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Volume 43.4 features a timely and critical special section on The Austin School Black Studies Manifesto. Drafted by a collective of scholars at the University of Texas at Austin almost twenty years ago, the Manifesto is a call that goes beyond the classroom and asserts that Black intellectual inquiry and methodology must be deeply connected to our political and artistic commitments. The guest editors for this section—Omi Joni Jones, Ted Gordon, and Celeste Henery—have assembled a folio that invites readers to engage with the Manifesto not simply as an artifact of the past, but as a document that inspired scholarship, art, and activism, and continues to provoke and mobilize students and scholars. 


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Callaloo is proud to announce the appointment of six new Genre Editors: Tyree Daye (Co-Poetry Editor), Safia Elhillo (Co-Poetry Editor), Claire Jiménez (Co-Fiction Editor), Kei Miller (Co-Fiction Editor), Keenan Norris (Nonfiction).

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Founding Callaloo

Dr. Charles H. Rowell founded Callaloo in 1976 at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. With its emphasis on critical studies of the arts and humanities, as well as creative writing, Callaloo has emerged as the most essential and continuously published journal in matters pertinent to African American and African Diaspora Studies worldwide.

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"I, like you, come from a people who have fought — and continue to fight — in a long struggle. I know that we must not merely survive; we must triumph. The ancestors do not expect anything less."

- Dr. Charles H. Rowell