Fathers: how shall I see you through my tears? -- The university in black, white, and ambivalence: the hidden curriculum -- Islands are not isolated: schools, scholars, and the political economy of Gullah/Geechee ethnicity -- A complexion or a culture? : debate as identity among African-descended Indians and Louisiana Creoles of color -- Islands of the mind: the mythical anthropology of the Caribbean -- Heaven and hell: American Africans and the image of home -- Conclusion: "through a glass, darkly".