Dispatches from the Ebony Tower: Intellectuals Confront the African American Experience Book

	Preface
	Introduction: Black Studies and the Racial Mountain	1
Pt. 1	Theorizing the Black World: Race in the Postcolonial, Post-Civil Rights Era
1	Toward an Effective Antiracism	31
2	The Political Moment in Jamaica: The Dimensions of Hegemonic Dissolution	52
3	Sandoms and Other Exotic Women: Prostitution and Race in the Carribean	75
4	Race and Revolution in Cuba: African American Perspectives	90
5	The Fire This Time: Harlem and Its Discontents at the Turn of the Century	108
6	Crack Cocaine and Harlem's Health	121
Pt. 2	Mapping African American Studies
7	African American Studies and the "Warring Ideals": The Color Line Meets the Borderlands	141
8	The Future of Black Studies: Political Communities and the "Talented Tenth"	153
9	Black Studies and the Question of Class	158
10	Black Studies: A Critical Reassessment	162
11	Black Studies Revisited	171
12	Theorizing Black Studies: The Continuing Role of Community Service in the Study of Race and Class	177
13	A Debate on Activism in Black Studies	186
Pt. 3	Afrocentricity and Its Critics
14	Afrocentricity, Race, and Reason	195
15	Afrocentrics, Afro-elitists, and Afro-eccentrics: The Polarization of Black Studies Since the Student Struggles of the Sixties	204
16	Reclaiming Culture: The Dialectics of Identity	210
17	Afrocentrism, Cultural Nationalism, and the Problem with Essentialist Definitions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality	216
18	Afrocentricity and the American Dream	224
19	Multinational, Multicultural America Versus White Supremacy	236
Pt. 4	Race and Ethnicity in American Life
20	The Problematics of Ethnic Studies	243
21	Prophetic Alternatives: A Conversation with Cornel West	265
22	Race in American Life: A Conversation with John Hope Franklin	280
	Contributors	301
	About the Editor	309
	Index	311