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[First paragraphs]Crossroads in the Black Aegean: Oedipus, Antigone, and Dramas of the African Diaspora. Barbara Goff & Michael Simpson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xii + 401 pp. (Cloth US$ 150.00)Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey. Robert G. O'Meally. New York: DC Moore Gallery, 2007. 116 pp. (Cloth$ 45.00)Commenting on cultural imperialism under European colonialism, Frantz Fanon (1990:39) remarked that "The settler makes history; his life is an epoch, an Odyssey." In Fanon's analysis the settler's sense of history derived from the history of the "mother country," rather than the history of the colony that he or she inhabited. But history did not stop here: the reference to the Odyssey reminds us that behind the modern colonial metropolis was a fictional line of descent reaching back to a Greco-Roman cradle, such that theEuropean settler could lay claim to an even more ancient cultural inheritance. The two books examined here make short work of these classical imperial fictions; O'Meally demonstrates how Romare Bearden's collages of theOdyssey collaborate with Homer, jazz style, to produce an epic that Black America can recognize as its own. If the voyage of Odysseus is sometimes taken to symbolize the migration of ancient Greek civilization toward the West, Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson interject the troubled figure of Oedipus, who plays Poseidon to the settler's Odyssey, disrupting the voyage and confusing the trajectory (p. 268).Both studies are timely and speak to a wave of recent research on Black Classicism – an examination of the work to which the classical tradition has been put in Africa and the African diaspora, ranging from the hegemonic appropriation of Classics by colonizers and slave-owners to the use ofClassics as an ironic counterdiscourse that writes back to racism and imperialism, or as a source of mythopoiesis in the formation of modern black identity.

BACKGROUND: There are a variety of residential and community service models of therapeutic interventions for people using substances. The focus of much of the currently available research is on adult populations with relatively little known about effective therapeutic interventions for adolescents. The aim of this paper is to identify the most effective therapeutic interventions for Australian adolescents using substances by conducting a systematic scoping literature review. METHODS: We followed the PRISMA guidelines to conduct a systematic scoping review that included searches of nine electronic databases (EMBASE, MEDLINE, EBSCO Host, APA PsycNet, SocIndex, Social Science Abstracts, Proquest Central Informit) and grey literature searches of government department and alcohol and other drugs peak body and service provider websites, Google Scholar and the Cochrane library. RESULTS: A total of 21 studies were identified. These studies included biological, psychological, social and technological therapeutic interventions targeted at different population groups and different substances. The review findings are limited and should considered with caution due to the inability to disaggregate the combinations of interventions provided and the low quality of most of the studies included. CONCLUSIONS: This scoping review highlights the paucity of quality research on effective therapeutic interventions for Australian adolescents using substances. This is primarily due to the available studies not controlling for all of the therapeutic interventions provided. While there is an evidence-base for some of these interventions, others such as encounter groups and journaling require further and more substantive research for use with adolescents. This is necessary to enable informed service design and delivery decision-making and fiscal accountability.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Do You Know Alex Oreille -- MARCH -- Cannon Fodder -- There's a Sickness Outside -- Medicine's Innovation Problem -- March 11 -- The Lice -- Spring -- APRIL -- Memories of West Fourth Street -- The Law of Salus Populi -- Pandemic Inequality -- The Pandemic in Inupiaq -- A Nurse Comes to Brooklyn -- Sirenland -- The White String -- MAY -- Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters -- Leaving Yale for the Coronavirus Epicenter -- Welcome to Zoom University -- Reading The Decameron through the Lens of COVID-19 -- A Commencement Deferred -- History Is Another Word for Trauma -- The Children Know -- Prelude -- Get the Shovel -- Two Poems: Provision, The Hour between Dog and Wolf -- The Jail Crisis -- Coronavirus and the Danger of Disbelief -- Invisible Kingdoms -- JUNE -- The Trees Witness Everything -- How I Became a Prophetess -- Lives or Livelihoods -- Thucydides in Times of Trouble -- Safe -- I Can't Sleep -- Giving Up the Ghost -- The Crisis of Asylum at Trump's Border Wall -- The Dancing Drum -- Notes and Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors