The Black Shoals Dossier

Abstract

This dossier collects four reflections on The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies (2019) with responses by its author Tiffany Lethabo King. This dossier is based on an American Studies Association 2021 roundtable organized by Beenash Jafri.

Keywords

• indigenous studies
• black studies
• native studies
• landing
• revisiting sycorax (sculpture)
• diaspora
• star quilting
• dreaming
• liminality
• octavia butler
• parable of the sower
• erotics
• collaboration
• freedom
• decolonization
• the black shoals