Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Black Studies and the Racial Mountain -- PART ONE Theorizing the Black World: Race in the Postcolonial, Post-Civil Rights Era -- Chapter 1 Toward an Effective Antiracism -- Chapter 2 The Political Moment in Jamaica: The Dimensions of Hegemonic Dissolution -- Chapter 3 Sandoms and Other Exotic Women: Prostitution and Race in the Caribbean -- Chapter 4 Race and Revolution in Cuba: African American Perspectives -- Chapter 5 The Fire This Time: Harlem and Its Discontents at the Turn of the Century -- Chapter 6 Crack Cocaine and Harlem's Health -- PART TWO Mapping African American Studies -- Chapter 7 African American Studies and the "Warring Ideals": The Color Line Meets the Borderlands -- Chapter 8 The Future of Black Studies: Political Communities and the "Talented Tenth" -- Chapter 9 Black Studies and the Question of Class -- Chapter 10 Black Studies: A Critical Reassessment -- Chapter 11 Black Studies Revisited -- Chapter 12 Theorizing Black Studies: The Continuing Role of Community Service in the Study of Race and Class -- Chapter 13 A Debate on Activism in Black Studies -- PART THREE Afrocentricity and Its Critics -- Chapter 14 Afrocentricity, Race, and Reason -- Chapter 15 Afrocentrics, Afro-elitists, and Afro-eccentrics: The Polarization of Black Studies Since the Student Struggles of the Sixties -- Chapter 16 Reclaiming Culture: The Dialectics of Identity -- Chapter 17 Afrocentrism, Cultural Nationalism, and the Problem with Essentialist Definitions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality -- Chapter 18 Afrocentricity and the American Dream -- Chapter 19 Multinational, Multicultural America Versus White Supremacy -- PART FOUR Race and Ethnicity in American Life -- Chapter 20 The Problematics of Ethnic Studies -- Chapter 21 Prophetic Alternatives: A Conversation with Cornel West.

Chapter 22 Race in American Life: A Conversation with John Hope Franklin -- Contributors -- About the Editor -- Index.