November/December 2001

CONTENTS

COVER STORY (Cover photograph: Marc Taus for the Crisis)
— "BLACK PATRIOTISM is far more complex than flying Old Glory and singing "God Bless America" — or going to war, for that matter."
* Patriotism and the complicated history of African Americans in the U.S.
By Marcia Davis

FEATURES
— Friends & Neighbors
Black and Arab relations in Detroit in the wake of Sept. 11
By Trevor W. Coleman

— American Journey
An excerpt from Vernon Jordan's memoir, Vernon Can Read!
By Vernon Jordan Jr. and Annette Gordon-Reed

ISSUES & VIEWS
— Bigotry Goes to Market
Blacks are no longer the sole targets of consumer racial profiling
By Jerome D. Williams, Geraldine R. Henderson and Anne-Marie Harris

— Racism Takes World Stage
The U.N. gathering in Durban, South Africa, had mixed results
By Clarence Lusane

DEPARTMENTS
- Editor's Note

- Letters

- Up Front: Muslims in the US military; Rush of blood donations reveals new HIV-positive cases; Politically correct geography; the University of Alabama's segregated Greek system; and former Gov. Douglas Wilder plans new slave museum in Virginia. Questions: Laura Murphy, director of the ACLU's national office in Washington, D.C., on threats to our civil liberties.
- The Color Line: Ervin Dyer finds the terrorist attacks left some lives unchanged

- Census: Roderick J. Harrison reports on growth in minority businesses

- Crisis Forum
* Art: The history of African American quiltmaking
* Holidays: Celebrating 35 years of Kwanzaa
* Music: The classic composition of Florence Price; Harry Belafonte's anthology of Black music
* Books:
— Two books on Ralph Ellison's jazz writings
— If You Can't Be Free, Be a Mystery, Farah Jasmine Griffin's biography of Billie Holiday
— Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
— Richard Wright: A Biography by Hazel Rowley

- Backstory: Gail Kennard-Madyun on the legacy built by her architect father

- The NAACP Today
* The NAACP responds to Sept. 11 attacks
* Religious summit draws diverse group of faith leaders
* Branch News: Chattanooga, Tenn., San Diego
* Resolutions

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"BLACK PATRIOTISM
is far more complex than flying Old Glory and singing "God Bless America" — or going to war, for that matter."