The Farrakhan factor : African-American writers on leadership, nationhood, and minister Louis Farrakhan

Introduction. Our brother, the other : Farrakhan and a vigil for new black leadership / Amy Alexander -- The charmer / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Minister Louis Farrakhan and the continuing evolution of the Nation of Islam / Ernest Allen, Jr. -- Who's afraid of Louis Farrakhan : the media and race relations coverage / Erna Smith -- Minister Louis Farrakhan's economic rhetoric and reality / Julianne Malveaux -- Louis Farrakhan, ethnitopia, and the politics of race translation / Michael Eric Dyson -- Inside out : a contemporary American herstory / Fahizah Alim -- The misunderstood alliance : Louis Farrakhan and the world community of Muslims / Aminah B. McCloud -- Farrakhan, the hip-hop generation, and thefailure of black American leadership / Ron Nixon -- The Nation of Islam and me / Salim Muwakkil -- Farrakhan fever : defining the divide between blacks and Jews / Derrick Bell -- A ham, a violin, and ohhhh those psychic blues / Itabari Njeri -- Of Malcolm, Farrakhan, and the politics of rage / Leonard Pitts,Jr