Step into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature Book

	Acknowledgments
	The Word Movement	1
	Are Black People Cooler than White People?	15
	GWTW	19
	Race Natters - The Chattering Classes Convene on Martha's Vineyard	23
	In Search of Alice Walker	26
	Mama's Girl	32
	The Visible Man	37
	Return to the Planet of the Apes	40
	The Sports Taboo: Why blacks are like boys and whites are like girls	42
	Are We Tiger Woods Yet?	49
	On the Disappearance of Joe Wood Jr.	51
	She and I	53
	White Girl?	59
	What Happens When Your 'Hood Is the Last Stop on the White Flight Express?	68
	Texaco	78
	Speaking in Tongues	80
	Your Friendly Neighborhood Jungle	82
	Hip-Hop Hi-Tech	91
	Homophobia: Hip-Hop's Black Eye	95
	The Death of Rock n' Roll	101
	Confessions of a Hip-Hop Critic	105
	hip-hop feminist	107
	This Is Not a Puff Piece	113
	Live from Death Row	124
	Hit 'Em Up: On the Life and Death of Tupac Shakur	133
	Angles of Vision	143
	The Soul of Black Talk	152
	Do Books Matter?	159
	The Other Side of Paradise - Feminist Pedagogy, Toni Morrison Iconography, and Oprah's Book Club Phenomenon	163
	She's Gotta Have It	172
	No Entry	174
	What About Black Romance?	177
	"It be's that way sometimes 'cause I can't control the rhyme." - Notes from the Post-Soul Intelligentsia	183
	Facing Unknown Possibilities: Lance Jeffers and the Black Aesthetic	195
	The White Boy Shuffle	203
	Interpolation: Peace to My Nine	207
	Epilogue: Women Like Us	211
	The Sun, the Moon, the Stars	213
	Prologue, 1963	223
	The Emperor's Babe	227
	the missionary position	229
	My Son, My Heart, My Life	238
	The Last Integrationist	252
	slave	256
	The Famished Road	262
	Stigmata	265
	The Pagoda	269
	face	273
	The Peculiar Second Marriage of Archie Jones	281
	Baker	282
	Rika	288
	Butterfly Burning	296
	The Intuitionist	299
	Safari	307
	The Rumor	307
	Fugue	308
	The Clearing	311
	I Dream of Jesus	311
	personal	312
	Tat Tvam Asi (You Are the One)	316
	One Irony of the Caribbean	318
	Legba, Landed	320
	Excursion to Port Royal	322
	Dear Mr. Ellison	323
	Assam	323
	Church Y'all	324
	The Yellow Forms of Paradise	327
	swampy river	329
	from "Awakening"	332
	Sleep	334
	When the Neighbors Fight	335
	You Are Chic Now, Che	336
	Visitation: Grenada, 1978	337
	100 Times	339
	Discubriendo una Fotografia de mi Madre	340
	sometime in the summer there's october	340
	The Outcome	344
	Toi Derricotte at Quail Ridge Books	345
	Nairobi Streetlights	346
	3 movements	347
	The Night when Mukoma Told the Devil to Go to Hell	348
	Autobiography of a Black Man	350
	Spotlight at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe	351
	Blue	353
	Patrimony	354
	Intermission in three acts in service of PLOT	355
	Calypso the outside woman	357
	The Woman	358
	Woman	359
	Sunday	361
	Purple Impala	362
	Windows of Exile	363
	gin and juice	364
	Collection Day	365
	Insomnia	366
	Shrine outside Basquiat's Studio, September 1988	367
	Black Youth Black Art Black Face - An Address	371
	leaving a feminist organization: a personal/poetics	374
	we are trying to (have me) conceive	376
	if we've gotta live underground and everybody's got cancer/will poetry be enuf? - A Letter to Ntozake Shange	380
	Binga - Diary Entry	385
	The Six-Hour Difference: A Dutch Perspective on the New World	388
	Just Beneath the Surface - An Email	395
	By Invitation - An Open Letter to the President of South Africa	398
	What Happened to Your Generation's Promise of "Love and Revolution"? - A Letter to Angela Davis	401
	An Atlantic Away: A Letter from Africa	404
	Contributors	419
	Self-Portraith Radcliffe Bailey, the Cover Artist	452
	Selected Bibliography of Black Literature	453
	Books Essential to Understanding Hip-Hop Culture	457
	Permissions	459
	Index	467