Life of Martin Luther King Jr. by Maurice O. Wallace (review)

John Schranck
pp. 302-306
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a984299
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Stumbling Blocks and Other Unfinished Work by Delores Phillips (review)

Regis M. Fox
pp. 306-309
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a984300
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Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America by Korey Garibaldi, and: Rewriting America: New Essays on the Federal Writers' Project ed. by Sara Rutkowski (review)

Diana Filar
pp. 309-313
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a984301
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We Pursue Our Magic: A Spiritual History of Black Feminism by Marina Magloire (review)

Megan Finch
pp. 313-317
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a984302
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On Becoming an American Writer: Essays and Nonfiction by James Alan McPherson (review)

Carolyn M. Jones Medine
pp. 317-320
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a984303
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A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line by John Cullen Gruesser (review)

M. Giulia Fabi
pp. 320-323
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a984304
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Going Underground: Race, Space, and the Subterranean in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Lara Langer Cohen, and: Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature by Kelly Ross (review)

Granville Ganter
pp. 323-328
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a984305
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Contributors

pp. 329-332
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a984306
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