Whose Beloved Community?

Beverly Guy-Sheftall is the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies at Spelman College. Dwight A. McBride is the Gerald Early Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Washington University of in St. Louis. Justin A. Joyce is a senior publications editor and a managing editor of the James Baldwin Review and a senior publications editor at Washington University in St. Louis.

• "Whom did they love?" An Introduction—Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Dwight A. McBride, and Justin A. JoyceKEY FIGURES REVISITED• Robert F. Reid-Pharr, Monster in the Archive• Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise, The Civil Rights Identity of Bayard Rustin• Timothy Stewart-Winter, The Killing of James Clay and the Archives of Police Violence• Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Coretta Scott King: The Beloved Community RevisitedBELOVED COMMUNITY: LOVE, ARTS, ACTION• E. Patrick Johnson, "Are We Not Family?": Sexuality, Citizenship, and Politics in the New Black South• Cheryl Clark, Morning, Mourning, and Mo'nin' in Audre Lorde's "Sister, Morning Is a Time for Miracles"• Rudolph P. Byrd, The Death of the Essential Black Subject: Marlon T. Riggs' Black Is . . . Black Ain't• Marlon Rachquel Moore, Negative Visibility and the Privacy Ethic: James Baldwin's Homophile RhetoricANNALS OF EDUCATION• Ruby Nell Sales, Their Goodness Followed Their Horizons' Rim: Southern African American Lesbians in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries• Dwight A. McBride, Straight Black Studies: On African American Studies, James Baldwin, and Black Queer Studies• Roderick A. Ferguson, The Past and Future Diversities of HBCUs: Queerness and the Institutional Fulfillment of Black Studies• Anthony Pinder, Lost in Reverie: Gay HBCU Alumni Look BackLEAVE SIGNS: PHILOSOPHIES FOR THE FUTURE• Gary L. Lemons, Professing Womanism as "a Sexual Discourse of Resistance" in and outside the College Classroom• Deva R. Woodly, Political Philosophy: Radical Black Feminist Pragmatism• Heath Fogg Davis, Sex-Classification Policies as Transgender Discrimination: An Intersectional Critique• Jewelle Gomez, And Leave Signs—Art, Lineage, and Legacy