INTRODUCTION

Jacqueline Bobo, Cynthia Hudley, Claudine Michel

PART I THEORIZING BLACK STUDIES

SECTION A EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS

1 THE INTELLECTUAL AND INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICANA STUDIES

Robert L. Harris Jr.

2 BLACK STUDIES IN LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION

Johnnetta B. Cole

3 THEORIZING BLACK STUDIES

The Continuing Role of Community Service in the Study of Race and Class

James Jennings

4 HOW THE WEST WAS ONE

On the Uses and Limitations of Diaspora

Robin D. G. Kelley

SECTION B BLACK FEMINISM: ACTS OF RESISTANCE

5 WOMANIST CONSCIOUSNESS

6 DISCONTENTED BLACK FEMINISTS

Prelude and Postscript to the Passage of the Nineteenth Amendment

Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

7 ELLA BAKER AND THE ORIGINS OF PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY"

Carol Mueller

8 BLACK WOMEN AND THE ACADEMY

Angela Y. Davis

SECTION C REPRESENTING BLACK MEN

9 HOW DEEP, HOW WIDE?

Perspectives on the Making of The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry

Jacqueline Shearer

10 MILITARY RITES AND WRONGS

African Americans in the U.S. Armed Forces

Phyllis R. Klotman

11 JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE, POLICE BRUTALITY, OR GOVERNMENTAL REPRESSION? THE 1962 LOS ANGELES POLICE SHOOTING OF SEVEN MEMBERS OF THE NATION OF ISLAM

Frederick Knight

12 SOME GLANCES AT THE BLACK FAG

Race, Same-Sex Desire, and Cultural Belonging

Marlon B. Ross

PART II CONCEPTUALIZING CULTURE AND IDEOLOGY

SECTION D TEXT CREATION AND REPRESENTATION

13 THE COLOR PURPLE

Black Women as Cultural Readers

Jacqueline Bobo

14 BLACK TALK RADIO

Defining Community Needs and Identity

Catherine R. Squires

15 CHASING FAE

The Watermelon Woman and Black Lesbian Possibility

Laura L. Sullivan

16 DREADPATH/LOCKSPIRIT

Akasha Gloria Hull

SECTION E INTERROGATING CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS

17 IN THE YEAR 1915

D.W. Griffith and the Whitening of America

Cedric J. Robinson

18 WHAT IS THIS "BLACK" IN BLACK POPULAR CULTURE?

Stuart Hall

19 DYES AND DOLLS

Multicultural Barbie and the Merchandising of Difference

Ann duCille

20 AFRICAN SIGNS AND SPIRIT WRITING

Harryette Mullen

PART III SEXUALITY, EDUCATION, RELIGION

SECTION F AUTONOMY, SUBJECTIVITY, SEXUALITY

21 BLACK (W)HOLES AND THE GEOMETRY OF BLACK FEMALE SEXUALITY

Evelynn Hammonds

22 BLACK BODIES/GAY BODIES

The Politics of Race in the Gay/Military Battle

Alycee J. Lane

23 HORMONES AND MELANIN

The Dimensions of "Race," Sex, and Gender in Africology; Reflexive Journeys

Patrick Bellegarde-Smith

24 CAN THE QUEEN SPEAK?

Racial Essentialism, Sexuality, and the Problem of Authority

Dwight A. McBride

SECTION G EDUCATION: PEDAGOGY AND PRACTICE

25 HOME-SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP THROUGH THE EYES OF PARENTS

Cynthia Hudley and Rhoda Barnes

26 DESEGREGATION EXPERIENCES OF MINORITY STUDENTS

Adolescent Coping Strategies in Five Connecticut High Schools

Randi L. Miller

27 RACIAL SOCIALIZATION STRATEGIES OF PARENTS IN THREE BLACK PRIVATE SCHOOLS

Deborah J. Johnson

28 TALKING ABOUT RACE, LEARNING ABOUT RACISM

The Application of Racial Identity Development Theory in the Classroom

Beverly Daniel Tatum

SECTION H RELIGION IN BLACK LIFE

29 SLAVE IDEOLOGY AND BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION

Katie Geneva Cannon

30 BLACK THEOLOGY AND THE BLACK WOMAN

Jacquelyn Grant

31 TEACHING HAITIAN VODOU

Claudine Michel

32 ISLAM IN THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

Richard Brent Turner

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

Permissions Acknowledgements

Index