Joyce A. Joyce is Professor of Women's Studies and African American Studies at Temple University. She is the coeditor (with Arthur P. Davis and J. Saunders Redding) of The New Cavalcade: African American Writing from 1760 to the Present and the author of Ijala: Sonia Sanchez and the African Poetic Tradition; Warriors, Conjurers, and Priests: Defining African-Centered Literary Criticism; and Richard Wright's Art of Tragedy.

• Acknowledgments PART ONE Introduction PART TWO 1. Teaching African-American Literature to White Students 2. Who Shall Teach African-American Literature? 3. A Lesson in Race-Transcending Pedagogy: Finding Forrester 4. Richard Wright and Bigger Thomas in the Twenty-First Century 5. Richard Wright and Democracy 6. Sonia Sanchez and the African/African-American Literary Tradition: An Anxiety of Confluence 7. Dr. Margaret Walker Alexander: Renaissance Black Woman of the Twentieth Century 8. Ayi Kwei Armah's Osiris Rising: Challenge to the African-American Studies Female Intellectual 9. Black Studies, Black History Month, and Current Events 10. Reversing the Tradition: A Review of Rebecca Alpert's Like Bread on a Sedar Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition PART THREE 11. Interviews with Amiri Baraka, Askia Touré, and Sonia Sanchez PART FOUR 12. Coda: Completing the Circle Works Cited Index

Joyce A. Joyce is Professor of Women's Studies and African American Studies at Temple University. She is the coeditor (with Arthur P. Davis and J. Saunders Redding) of The New Cavalcade: African American Writing from 1760 to the Present and the author of Ijala: Sonia Sanchez and the African Poetic Tradition; Warriors, Conjurers, and Priests: Defining African-Centered Literary Criticism; and Richard Wright's Art of Tragedy.

• Acknowledgments PART ONE Introduction PART TWO 1. Teaching African-American Literature to White Students 2. Who Shall Teach African-American Literature? 3. A Lesson in Race-Transcending Pedagogy: Finding Forrester 4. Richard Wright and Bigger Thomas in the Twenty-First Century 5. Richard Wright and Democracy 6. Sonia Sanchez and the African/African-American Literary Tradition: An Anxiety of Confluence 7. Dr. Margaret Walker Alexander: Renaissance Black Woman of the Twentieth Century 8. Ayi Kwei Armah's Osiris Rising: Challenge to the African-American Studies Female Intellectual 9. Black Studies, Black History Month, and Current Events 10. Reversing the Tradition: A Review of Rebecca Alpert's Like Bread on a Sedar Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition PART THREE 11. Interviews with Amiri Baraka, Askia Touré, and Sonia Sanchez PART FOUR 12. Coda: Completing the Circle Works Cited Index

Joyce A. Joyce is Professor of Women's Studies and African American Studies at Temple University. She is the coeditor (with Arthur P. Davis and J. Saunders Redding) of The New Cavalcade: African American Writing from 1760 to the Present and the author of Ijala: Sonia Sanchez and the African Poetic Tradition; Warriors, Conjurers, and Priests: Defining African-Centered Literary Criticism; and Richard Wright's Art of Tragedy.

• Acknowledgments PART ONE Introduction PART TWO 1. Teaching African-American Literature to White Students 2. Who Shall Teach African-American Literature? 3. A Lesson in Race-Transcending Pedagogy: Finding Forrester 4. Richard Wright and Bigger Thomas in the Twenty-First Century 5. Richard Wright and Democracy 6. Sonia Sanchez and the African/African-American Literary Tradition: An Anxiety of Confluence 7. Dr. Margaret Walker Alexander: Renaissance Black Woman of the Twentieth Century 8. Ayi Kwei Armah's Osiris Rising: Challenge to the African-American Studies Female Intellectual 9. Black Studies, Black History Month, and Current Events 10. Reversing the Tradition: A Review of Rebecca Alpert's Like Bread on a Sedar Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition PART THREE 11. Interviews with Amiri Baraka, Askia Touré, and Sonia Sanchez PART FOUR 12. Coda: Completing the Circle Works Cited Index