God and Blackness Mark A Runco Professor Apter gives scholars and

Professor Apter gives scholars and students of political and social change an articulate and original view of development

the contributors provide constructive advice as well as cautionary tales about how they learned to manoeuvre and become accepted in worlds otherwise closed to them

individualizing principle of the 'I' and the physical human body it works upon and shapes

African American music in the early 20th century

storytellers bring their communities together

God and Blackness Mark A Runco Professor Apter gives scholars andBlackness, as a concept, is extremely fluid: it can refer to cultural and ethnic identity, socio political status, an aesthetic and embodied way of being, a social and political consciousness, or a diasporic kinship. It is used as a description of skin color ranging from the palest cream to the richest chocolate; as a marker of enslavement, marginalization, criminality, filth, or evil; or as a symbol of pride, beauty, elegance, strength, and depth.