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Notes on Contributors. Preface and Acknowledgments. Note on the Text.Introduction: On Working through a Most Difficult Terrain. (Lewis R. Gordonand Jane Anna Gordon). Part I: Stones That Former Builders Refused. 1. On MyFirst Acquaintance with Black Studies: A Yale Story. (Houston Baker, Jr.). 2.Sustaining Africology: On the Creation and Development of a Discipline.(Molefi Kete Asante). 3. Dreams, Nightmares, and Realities: Afro-AmericanStudies at Brown University, 1969-1986. (Rhett Jones). 4. Black Studies inthe Whirlwind: A Retrospective View. (Charlotte Morgan-Cato). 5. From theBirth to a Mature Afro-American Studies at Harvard, 1969-2002. (MartinKilson). 6. Black Studies and Ethnic Studies: The Crucible of Knowledge andSocial Action. (Johnnella E. Butler). 7. A Debate on Activism in BlackStudies. (Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Manning Marable). 8. Singing theChallenges: The Arts and Humanities as Collaborative Sites in AfricanAmerican Studies. (Herman Beavers). 9. On How We Mistook the Map for theTerritory, and Re-Imprisoned Ourselves in Our Unbearable Wrongness of Being,of Desetre: Black Studies Toward the Human Project. (Sylvia Wynter). 10. TheNew Auction Block: Blackness and the Marketplace. (Hazel V. Carby). 11. BlackStudies, Black Professors, and the Struggles of Perception. (Nell IrvinPainter). 12. Autobiography of an Ex-White Man. (Robert Paul Wolff). Part II:Such Fertile Fields... A The Blues Are Brewing ... for a Humanistic Humanism.13. Homage to Mistress Wheatley . (Rowan Ricardo Phillips). 14. Toni CadeBambara's Those Bones Are Not My Child: Placing the Humanities at the Core ofBlack Studies. (Joyce Ann Joyce). 15. Jazz Consciousness. (Paul Austerlitz).B What Does It Mean to Be a Problem?. 16. Afro-American Studies and the Riseof African-American Philosophy. (Paget Henry). 17. Sociology and the AfricanDiaspora Experience . (Tukufu Zuberi). 18. Suicide in Black and White:Theories and Statistics. (Alvin Poussaint and Amy Alexander). 19. SomeReflections on Challenges Posed to Social-Scientific Method by the Study ofRace. (Jane Anna Gordon). 20. African-American Queer Studies . (David RossFryer). 21. Black Studies, Race, and Critical Race Theory: A NarrativeDeconstruction of Law . (Clevis Headley). C Having Hitherto Interpreted theWorld, the Point is to Change It. 22. Unthinkable History?: Some Reflectionson the Haitian Revolution, Historiography, and Modernity on the Periphery.(Sibylle Fischer). 23. Historical Consciousness in the Relation ofAfrican-American Studies to Modernity. (Stefan M. Wheelock). 24. An EmergingMosaic: Rewriting Postwar African-American History. (Peniel E. Joseph). 25.Reflections on African-American Political Thought: The Many Rivers ofFreedom. (B. Anthony Bogues). 26. Politics of Knowledge: Black PolicyProfessionals in the Managerial Age. (Floyd Hayes, III). D Not by BreadAlone. 27. From the Nile to the Niger: The Evolution of African SpiritualConcepts. (Charles Finch, III). 28. Three Rival Narratives of Black Religion.(William D. Hart). 29. Babel in the North: Black Migration, Moral Community,and the Ethics of Racial Authenticity. (Eddie S. Glaude, Jr). 30. OrientingAfro-American Judaism: A Critique of White Normativity in Literature on BlackJews in America. (Walter Isaac). Part III: Creolization and the Geography ofReason. 31. Playing with the Dark: The Deployment of Blackness and Brownnessin the Africana and Latino Literary Imaginations. (Claudia M. Milian Arias).32. Africana Studies: The International Context and Boundaries. (AnaniDzidzienyo). 33. Africana Thought and African-Diasporic Studies. (Lewis R.Gordon). Works Cited. Index.