title: Introduction
abstract: Perhaps the most frustrating thing about the inexorable cross-influences and echoing that gives the black diaspora its restless logic is the fact that meanings accrue to a sound or a symbol or a person completely independently of the original intention-this is the problem of all communication.Louis Chude-Sokei, Dr Satan's Echo ChamberThere is much to be admired in those who have struggled under the inspiration of Marxism.And no recitation of their courage and sacrifice would be adequate or suffi