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Table of contents :
Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Introduction
Part I | THE OMNI-AMERICANS
The Omni-Americans
A Natural History: E Pluribus Unum
White Norms for Black Deviation
Paleface Fables, Brownskin People
The Blues Idiom and the Mainstream
Part II | THE ILLUSIVE BLACK IMAGE
Introduction
Image and Unlikeness in Harlem
Oneupmanship in Colorful America
The Illusive Black Middle Class
Two Case Histories
Claude Brown’s Soul for White Folks
Gordon Parks Out of Focus
Who That Say, What Dat, Every Time Us Do That?
A Clutch of Social Science Fiction Fiction
Star-Crossed Melodrama
Warren Miller and His Black Face Vaudeville
William Styron and His Troublesome Property
James Baldwin, Protest Fiction, and the Blues Tradition
Part III | GETTING IT TOGETHER
Identity, Diversity, and the Mainstream
A Short History of Black Self-Consciousness
The Role of the Pre-American Past
Black Pride in Mobile, Alabama
Black Studies and the Aims of Education
Epilogue | SITUATION NORMAL: ALL FOULED UP

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