SOULS Special Issue: “Transition with a Real Slow Fade”: The Life and Work of Richard Iton

Photo Credit: Lester Spence SOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society Issue 3-4 2014 pages 143-378
Special Issue: “Transition with a Real Slow Fade”: The Life and Work of Richard Iton

Guest Editors' Note Lester K. Spence& Mark Anthony Neal
Productively Destabilized: Black Studies and Fantastic Modes of Being Lia T. Bascomb
Uncovering the Black Fantastic in Black Body Politics Margo Natalie Crawford
The Fantastic Olivia Pope: The Construction of a Black Feminist Subject Utz McKnight
Black Political and Popular Culture: The Legacy of Richard Iton Aneeka Henderson
Of Fathers and Sons, Prophets and Messiahs Vincent Lloyd
Song Uncaged: Prison Temporality and Black Pop Culture Escape Shana L. Redmond
Hyphy Rap Music, Cooptation, and Black Fanatics in Oakland, CA (1994–2010) H. Lavar Pope
The Politics of Making Home: Opening Up the Work of Richard Iton in Canadian Hip Hop Context Mark V. Campbell
On the Question of “Who's Out in Hip Hop” C. Riley Snorton
Rapping in the Light: American Africanism and Rap Minstrelsy Damon Sajnani
On Post-Blackness and the Black Fantastic Greta Fowler Snyder
African Space Programs: Spaces and Times of the Black Fantastic Anthony Reed
Poetry
Liner Notes
Christian Campbell