Looks at the issues facing African Americans, including the new Black conservatism, Black-Jewish relations, discrimination, racial sterotypes, and despair.

Originally published : Boston : Beacon Press, 1993 ; with new epilogue.

Introduction : Race matters -- Nihilism in Black America -- The pitfalls of racial reasoning -- The crisis of Black leadership -- Demystifying the new Black conservatism -- Beyond affirmative action : equality and identity -- On Black-Jewish relations -- Black sexuality : the taboo subject -- Malcolm X and Black rage -- Epilogue to the Vintage edition.