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Foreword
Preface
Introduction / Why I am an intellectual
1: Dysonography
1: Not from some Zeus's head: my intellectual development
2: Letter to my brother
3: This I believe
2: Theories Of Race
4: Liberal theory of race
5: When you're a credit to your race, the bill will come due: OJ Simpson and our trial by fire
3: Affirmative Action
6: Debating affirmative action
7: Reprieve for affirmative action
4: Multiculturalism
8: Leonard Jeffries and the struggle for the black mind
9: Shakespeare and Smokey Robinson: revisiting the culture wars
5: Whiteness Studies
10: Labor of whiteness, the whiteness of labor, and the perils of white wishing
11: Giving whiteness a black eye
6: Gender Views
12: Plight of black men
13: Another Saturday night, or have all the brothers gone to white women?
14: In OJ's shadow: Kobe Bryant's predicament
7: Afro-Baptist Radicalism And Rhetoric
15: God Almighty has spoken from Washington DC: American society and Christian faith
16: Gardner Taylor: the poet Laureate of the American pulpit
17: Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech: constructing a unique voice
8: Religion And Sexuality
18: When you divide body and soul, problems multiply: the black church and sexuality
19: Hometextualities: the bible, sexual ethics, and the theology of homoeroticism
9: Biocriticism And Black Icons
20: X marks the plots: a critical reading of Malcolm's readers
21: Mixed blessings: Martin Luther King, Jr, and the lessons on an ambiguous heroism
22: Give me a paper and pen: Tupac's place in hip-hop
10: Cinema Noir
23: Spike Lee's neonationalist vision
24: Between Apocalypse and redemption: John Singleton's Boyz N the Hood
25: Ghettocentricity and the new black cinema
11: Soul Musics Of Black Folk
26: Promise and perils of contemporary gospel music
27: Mariah Carey and "authentic" black music
28: Aretha Franklin, Vanessa Bell Armstrong, and me
29: Great next: jazz origins and the anatomy of improvisation
12: Hip-Hop Culture
30: Culture of hip-hop
31: Gangsta rap and American culture
32: We never were what we used to be: black youth, pop culture, and the politics of nostalgia
13: Predicament Of Postmodernity
33: Michael Jackson's postmodern spirituality
34: Be like Mike? Michael Jordan and the pedagogy of desire
35: Is postmodernism just modernism in drag?
14: Coda: The Life Of The Mind
36: It's not what you know, it's how you show it: black public intellectuals
Notes
Credits
Index.
Preface
Introduction / Why I am an intellectual
1: Dysonography
1: Not from some Zeus's head: my intellectual development
2: Letter to my brother
3: This I believe
2: Theories Of Race
4: Liberal theory of race
5: When you're a credit to your race, the bill will come due: OJ Simpson and our trial by fire
3: Affirmative Action
6: Debating affirmative action
7: Reprieve for affirmative action
4: Multiculturalism
8: Leonard Jeffries and the struggle for the black mind
9: Shakespeare and Smokey Robinson: revisiting the culture wars
5: Whiteness Studies
10: Labor of whiteness, the whiteness of labor, and the perils of white wishing
11: Giving whiteness a black eye
6: Gender Views
12: Plight of black men
13: Another Saturday night, or have all the brothers gone to white women?
14: In OJ's shadow: Kobe Bryant's predicament
7: Afro-Baptist Radicalism And Rhetoric
15: God Almighty has spoken from Washington DC: American society and Christian faith
16: Gardner Taylor: the poet Laureate of the American pulpit
17: Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech: constructing a unique voice
8: Religion And Sexuality
18: When you divide body and soul, problems multiply: the black church and sexuality
19: Hometextualities: the bible, sexual ethics, and the theology of homoeroticism
9: Biocriticism And Black Icons
20: X marks the plots: a critical reading of Malcolm's readers
21: Mixed blessings: Martin Luther King, Jr, and the lessons on an ambiguous heroism
22: Give me a paper and pen: Tupac's place in hip-hop
10: Cinema Noir
23: Spike Lee's neonationalist vision
24: Between Apocalypse and redemption: John Singleton's Boyz N the Hood
25: Ghettocentricity and the new black cinema
11: Soul Musics Of Black Folk
26: Promise and perils of contemporary gospel music
27: Mariah Carey and "authentic" black music
28: Aretha Franklin, Vanessa Bell Armstrong, and me
29: Great next: jazz origins and the anatomy of improvisation
12: Hip-Hop Culture
30: Culture of hip-hop
31: Gangsta rap and American culture
32: We never were what we used to be: black youth, pop culture, and the politics of nostalgia
13: Predicament Of Postmodernity
33: Michael Jackson's postmodern spirituality
34: Be like Mike? Michael Jordan and the pedagogy of desire
35: Is postmodernism just modernism in drag?
14: Coda: The Life Of The Mind
36: It's not what you know, it's how you show it: black public intellectuals
Notes
Credits
Index.