Race and the foundations of knowledge : cultural amnesia in the academy Introduction: cultural amnesia and the academy: why the problem of the twenty first century is still the problem of the color line Joseph Young and Jana Evans Braziel Putting materialism back into race theory: toward a transformative theory of race Robert Young Commonsense racial formation: Wahneema Lubiano Antonio Gramsci and the importance of the nonpropositional Alexis Shotwell Supreme rhetoric: the Supreme Court veiled majoritarianism and the enforcement of the racial contract Matthew Abraham Legal lines: defining racism in a flexibility matrix Tony Zaragoza A reversal of the racialization of history in Hegels master slave dialectic (Douglasss Heroic slave and Melvilles Benito Cereno ) Joseph Young Dark faced Europeans : the nineteenth century colonial travelogue and the invention of the Hima Race Gatsinzi Basaninyenzi Toward a political economy of racism and colonialism: a rereading of Frantz Fanons Wretched of the Earth Azfar Hussain Afrocentricity and the Eurocentric hegemony of knowledge: contradictions of place Molefi Kete Asante New frameworks in Philippine postcolonial historiography: decolonizing a discipline S. Lily Mendoza Between unconsciously white and mythically black: European race discourse as modern witchcraft practice James W. Perkinson Blacks who had not themselves personally suffered illegal discrimination : the symbolic incorporation of the Black middle class Derrick E. White Modernity persons and subpersons Charles W. Mills