Cassander L. Smith is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama, USA. Her publications include a monograph, Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World (2016), and a co-edited volume, Teaching with Tension: Race, Reality, and Resistance in the Classroom (forthcoming).

Nicholas R. Jones is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Africana Studies at Bucknell University, USA. His publications include the forthcoming monograph Staging Habla de negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain and articles in the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, and Hispanic Review, among others.

Miles P. Grier is Assistant Professor of English at Queens College, CUNY, USA. He is finishing a book manuscript on Othello and the racialization of Atlantic literacy. His publications include essays in The William and Mary Quarterly, Politics and Culture, and The Journal of Popular Music Studies, among others.

Offers new ways of considering archive, method, geography, and temporality to inform the study and practice of black political struggle over time

Contributors address phenomena in Africa, Europe, and the Americas from a variety of disciplinary perspectives ranging from literature to history, anthropology to dance, and beyond

Interrogates to what extent black lives drove cultural and political developments and in spaces throughout a wider Atlantic world

1. Introduction: The Contours of a Field (Cassander L. Smith, Nicholas R. Jones, Miles P. Grier).- Part I. Space and Field.- 2. Maroons in the Montes: Towards a Political Ecology of Marronage in the Sixteenth ­Century Caribbean (Gabriel de Avilez Rocha).- 3. Women/Animals/Slaves: Race and Sexuality in Wycherley's The Country Wife (Derrick Higginbotham).- Part II. Archives and Methods.- 4. Choreographies of Trans-Atlantic Primitivity: Sub-Saharan Isolation in Black Dance Historiography (Esther J. Terry).- 5. Ventriloquizing Blackness: Citing Enslaved Africans in the Caribbean, 1655-1685 by Ashley Williard.- 6. "Candy No Witch in Her Country": What One Enslaved Woman's Testimony During the Salem Witch Trials Can Tell Us About the Origins of Early American Literature (Cassander L. Smith).- Part III. Period Tensions.- 7. "Is Black So Base a Hue?": Black Life Matters in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus (David Sterling Brown).- 8. "[L]ooking at me my body across distances": Toni Morrison's A Mercy and Seventeenth-Century European Religious Concepts of Race (Lauren Shook).- 9. "Do you love, master?": The Erotics and Politics of Servitude in The Tempest (Rebecca Kumar).- Part IV. Early Modern Black Lives Matter: A Critical Roundtable.- 10. Necrocapitalism and the Early Modern Iberian Black Diaspora as Academic Field (John Beusterien).- 11. Debt Collecting, Disappearance, Necromancy: A Response to John Beusterien (Nicholas R. Jones).- 12. Ain't She a Shakespearean: Truth, Giovanni, and Shakespeare (Dennis Austin Britton).- 13. The Color of Professionalism: A Response to Dennis Britton (Miles P. Grier).