Argues for a more radical and critical approach to Black Studies. Introduction, Manning Marable ix Part I Remapping the Black Experience 1(110) 1. Rethinking Black Studies Living Black History: Resurrecting the African-American Intellectual Tradition, Manning Marable 3(11) Teaching Race and Racism in the Twenty-First Century: Thematic Considerations, Howard Winant 14(9) 2. Reinterpreting the Past: The New Black History The Nature of African-American History, Herbert Aptheker 23(2) Forty Acres, or, An Act of Bad Faith, Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie 25(14) Black Like Mao: Red China and Black Revolution, Robin D.G. Kelley and Betsy Esch 39(38) 3. Home to Harlem: Yesterday and Today Losing Ground: Harlem, the War on Drugs, and the Prison Industrial Complex, Leith Mullings 77(23) Toward an Ethnography of a Quotation-Marked-Off Place, John L. Jackson Jr. 100(11) Part II Old Constructs, New Contexts 111(92) 4. The New Racial Domain "Good at the Game of Tricknology": Proposition and the Struggle for the Historical Memory of the Civil Rights Movement, 209 George Derek Musgrove 113(11) Notes on a National Report, Nikhil Singh 124(6) Cheap Talk, er, Dialogue, Gary Y Okihiro 130(7) 5. Black Feminist Studies: The New Politics of Gender Black Feminism and the Challenge of Black Heterosexual Male Desire, Michael Awkward 137(5) Establishing Black Feminism, Barbara Smith 142(4) Working It Off: Welfare Reform, Workfare, and Work Experience Programs in New York City, Dana Ain Davis, Ana Aparicio, Audrey Jacobs, Akemi Kochiyama, Leith Hullings, Andrea Queeley, and Beverly Thompson 146(22) "It's Not Right but It's Okay": Black Women's R & B and the House That Terry McMillan Built, Daphne A. Brooks 168(15) 6. The Hip-Hop Nation: Black Youth Culture Today Hip-Hop and the Aesthetics of Criminalization, Andrea Queeley 183(14) From Elvis to Eminem: Play That Funky Music, White Boy! Todd Boyd 197(6) Part III Beyond Traditional Boundaries 203(102) 7. Beyond Black and White: Redefining Racialized Identities Profit, Power, and Privilege: The Racial Politics of Ancestry, Lee D. Baker 205(7) The Politics of Studying Whiteness, Noel Ignatiev 212(2) The Political Economy of Whiteness Studies, Eric Klinenberg 214(4) Defending Critical Studies of Whiteness but Not Whiteness Studies, David Roediger 218(2) The Difference between Whiteness and Whites, John Hartigan, Jr. 220(4) Brilliance without Passion: Whiteness Scholarship and the Struggle against Racism, Tim Wise 224(3) Whiteness: A Mixed Bag, Karen Brodkin 227(4) 8. Transnational Blackness: Africa and the African Diaspora, Asia, and Globalization The Continuity of Struggle: An Interview, Assates Shakur 231(9) The New South Africa and the Process of Transformation, Bill Fletcher Jr. 240(9) Globalized Punishment, Localized Resistance: Prisons, Neoliberalism, and Empire, Julia Sudbury 249(10) Let Us Be Moors: Islam, Race, and "Connected Histories," Hishaam D. Aidi 259(20) 9. The Responsibility of the Critical Black Studies Scholar Eight Lessons from the Black Front: A Primer, Farah Jasmine Griffin 279(2) Aftermath, Hazel V. Carby 281(3) And the Beat Goes On: Challenges Facing Black Intellectuals, Kathleen Neal Cleaver 284(12) A Scholar in Struggle, Clayborne Carson 296(9) About the Contributors 305(6) Index 311