Editorial: If You Want to be Free, Think About the Slave
Clyde Taylor

Minding the Messenger: A Symposium on Bamboozled
Stanley Crouch, Eric Lott, Margo Jefferson and Michele Wallace

Bamboozled: The Archive
Michele Wallace

Viva Le Chevalier, Viva La France
St. Clair Bourne

Myth Today: The Color of Ken Burns' Jazz
Ronald Radano

The Golden Griot: An Interview with Salif Keita
Quincy Troupe

The Cost of Collective Amnesia
John Pepper Clark

SPECIAL SECTION:
PROCEEDINGS FROM THE SLAVE ROUTES CONFERENCE 

Preliminary Remarks
Jayne Cortez

Breaking The Silence
Rex Nettleford

Time and Revolution in African America: Temporality and the History of Atlantic Slavery
Walter Johnson

The Slave Narrative, Black Publishing and Literature
Robert Chrisman

The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo
Tom Feelings (art from Tom Feelings)

The Slave Ship Saga
Emilio Cruz

La Guerre des Mulatres, 1860-1880
Djibril Tamsir Niane (Translation by Richard Philcox)

The Ideology of Racial Hierarchy and the Construction of the European Slave Trade
Molefi Kete Asante

In Defense of Reparations
Oruno D. Lara (Translation by Richard Philcox)

Black Man
Nancy Morejon

Statement from Melvin Edwards
Lynch Fragment Series from melvin Edwards

Promoting memory/ Promoviendo La Memoria
Gisela Arandia (Translation by Chris Winks)

Persona
Nancy Morejon

The Plight of Black Mauritanians
Bakary Tandia

Recovering the Past: Lest We Forget
Candace Rondeaux

Remembrances from the Civil War
Louise Meriwether

Run
Louise Meriwether

By the Gulf
Nancy Morejon

Rum
Jayne Cortez

Afterword
Barbara Lewis