Table of Contents: “…Du Bois and World War I -- Langston Hughes and Alain Locke : jazz in Montmartre and African art -- Countee Cullen : "the greatest francophile" -- Claude McKay and the two faces of France -- Jessie Fauset and Gwendolyn Bennett -- And others too -- From the new Negro to Negritude : encounters in the Latin Quarter -- "Making it" in postwar France -- Richard Wright : an intellectual in exile -- James Baldwin in Paris : love and self-discovery -- Chester Himes's ambivalent triumph -- William Gardner Smith : an eternal foreigner -- Literary coming of age in Paris -- A new mood : Black power in Paris -- Visitors all, or nearly -- William Melvin Kelley and Melvin Dixon : change of territory -- Ted Joans : "the surrealist Griot" -- James Emanuel : a poet in exile…”

Table of Contents: “…On the computer and in the kitchen : exercises for teaching people-environment relations / Tamara Giles-Vernick -- Using the World Wide Web to teach about African art / Benjamin C. Ray -- Using H-Africa in a virtual course / Robert G. …”

Table of Contents: “…The birth of art: Africa, Europe, and the Near East in the Stone Age -- The rise of civilization: the art of the Ancient Near East -- Pharaohs, tombs, and temples: the art of Ancient Egypt -- Minos and the heroes of Homer: the art of the Prehistoric Aegean -- Gods, heroes, and athletes: the art of Ancient Greece -- Paths to enlightenment: the ancient art of South and Southeast Asia -- Daoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism: The art of Early China and Korea -- Sacred statues and secular scrolls: the art of early Japan -- Italy before the Romans: the art of the Etruscans -- From Seven Hills to Three Continents: the art of Ancient Rome -- Pagans, Christians, and Jews: the art of late antiquity -- Rome in the East: the art of Byzantium -- Muhammad and the Muslims: Islamic art -- From Alaska to the Andes: the arts of the Ancient Americas -- South of the Sahara: early African art -- Europe after the fall of Rome: early Medieval art in the West -- The age of Pilgrims and Crusaders: Romanesque Art The age of the great cathedrals: gothic art. -- Vol. 2. …”

Table of Contents: “…AFRICAN CULTURE AND NEGRITUDE -- INTRODUCTION -- NEGRITUDE: AGREEMENT AND DISAGREEMENT -- THE IDIOM IN AFRICAN ART WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON AFRICAN SCULPTURE -- REMARKS ON AFRICAN PERSONALITY AND NEGRITUDE -- COMMENTS…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction : music practices across borders : (e)valuating space, diversity and exchange / Glaucia Peres da Silva and Konstantin Hondros -- Valuation in a reversed economy : the case of contemporary art music in France and the United States / Annelies Fryberger -- Culture, creativity and practice : (e)valuating the Kenya Music Festival as a transnational music space / Mukasa Situma Wafula -- "Come and expose yourself to the fantastic music from around the world" : experiencing world music festivals / Peter Lell -- From desire for recognition to desire for independence : world music filtered in the market economy / Sandrine Le Coz -- The invention of African art music : analyzing European-African classical cross-over projects / Nepomuk Riva -- Contemplating musical life in Tunisia under the French protectorate : the society and challenges / Alla El Kahla -- The construction of an Italian diasporic identity in the city of Buenos Aires at the turn of the 19th century / Daniela Anabel González -- Brazilian grooves and cultured clichés / Janco Boy Bystron and Chico Santana.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Cette île n'est pas une île : locating Gorée / Charles Forsdick ; Multiple memories : slavery and indenture in Mauritian literature in French / Srilata Ravi ; Speaking of slavery : representations of domestic slavery in the oral epics of Francophone west Africa / Sotonye Omuku ; From forgetting to remembrance : slavery and forced labour in Tunisia / Inès Mrad Dali ; Imaging the present : an iconography of slavery in contemporary African art / Claire Griffiths ; Cartographies of memory, politics of emancipation / Françoise Vergès.…”
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Table of Contents: “…"Pressing on life until it gave back something in kinship" : an introductory essay / Robert O'Meally -- Putting something over Something Else / Calvin Tomkins -- Interview with Romare Bearden / Henri Ghent -- The Negro artist and modern art -- The Negro artist's dilemma -- The Journal of Romare Bearden : 1947 to 1949 -- Rectangular structure in my montage paintings -- The Twenties and the Black Renaissance -- The 1930s : an art reminiscence -- Humility -- Encounters with African art -- Bearden : Black life on its own terms / August Wilson -- Abrupt stops and an unexpected liquidity : the aesthetics of Romare Bearden / Toni Morrison -- The genius of Romare Bearden / Elizabeth Alexander -- The art of Romare Bearden / Ralph Ellison -- Bearden / Ralph Ellison -- Between the shadow and the act / John Edgar Wideman -- Romare Bearden : African American modernism at mid-century / Kobena Mercer -- Bearden plays Bearden / Albert Murray -- The political Bearden / Brent Hayes Edwards -- Circe in black : Homer, Toni Morrison, Romare Bearden / Farah Jasmine Griffin -- Conjure and collapse in the art of Romare Bearden / Rachael DeLue -- Changing, conjuring reality / Richard Powell -- Romare Bearden's Li'l Dan the Drummer Boy : coloring a story of the Civil War / Robert Burns Stepto -- Impressions and improvisations : a look at the prints of Romare Bearden / Mary Lee Corlett -- Bearden's Caribbean dimension / Sally Price and Richard Price -- Sheer mastery : Romare Bearden's final year / Myron Schwartzman -- Romare Bearden, an indelible imprint / David C. …”

Table of Contents: “…"From Black Manhattan" by James Weldon Johnson -- "The Negro Theatre--A Dodo Bird" by Ralph Matthews -- THE FINE ARTS "A Note on African Art" -- "The American Negro as Artist" -- "African Art: Classic Style" by Alain Locke -- "Henry Ossawa Tanner" by Jessie Fauset -- "African Plastic in Contemporary Art" by Harry Alan Potamkin -- "The Negro Artist and Modern Art" by Romare Bearden.…”
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Table of Contents: “…A multimedia exploration of Woolf's work in the late 1930's and her vision of prehistory / Suzanne Bellamy -- Report to the Memoir Club : scenes from a colonial childhood / Marina Warner -- "But somebody you wouldn't forget in a hurry": Bloomsbury and the contradictions of African art / Lois J. Gilmore -- Contradictions in autobiography : Virginia Woolf's writings on art / Maggie Humm -- "But something betwixt and between" : Roger Fry and the contradictions of biography / Amber K. …”
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Table of Contents: “…On intergenerational fusions and fissions in South African arts and culture -- INTRODUCTION -- THE SELF AS SUBJECT: EXPLORING THE SELF THROUGH ART, AND THE ART OF THE SELF -- WHAT IS ART, AND WHO GETS TO DEFINE IT? …”
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Table of Contents: “…Smith -- Bioprospecting : moving beyond benefit sharing / Rachel Wynberg -- Of waste and revolutions : environmental legacies of authoritarianism in Tunisia / Siad Darwish -- Profile : Africa calling : a conversation with Mo Ibrahim / Stuart Reid -- From Lesotho to the United Nations : the journey of a gender justice advocate / Keiso Matashane-Marite -- Meschac Gaba : museum of contemporary African art / Kerryn Greenberg -- Africa in Nollywood, Nollywood in Africa / Onookome Okome -- Globalizing African Islam from below : west African Sufi masters in the United States / Cheikh Anta Babou -- Afropolitanism and its discontents / Obadias Ndaba -- Photo essay : Awra Amba : a model "Utopian" community in Ethiopia / Salem Mekuria.…”
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