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Forthcoming: Volume 38 (2026)
Current Volume: Volume 37 (2025)
Special Issue:
Blackness, Race, and Racism in Nineteenth-Century Studies
Wendy Castenell and A. Maggie Hazard, co-editors
wcastenell@wlu.edu; ahazar1@saic.edu
This special issue explores how Blackness was constructed and problematized by a hegemonic global structure across national boundaries during the long nineteenth century, paying particular attention to emerging concepts of Black identities during this period.
ARTICLES
- Sarah Brokenborough: Envisioning “Negro Education” in the British West Indies: Emma Soyer’s Two Children with a Book
- Stephen D. Engle: A White Man Hangs for Black Freedom: Reckoning with John Brown’s Execution for Racial Justice
- Paul D. Yandle: “Alarming Symptoms”: Thomas Dixon’s The Leopard’s Spots and the Use of Antihistory in Systemic Voter Supression
- Antje Anderson: “My Record Was Growing Blacker and Blacker”: Race in Charles Chesnutt’s “Nonracial” Short Stories
- Emily C. Burns: From Minstrelsy to Lynching: Secreting the Spectacle of Transnational Racism from the American Art Association of Paris
- Lincoln Hirn: “In the Name of God and Truth”: The Slave Narrative at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
- Daniela B. Abraham: The New York Émigré Community as Arturo Alfonso Schomburg’s Community of Memory
- Mollie Barnes: Harriet Tubman, Romantic: What Tubman Teaches Us About Anti-Racist Pedagogies Through Her Niagara Falls Stories
BOOK REVIEW
- Rachel Hooper: Blackness and Nineteenth-Century Art in the Atlantic World
EXHIBITION REVIEW
- Shazia Hafiz Ramji: Intimacies of Art and Empire