Jafari Allen, N. D. B. Connolly, Bill Fletcher, Elizabeth Hinton, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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To begin this special issue on the Black 1980s, we asked some of the leading thinkers in the area of post–Civil Rights era Black politics, culture, and society to help us to wrestle with issues of chronology, historiography, and the complicated connections between African Americans and the Black world in this crucial decade. In particular, we wanted to begin a conversation about how we define the Black 1980s and what impact focusing on the period will have on larger discussions of Black life in the post–Civil Rights period as well as of US politics and culture.