I. Black aesthetics as theory, art, and ideology. The development of African American dramatic theory : W.E.B DuBois to August Wilson-- hand to hand! / Mikell Pinkney -- Rita Dove's Mother love : revising the Black aesthetic : through the lens of western discourse / Tracey L. Walters -- The Ifa paradigm : reading the spirit in Tina McElroy Ansa's Baby of the family / Georgene Bess Montgomery -- Just 'cause (or just cause) : on August Wilson's case for a Black theater ? John Valery White -- II. Black aesthetics and interdisciplinary Black arts. "Keeping it real" : August Wilson and hip hop / Harry J. Flam, Jr. -- Giving voice and vent to African American culture : Katherine Dunham's struggle for culture ownership in Mambo (1954) / Dorothea Fischer-Hornung -- The Mumia Project : theater activism at Howard University / Sybil J. Roberts -- III. August Wilson's plays and Black aesthetics. Phantom limbs dancing Juba rites in August Wilson's Joe Turner's Com and Gone and The Piano Lesson / Reggie Young -- Speaking of voice and August Wilson's women / Tara T. Green -- Using Black rage to elucidate African and African American identity in August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1911) / C. Patrick Tyndall -- IV. Current, unpublished interviews that speak to aesthetic issues raised in "The ground on which I stand." The ground on which he stands : Charles S. Dutton on August Wilson / Yolanda Williams Page -- A conversation with August Wilson / Sandra G. Shannon and Dana A. Williams -- A liberating prayer : a lovingsong for Mumia / Sybil J. Roberts August Wilson and Black aesthetics / Sandra G. Shannon.
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