We have become accustomed to national conversations about a "post-civil rights generation." We have heard the speeches of politicians about the solemn duty of a Joshua generation to fulfil the legacy of a Moses generation that led the struggle for civil rights.' We have read intellectuals carefully discussing the shifting of the racial architecture in a post-civil rights era. We have witnessed attempts to refresh the term for a popular audience in discussions of a hip hop generation, soul babies, and the "children of Harold Cruse" who came of age in the late 1970s and early 1980s.' Rather less has been documented about a transitional cohort of global African Americans who came of age in the late 1960s and early 1970s, particularly the humanistic and translocal outlook of women and men who do not entirely subscribe to the U.S.-centrism and xenophobia of Cruse's 1967 account of The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: This chapter puts down some preliminary markers about a transitional generation of global African Americans by chronicling the journey of intellectual discovery taken by one talented member of this cohort. It not only argues that the cultural critic Armond White, born in Detroit in 1953, identified his mission as one that would honour the civil rights, anti- colonial, and Pan-African campaigns of his elders. It also contends that he has sought to make the struggles of his elders resonate with subsequent generations by scolding a younger generation that he associates with the shrinking of popular culture into less pleasurable, less skilled, and less humane dimensions.