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Title Page
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Scholarship and Education
1. African American Intellectual History: The Past as a Porthole into the Present and Future of the Field
2. Afrocentricity and Autobiography: Historiographical Interventions into Black Intellectual Traditions
Part II: Arts and Letters
3. Singing Is Swinging: The Soul Force of Twentieth-Century Black Protest Music
4. The Post–Civil Rights Era and the Rise of Contemporary Novels of Slavery
5. Letters to Our Daughters: Black Women’s Memoirs as Epistles of Human Rights, Healing, and Inner Peace
Part III: Social Activism and Institutions
6. Into the Kpanguima: Questing for the Roots of Womanism in West African Women’s Social and Spiritual Formations
7. New Negro Messengers in Dixie: James Ivy, Thomas Dabney, and Black Cultural Criticism in the Postwar US South, 1919-1930
8. Tackling the Talented Tenth: Black Greek-Lettered Organizations and the Black New South
Part IV: Identity and Ideology
9. A New Afrikan Nation in the Western Hemisphere: Black Power, the Republic of New Afrika, and the Pursuit of Independence
10. “A Certain Bond between the Colored Peoples”: Internationalism and the Black Intellectual Tradition
11. Black Conservative Dissent
12. Postracialism and Its Discontents: Barack Obama and The New "American Dilemma"
Contributors
Index
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