Terror and triumph: the nature of Black religion

"Look, a Negro!" : how the new world African became an object of history

Constructing terror. "How much for a young buck?" : slave auction and identity

Rope neckties : lynching and identity

Waging war. Houses of prayer in a hostile land : responses of Black religion to terror

Covert practices : further responses of Black religion to terror

"I'll make me a world" : Black religion as historical context

Seeking triumph. Crawling backward : toward a theory of Black religion's center

Finding the center : methodological issues considered.