Table of Contents

Introduction: Toward an Autobiography of the Politics of Race and Class — Black Liberation in America — The Tchula Seven: Harvest of Hate in the Mississippi Delta — The March on Washington, DC, 1983: What Next? — The Paradox of Black Reform — Harold Washington and the Politics of Race in Chicago — Black Conservatives — Smoke and Mirrors: City of Hope and Illusion — Toward a Renaissance of Progressive Black Politics — Black America: Multicultural Democracy in the Age of Clarence Thomas, David Duke, and the Los Angeles Uprisings — The Challenge of Black Leadership: African-American Empowerment for the Twenty-first Century — Crossing Boundaries, Making Connections: The Politics of Race and Class in Urban America — Violence, Resistance, and the Struggle for Black Empowerment — Malcolm, Martin, and the Mandates of Justice — Louis Farrakhan and the Million Man March — The Third World and the Politics of Peace — Zimbabwe and the Problematic of African Socialism — Sin Libertad: United Nations Appeal for Puerto Rican Independence — Nuclear War and Black America — Race and Democracy in Cuba — Free South Africa Movement: Black America's Protest Connections with South Africa — The Future of the Cold War — The Bitter Fruits of War — Toward a Pan-Africanist Manifesto for the Twenty-first Century — Radical Democracy and Socialism — Why Black Americans Are Not Socialists — Black Politics and the Challenges of the Left — Toward an American Socialism from Below: Beyond Stalinism and Social Democracy — Remaking American Marxism — Toward a New American Socialism