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.
Articles by Tiffany Lethabo King
Tiffany Lethabo King holds the Barbara And John Glynn Research Professorship in Democracy and Equity and is Associate Professor of Women, Gender & Sexuality at the University of Virginia. Her work is animated by abolitionist and decolonial traditions within Black studies and Native/Indigenous studies. They are the author of The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies (Duke University Press, 2020), which won the Lora Romero First Book Prize. She also co-edited Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Black Racism (Duke University Press, 2021).