Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface Troubled Beginnings; Introduction HereNow and ThereThen: The Ambivilant Politics of Identity; Liberating Theologies: Ibn Al-cArabi's Bezels and James Cone's Christ; Flesh and Facts: Toward a Critical Psychoanalysis; Freeing Films: Reading Sankofa, Malcolm X, and Panther; The Power to Trans(per)form; Conclusion Trans(per)forming Pedagogy: or Teaching Agency; Bibliography; Index
Summary
This interdisciplinary and creative study examines how African American culture is presented in American films and other media, and is a provocative re-reading of the historiography of black culture