African American Review

A publication of Johns Hopkins University Press

African American Review is a scholarly aggregation of insightful essays on African American literature, theatre, film, the visual arts, and culture; interviews; poetry; fiction; and book reviews. Published quarterly, AAR has featured renowned writers and cultural critics including Trudier Harris, Arnold Rampersad, Hortense Spillers, Amiri Baraka, Cyrus Cassells, Rita Dove, Charles Johnson, Cheryl Wall, and Toni Morrison. The official publication of LLC African American of the Modern Language Association, AAR fosters a vigorous conversation among writers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Editorial Board

Nathan L. Grant, Editor
Aileen M. Keenan, Managing Editor
Paul Devlin, Book Review Editor

Executive Board

Associate & Advisory Editors

Associate Editors

Houston A. Baker, Jr.
Keith Byerman
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Executive Board

(term 2024-2026)

Rich Blint
Barbara Clare Foley
Alan Nadel
Samantha N. Pinto
Dana A. Williams

Member Advisors

William L. Andrews	Manthia Diawara	Abdul JanMohamed	Sw. Anand Prahlad
Michael Awkward	Michele Elam	Ketu Katrak	Arnold Rampersad
Herman Beavers	Frances Smith Foster	David Krasner	Sandra Richards
Bernard W. Bell	Robert E. Fox	Missy D. Kubitschek	Terry Rowden
Joanne M. Braxton	William Gleason	Deborah E. McDowell	Valerie A. Smith
Robert James Butler	Farah Jasmine Griffin	Reginald McKnight	Miriam Thaggert
John F. Callahan	William J. Harris	E. Ethelbert Miller	Joe Weixlmann
Daryl Dance	Karla F. C. Holloway	R. Baxter Miller	Richard Yarborough
Thadious M. Davis	Dolan Hubbard	Joycelyn Moody
Alice Deck	Sterling Plumpp

African American Review is published each Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter by Johns Hopkins University Press. Individual and institutional subscriptions are available.

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Authors must submit all manuscripts electronically via Manuscript FastTrack. AAR is open for submissions from
September 15 to May 1.
Please review our guidelines carefully.

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