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Baker --$tTraining and working in the field : "Before positionality" /$rWilliam L. Andrews --$t"White scholars in African American literary circles : appropriation or cultural literacy?" /$rVenetria K. Patton --$t"Knowing your 'stuff,' knowing yourself" /$rApril Conley Kilinski and Amanda M. Lawrence --$t"At close range : being Black and mentoring whites in African American studies" /$rBarbara McCaskill --$tBeyond Black and white : "Faulty analogies-queer white critics reading African American texts" /$rSabine Meyer --$t"The colour of the critic : an intervention in the critical debate in African American theory on interpretive authority" / Nita N. Kumar -- "Between Rome, Harlem, and Harlan" / Alessandro Portelli -- "The stepsister and the clan : when the native teaches African American literature" / Ngwarsungu Chiwengo -- "Twelve years with Martin Delany : a confession" / Robert S. Levine -- "Master thoughts" / Dale M. Bauer -- "Writing about Gwendolyn Brooks anyway" / James D. Sullivan -- "Truth and talent in interpreting ethnic American autobiography : from white to Black and beyond" / Kimberly Rae Connor. 330 $aWhat makes someone an authority? What makes one person's knowledge more credible than another's? In the ongoing debates over racial authenticity, some attest that we can know each other's experiences simply because we are all "human," while others assume a more skeptical stance, insisting that racial differences create unbridgeable gaps in knowledge. Bringing new perspectives to these perennial debates, the essays in this collection explore the many difficulties created by the fact that white scholars greatly outnumber black scholars in the study and teaching of African American literature. Contributors, including some of the most prominent theorists in the field as well as younger scholars, examine who is speaking, what is being spoken and what is not, and why framing African American literature in terms of an exclusive black/white racial divide is problematic and limiting. In highlighting the "whiteness" of some African Americanists, the collection does not imply that the teaching or understanding of black literature by white scholars is definitively impossible. Indeed such work is not only possible, but imperative. 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