Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society is a quarterly interdisciplinary journal sponsored by the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University. The journal maps the intellectual contours of the contemporary Black experience: the various ideological debates, politics, culture, and recent history of African American people.

In the spirit of W. E. B. Du Bois, Souls (whose title was inspired by Du Bois' classic 1903 analysis of Black American culture and politics, The Souls of Black Folk) presents creative and challenging interpretations of the major themes and issues currently being discussed by scholars of Black America.

Under the editorial direction of Manning Marable, Souls brings together intellectuals from both traditional academe and the Black community to engage in a critical dialogue about contemporary problems and challenges facing Black America today.

Recent Articles

• Profit, Power, and Privilege: The Racial Politics of Ancestry, Lee D. Baker
• 9/11: Notes on the Crisis, Linda Burnham, Hazel Carby, Bill Fletcher, Jr., Farah Jasmine Griffin, and Manning Marable
• Tokyo Bound: African Americans and Japan Confront White Supremacy, Gerald Horne
• Transforming Ethnic Studies: Theorizing Multiculturalism, Diversity, and Power, Manning Marable
• Notes on Du Bois' s Final Years, Herbert Aptheker
• African American Women Making Themselves: Notes on the Role of Black Feminist Research, Leith Mullings
• Racial Formation and Transformation: Toward a Theory of Black Racial Oppression, Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua
• "In Defense of Mumia": The Political Economy of Race, Class, Gender, and Social Death, Leonard Weinglass, Ray Brown, Charles Ogletree, and Conrad Muhammad

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