| Table of Contents |
| | "I am because we are": An Introduction to Black Philosophy / Fred Lee Hord (Mzee Lasana Okpara), Jonathan Scott Lee | 1 |
| | The Declarations of Innocence | 21 |
| | The Teachings of Ptahhotep | 24 |
| | An Interview with H. Odera Oruka / Paul Mbuya Akoko | 32 |
| | Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century / Leopold Sedar Senghor | 45 |
| | Consciencism / Kwame Nkrumah | 55 |
| | Ujamaa - The Basis of African Socialism / Julius K. Nyerere | 65 |
| | Identity and Dignity in the Context of the National Liberation Struggle / Amilcar Cabral | 73 |
| | From Myth, Literature, and the African World / Wole Soyinka | 84 |
| | Feminism and Revolution / Awa Thiam | 94 |
| | We Are Committed to Building a Single Nation in Our Country / Nelson Mandela | 108 |
| | The Call of Providence to the Descendants of Africa in America / Edward W. Blyden | 121 |
| | Africa for the Africans / Marcus Garvey | 136 |
| | The Future as I See It / Marcus Garvey | 140 |
| | from So Uncle Said / Jean Price-Mars | 145 |
| | The West Indian Middle Classes / C. L. R. James | 152 |
| | from Discourse on Colonialism / Aime Cesaire | 162 |
| | Racism and Culture / Frantz Fanon | 172 |
| | Black Power, a Basic Understanding / Walter Rodney | 182 |
| | The Shadow of the Whip: A Comment on Male-Female Relations in the Caribbean / Merle Hodge | 189 |
| | Oration, Delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, July 5, 1852 / Frederick Douglass | 203 |
| | The Relations and Duties of Free Colored Men in America to Africa / Alexander Crummell | 219 |
| | Womanhood: A Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race / Anna Julia Cooper | 231 |
| | The Atlanta Exposition Address / Booker T. Washington | 243 |
| | Does Race Antipathy Serve Any Good Purpose? / W. E. B. Du Bois | 247 |
| | On Being Ashamed of Oneself: An Essay on Race Pride / W. E. B. Du Bois | 250 |
| | The Concept of Race / W. E. B. Du Bois | 255 |
| | The New Negro / Alain Locke | 261 |
| | Speech on "Black Revolution" (New York, April 8, 1964) / Malcolm X. | 272 |
| | Black Power / Martin Luther King, Jr. | 285 |
| | Radical Perspectives on the Empowerment of Afro-American Women: Lessons for the 1980s / Angela Y. Davis | 296 |
| | Philosophy, Ethnicity, and Race / Lucius Outlaw | 304 |
| | Feminism: A Transformational Politic / Bell Hooks | 329 |
| | The Afrocentric Idea in Education / Molefi Kete Asante | 338 |
| | Learning to Talk of Race / Cornel West | 350 |
| | The Black Underclass and Black Philosophers / Cornel West | 356 |
| | Postmodernism and Utopia, an Unholy Alliance / Leonard Harris | 367 |
| | Selected Bibliography | 383 |
