Cover -- Existentia Africana -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface, with Acknowledgments -- 1 Africana Philosophy of Existence -- 2 A Problem of Biography in Africana Thought -- 3 Frederick Douglass as an Existentialist -- 4 What Does It Mean to Be a Problem? W. E. B. Du Bois on the Study of Black Folk -- 5 Mixed Race in Light of Whiteness and Shadows of Blackness Naomi Zack on Mixed Race -- 6 Can Men Worship? An Existential Portrait in Black and White -- 7 Recent Africana Religious Thought Existential Anxieties of Pan-Africanism and Postmodernism at the End of the Twentieth Century -- 8 Existential Borders of Anonymity and Superfluous Invisibility -- 9 Words and Incantations Invocations and Evocations of a Wayward Traveler -- Notes -- Works Consulted -- Index.