The Black Scholar

Now Accepting Applications for Book Reviews Editor - The Black Scholar The Black Scholar is seeking applicants for two Book Review Editors. The positions will start in mid-to-late 2025 and are for a two-year appointment, renewable by mutual consent. As members of the TBS...

Accepting applications for two book review editors until May 1, 2025.

Single Issues of issues 54.4 and 55.1 are now available in our store: www.theblackscholar.org/tbs-back-iss...

Personal subscriptions (4 issues per year) are $49 USD and can be purchased here: www.tandfonline.com/pricing/jour...

Queen of Afro-Pop: The Many Shades of Onyeka Onwenu - The Black Scholar For decades, African scholarship addressing music in the public sphere has predominantly focused on prominent figures, most of whom are men. As a result, the works of many women who contribute to the ...

Call for Papers: Queen of Afro-Pop: The Many Shades of Onyeka Onwenu

Now Accepting Applications for Associate Editor - The Black Scholar The Black Scholar is seeking applicants for two Associate Editors. The positions will start in mid-to-late 2025 and are for a two-year appointment, renewable by mutual consent. As members of the TBS E...

We're looking for two associate editors to work with the new co-editors-in-chief.

Ode to The Mothership: Black Geographies Giving [The People] Uncut Funk - The Black Scholar Mothership Connection (1975) opens a biting metaphor through the vocals, composition and lyrics of the group Parliament. Their sound explored how music should be experienced while their teachings push...

Call for papers. Ode to the Mothership: Black Geographies Giving [The People] Uncut Funk. Eds: Stephanie Jones, Deogratius Mshigeni, and Chaz Briscoe

Now Accepting Applications for Book Reviews Editor - The Black Scholar The Black Scholar is seeking applicants for two Book Review Editors. The positions will start in mid-to-late 2025 and are for a two-year appointment, renewable by mutual consent. As members of the TBS...

We're currently accepting applications for both associate and book review editors. More information on our website.

Now Available: 55.1 - The Black Scholar Cover art by Paula Wilson Welcome to the new Co-Editors-in-Chief, Michael Simanga and Clarissa Myrick-Harris White! From the introduction: “Over the past 13 years, Dr. Louis Chude-Sokei, Professor of ...

Now available, 55.1. Read the introduction and “Diversity of Consumption: Mattel’s Collectible Black Bodies.” by Aria S. Halliday for free.

Queen of Afro-Pop: The Many Shades of Onyeka Onwenu - The Black Scholar For decades, African scholarship addressing music in the public sphere has predominantly focused on prominent figures, most of whom are men. As a result, the works of many women who contribute to the ...

Call for Papers: Queen of Afro-Pop: The Many Shades of Onyeka Onwenu

Now Accepting Applications for Associate Editor - The Black Scholar The Black Scholar is seeking applicants for two Associate Editors. The positions will start in mid-to-late 2025 and are for a two-year appointment, renewable by mutual consent. As members of the TBS E...

We're looking for two associate editors to work with the new co-editors-in-chief.

The Boomerang Comes Back - Boston Review How the U.S.-backed war on Palestine is expanding authoritarianism at home—from Project Esther to violence at the border.

"What if, rather than blaming Palestinians, Arab Americans, and American Muslims, these pundits had seen their treatment—under Biden and for decades before him—as central to the Trump-led repression looming before us?"

Noura Erakat on the imperial boomerang

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Ode to The Mothership: Black Geographies Giving [The People] Uncut Funk - The Black Scholar Mothership Connection (1975) opens a biting metaphor through the vocals, composition and lyrics of the group Parliament. Their sound explored how music should be experienced while their teachings push...

Call for papers. Ode to the Mothership: Black Geographies Giving [The People] Uncut Funk. Eds: Stephanie Jones, Deogratius Mshigeni, and Chaz Briscoe

Deep Gratitude - The Black Scholar By the time Louis Chude-Sokei joined the senior editorial team of TBS, in 2013, his list of scholarly achievements was impressive. Editing a journal of Black Studies, however, was not among them. I kn...

Thank you for all your hard work, Louis! We'll miss you and wish you well in all your ongoing and future endeavors.

Now Available: 54.4, Black Independent Film in Britain - The Black Scholar From the introduction to 54.4: “Even more than the films produced by these collectives, to see [Steve] McQueen’s Small Axe and Uprising is to see and hear the work of the one Black film and video coll...

Our latest issue, Black Independent Film in Britain (54.4), and the final issue from former TBS Editor-in-Chief, Louis Chude-Sokei.