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• ix • Introduction: Looking for the Invisible • (2000) • essay by Sheree R. Thomas
• 1 • Sister Lilith • (2000) • shortstory by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
• 5 • The Comet • (1920) • shortstory by W. E. B. Du Bois
• 19 • Chicago 1927 • (2000) • shortstory by Jewelle Gomez
• 35 • Black No More (excerpt) • (1931) • shortfiction by George S. Schuyler
• 51 • Separation Anxiety • (2000) • shortstory by Evie Shockley
• 69 • Tasting Songs • (2000) • shortstory by Leone Ross
• 86 • Can You Wear My Eyes • (2000) • shortstory by Kalamu ya Salaam
• 91 • Like Daughter • (2000) • shortstory by Tananarive Due
• 103 • Greedy Choke Puppy • (2000) • shortstory by Nalo Hopkinson
• 113 • Rhythm Travel • (1996) • shortfiction by Amiri Baraka
• 116 • Buddy Bolden • (1996) • shortstory by Kalamu ya Salaam
• 124 • Aye, and Gomorrah ... • (1967) • shortstory by Samuel R. Delany
• 134 • Ganger (Ball Lightning) • (2000) • shortstory by Nalo Hopkinson
• 152 • The Becoming • (2000) • shortstory by Akua Lezli Hope
• 158 • The Goophered Grapevine • (1887) • shortstory by Charles W. Chesnutt
• 171 • The Evening and the Morning and the Night • (1987) • novelette by Octavia E. Butler
• 195 • Afterword (The Evening and the Morning and the Night) • (1996) • essay by Octavia E. Butler
• 197 • Twice, at Once, Separated • (2000) • shortstory by Linda D. Addison [as byLinda Addison]
• 210 • Gimmile's Songs • [Dossouye] • (1984) • shortstory by Charles R. Saunders
• 226 • At the Huts of Ajala • (2000) • shortstory by Nisi Shawl
• 235 • The Woman in the Wall • (2000) • novelette by Steven Barnes
• 260 • Ark of Bones • (1974) • shortstory by Henry Dumas
• 273 • Butta's Backyard Barbecue • (2000) • shortfiction by Tony Medina
• 275 • Future Christmas (excerpt from The Terrible Twos) • shortfiction by Ishmael Reed
• 290 • At Life's Limits • (2000) • novelette by Kiini Ibura Salaam
• 312 • The African Origins of UFOs (excerpt) • (2000) • shortfiction by Anthony Joseph
• 319 • The Astral Visitor Delta Blues • (2000) • shortstory by Robert Feming
• 326 • The Space Traders • (1992) • novelette by Derrick Bell
• 356 • The Pretended • (2000) • shortstory by Darryl A. Smith
• 372 • Hussy Strutt • (2000) • shortstory by Ama Patterson
• 383 • Racism and Science Fiction • (1998) • essay by Samuel R. Delany
• 398 • Why Blacks Should Read (and Write) Science Fiction • (2000) • essay by Charles R. Saunders
• 405 • Black to the Future • (1999) • essay by Walter Mosley
• 408 • Yet Do I Wonder • (1994) • essay by Paul D. Miller
• 415 • The Monophobic Response • (1995) • essay by Octavia E. Butler