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Congratulations to Zophia Edwards, whose book "Fueling Development" has been named the winner of the American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarly Book Award. https://www.asanet.org/about/awards/2026-asa-award-winners/ https://dukeupress.edu/fueling-development

The Weekly Read is “Enter the Mystery: Black Experimental Film and Visual Culture as Metaphysical and Spiritual Practice” by Michele Prettyman. The article appears in Meta+Physics of Black Artmaking, a special issue of liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies (10:1).

liquid blackness is an open-access journal; read this article and the full issue for free: https://doi.org/10.1215/26923874-12244592

Learn more about the journal and sign up for issue alerts: https://www.dukeupress.edu/liquid-blackness

Congratulations to Doyle D. Calhoun, whose book "The Su***de Archive" has been named the winner of the 2025 African Literature Association Book of the Year Award. https://dukeupress.edu/the-suicide-archive