Roots of self-defeat -- Enmeshment and codependency : just one big dysfunctional family -- Psychological theories -- Don't I know you from everywhere? pseudomutuality -- Mechanisms and machinations of self-defeat -- Ghetto fables : Aesop ain't got nothing on us -- Why Big Momma's feets hurt so much -- Searching for Black identity : backward or forward -- The blue and the red : just hangin' 'round the 'hood -- Singing the blues -- It's all your fault : nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah -- Baa baa Black sheep : Black leaders and their windmills -- Is you the one? saving your own damned self -- Tickets to the new minstrel shows -- There but for the grace of God go I (and other lunacy) -- Coo! coo! pigeonholes are for the birds -- Apples and oranges : under the skin and over the hump -- Black advancers : conservatives, Uncle Toms, or harbingers -- Messages for those moving forward -- You can't dance your way out of your constrictions -- Denial is more than a river in Africa -- On becoming lactose-intolerant -- Dumping Pookie : he's heavy and he damned sure ain't my brother -- Give back to the Black community? Gimme a break! -- Abandoning the trenches : defeat and misery in the 'hood -- Snakebite : surviving the venom -- Hooray! the death of marginality -- Of soft pretzels, cherry water ice, and hoagies -- The other side of the mountain : Black identity beyond the struggle -- Embracing the new you -- Messages for those being left behind -- Why you're being dumped -- E-mail to a dying breed -- Letter to incarcerated Black men -- Endangered species : will we miss the call of the wild homies? -- The race card : no trump -- Who's in your way now? overcoming yourself -- Black still? Black selves versus emancipated selves.
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