Black culture on black terms: a rejection of the social pathology model / Joan and Stephen Baratz -- Time and cool people / John Horton -- Nonverbal communication among Afro-Americans: an initial classification / Benjamin G. Cooke -- Black folk music / Elkin T. Sithole -- Motion and feeling through music / Charles Keil -- Dynamics of a black audience / Annette Powell Williams -- Names, graffiti, and culture / Herbert Kohl and James Hinton -- The language of soul / Claude Brown -- The vocabulary of race / Ken Johnson -- "Inversion" in black communication / Grace Sims Holt -- The kinetic element in black idiom / Thomas Kochman -- The African element in American English / David Dalby -- Stylin' outta the black pulpit / Grace Sims Holt -- Street talk / H. Rap Brown -- Shoe-shine on 63rd / James Maryland -- Joking: the training of the man of words in talking broad / Roger D. Abrahams -- Toward an ethnography of black American speech behavior / Thomas Kochman -- Rules for ritual insults / William Labov -- Signifying, loud-talking, and marking / Claudia Mitchell-Kernan -- Black poetry: where it's at / Carolyn Rodgers -- Roles and ideologies / R. Lincoln Keiser -- The greaser is a "bad ass", the gowster is a "muthah": an analysis of two urban youth roles / Herbert G. Ellis and Stanley M. Newman -- Aspiration / Melvin S. Brookins -- Foreword from Pimp: the story of my life / Iceberg Slim -- The game / Woodie King, Jr. -- Lovers and exploiters / Elliot Liebow -- The hustling ethic / Julius Hudson.