Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. Introduction: Culture Has No Color 1
5. 1 After Identity Politics 21
6. 2 The Unclassified Residuum 48
7. 3 Black Intellectuals and Other Oxymorons: Du Bois and Fanon 87
8. 4 The Distinction of Du Bois: Aesthetics, Pragmatism, Politics 111
9. 5 Divine Anarchy: Du Bois and the Craving for Modernity 146
10. 6 Motley Mixtures: Locke, Ellison, Hurston 184
11. 7 The Agon Black Intellectual: Baldwin and Baraka 220
12. 8 Cosmopolitan Collage: Samuel Delany and Adrienne Kennedy 260
13. Notes 297
14. Works Cited 331
15. Index 347