Institute for Research in African-American Studies — IRAAS

Souls seeks to publish the best imaginative, theoretical, and empirical Black Studies research, art, and political provocations — across discipline and genre, and representing a range of creative and challenging interpretations of the key issues now confronted by Black studies scholars and by Black people throughout the world. The strategic objective of Souls remains the same: “to re- ground the field of African American Studies in the living legacy of DuBoisian social and political theory.” In the 21st century, this re-grounding follows Black feminist insistence on material/embodied and purposefully imaginative analysis; and methodological, creative, and theoretical innovation.