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Patricia Hill Collins’s Black Feminist Thought (1990) helped to announce and participated in a watershed moment in Black feminist theory, one that ushered in what might be understood as the…

The “dirty world” supplied cultural studies with its questions, and the traditional humanities with its points of departure and return. Invoked more than once in Stuart Hall’s 1990 essay for…

“Marxist literary criticism hasn’t produced a new theory in over twenty years,” Robert J. C. Young notes early in White Mythologies. This is when he’s being polite. The charge is…

I’ve been trying to read Homi Bhabha’s “DissemiNation” as if for the first time. I’ve been trying to come to it innocent, and yet it appears before me already read….

1. The exercise that is “1990 at 30” raises a question about historical temporality: what is and isn’t the theoretical tradition of the contemporary? Does 1990 mark the beginning of…

It may be hard to fathom, but thirty years ago, it was very much an open question as to whether Theory and Black Studies were compatible as domains of university-based…

David Harvey begins his preface to The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry in the Origins of Cultural Change with the observation that his initial response to “postmodernism” was to try…

In mid-2019, we issued a challenge to the participants in this dossier: they would “re-read” an important work of criticism published in 1990 in time to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary…