The CLA Journal (ISSN 0007-8549) is a multilingual peer-reviewed bi-annual publication by the College Language Association. It is issued in March and September of each year. CLAJ publishes critical essays on African Diasporan language, literature, and cultural studies; seminal interviews; and book reviews.
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Special Issue: Blackness and Disability: This. Is. The. Remix. or I Thought I Told You That We Won't Stop
Guest Edited by Therí Alyce Pickens
Download Full Issue: Volume 64 Issue 1
Note from the Editor Dr. Sandra G. Shannon
Blackness and Disability: The Remix Therí A. Pickens
On Fits, Starts, and Entry Points: The Rise of Black Disability Studies Anna Hinton
Blackened Vulnerabilities and Intersex Mobility in Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex Kianna Middleton
No Crips Allowed: Magical Negroes, Black Superheroes, And the Hyper-Abled Black Male Body in Steven Spielberg's Amistad and Ryan Coogler's Black Panther Charles I. Nero
Horror as Resistance: Reimagining Blackness and Madness Michelle Jarman
Materializing Tension: The Laborious, Woven Documentation Of a Black, Queer, Crip Bodymind in Indira Allegra's Documented Disability Tamir Williams
Black Disability Gone Viral: A Critical Race Approach to Inspiration Porn Sami Schalk
Black Autism: A Conversation with Diana Paulin Julia Miele Rodas, Diana R. Paulin
Irrevocable Conditions: Black, Palestinian, Disabled Homes in Jana Elhassan's The 99th Floor Michelle Hartman
"Don't nobody wanna be locked up": The Black Disabled Veteran in Toni Morrison's Sula and August Wilson's Fences Delia Steverson
Disability, Blackness, and Indigeneity: An Invitation to a Conversation Siobhan Senier
Book Reviews
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten (review) Timothy Lyle
Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)Ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk (review) A.D. Boynton II
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe (review) Nirmala Erevelles
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