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Introduction: Something "More Than a Negro" -- The Primacy of Identity: Prefiguration, The Sacred Victim, and the Semblance of Empowerment -- So What is Empowerment? -- Disempowerment and Code-meshing Pedagogy -- The "Soft Bigotry" of Antiracist Pedagogy: Victims, Tricksters, and Protectors -- Conclusion: Getting Over Ourselves and Centering Empowerment -- Epilogue: Am I Overreacting?

American slavery as it was and is -- Where to start? -- Six African girls -- Star Trek, zombies and black America -- Wink's ancestral connection to American slavery -- Jen's ancestral connection to American slavery -- The psychology of descent from American slavery -- The lingering effects of slavery -- The last slave named Twyman -- Resentments and grudges -- Descendants need one another for healing -- Coming to the table -- The coming of a better time -- George Shrewsbury (1820-1875) -- George Boyer Vashon (1824-1878) -- John Mercer Langston (1829-1897) -- Joseph Hayne Rainey (1832-1887) -- Daniel Brown (1833-1885) -- Horatio A. Rankin (?-?) -- Jim Crow and Plessy v. Ferguson -- The rebirth of a nation -- The crossroads -- Jack & Jill : a way of being in the world -- On the road to Baltimore -- Watermelon -- Nothing to talk about : affinity in the age of diversity -- Cultural revolution -- Slogans & symbols -- Dogma.