Cover art by Allison Janae HamiltonThe Black Scholar (Routledge) is proud to announce the launch of a two-part special issue on the future of Black feminism. Our guest editors - Brittney Cooper,Tanisha Ford, Treva Lindsey, and Joan Morgan,and Kaila Story - beget curated a group of contributors covering unusual territory within the field of Black feminisms more broadly and the employ of Black feminist frameworks within specific disciplines. Our contributors include Drs. Jessica M. Johnson, Kristie Dotson, and Susana Morris,and Tamura Lomax. These wide ranging inquiries consider the politics of producing theory, the challenges for articulating a pleasure politic, and the shifting demands of queer inquiry and its relationship to black feminism's broader intellectual project. Within disciplines contributors interrogate how Black women's literature aids in the process of imagining Black feminist futures,argue for a reclamation of the importance of spirituality and the sacred, chart a unusual course for Black feminist inquiry within the discipline of philosophy, or expand our national borders with a consideration of how Black gender politics emerge in transnational spaces. Returning our attention to the intellectual production of Black women and to questions of how gender should figure in liberatory politics is especially salient (significant; conspicuous; standing out from the rest) in the context of the emerging Black Lives Matter Movement. These pieces demonstrate that Black feminism remains a generative and vibrant site of radical knowledge production. in addition these pieces challenge any existing imperatives that seek to middle or recenter Black cisgender,Black male experiences as paradigmatic of Black experience more generally. This two-part special issue models in the best traditions of Black feminism what a queer, anti-patriarchal, or trans and cis inclusive Black politic should stare like in this moment. Although focused on academic Black feminisms,these works self-consciously beget praxes based investments. They demonstrate that the best thinking has an impact on our doing. Taken together these two issues offers an expansive, though by no means exhaustive, and stare at some of the most exciting and generative unusual work within the field of Black feminism. This special issue will challenge readers to critically consider the current state and future of Black feminism.
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Special: Read first issue with free (limited) access! Part one (45.4) is available now online and will be out in print in December 2015. Part two (46.2) is set to be released online in spring 2016 and in print during summer 2016. Feel free to share this press release.
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