Race identity
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Tar Baby
The Bluest Eye
O'Mandingo!
African or American?
Crossing boundaries
Manning the race
It's bigger than hip-hop
The mind of South Africa
Ordinary light
The Price of Whiteness
Counting descent
The color of sound
Language, rhythm, & sound
Multiculturalism
Negro with a Hat
The color complex
Learning to Be White
Slaves to fashion
A Chosen Exile
Orphée noir
Authentic Blackness
Incognegro
Mongrel nation
The militant black writer in Africa and the United States
Beyond ontological blackness
The politics of race and ethnicity in the United States
Diplomacy in black and white
Ain't I A Beauty Queen?
America and the black body
Not Quite White
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