| Introduction | |
| Colonial America and the Young Republic 1700-1820 | |
| Introduction | |
| The fight for independence 1775-83 | |
| Africa, North America and African-American culture | |
| Plantations | |
| Architecture and the plantation layout | |
| Slave houses | |
| The revival of African culture on the plantations | |
| Life on the plantations | |
| New European-Ameriacn influences | |
| A planter's house in Louisiana | |
| Plantation slave artists and craftsmen | |
| Textiles and patchwork quilts | |
| Folk art | |
| Pottery | |
| Urban slave and free artists and craftsmen | |
| Furniture | |
| Silversmiths | |
| Fine artists | |
| Nineteenth-Century America, the Civil War and Reconstruction | |
| Introduction | |
| The anti-slavery movement | |
| Free black and slave artisans | |
| Fine artists | |
| Architecture, the decorative arts, and folk art | |
| Urban and rural architecture | |
| Furniture | |
| Metalwork and woodcarving | |
| Pottery | |
| Quilts | |
| Fine arts: Painting, sculpture, and graphic arts | |
| Exhibitions and the viewing public | |
| Abolitionist patronage | |
| Graphic arts | |
| Landscape painting | |
| Neoclassical sculpture | |
| Genre and biblical painting | |
| Twentieth-Century America and Modern Art 1900-60 | |
| Introduction | |
| Civil rights and double-consciousness | |
| The development of a modern American art | |
| African-American culture, the New Negro and art in the 1920s | |
| The Great Migration | |
| The Jazz Age | |
| Expatriates and Paris, the Negro Colony | |
| The New Negro movement | |
| Photography | |
| The New Negro artist | |
| Graphic art | |
| Painting | |
| The patronage of the New Negro artist | |
| State funding and the rise of African-American art | |
| The Federal Arts Project | |
| The legacy of the New Negro movement | |
| Negritude and figurative sculpture | |
| Folk art | |
| American Scene painting | |
| African-American murals | |
| WPA workshops and community art centres | |
| Social realism | |
| Abstract art and modernism in New York | |
| Abstract figurative painting | |
| Patronage and critical debate | |
| American culture post World War II | |
| Folk art | |
| Painting: Expressionism and Surrealism | |
| Abstract Expressionism and African-American art | |
| Primitivism | |
| Early Abstract Expressionism: Bearden, Woodruff, and Alston | |
| Abstract Expressionism | |
| Second generation of Abstract Expressionists 1955-61 | |
| Twentieth-Century America: The Evolution of Black Aesthetci | |
| Introduction | |
| Civil rights and black nationalism | |
| Cultural crisis: Black artist or American artist? | |
| Spiral artists' group 1963-6 | |
| Painting | |
| The evolution of a modern black aesthetic | |
| Defining black art | |
| Painting | |
| Sculpture | |
| Art institutions and artists' groups | |
| Mainstream art institutions | |
| Black art aesthetcis | |
| Black art and black power | |
| Black artsists' groups | |
| Towards a new abstraction | |
| Are you black enough? | |
| Painting | |
| Sculpture | |
| The postmodern condition 1980-93 | |
| Painting | |
| Video art | |
| Sculpture | |
| Photography | |
| Conclusion | |
| Notes | |
| Llist of Illustrations | |
| Bibliographic Essay | |
| Timeline | |
| Index | |
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