Includes bibliographical references (pages [511]-531) and index.
Contents
Dysonography -- Theories of race -- Affirmative action -- Multiculturalism -- Whiteness studies -- Gender views -- Afro-Baptist radicalism and rhetoric -- Religion and sexuality -- Biocriticism and black icons -- Cinema noir -- The soul musics of black folk -- Hip-hop culture -- The predicament of postmodernity -- Coda : the life of the mind.