Acknowledgments
PART ONE
Introduction
PART TWO
1. Teaching African-American Literature to White Students
2. Who Shall Teach African-American Literature?
3. A Lesson in Race-Transcending Pedagogy: Finding Forrester
4. Richard Wright and Bigger Thomas in the Twenty-First Century
5. Richard Wright and Democracy
6. Sonia Sanchez and the African/African-American Literary Tradition: An Anxiety of Confluence
7. Dr. Margaret Walker Alexander: Renaissance Black Woman of the Twentieth Century
8. Ayi Kwei Armah's Osiris Rising: Challenge to the African-American Studies Female Intellectual
9. Black Studies, Black History Month, and Current Events
10. Reversing the Tradition: A Review of Rebecca Alpert's Like Bread on a Sedar Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition
PART THREE
11. Interviews with Amiri Baraka, Askia Touré, and Sonia Sanchez
PART FOUR
12. Coda: Completing the Circle
Works Cited
Index