Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Ghettos of the Mind, Kenneth B. Clark and the Psychology of the Urban Crisis -- The Cry of the Ghetto -- Tangle of Pathology -- To Challenge the Powers That Be -- A Unifying Theory -- 2. Be Even Blacker: Amiri Baraka's Names and Places -- A Sense of the Prodigal -- Speaking to Black People -- Code of Morality -- Lift Up Yr Self! -- I Will Create a City! -- 3. Harlem without Walls, Romare Bearden's Realism -- The Negro Artist's Dilemma -- To Paint the Life of My People as I Know It -- Projections -- To See How Life Can Triumph -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.