Black folk here and there: an essay in history and anthropology

v. 1. 1. White racism and the black experience

Color prejudices then and now

Varieties of racism

White racism and pseudoscience

The changing functions of racism and color prejudice

Black perspectives on racism

2. Theories of color prejudice: a critical review

American "sociological optimism"

The modern manichaeans: new wine in old bottles

Critical domains in trans-racial evaluations

The need for comparative research

3. Nile Valley blacks in antiquity

Ambivalent exiles

Negro origins and African prehistory

Perspectives for viewing Egyptian history

Egypt before the pharaohs

The black presence in early dynasties

Old Kingdom dynasties

The Middle Kingdom's black dynasty

Egypt's "great humiliation"

The Eighteenth Dynasty

The Ramesside age and the decline of the empire

The rise and fall of the Ethiopian dynasty

The Hellenzing process in Egypt

Color coding in Egypt before Hellenization

The changing images of Ethiopia and Ethiopians

Hellenization, Christianization, and the black self-image.

v. 2. 4. Blackness in the Christian synthesis of Judaic and Greco-Roman traditions

Blackness and the Old Testament legacy

Blackness in Jewish folklore and the Talmuds

The classical Greek component in the Christian synthesis

Color evaluation and early Christianity

5. The black experience in the Muslim world

The birth of Islam

Black people in the Muslim world

Islam and state-building in Sub-Saharan Africa

Stereotypes of black people in Islam

6. The black experience in medieval European Christendom

Blackness in western Europe: pre-medieval and medieval

Blackness and black people in the Christian church

7. The evolution of racial slavery

The sugar industry and the shift to racial slavery

Skin color and Portuguese ethos

Castilian pride and prejudice

Miscegenation and acculturation in the British Isles.