Notes on Contributors | |
Preface and Acknowledgments | |
Note on the Text | |
Introduction: On Working through a Most Difficult Terrain | |
Stones That Former Builders Refused | |
On My First Acquaintance with Black Studies: A Yale Story | |
Sustaining Africology: On the Creation and Development of a Discipline | |
Dreams, Nightmares, and Realities: Afro-American Studies at Brown University, 1969-1986 | |
Black Studies in the Whirlwind: A Retrospective View | |
From the Birth to a Mature Afro-American Studies at Harvard, 1969-2002 | |
Black Studies and Ethnic Studies: The Crucible of Knowledge and Social Action | |
A Debate on Activism in Black Studies | |
Singing the Challenges: The Arts and Humanities as Collaborative Sites in African American Studies | |
On How We Mistook the Map for the Territory, and Re-Imprisoned Ourselves in Our Unbearable Wrongness of Being, of Desêtre: Black Studies Toward the Human Project | |
The New Auction Block: Blackness and the Marketplace | |
Black Studies, Black Professors, and the Struggles of Perception | |
Autobiography of an Ex-White Man | |
Such Fertile FieldsA The Blues Are Brewing for a Humanistic Humanism | |
Homage to Mistress Wheatley | |
Toni Cade Bambara's Those Bones Are Not My Child: Placing the Humanities at the Core of Black Studies | |
Jazz Consciousness | |
B What Does It Mean to Be a Problem? | |
Afro-American Studies and the Rise of African-American Philosophy | |
Sociology and the African Diaspora Experience | |
Suicide in Black and White: Theories and Statistics | |
Some Reflections on Challenges Posed to Social-Scientific Method by the Study of Race | |
African-American Queer Studies | |
Black Studies, Race, and Critical Race Theory: A Narrative Deconstruction of Law | |
C Having Hitherto Interpreted the World, the Point is to Change It | |
Unthinkable History?: Some Reflections on the Haitian Revolution, Historiography, and Modernity on the Periphery | |
Historical Consciousness in the Relation of African-American Studies to Modernity | |
An Emerging Mosaic: Rewriting Postwar African-American History | |
Reflections on African-American Political Thought: The Many Rivers of Freedom | |
Politics of Knowledge: Black Policy Professionals in the Managerial Age | |
D Not by Bread Alone | |
From the Nile to the Niger: The Evolution of African Spiritual Concepts | |
Three Rival Narratives of Black Religion | |
Babel in the North: Black Migration, Moral Community, and the Ethics of Racial Authenticity | |
Orienting Afro-American Judaism: A Critique of White Normativity in Literature on Black Jews in America | |
Creolization and the Geography of Reason | |
Playing with the Dark: The Deployment of Blackness and Brownness in the Africana and Latino Literary Imaginations | |
Africana Studies: The International Context and Boundaries | |
Africana Thought and African-Diasporic Studies | |
Works Cited | |
Index | |
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