"This comprehensive but incisive collection is both born of this moment and the culmination of the decades-long project of African American studies: a collective, intellectual endeavor forged in the world and beyond it. The volume is an index of the power of Black thought, for the now and for the next." - Mark Anthony Neal, James B. Duke Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University "Keywords is an exciting contribution to the discipline, providing the genealogy of fifty words as living testaments to the past and present, and potential future directions for these words and phrases, now ubiquitous in the academy, the blogosphere, and quotidian conversations." (Journal of African American History)