{"id":12694,"date":"2023-02-14T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/?p=12694"},"modified":"2023-10-30T12:09:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T16:09:27","slug":"now-available-53-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/2023\/02\/14\/now-available-53-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Available: 53.1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cover art by Lavar Munroe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From the introduction of\u00a0<\/span>53.1<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe clock is ticking at\u00a0<\/span>The Black Scholar<\/em>. Changes that will affect the editorial team, vision, and ownership are emerging and surging. There is still some time but within two years the journal is likely to change hands. Hopefully\u2014indeed we insist\u2014we will maintain the remarkable community that has built up around the journal in its current incarnation, and the quality of scholarship and thought it has featured since its founding in 1969. This community of course expanded and redefined those earlier communities who stuck with TBS throughout multiple incarnations and no shortage of ups and downs. Internal ups and downs in terms of personalities, agendas, and the struggles needed for solidarity and shared vision to work. External ups and downs in our attempts to capture and comment on the wider worlds of culture, politics, and changing modes of scholarly interrogation and interpretation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Issue includes the following:<\/p>\n