Our Book recommendation for this month is James McBride’s Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul, a book that anyone with an interest in the United States should read, James Brown devotees and all. As...
Author: Desmond L. Kemp Indiana University Purdue University Our book recommendation of the month is London is the Place for me whereby activism in London and America has been an ongoing challenge for Black people. Perry delivers a solid account...
We’re glad to share the call for papers for a collection of new essays centering on Donald Glover’s TV show Atlanta. The editors are soliciting contributions for a volume of new scholarly essays (already under contract for publication in 2022...
The Umbrella Academy is a tv series based on the eponymous comic by Gerard Way (who some of the readers may know as the front man of the band My Chemical Romance) and Gabriel Bà. In 2019, the first season...
Author: Macarena Martín Martínez University of Sevilla Download PDF version Existing scholarship on the cultural representation of the Black female body has primarily focused on the dominant stereotypes imposed upon it (Bennett and Dickerson 2001, 4), rather than its self-representation....
Download PDF version For whoever is familiar with Ryan Murphy’s work since Glee (2009)—which made him famous to the big public—his new work’s references to themes like discrimination and minorities’ representation in the media won’t be anything new. Anyway, Hollywood—landed...
Download PDF version 57 years ago, on August 28, 1963, in the very same place where the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by Abraham Lincoln a century before, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historical public speech known as “I Have...
We’re glad to share the call for papers for the special issue of the Open Cultural Studies Journal on “Black Girl Magic: Redefining New Black Feminist Thought”. The issue seeks essays as innovative and thoughtprovoking as the writings from the...
We’re glad to share the general call for papers for the academic journal Third Stone. The journal is devoted to Afrofuturism and other modes of the Black Fantastic and it is intended as a starting place for a necessary conversation on...
Author: Apryl Alexander University of Denver Download PDF version What is Luce about? Effects of childhood trauma? Difficulties of adolescence? Transracial adoptions? Teenage psychopaths? All the above? Luce (2019) is the complicated story of a high-achieving Black male high schooler (Luce,...
