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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- FOREWORD -- Introduction. White Scholars / African American Texts -- Naming the Problem That Led to the Question "Who Shall Teach African American Literature?" -- Theme for African American Literature B -- Race Walks in the Room -- Naming the Problem Embedded in the Problem That Led to the Question "Who Shall Teach African American Literature?" -- Turning Impossibility into Possibility -- Before Positionality -- "Knowing Your Stuff," Knowing Yourself -- At Close Range -- Faulty Analogies -- The Color of the Critic -- Between Rome, Harlem, and Harlan -- The Stepsister and the Clan -- Twelve Years with Martin Delany -- Master Thoughts -- Writing about Gwendolyn Brooks Anyway -- Truth and Talent in Interpreting Ethnic American Autobiography -- WORKS CITED -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

The novelty of African-American roots tourism to Brazil is that to some extent it defies the secondary position occupied by Brazil in the African diaspora, a context marked by the hegemony of U.S.-centric conceptions of blackness. At the same time, roots tourism entails three kinds of inequalities: the disparity between those who have access to travel and those who do not, the belief of many African-American tourists that they can exchange what they view as their "modernity" for the "traditions" of the local black communities with whom they interact during their travels, and the much greater access of African-Americans to the means by which Africa and the diaspora can be represented. Blacks located in the North and the South of the American continent have unequal access to global currents of power. Thus, at the same time that it offers the possibility of challenging traditional North-South flows of cultural exchange, African-American roots tourism confirms the existing hierarchy within the black Atlantic.

Cover Page -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 Politics and the Ghetto System -- The Ghetto as a Social System -- Colonialism, Conspiracy, and Collective Guilt -- Neighborhood Autonomy, Black Power, and the Revolutionary Ferment -- 2 Politics and Ghetto Perpetuation -- Ghetto Leadership Structure -- White Flight and Black Control -- 3 Social Stability and Black Ghettos -- Long's Position -- An Assessment of the Theory and the Policies Based on It -- Comments: Norton E. Long -- 4 The Ghettos and Metropolitan Politics -- The Cities and the Suburbs -- Crisis in Black and White -- Some Signs of Movement -- 5 Fantasy and Reality in the Ghetto Problem -- Purgatory-Temporary and Permanent -- Alternatives to Current Policy -- The Future of the Metropolitan Political System -- Comments: Robert C Wood -- 6 The States and the Ghettos -- The State in Historical Perspective -- Poverty and the States -- The Potential for State Action -- A Program of Improvement -- The Credibility Canyon -- The Ghetto Tomorrow -- Conclusion -- 7 The Outlook for Creative Federalism -- The Meaning of Federal Democracy -- The Negro and the Federal System -- The New Concern with Federalism -- Developing a Truly Creative Federalism -- Toward a Federalism of Communities -- Old and Nenjo Roles -for the States -- 8 Creative Federalism, not Abdication -- Comments: Daniel J. Elazar -- 9 Federal Agencies, National Associations, and the Politics of Welfare -- Importance of the Politics of Welfare -- Some Functions of National Associations -- Some New Developments in the Politics of Welfare -- Conclusion -- 10 On Humanizing the Bureaucracies -- 11 Colonialism and Liberation as American Problems -- America as a Colonial Society -- Beyond Traditional Solutions -- White Response to Black Protest -- Foreign Policy Reflects Colonial Purpose

A review of John Hoberman's 1997 book, Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race, argues that the work errs in positing an African American fixation on athletics & suggests instead the existence of an American fixation on athletics. Evidence is cited from the 1995 Monitoring the Future Survey for black & white US high school seniors. 1 Table, 3 References. J. Ferrari

Sowing the seeds for the civil rights movement -- Four leaders for freedom -- The crisis is born -- Organizing for the cause -- The fearless Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- Charles Hamilton: learning from the best -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: a timely leader

Addresses the issue of whether cultural sensitivity in the US, in terms of categories such as Native American, African American, or Latin American, has helped to resolve conflicts stemming from cultural differences. Two differing philosophical approaches to dealing with cultural conflict (avoiding & not avoiding cultural particularities) are discussed as they apply to European philosophical tradition & Brazilian cultural identity. It is argued that political & social theories promoting secularism & tolerance have increased awareness of the importance of ethnic, religious, & gender differences & their resulting conflicts. The syncretic ideal in Brazil, which promoted the fusion of all races, was seen as the answer to cultural conflict. However, it is suggested that the appropriation & displacement of ethnic identity, especially African culture, is adverse to an ideal of the nation-state. Predicates such as African, Latin, & Native stem from a history of exclusion & affirm a political & cultural identity in exclusivistic terms tied to a given territory. J. Lindroth

This article critically examines the postmodern Blackness phenomenon that seeks primacy in African American thought. Using an Afrocentric analytical approach centered on the axis of culture and history of African Americans, I argue that the postmodern Blackness phenomenon is an unfortunate and precarious turn away from relevance. In its disapproving attitude and stance on cultural identity and consciousness, the quintessential issues in political belonging and politics, postmodern Blackness behaves as an impediment in the African American quest for freedom. Among the political hazards wrought by postmodern Blackness are (a) incessant disunity among African descended peoples and (b) dependency on political actors external to the African American community who are well organized and purposeful in pursuit of their own interests. This analysis also explains that at its core, postmodernism is yet another way of expressing the individualistic ethos of the European worldview.