The Black Studies Reader

pt. 1. Theorizing Black studies. Section A. Evolution of consciousness. The intellectual and institutional development of Africana studies / Robert L. Harris, Jr. 
 Black studies in liberal arts education / Johnnetta B. Cole 
 Theorizing Black studies: the continuing role of community service in the study of race and class / James Jennings 
 How the west was one: on the uses and limitations of diaspora / Robin D.G. Kelley. --
Section B. Black feminism: acts of resistance. Womanist consciousness: Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of Saint Luke / Elsa Barkley Brown 
 Discontented Black feminists: prelude and postscript to the passage of the nineteenth amendment / Rosalyn Terborg-Penn 
 Ella Baker and the origins of \"participatory democracy\" / Carol Mueller 
 Black women and the academy / Angela Y. Davis. --
Section C. Representing Black men. How deep, how wide?: perspectives on the making of the Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry / Jacqueline Shearer 
 Military rights and wrongs: African Americans in the U.S. Armed Forces / Phyllis R. Klotman 
 Justifiable homicide, police brutality, or governmental repression? The 1962 Los Angeles police shooting of seven members of the Nation of Islam / Frederick Knight 
 Some glances at the Black fag: race, same-sex desire, and cultural belonging / Marlon B. Ross. pt. II. Conceptualizing culture and ideology. Section D. Text creation and representation. The Color purple: Black women as cultural readers / Jacqueline Bobo 
 Black talk radio: defining community needs and identity / Catherine R. Squires 
 Chasing Fae: the Watermelon woman and Black lesbian possibility / Laura L. Sullivan 
 Dreadpath/Lockspirit / Akasha Gloria Hull. --
Section E. Interrogating cultural expressions. In the year 1915: D.W. Griffith and the whitening of America / Cedric J. Robinson 
 What is the \"Black\" in Black popular culture? / Stuart Hall 
 Dyes and dolls: multicultural Barbie and the merchandising of difference / Ann duCille 
 African signs and spirit writing / Harryette Mullen. --
pt. III. Sexuality, education, religion. Section F. Autonomy, subjectivity, sexuality. Black (w)holes and the geometry of Black female sexuality / Evelynn Hammonds 
 Black bodies/gay bodies: the politics of race in the gay/military battle / Alycee J. Lane 
 Hormones and melanin: the dimensions of \"race,\" sex, and gender in Africology: reflexive journeys / Patrick Bellegarde-Smith 
 Can the queen speak?: racial essentialism, sexuality, and the problem of authority / Dwight A. McBride. Section G. Education: pedagogy and practice. Home-school partnership through the eyes of parents / Cynthia Hudley and Rhoda Barnes 
 Desegregation experiences of minority students: adolescent coping strategies in five Connecticut high schools / Randi L. Miller 
 Racial socialization strategies of parents in three Black private schools / Deborah J. Johnson 
 Talking about race, learning about racism: the application of racial identity development theory in the classroom / Beverly Daniel Tatum. --
Section H. Religion in Black life. Slave ideology and biblical interpretation / Katie Geneva Cannon 
 Black theology and the Black woman / Jacquelyn Grant 
 Teaching Haitian vodou / Claudine Michel 
 Islam in the African-American experience / Richard Brent Turner.