The CLA Journal (ISSN 0007-8549) is a multilingual peer-reviewed bi-annual publication by the College Language Association. It is issued in March and September of each year. CLAJ publishes critical essays on African Diasporan language, literature, and cultural studies; seminal interviews; and book reviews.

You can download a PDF of the full journal issue by clicking on the link below.

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Special Issue: Afrofuturism: Past, Present, and Beyond

“What Good is Science Fiction and Fantasy to Black People?”: Afrofuturism as Hope and Movement”

Shelby Crosby and Terrence Tucker

Dear Mothership [Coasted through ozone]

Marcus Wicker

Foreword 

Contemporary notes on the Black Speculative Arts Movement

Reynaldo Anderson

Facts and Fictions: Imperium in Imperio and the Politics of Early Black Speculative Fiction

Mollie Godfrey

Bye, Bye Binary: Reimagining Gender and Sexuality in An Unkindness of Ghosts

Kamri Jordan

Butler’s “Legacy”: Lauren Olamina as Emancipatory Archetype

Helane Androne

Decolonizing the Mind: Amari’s Quest towards Allyship in Children of Blood and Bone

Sylvia Barnes

Reflective Futurology: Exploring Black Time Travel &  Intergenerational Healing in Lovecraft Country and Beyond

Loren Cahill

“Hokum and Hackwork” as Crucible for Black Utopian Development: Tracing the Inter/Intra-Racial Critique in George Schuyler’s Anti-Utopian Black

Empire

Christopher Allen Varlack

The Poetics of Hope: Utopian Desires, Afrofuturism, Black Girl Magic, and the Inauguration

Brandy E. Underwood

Embracing the Sapphire: Black Women’s Rage in Speculative Fiction

Jasmine Wade

Reversing the Middle Passage: The Afrofuturist Aesthetic of Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon

Ousseynou B. Traore

Hagar Revisited: Afrofuturism, Pauline Hopkins, and Reclamation in The Colored American Magazine and Beyond

Tanya N. Clark

The Oankali Approach to Remembering in Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood

R. Nicole Smith

Tangible Black Joy and Beyond: An Interview with Isiah Lavender III

Shelby Crosby and Terrence Tucker

Dear Mothership [Whereas we spit]

Marcus Wicker

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Front Matter

For Us, To Us, About Us--Racial Unrest and Cultural Transformation
Dana A. Williams and Kendra R. Parker

Part I: You Good, Fam?

The Echoes of History, a Personal Professional Meditation
Therí A. Pickens

COVID-19 and Black Grief in the Academy
Elizabeth J. West

Surviving the Pandemic--Necessary Lessons from Morrison’s Beloved
Angelyn Mitchell

“come into the : black : and live”--Poetry and the Dream of Black Liberation
Shauna M. Morgan

As the World Burns--“Checking In”
Kendra R. Parker

Part II: Dear Black Academics

Views from the Bricks--Notes on Reading and Protest
David F. Green Jr.

We are our own monuments, and we can be theirs, too
Beauty Bragg

Black Books and Dead Black Bodies--Twitter, Hashtags, and Antiracist Reading Lists
Kenton Rambsy and Howard Rambsy II

Black Intellectuals, Black Archives, and a Second American Founding
Greg Carr

Let’s Keep It Funky--Reflections on Black Studies
Tony Bolden

Coda

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The CLA Journal (ISSN 0007-8549) is a multilingual peer-reviewed bi-annual publication by the College Language Association. It is issued in March and September of each year. CLAJ publishes critical essays on African Diasporan language, literature, and cultural studies; seminal interviews; and book reviews.

You can download a PDF of the full journal issue by clicking on the link below.

Special Issue: Blackness and Disability: This. Is. The. Remix. or I Thought I Told You That We Won't Stop

Guest Edited by Therí Alyce Pickens

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Note from the Editor
Dr. Sandra G. Shannon

Blackness and Disability: The Remix
Therí A. Pickens

On Fits, Starts, and Entry Points: The Rise of Black Disability Studies
Anna Hinton

Blackened Vulnerabilities and Intersex Mobility in Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex
Kianna Middleton

No Crips Allowed: Magical Negroes, Black Superheroes, And the Hyper-Abled Black Male Body in Steven Spielberg's Amistad and Ryan Coogler's Black Panther
Charles I. Nero

Horror as Resistance: Reimagining Blackness and Madness
Michelle Jarman

Materializing Tension: The Laborious, Woven Documentation Of a Black, Queer, Crip Bodymind in Indira Allegra's Documented Disability
Tamir Williams

Black Disability Gone Viral: A Critical Race Approach to Inspiration Porn
Sami Schalk

Black Autism: A Conversation with Diana Paulin
Julia Miele Rodas, Diana R. Paulin

Irrevocable Conditions: Black, Palestinian, Disabled Homes in Jana Elhassan's The 99th Floor
Michelle Hartman

"Don't nobody wanna be locked up": The Black Disabled Veteran in Toni Morrison's Sula and August Wilson's Fences
Delia Steverson

Disability, Blackness, and Indigeneity: An Invitation to a Conversation
Siobhan Senier

Book Reviews

The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten (review)
Timothy Lyle

Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)Ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk (review)
A.D. Boynton II

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe (review)
Nirmala Erevelles

Contributors

The CLA Journal (ISSN 0007-8549) is a multilingual peer-reviewed bi-annual publication by the College Language Association. It is issued in March and September of each year. CLAJ publishes critical essays on African Diasporan language, literature, and cultural studies; seminal interviews; and book reviews.

You can download a PDF of the full journal issue by clicking on the link below.

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Note from the Editor

by Shauna M. Morgan

One Must Say Yes: Poetic Acts of Affirmation in Works by Baldwin, Fanon, and Ellison

by Jacob Pagano

Stories to Tell: Family and Reality in Hip-Hop Autobiographies

by John Paul Meyers

"Cause that's the way the world turns": John Edgar Wideman's Sent for You Yesterday and the Mnemonic Jukebox"

by Jürgen E. Grandt

Commentary on Why Pedagogy Attention is Needed

by Monique Akassi

Some Results of Using Culture-referenced Prompts for Pre and Post-Test Writing Examinations at an HBCU

by Nathaniel Norment Jr.

Meaning and Inspiration: A Brief Reflection on CLAJ’s  Creative Writing Section

by doris davenport

Gary, Indiana: A Poem

by Seretha Williams

Augusta, Georgia

by Seretha Williams

Monroe, Georgia

by Seretha Williams

Dem Bones

by Sandy Govan

Ms. Betty's Fro (On Women’s Day)

by Sandy Govan

Testament

by Angelo Rich Robinson

Book Reviews:

Temple, Christel. Transcendence and the Africana Literary Enterprise

by Inte’A DeShields

Warren, Nagueyalti. Alice Walker’s Metaphysics: Literature of Spirit 320

by Rochelle Isaac

Patterson, Robert J., Ed. Black Cultural Production: After Civil Rights 324

by Katherine Karlin

Evans, Stephanie Y., Andrea D. Domingue, and Tonia D. Mitchell. 329 Black Women and Social Justice Education: Legacies and Lessons

by Alicia Brunson

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