A Journal of Research in Africana Studies
Freedom, Volume 3
Freedom: A Journal of Research in Africana Studies, Volume 3
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/PTIH4511
- Managing Editor - Karen Cook Bell, Bowie State University
- Editor-in-Chief - Sheneese Thompson, Howard University
- Associate Editor - Festus Cole, Bowie State University
- Research Assistant - Wawen Ewimbi
Editorial/Advisory Board
- Benjamin Arah, Bowie State University
- Nemata Blyden, University of Virginia
- Felicia Jamison, University of Louisville
- Gina Lewis, Bowie State University
- Abioseh Michael Porter, Drexel University
- Janell 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: August 2026
- 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
Poems
For Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961)
Margaret StetzDear Lord, Why Me?
Craig JordanArticles
Freedom and Unfreedom in the Black Belt: Du Bois as Proto-Criminologist
Shuntavia N. JamesConfronting Police Aggression: The NAACP’s Legal Advocacy Work during the Great Migration
Adam Lee CilliLabor as Liberation: The Pullman Porters and the Black Intellectual Legacy Model
Rashid FaisalMurder in Kenansville: Black Liberation Struggles in Antebellum North Carolina and the Kenan Legacy of Violence
Melissa StoryCodecloseting, Opacité, and the Racialized Politics of Linguistic Performativity
Leland Royce Harper and Adele OkoliInsider/Outsider: Black Surinamese Dutch Women in Predominantly White Educational Institutions
Ashley MelchertsCritical Consciousness Development & Preservation in Black Youth in the Era of Generative AI
Kweli Zukeri and Brielle BrookinsOur Stories in the Code: A Tradition of Black Education and the Ethics of AI Learning Technologies
Symone Campbell and Semaj Campbell-BlakesPoem: The Classroom Is a Clearing
Daejianna ClairborneThe Struggle to “Think. Work. Serve.”: Reflections on Africana Studies at Tennessee State University in the Age of the Geier Case
Andrea Ringer and Sekh MaatExploring Congo Cultural Heritage in Panama: Insights from an Immersive Study Abroad Program
Sumanth Reddy‘It’s Not Just Black Culture, It’s Home Culture:’ The Engaged Detroit Homeschool Co-op
Britany J. Gatewood, Joy S. Jones, and Kathaleena E. MondsAfricana Borderlands Ways of Knowing: The Black Church and Knowledge Practices in New Mexico’s Borderlands
Charles E. Becknell, Jr.Book Reviews
In The Wake: On Blackness and Being (2016)
by Christina Sharpe
Reviewed by Ralycia Andrews
Download PDF >Chronicles of Ori: An African Epic (2025)
by Harmonia Rosales
Reviewed by Sheneese Thompson
Download PDF >Oshun, Lemonade & Intertextuality: Afro-Atlantic Religion in Black Popular Culture (2025)
by Sheneese Thompson
Reviewed by Chad Graham
Download PDF >The Blueprint for Belonging: A Reflection on Square Pegs and Round Holes (2021)
by Fred A. Bonner II, Rosa M. Banda, Stella L. Smith, and Aretha F. Marbley
Reviewed by Daejianna Clairborne
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