This interdisciplinary and creative study examines how African American culture is presented in American films and other media, and is a provocative re-reading of the historiography of black culture. The author examines and interprets a number of cultural texts deriving memory as interpreted by Freud and by Franz Fanon, mixed with Black Liberation Theology and Islamic mysticism.

Contents:
1. The Ambivalence of Identity Politics
2. Liberating Theologies: Ibn-Arabi's Bezels and James Cone's Christ
3. Flesh and Facts: Towards a Critical Psychoanalysis
4. Freeing Films: Reading Sankofa, Malcolm X and Panther
5. The Power to Trans(per)form