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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: Why I Am an Intellectual | |
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| Dysonography | |
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| Not from Some Zeus's Head: My Intellectual Development | |
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| Letter to My Brother, Everett, in Prison | |
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| This I Believe | |
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| Theories of Race | |
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| The Liberal Theory of Race | |
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| When You're a Credit to Your Race, the Bill Will Come Due: O. J. Simpson and Our Trial by Fire | |
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| Affirmative Action | |
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| Debating Affirmative Action | |
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| A Reprieve for Affirmative Action | |
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| Multiculturalism | |
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| Leonard Jeffries and the Struggle for the Black Mind | |
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| Shakespeare and Smokey Robinson: Revisiting the Culture Wars | |
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| Whiteness Studies | |
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| The Labor of Whiteness, the Whiteness of Labor, and the Perils of Whitewishing | |
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| Giving Whiteness a Black Eye | |
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| Gender Views | |
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| The Plight of Black Men | |
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| Another Saturday Night, or Have All the Brothers Gone to White Women? | |
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| In O. J.'s Shadow: Kobe Bryant's Predicament | |
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| Afro-Baptist Radicalism and Rhetoric | |
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| "God Almighty Has Spoken from Washington D.C.": American Society and Christian Faith | |
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| Gardner Taylor: The Poet Laureate of the American Pulpit | |
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| "Somewhere I Read of the Freedom of Speech": Constructing a Unique Voice | |
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| Religion and Sexuality | |
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| When You Divide Body and Soul, Problems Multiply: The Black Church and Sexuality | |
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| Homotextualities: The Bible, Sexual Ethics, and the Theology of Homoeroticism | |
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| Biocriticism and Black Icons | |
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| X Marks the Plots: A Critical Reading of Malcolm's Readers | |
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| Mixed Blessings: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Lessons of an Ambiguous Heroism | |
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| "Give Me a Paper and Pen": Tupac's Place in Hip-Hop | |
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| Cinema Noir | |
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| Spike Lee's Neonationalist Vision | |
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| Between Apocalypse and Redemption: John Singleton's Boyz N the Hood | |
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| Ghettocentricity and the New Black Cinema | |
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| The Soul Musics of Black Folk | |
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| The Promise and Perils of Contemporary Gospel Music | |
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| Mariah Carey and "Authentic" Black Music | |
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| Aretha Franklin, Vanessa Bell Armstrong, and Me | |
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| The Great Next: Jazz Origins and the Anatomy of Improvisation | |
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| Hip-Hop Culture | |
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| The Culture of Hip-Hop | |
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| Gangsta Rap and American Culture | |
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| We Never Were What We Used to Be: Black Youth, Pop Culture, and the Politics of Nostalgia | |
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| The Predicament of Postmodernity | |
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| Michael Jackson's Postmodern Spirituality | |
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| Be Like Mike? Michael Jordan and the Pedagogy of Desire | |
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| Is Postmodernism Just Modernism in Drag? | |
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| Coda: The Life of the Mind | |
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| It's Not What You Know, It's How You Show It: Black Public Intellectuals | |
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| Notes | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |