Foreword by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Preface by Elizabeth Peters Robinson

Introduction: Looking for Grace in Redemption - H. L. T. Quan

Part I - On Africa and Black Internationalism

1. Notes Toward a "Native" Theory of History

2. In Search of a Pan-African Commonwealth

3. The Black Detective and American Memory

Part II - On Bourgeois Historiography

4. "The First Attack is an Attack on Culture"

5. Oliver Cromwell Cox and the Historiography of the West

6. Fascism and the Intersections of Capitalism, Racialism, and Historical Consciousness

7. Ota Benga's Flight Through Geronimo's Eyes: Tales of Science and Multiculturalism

8. Slavery and the Platonic Origins of Anti-democracy

Part III - On World Politics and U.S. Foreign Policy

9. Fascism and the Response of Black Radical Theorists

10. Africa: In Hock to History and the Banks

11. The Comedy of Terror

12. Ralph Bunche and An American Dilemma

Part IV - On Reality and Its (Mis)Representations

13. White Signs in Black Times: The Politics of Representation in Dominant Texts

14. The American Press and the Repairing of the Philippines

15. On the Los Angeles Times, Crack Cocaine, and the Rampart Division Scandal

16. Micheaux Lynches the Mammy

17. Blaxploitation and the Misrepresentation of Liberation

18. The Mulatta on Film: From Hollywood to the Mexican Revolution

19. Ventriloquizing Blackness: Eugene O'Neill and Irish-American Racial Performance

Part V - On Resistance and Redemption

20. Malcolm Little as a Charismatic Leader

21. The Appropriation of Frantz Fanon

22. Amilcar Cabral and the Dialectic of Portuguese Colonialism

23. Race, Capitalism, and the Anti-democracy

24. David Walker and the Precepts of Black Studies

25. The Killing in Ferguson

26. On the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Index