The Black Studies Reader

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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.