TY - BOOK AU - Dickerson,Debra J. TI - The end of blackness: returning the souls of black folk to their rightful owners SN - 0375713190 AV - 002 E 185.625 D549e 2005 U1 - 305.896 PY - 2005///, c2004 CY - New York PB - Anchor Books KW - African Americans KW - Race identity KW - Social conditions KW - 1975- KW - Self-reliance KW - United States KW - Psychology KW - Race awareness KW - Race relations N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-290) and index; Prologue: blackness before the dawn -- Taking the words out of black mouths: narcissism, know-nothingness, and white intransigence -- Kente cloth politics: the white man's ice, know-nothingness, and black futility -- Gone native: the Uncle Tom imperative ER -