Table of Contents:
  • African-American antimodernism and the American sixties
  • Mourning song: Robert Hayden and the politics of memory
  • Modern doubt to antimodern commitment: Paule Marshall and William Demby
  • Meditations: John Coltrane and freedom
  • The prevalence of ritual in an age of change: Romare Bearden
  • W.E.B. Du Bois and dedication to the dead
  • What's going on : "the most truly modern of all people."