Introduction: Negative/positive images
Part I. Black feminism/autobiography
1. Memories of a 60s girlhood: The Harlem I love
2. Anger in isolation: A black feminist's search for sisterhood
5. A women's prison and the movement
6. The Dah principle: to be continued
7. Homelessness is where the heart is
8. Blues for Mr. Spielberg
9. Michael Jackson, black modernisms, and "The ecstasy of communication"
11. Spike Lee and black women
12. Doing the right thing
13. Entertainment tomorrow
14. Mississippi burning and Bird
Part III. culture/history
15. For colored girls, the rainbow is not enough
17. Ishmael Reed's female troubles
18. Wilma Mankiller: Profile
20. Who owns Zora Neale Hurston? Critics carve up the legend
21. Reading 1968: the Great American Whitewash
22. Tim Rollins and KOS: The Amerika series
23. Variations on negation and the heresy of black feminist creativity
24. Negative images: Towards a black feminist cultural criticism.