Introduction / Brian D. Behnken, Gregory D. Smithers, Simon Wendt -- "All the Science and Learning" : Black Intellectual History in the United States / Gregory D. Smithers -- Black Marxism / Minkah Makalani -- The Quest for Racial Change : African American Intellectuals and the Black Liberal Tradition / Brian D. Behnken -- Black Conservative Thought in the Post-Civil Rights Era / Danielle L. Wiggins -- Steps In and Places Outside : The Reception of Black Feminist Intellectuals and Black Feminist Theory in Modern America / Benita Roth -- Intellectual Predicaments : Black Nationalism in the Civil Rights and Post-Civil Rights Eras / Simon Wendt -- Afrocentric Intellectuals and the Burden of History / Tunde Adeleke