Malcolm X and the new blackness / Joe Wood -- Malcolm as ideology / Amiri Baraka -- Meditations on the legacy of Malcolm X / Angela Y. Davis -- Malcolm X and black rage / Cornel West -- Learning to think for ourselves: Malcolm X's black nationalism reconsidered / Patricia Hill Collins -- Philosopher or dog? / Hilton Als -- Malcolm X: the art of autobiography / John Edgar Wideman -- The color of his eyes: Bruce Perry's Malcolm and Malcolm's Malcolm / Arnold Rampersad -- Sexuality, television, and death: a black gay dialogue on Malcolm X / Ron Simmons and Marlon Riggs -- The riddle of the Zoot: Malcolm Little and black cultural politics during World War II / Robin D. G. Kelley -- "Can this be the end for Cyclops and Professor X?" / Greg Tate -- Clarence X, man of the people / Patricia J. Williams -- The allure of Malcolm X and the changing character of black politics / Adolph Reed -- The autobiography of Deidre Bailey: thoughts on Malcolm X and black youth / Deidre Bailey.