
Digital Table of Contents
General Issue
2020
46.1
Cover Art Front and Back: Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga, Untitled, 2018 & Fragile 1, 2018
Interior Page: Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga, Fragile 2, 2018

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DIGITAL
Excerpt from Amargo
Excerpt from Teach Me How to Samba
Juan Álvarez (Wamoo)
Alger, Mon Amour—Portfolio
Stéphanie Melyon-Reinette
Under Over Deluxe AF
Douglas Kearney
POETRY
Border Crossing
.chisaraokwu.
A Natural History
Touchy Subject
MiLisa R. Coleman
Swell
Calle Guerrero Noble
Group Therapy
Cristina Correa
Ritual
Black-Faced Cathedral
God, my pickaninny
If we must die
Justin Danzy
The Other Nine
Threshing Floor
Return
Valerie Smith
Congregation
Kumi and I Freestyle
Daniel B. Summerhill
Holy Ghost or Juju
I Call ISHAKA
Erin Rae Threlkeld
FICTION/HYBRID WORK
Shadow Dancer
Esperanza Cintrón
Cocoanut
Thomas Bulen Jacobs
Where Is My Mother?
Christopher Mpofu
DRAMA/PERFORMANCE
Pushing Past Future
Maria Judice
CRITICAL ESSAYS
Tracery: For Nathaniel Mackey
Aldon Lynn Nielsen
VISUAL ART
Body Mass
Free
Really
Woman of Color
JoAnne McFarland
. . . Pride Comes Before the Fall . . .
. . . Nothing More than Dreams . . . Sweet Melodies Reciting Words
that Will Never Be Said . . .
Ceaphas Stubbs
1969 REWIND: RECONSIDERING THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT, THE PAN-AFRICAN
CULTURAL FESTIVAL & THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY INTERNATIONAL SECTION
Introduction
Michael A. Antonucci
The Fact of Black Nonrelationality: Cecil Taylor in Paris
Matthias Domingo Mushinski
AfriCOBRA: African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists
Kada Wafaa
“The Choice Was No Mere Coincidence”:
A Conversation with Professor Abdeldjalil Youcef Larbi & Nadia Abdelhadi
Michael A. Antonucci
Nous, Noirs Américains Évadés du Ghetto: The Fleury Four Hijacking Hope
Selma Bekkai & Saliha Benkechida
Alger, Mon Amour & the Heartbroken Revolution (A Reflection)
Stéphanie Melyon-Reinette
Revolutionary Spatialities & Transcultural Solidarities
at the 1969 Pan-African Cultural Festival in Algeria
Emily Jane O’Dell
FORM & (DIS)CONTENT: SPECULATIVE & EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES
TO LANGUAGE BY AUTHORS OF COLOR, VOL II
Introduction
Rone Shavers
What’s Under What’s Over It
Douglas Kearney
Fore/Mothers: Canon, Recreation, Diaspora
Jennifer Maritza McCauley
Diary Work
Bitch Tendencies
Kenning JP García
from Under the Knife
Krista Franklin
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