Introduction: "You can't always do things the same way" / Ruth Fine and Jacqueline Francis
Ralph Ellison's Romare Bearden / Darby English
Heroic moments of modernity: Romare Bearden, Carlos Enriquez, and the Poetic Lament / Rocio Aranda-Alvarado
Cold War diplomacy and the Civil Rights activism at the First World Festival of Negro Arts / Jody Blake
"We used to say stashed": Romare Bearden paints the blues / Robert G. O'Meally
Bearden, theater, film, dance / Richard A. Long
Bearden in The Crisis: illustrating identity and political action / Amy Helene Kirschke
Bearden's hands / Jacqueline Francis
Deep waters: rebirth, transcendence, and abstraction in Romare Bearden's Passion of Christ / Kymberly N. Pinder
Romare Bearden, an indelible imprint / David C. Driskell
Nurtured and necessary: mothers of invention / Ruth Fine
The woodshed / Richard J. Powell
Romare Bearden: on view / Bridget R. Cooks
Cultural legacies and the transformation of the Cubist Collage Aesthetic by Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, and other African-American artists / Patricia Hills
The Negro artist's dilemma: Bearden, Picasso, and pop art / Pepe Karmel.
