The end of blackness : returning the souls of black folk to their rightful owners /

Dickerson, Debra J., 1959-

The end of blackness : returning the souls of black folk to their rightful owners / Debra J. Dickerson. - 1st Anchor Books ed. - New York : Anchor Books, 2005, c2004. - 306 p. ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-290) and index.

Prologue: blackness before the dawn -- Taking the words out of black mouths: narcissism, know-nothingness, and white intransigence -- Kente cloth politics: the white man's ice, know-nothingness, and black futility -- Gone native: the Uncle Tom imperative.

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African Americans--Race identity.
African Americans--Social conditions--1975-
Self-reliance--United States.
African Americans--Psychology.
Race awareness--United States.


United States--Race relations.

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