Amistad

Volume 1. Introduction / Charles F. Harris and John A. Williams

Cultural hegemony: the southern white writer and American letters / Addison Gayle

My man Himes: an interview with Christopher Himes / John A. Williams

Coming home / George Davis

The Atlantic slave trade and slavery: some interpretations of their significance in the development of the United States and the western world / C.L.R. James

D hexorcism of Noxon d awful / Ishmael Reed

Blood of the lamb: the ordeal of James Baldwin / Calvin C. Hernton

A poet of the people / Oliver Jackman

Beyond chaos: Black history and the search for the new land / Vincent Harding

The kitchen crisis: a rap / Verla Grosvenor

The Negro artist and the racial mountain / Langston Hughes

Volume 2. Blueprint for Negro literature / Richard Wright

The lyrics of James Brown : ain't it funky now, or money won't change your licking stick / Mel Watkins

Racism and American law / Haywood Burns

The bluest eye / Toni Morrison

Rappin' with myself / John Oliver Killens

The return : a fantasy / Gayl Jones

The white masters of the world / W.E.B. Du Bois

Commuting / Paul Good

Africa recolonized? / Basil Davidson

Twilight of our past : reflections on the origins of black history / Sterling Stuckey

From a Black perspective : the poetry of Don L. Lee / Paula Giddings

Technology & ethos / Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)

A portfolio of photographs / Carl Van Vechten.