A Journal of Research in Africana Studies
Freedom, Volume 2
Freedom: A Journal of Research in Africana Studies, Volume 2
Freedom: A Journal of Research in Africana Studies is a digital peer review journal published annually in June. Address inquiries to: BSU Du Bois Center, Freedom: A Journal of Research in Africana Studies, MLKC 2380, Department of History and Government, 14000 Jericho Park Road, Bowie State University, Bowie, MD 20715.
The purpose of Freedom is threefold: first, to emphasize the relevance of Africana Studies to contemporary life, focusing particularly on the experiences of communities of African descent in the Americas; second, to facilitate the dissemination of scholarship on Africana Studies; and third, to foster international perspectives in an era of increasing globalization and intercultural contacts. This issue addresses the question: how have Black people approached and engaged with liberational theory and praxis to secure self-determination both historically and contemporarily? This journal specializes in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research focusing on the lived experiences of the Black Diaspora.
DOI: https://DOI.org/10.65373/BVMY5156
- Managing Editor - Karen Cook Bell
- Editor-in-Chief - Sheneese Thompson
- Associate Editor - Festus Cole
- Graduate Assistant - Zenobia Fenwick
Editorial/Advisory Board
- Benjamin Arah, Bowie State University
- Karen Cook Bell, Bowie State University
- Felicia Jamison, University of Louisville
- Gina Lewis, Bowie State University
- Janelle Pryor, Bowie State University
Africana Studies, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies
- ISBN: 13 979-8-218-29958-3
- ISSN Online : 2998-8330
- ISSN Print: 2998-8322
- Publication Date: June 2025
- Language: English
Published under the auspices of the Bowie State University W.E.B. Du Bois Center for the Study of the Black Experience and the Department of History and Government, Bowie State University, Bowie, Maryland 20715.
Copyright ©BSU Du Bois Center
Frontmatter
Articles
For the Future Generations
Edie Wallace
DOI: https://DOI.org/10.65373/BVMY5156
Download PDF >Our Souls Look Back in Wonder!
Suzanne Johnson
DOI: https://DOI.org/10.65373/BVMY5156
Download PDF >Skin//Content: Or Partitioning the Variance of Dreams
IDEAS//Forever
SEASONED//Counters: Or, An Ode to Good Trouble
R.J. Petteway
DOI: https://DOI.org/10.65373/BVMY5156
Download PDF >Yolande Du Bois’s Scrapbooks: Sketching an Archival History
Phillip Luke SintiereThe Possibility of King’s Beloved Community Going Forward
J. Edward HackettCartooning the Beloved Community: Martin Luther King Jr. and Political Personhood in “The Montgomery Story”
Magana KabugiTwice as Hard: A Black Parable for Existing in Higher Education
Frederick V. Engram, Jr.The Symbolic Annihilation of Black Working-Class Women in The Black Family (aka Good Times)
Angela NelsonBlackness, femininity, and queerness within Afro-Peruvian Female Hip Hop
Pilar Caceres CartagenaQueer in an African Worldsense: The Spirituality of Sexuality in Nigeria and South Africa
Toluwani RobertsBook Reviews
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(London: Hurst Publishers, 2022)
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(New York: Liveright, 2024. 592 pp.)
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(Princeton Architectural Press, 2025)
Reviewed by Milan Drake