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