Preface / Elizabeth Peters Robinson
Looking for grace in redemption / H. L. T. Quan
Part I: On Africa and black internationalism. Notes toward a "native" theory of history
In search of a pan-African commonwealth
The black detective and American memory
Part II: on bourgeois historiography. 'The first attack is an attack on culture'
Oliver Cromwell Cox and the historiography of the West
Fascism and the intersections of capitalism, racialism, and historical consciousness
Ota Benga's flight through Geronimo's eyes: tales of science and multiculturalism
Slavery and the platonic origins of anti-democracy
Part III: On world politics and U.S. foreign policy. Fascism and the response of black radical theorists
Africa: In hock to history and the banks
The comedy of terror
Ralph Bunche and an American dilemma
Part IV: On reality and its (mis)representations. White signs in black times: the politics of representation in dominant texts
The American press and the repairing of the Philippines
On the Los Angeles Times, crack cocaine, and the rampart division scandal
Micheaux lynches the mammy
Blaxploitation and the misrepresentation of liberation
The mulatta on film: from Hollywood to the Mexican revolution
Ventriloquizing blackness: Eugene O'Neill and Irish-American racial performance
Part V: On resistance and redemption. Malcolm Little as a charismatic leader
The appropriation of Frantz Fanon
Amilcar Cabral and the dialectic of Portuguese colonialism
Race, capitalism, and the anti-democracy
David Walker and the precepts of black studies
The killing in Ferguson
On the truth and reconciliation commission.