the A-Line editors are excited to present this double issue of the journal devoted to the arts. The double issue gives us the opportunity to elaborate the aims of the journal in supplementary fashion by aligning aesthetic concerns with political commitment, which in times of crisis are never very far apart. We invite you to read the introductory essay “Arts Now,” by our editor, Hortense J. Spillers.
Arts Now
Hortense J. Spillers
Black Feminist Regard – as Ethics, as Aesthetics
Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman
a prefatory note
Fred Moten
evolution
Claudia Rankine
Not Even Anywhere Place
Ark Ramsay
la independencia de puerto rico
Raquel Salas-Rivera
Black Apocalypse, Tonight at Noon
Christopher Winks
Re-Punctuating Amiri Baraka and W.E.B. DuBois with Francisco de Honoré Goya
Jeremy Matthew Glick
for Meena by the sea
Gale Jackson
There She Was
Tiana Reid
The Skin of the Thing
Patricia Spears Jones
