| Contents |
Introduction. Our brother, the other : Farrakhan and a vigil for new black leadership / Amy Alexander -- The charmer / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Minister Louis Farrakhan and the continuing evolution of the Nation of Islam / Ernest Allen, Jr. -- Who's afraid of Louis Farrakhan : the media and race relations coverage / Erna Smith -- Minister Louis Farrakhan's economic rhetoric and reality / Julianne Malveaux -- Louis Farrakhan, ethnitopia, and the politics of race translation / Michael Eric Dyson -- Inside out : a contemporary American herstory / Fahizah Alim -- The misunderstood alliance : Louis Farrakhan and the world community of Black Muslims / Aminah B. McCloud -- Farrakhan, the hip-hop generation, and the failure of black American leadership / Ron Nixon -- The Nation of Islam and me / Salim Muwakkil -- Farrakhan fever : defining the divide between blacks and Jews / Derrick Bell -- A ham, a violin, and ohhhh those psychic blues / Itabari Njeri -- Of Malcolm, Farrakhan, and the politics of rage / Leonard Pitts, Jr. -- Farrakhan, 1985 to 1996 : the consistency of Calypso Louis / Stanley Crouch -- Big persons and the littles / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Louis Farrakhan's ministry of misogyny and homophobia / Irene Monroe -- On young black men, the Declaration of Independence, and new definitions of leadership : a conversation with Joseph Marshall, Jr. / Amy Alexander. |
