• African American Review at 40: A Retrospective
  Joe Weixlmann, Houston A. Baker, Jr., William L. Andrews, Trudier Harris, Thadious Davis, and Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
• "A Guy in a Black SUV," "Mother to Son," "The Famous Colored Writer," and "Dunbar" (poetry)
  William J. Harris
• Traumatic Theology in the Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself
  John Ernest
• "You have no business to whip me": The Freedom Suits of Polly Wash and Lucy Ann Delany
  Eric Gardner
• "Suddenly and Shockingly Black": The Atavistic Child in Turn-of-the-Twentieth Century American Fiction
  J. Michael Duvall and Julie Cary Nerad
• How the Socialism of W. E. B. Du Bois Still Matters: Black Socialism in The Quest of the Silver Fleece--and Beyond
  Mark Van Wienen and Julie Kraft
• Begging to Differ: Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Anzia Yezierska's Arrogant Beggar
  Catherine Rottenberg
• Toward Feminine Mythopoetic Visions: The Poetry of Gayl Jones
  Casey Clabough
• Following Her Act: Sequence and Desire in Gayl Jones's The Healing
  David LaCroix
• Literary Free Jazz? Mumbo Jumbo and Paradise: Language and Meaning
  Keren Omry
• "Do I look like someone you can come home to from where you may be going?": Re-Mapping Interracial Anxiety in Octavia Butler's Kindred
  Guy Mark Foster
• Revisiting Funnyhouse: An Interview with Billie Allen
  Philip C. Kolin
• 8 Book Reviews

Volume 40, Number 4 (Winter 2006) -- The Curse of Caste Special Issue

• Foreword
  William L. Andrews
• BACK TALK: Of Print and Primogeniture, The Curse of Firsts
  Rafia Zafar
• Introduction: Reclaiming Julia C. Collins, Forgotten 19^th-Century African American Author
  Veta Smith Tucker
• FORGOTTEN MANUSCRIPTS: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Theresa?
  Frances Smith Foster
• "Eulogy for Julia C. Collins: Speculations on Her Thoughts in Oswego, New York at Lake Ontario circa January 1865 (poem)
  Melba Joyce Boyd
• Interrogating the Silences: Julia C. Collins, 19^th-Century Black Readers and Writers, and the Christian Recorder
  Mitch Kachun
• What the Dickens?: Intertextual Influence and the Inheritance of Virtue in Julia C. Collins's The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride
  Colleen C. O'Brien
• "Neither is Memory Always Thus Avenging": Longing for Kinship in Julia C. Collins's The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride
  Edlie Wong
• The Christian Recorder, Broken Families, and Educated Nations in Julia Collins's Civil War Novel The Curse of Caste
  P. Gabrielle Foreman
• The Sentiment of the Christian Serial Novel: Julia C. Collins's The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride and the AME Christian Recorder
  Tomeiko Ashford Carter
• Information Wanted: The Curse of Caste, Minnie's Sacrifice, and the Christian Recorder
  Jean Lee Cole
• A Tale of Disunion: The Racial Politics of Unclaimed Kindred in Julia C. Collins's The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride
  Veta Smith Tucker
• Biracial Promise and the New South in Minnie's Sacrifice
  Leslie W. Lewis
• " 'Ruse It Well": Reading, Power, and the Seduction Plot in The Curse of Caste
  Jennifer Rae Greeson
• Face Value: Ambivalent Citizenship in Iola Leroy
  Michael Borgstrom
• Childhood, the Body, and Race Performance: Early 20^th-Century Etiquette Books for Black Children
  Katharine Capshaw Smith
• African American Women's Poetry in the Christian Recorder, 1855-1865: A Bio-Bibliography with Sample Poems
  Eric Gardner
• 4 Book Reviews
• Index to Volume 40

Volume 40, Number 3 (Fall 2006)

• Black Like?: The Strange Case of Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins
  Jennifer Harris
• Race, Modernism, and Plagiarism: The Case of Nella Larsen's "Sanctuary"
  Hildegard Hoeller
• Buried Alive: Gothic Homelessness, Black Women's Sexuality, and (Living) Death in Ann Petry's The Street
  Evie Shockley
• Knucklebones and Knocking-bones: The Accidental Trickster in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
  Julia Sun-Joo Lee
• Burbanking Bigger and Bette the Bitch
  Elizabeth Binggeli
• Slavery, Labor Reform, and Intertextuality in Antebellum Print Culture: The Slave Narrative and the City-Mysteries Novel
  Carl Ostrowski
• Historical Memory, Romantic Narrative, and Sally Hemings
  Suzette Spencer
• W. E. B. Du Bois's UnAmerican End
  Jodi Melamed
• Chronopolitics and Race, Rag-time and Symphonic Time in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
  Bruce Barnhart
• Between Image and Word, Color and Time: Jacob Lawrence's The Migration Series
  Jutta Lorensen
• 11 Book Reviews

Volume 40, Number 2 (Summer 2006)

• BACK TALK: A Black Gay Man's Reflections on Torture and Dictatorship
  Thomas Glave
• Numerological Tradition in the Works of Jupiter Hammon
  Arlen Nydam
  
• "speak" (poem)
  Bro. Yao (Hoke S. Glover III)
  
• "The Strangest Freaks of Despotism": Queer Sexuality in African American Slave Narratives
  Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman
• Que(e)rying the Prison-House of Black Male Desire: Homosociality in Ernest Gaines's "Three Men"
  Keith Clark
  
• Revising Critical Judgments of The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
  Heather Russell Andrade
• A Love Supreme: Jazzthetic Strategies in Toni Morrison's Beloved
  Lars Eckstein
• Simon Wasn't There: The Sambo Strategy, Consumable Theater, and Rebecca Gilman's Spinning into Butter
  Geoffrey Stacks
• The Conspiracy of Masculinity in Ishmael Reed
  Andrew Strombeck
  
• "The Counterfeit Sock" (story)
  Ron Frazer
  
• TOM DENT COLLECTIVE
  
• • The Art of Tom Dent: Notes on Early Evidence
    Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
    
  • The Need to Speak: Tom Dent and the Shaping of a Black Aesthetic
    Lorenzo Thomas
  • Tom Dent's Role in the Organizational Mentoring of African American Southern Writers: A Memoir AND "All Tom's Children" (poem)
    Quo Vadis Gex Breaux
  • "my father is dead. again." (poem)
    Kalamu ya Salaam
• Baseball as History and Myth in August Wilson's Fences
  Susan Koprince
• The Urban Gothic Vision of Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist (1999)
  Saundra Liggins
  
• "A Picture of My Father" (poem)
  Walter Blackwell, Sr.
  
• 10 Book Reviews

Volume 40, Number 1 (Spring 2006)

• NELLIE MCKAY TRIBUTE: Nellie--A Memorial and "The Nellie Tree," or Disbanding the Wheatley Court
  Various
• "A Direction of one's own": Alienation in Mrs. Dalloway and Sula
  Lorie Watkins Fulton
  
• Traveling Identities: Mixed Race Quests and Fran Ross's Oreo
  Tru Leverette
  
• Fading to White, Fading Away: Biracial Bodies in Michelle Cliff's Abeng and Danzy Senna's Caucasia
  Sika Alaine Dagbovie
• Maternal Discourses in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber
  Giselle Liza Anatol
  
• Oratory, Embodiment, and US Citizenship in Sutton E. Griggs's Imperium in Imperio
  Maria Karafilis
• The Harlem Renaissance as Postcolonial Phenomenon
  Robert Philipson
• "in the glad flesh of my fear": Corporeal Inscriptions in Richard Bruce Nugent's Geisha Man
  Tyler Schmidt
• 11 Book Reviews

• FORGOTTEN MANUSCRIPTS: The Short Fiction of George Wylie Henderson: A Selection
  David G. Nicholls
• Metaphorical Conceptions in Hip-Hop Music
  Scott Crossley
• Freak Shows, Spectacles, and Carnivals: Reading Jonathan Demme's Beloved
  Anissa J. Wardi
• "As if word magic had anything to do with the courage it took to be a man": Black Masculinity in Toni Morrison's Paradise
  Andrew Read
• "The Soul has Bandaged Moments": Reading the Gothic in Wright's "Big Boy Leaves Home," Morrison's Beloved, and Gomez's Gilda
  Cedric Gael Bryant
  
• The Loeb and Leopold Case: A Neglected Source for Native Son
  Robert Butler
• New Women and New Negroes: Archetypal Womanhood in The Living Is Easy
  Jennifer M. Wilks
• "Wild Grape" (story)
  Angel Y. Green
• 11 Book Reviews
• Index to Volume 39

Volume 39, Number 3 (Fall 2005)

• BACK TALK: Katrina: A Matrix of Stories
  Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
• Lloyd Richards: Reminiscence of a Theatre Life and Beyond
  N. Graham Nesmith
• Whose Will Be Done?: Self-Determination in Pauline Hopkins's Hagar's Daughter
  Susan Hays Bussey
• James Weldon Johnson's Black Manhattan and the Kingdom of American Culture
  Michael Nowlin
• The Zombie In/As the Text: Zora Neale Hurston's Tell My Horse
  Amy Fass Emery
• Creating Ethnography: Zora Neale Hurston and Lydia Cabrera
  Lynda Hoffman-Jeep
• Invisible Man and African American Radicalism in World War II
  Christopher Z. Hobson
• Inheriting the Criminalized Black Body: Race, Gender, and Slavery in Eva's Man
  Hershini Bhana Young
• The Other Side of Paradise: Toni Morrison's (Un)Making of Mythic History
  Marni Gauthier
• Creating the Beloved Community: Religion, Race, and Nation in Toni Morrison's Paradise
  Channette Romero
• "As if I had entered a Paradise": Fugitive Slave Narratives and Cross-Border Literary History
  Nancy Kang
• "Sections of an Orange" (story)
  Anton Nimblett
• 10 Book Reviews

Volume 39, Numbers 1 and 2 (Spring/Summer 2005)

• In the Swamp (story)
  William Henry Lewis
• "Pulling in the natural environment": An Interview with Pinkie Gordon Lane
  John Lowe
• "Civil" War Wounds: William Wells Brown, Violence and the Domestic Narrative
  Jennifer James
• Dramatic Deception and Black Identity in The First One and Riding the Goat
  Taylor Hagood
• A Ghost in the Expressionist Jungle of O'Neill's The Emperor Jones
  Carmen Manuel
• Art, Activism, and Uncompromising Attitude in Georgia Douglas Johnson's Lynching Plays
  Judith L. Stephens
• Reading a "Closet Screenplay": Hollywood, James Baldwin's Malcolms and the Threat of Historical Irrelevance
  Brian Norman
• "This thing called playwrighting": An Interview with Sonia Sanchez on the Art of Her Drama
  Jacqueline Wood
• Domestic Epic Warfare in Maud Martha
  Valerie Frazier
• Reflecting Violence in the Warpland: Gwendolyn Brooks's Riot
  Annette Debo
• After Vallejo and DEAR JOHN COLTRANE (poetry)
  A. B. Spellman
• Gloria Naylor's Mama Day: Bridging Roots and Routes
  Daphne Lamothe
• The Mother-Daughter Àjé Relationship in Toni Morrison's Beloved
  Teresa N. Washington
• Hiding Fire and Brimstone in Lacy Groves: The Twinned Trees of Beloved
  Lorie Watkins Fulton
• Biblical Trees, Biblical Deliverance: Literary Landscapes of Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison
  Glenda B. Weathers
• Echoes of Africa in To Sleep with Anger and Eve's Bayou
  Mary Ellison
• "Ironic Soil": Recuperative Rhythms and Negotiated Nationalisms
  Stefanie K. Dunning
• 10 Book Reviews