Erica R. Edwards (Editor) Erica R. Edwards is Associate Professor of English and Presidential Term Chair in African American Literature at Rutgers University. She is author of Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership (2012), which received the MLA's William Sanders Scarborough Prize, and co-editor of Keywords for African American Literature (2018).Roderick A. Ferguson (Editor) Roderick A. Ferguson is Professor of African American Studies and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago.Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar (Editor) Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar is Professor of History and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Popular Music at the University of Connecticut.

"This comprehensive but incisive collection is both born of this moment and the culmination of the decades-long project of African American studies: a collective, intellectual endeavor forged in the world and beyond it. The volume is an index of the power of Black thought, for the now and for the next." - Mark Anthony Neal, James B. Duke Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University "Keywords is an exciting contribution to the discipline, providing the genealogy of fifty words as living testaments to the past and present, and potential future directions for these words and phrases, now ubiquitous in the academy, the blogosphere, and quotidian conversations." (Journal of African American History)

Erica R. Edwards (Editor) Erica R. Edwards is Associate Professor of English and Presidential Term Chair in African American Literature at Rutgers University. She is author of Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership (2012), which received the MLA's William Sanders Scarborough Prize, and co-editor of Keywords for African American Literature (2018).Roderick A. Ferguson (Editor) Roderick A. Ferguson is Professor of African American Studies and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago.Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar (Editor) Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar is Professor of History and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Popular Music at the University of Connecticut.

"This comprehensive but incisive collection is both born of this moment and the culmination of the decades-long project of African American studies: a collective, intellectual endeavor forged in the world and beyond it. The volume is an index of the power of Black thought, for the now and for the next." - Mark Anthony Neal, James B. Duke Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University "Keywords is an exciting contribution to the discipline, providing the genealogy of fifty words as living testaments to the past and present, and potential future directions for these words and phrases, now ubiquitous in the academy, the blogosphere, and quotidian conversations." (Journal of African American History)