Contents: Martin Japtok/Rafiki Jenkins: What Does It Mean to Be Really Black? A Selective History of Authentic Blackness - Dara N. Byrne/Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Defining Problem of Black Authenticity in Canada: Real Slang and the Grammar of Cultural Hybridity - David M. Jones: Privileging the Popular at What Price? A Discussion of Joan Morgan, Hip Hop, Feminism, and Radical Politics - Antonio T. Tiongson Jr.: Claiming Hip Hop: Authenticity Debates, Filipino DJs, and Contemporary U.S. Racial Formations - Wendy Alexia Rountree: Faking the Funk: A Journey Towards Authentic Blackness - Gregory Stephens: Brown Boy Blues...inna Jamaica - Joy Viveros: Black Authenticity, Racial Drag , and the Case of Dave Chappelle - Jonathan Shandell: How Black Do You Want It? Countee Cullen and the Contest for Racial Authenticity on Page and Stage - Monika Gehlawat: Peculiar Irresolution: James Baldwin and Flânerie - Benjamin D. Carson: Many forces at work: Clarence Major's Early Fiction and the Critique of Racial Economy - Ian Reilly: Isn't the whole point of writing to escape what people not me think of me: The Failure of Language and the Search for Authenticity in Philadelphia Fire and God's Gym . Skryť popis