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Tommie Shelby

Harvard University

 

Glenda Carpio

Harvard University

 

Vincent Brown

Duke University

 

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Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw 

University of Pennsylvania

 

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TRANSITION 108      

      

Boogie Man
forthcoming, June 2012

In Transition 108, our authors take "the long view from the levee" and survey the muddy flow of African/American history. From the banks of the Mississippi to the back roads of Ivory Coast, manmade dams and barricades block access to our homelands.  

 

But the past has a way of leaking through: West African aesthetic forms in the work of an American sculptor, old soul food joints in the New Newark,  the scars of racism in contemporary Cuban art, and the sweet sound of the Gospel Train replaced by Soul Train, a form of secular testifying that taught us to moonwalk down the line.   

 

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Transition 109 will hit your brainwaves at the end of the summer, when election season will be in full heat. It's been a year of street politics in the United States: camps, shootings, protests, show-me-your-papers provisions.  

 

As an international magazine, we don't endorse American navel-gazing, but we do believe in the power of the people, and right now the view from the stoop might be more global than the view from the capitol. Whether writing from near or far, we want to hear your marching orders for the post-Obama future.

 

If the stars and stripes give you a headache, there's always Swedish cake, Chinese mines, and Amazonian dams to consider.

 

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