Acknowledgments ix Introduction. "Art in the Family" 1 Part One. On Diaspora 1. EyeMinded: Commentary / Amiri Baraka 37 2. Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note / Amiri Baraka 41 3. A.K.A.
Saartjie: The Hottentot Venus in Context (Some Reflections and a Dialogue) 1998/2004 43 4. Tracey Rose: Postapartheid Playground 69 5. (Un)Seen and Overheard: Pictures by Loran Simpson 81 6. Life's Little Necessities: Installations by Women in the 1990s 125 7. Interview with Kcho 135 8. The Structure of Myth and the Potency of Magic 145 Part Two. In Visioning 9. Seeing Through: Commentary / Hettie Jones 159 10.
In the Eye of the Beholder / Hettie Jones 163 11. To/From Los Angeles with Betye Saar 165 12. Crown Jewels 177 13. Dawoud Bey: Portraits in the Theater of Desire 187 14. Pat Ward Williams: Photography and Social/Personal History 207 15. Interview with Howardena Pindell 215 16: Eye-Minded: Martin Puryear 235 17. Large As Life: Contemporary Photography 241 18. An Interview with David Hammons 247 Part Three.
Making Multiculturalism 19. Excuse Me While I Kiss the Sky & Then Fly and Touch Down: Commentary / Lisa Jones 263 20. How I Invented Multiculturalism / Lisa Jones 273 21. Lost in Translation: Jean-Michel in the (Re)Mix 277 22. In the Thick of It: David Hammons and Hair Culture in the 1970s 297 23. Domestic Prayer 305 24. Critical Curators: Interview with Kellie Jones 309 25. Poets of a New Style of Speak: Cuban Artists of This Generation 317 26.
In Their Own Image 329 27. Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: What's Wrong with This Picture? 341 28. Blues to the Future 343 Part Four. Abstract Truths 29. Them There Eyes: On Connections and the Visual: Commentary / Guthrie P.
Ramsey Jr. 349 30. Free Jazz and the Price of Black Musical Abstraction / Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. 353 31. To the Max: Energy and Experimentation 363 32. It's Not Enough to Say "Black is Beautiful": Abstraction at the Whitney, 1969-1974 397 33. Black West: Thoughts on Art in Los Angeles 427 34.
Brothers and Sisters 459 35. Bill T. Jones 469 36. Abstract Expressionism: The Missing Link 473 37. Norman Lewis: The Black Paintings 483.