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Explores the cultural political heritage to which the young artists' work is linked, its historical destruction and current recreation. Examines naming practices in several West African and Caribbean communities and juxtaposes these with contemporary New York City. Finds a desire to break with the slave names and colonised past. Writers' names now signify a break with their parents' generation and the adoption of self-naming to bond with other writers and create one's own identity.

Testimonials based on taped interviews with aerosol artists whose art springs from an attitude of constant rebellion against the dominant mass marketed culture.

Eno Washington is an American dancer who has harnessed the cultural resources of his community of birth to develop his art on an international scale. His book, Memoirs of a Mississippi shaman is his autobiography, in which he pursues the quest of African Americans to reconstruct their African past and for civil rights in American society. Discusses his work and presents some extracts.

The underrepresentation of Black men in professional psychology represents a critical issue, but this topic has received relatively limited coverage in the extant literature. Given the complex challenges facing many Black communities, we contend that increasing the number of African American male professional psychologists represents one component of the multi-pronged plan to tackle these problems. However, there is a dearth of scholarship that explicitly highlights the potential contributions Black men can make to professional psychology, particularly those with an African/Black psychology lens. We address this gap by exploring the impact of increasing the number of Black male professional psychologists. We detail the contributions Black male psychologists can make in clinical, academic, and research settings, with a particular focus on how their work can affect outcomes for Black boys and men in these three settings. Embedded in our analysis, we highlight the need to incorporate an African/Black psychology lens to address the needs of Black communities. We also examine how the increased presence of Black male professional psychologists can potentially influence other Black men to consider and enter the field. This information will be of particular interest to educators, researchers, and practitioners invested in enhancing the professional psychology pipeline for Black men.