Combahee at 40: New Conversations and Debates in Black Feminism (Vol. 19, #3)
We are pleased to announce a special issue of Souls to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Black feminist manifesto, The Combahee River Collect…
Past Issues
Black Scenes (Vol. 19 #2)
The collection of articles in this issue are in conversation with one another across disciplinary, geographic, and temporal boundaries. Together they e…
Blackness and Tourism (Vol. 19 #1)
This issue brings together cases across a range of regions and contexts within the African diaspora, especially in the Americas, to think through what …
African American Representation and the Politics of Respectability (Vol. 18 #2-4)
This special issue interrogates the ways in which representations of African Americans can be silenced–or resisted–through moral contestation and confo…
Black Women’s Labor: Economics, Culture, and Politics (Vol. 18 #1)
This special issue considers how black women’s historical and contemporary experiences critically inform questions of class, gender, labor, sexuality, …
Education in New Orleans (Vol. 17 #3/4)
While all aspects of life in the greater New Orleans area were affected by the storm, education became a central linchpin of a post-Katrina recovery an…
Freedom Summer (Vol. 17 #1/2)
Today the legacy of the Freedom Summer is evident from the streets, to campuses, to the polling booths. Freedom Summer (Vol. 17, #1/2) …
“Transition with a Real Slow Fade”: The Life and Work of Richard Iton (Vol. 16 #3/4)
Richard Iton sought to index the “minor key sensibilities” of Black Politics in the forms on the “underground,” the “vagabond” and the “deviant.” …
Black Religion and Spirituality: Creativity, Adaptation, and (Vol. 16 #1/2)
Spirituality, religion and religious institutions are central to the lives of black people in Africa and the African Diaspora. SPIRITUALITY, REL…
Neoliberalism and Cultural Politics in Dubai and Brazil (Vol. 15 #4)
This issue of Souls takes up the issue of Neoliberalism and Cultural Politics in Dubai and Brazil is anchored by two articles about Black identity and …