White Scholars/African American Texts Book

	Foreword
	Introduction : white scholars / African American texts	1
	Naming the problem that led to the question "who shall teach African American literature?; or, are we ready to disband the Wheatley Court?	17
	Theme for African American literature B	29
	Race walks in the room : white teachers in black studies	40
	Naming the problem embedded in the problem that led to the question "who shall teach African American literature?"; or, are we ready to discard the concept of authenticity altogether?	52
	Turning impossibility into possibility : teaching Ellison, Murray, and the blues at Tuskegee	68
	Before positionality	81
	White scholars in African American literary circles : appropriation or cultural literacy?	87
	"Knowing your stuff," knowing yourself	97
	At close range : being black and mentoring whites in African American studies	108
	Faulty analogies : queer white critics teaching African American texts	123
	The color of the critic : an intervention in the critical debate in African American theory on interpretive authority	134
	Between Rome, Harlem, and Harlan	145
	The stepsister and the clan : when the native teaches African American literature	154
	Twelve years with Martin Delany : a confession	173
	Master thoughts	186
	Writing about Gwendolyn Brooks anyway	198
	Truth and talent in interpreting ethnic American autobiography : from white to black and beyond	209