Table of Contents: “…Why I hate you : Community resentment of Columbia -- Gym Crow : recreational segregation in Morningside Park -- Up against the wall : Columbia's integrated protest effort -- On our own : SAS's self-imposed seperation -- Supporting the cause : SDS, protest, and the "bust" -- Black student power : the struggle for Black studies -- Striking similarities Columbia, the ivy league, and Black people -- Is it over yet? …”
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Table of Contents: “…--"Middle-class" workers and the new politics, by B. Sexton.--Black studies: trouble ahead, by E. D. Genovese.--The case for professionalism, by R. …”

Table of Contents: “…-- Lenin and the vanguard party -- Lenin and the problem -- The people of the Gold Coast -- The rise and fall of the Nkrumah -- Black Power -- Black people in the urban areas of the United States -- Garfield Sobers -- Black studies and the contemporary student -- Picasso and Jackson Pollock -- Three black women writers: Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange…”

Table of Contents: “…Revolution has come! Black studies and Third World liberation ; Vanguard of the New Left ; International alliance -- Part 5. …”
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Table of Contents: “…The dream -- Black studies -- No place like home -- The deep end -- Warrior hearts -- Mighty spirit striving -- Force of nature -- The secret -- Beloved community -- In circle square -- Our people -- A more perfect union -- Love changes everything -- In full sail -- A year like no other -- African homecoming -- The culture of big law -- What is justice? …”

Table of Contents: “…Revolution has come! Black studies and Third World liberation ; Vanguard of the New Left ; International alliance -- Part 5. …”

Table of Contents: “…Carter. In defense of Black studies, by J. A. Moss. American liberalism, source of Negro radicalism, by H. …”

Table of Contents: “…Notes from the first year -- "This is how we lost to the white man" -- Notes from the second year -- American girl -- Notes from the third year -- Why do so few blacks study the civil war? -- Notes from the fourth year -- The legacy of Malcolm X -- Notes from the fifth year -- Fear of a black president -- Notes from the sixth year -- The case for reparations -- Notes from the seventh year -- The black family in the age of mass incarceration -- Notes from the eighth year -- My president was black.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Surviving solitude : the travails of ivy desegregators -- Unsettling ol' Nassau : Princeton University from Jim Crow admissions to anti-Apartheid protests -- Bourgeois black activism : Brown University and black freedom -- Black power and the big green : Dartmouth College and the challenges of isolation -- Space invader : Columbia enters Harlem world -- There goes the neighborhood : Penn's postwar expansion project -- Blue bulldogs and Black Panthers : Yale, New Haven, and black imaginings -- Black studies the hard way : fair Harvard makes curricular changes -- Africana ambitions : the defense of blackness at Cornell university -- Conclusion : welcome to the class.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Prologue: preparing for the journey of Ulysses in black -- Classica Africana: the nascent study of black classicism -- From eurocentrism to black classicism -- Birth of a hero: the poetics and politics of Ulysses in classic literature -- Ulysses lost on racial frontiers: the limits of classicism in the modern world -- The new negro Ulysses: classicism in African American literature as a return from the black (w)hole -- Ralph Ellison's black American Ulysses -- "Ulysses alone in Polly-what's-his-name's cave": Ralph Ellison and the uses of myth -- Ulysses in black: lynching, dismemberment, dionysiac rites -- Ulysses (re)journeying home: bridging the divide between Black Studies and the classics.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Blue Bulldogs and Black Panthers: Yale, New Haven, and Black Imaginings8. Black Studies the Hard Way: Fair Harvard Makes Curricular Changes; 9. …”
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Table of Contents: “…A conceptual proposal for a department of black studies -- Appendix 5. San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle accounts of student strike settlement, March 21-23, 1969.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Prologue: December 31, 1965: the road to Black power -- January 3: a murder in Tuskegee -- January 10: humiliated in Atlanta -- January 26: a new front in Chicago -- March 17: two toughs from Oakland -- May 3: the Black panthers of Lowndes county -- May 13: a coup in Kingston Springs -- June 7: showdown at the Lorraine motel -- June 16: a cry in the Mississippi night -- June 23: tear gas over Canton -- July and August: "Starmichael" on tour -- August 5: a rock in Marquette park -- August 13: a dynamite bust in Philadelphia -- September 6: riot comes to Summerhill -- October 29: Berkeley and the backlash vote -- October: ten points from the flatlands -- December 8: the peg leg bates purge -- December 26: Black studies and the first Kwanzaa -- Epilogue: after 1966: of allies and messiahs.…”

Table of Contents: “…Foreword: Challenges and possibilities across boundaries -- Envisioning a future folkloristics -- Deep folklore/queer folkloristics -- "An epidemic of meanings" : the tenuous nature of public intellectualism, reflexivity, and belief scholarship -- Expanding the territory -- The politics of trivialization -- The folklorization of queer theory : public spaces, pride, and gay neoliberalism -- Yemayá's fury : residual flows, ecological disaster, and folklore futures -- Infusing public folklore work into academe : experiencing the in-between -- Folklorists as curators : exploring the four Cs -- Culturally conscious collaborations at the nexus of folklore, education, and social justice : lessons and questions for folkloristic praxis -- The power of folkloristics at the intersection of affect, narrative, and performance in the college classroom -- The folkloristic diaspora : on being a folklorist in a Black studies department -- Standing with others : folklorists in the midst of home -- Disruptive folklore -- Talking folklore : getting others to take the discipline seriously while remaining a serious folklorist -- Afterword: Advancing folkloristics.…”
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