List of Authors X // Preface: Bearing Witness - Jacqueline Bobo xiv // Acknowledgments xxiii // Part I Foundations 1 // Overview 3 // 1 Toward a Black Feminist Criticism - Barbara Smith 7 // 2 New Directions for Black Feminist Criticism - Deborah E. McDowell 24 // 3 But What Do We Think We’re Doing Anyway: The State of Black Feminist Criticism(s) or My Version of a Little Bit of History - Barbara Christian 38 // Supplementary Readings and Media Resources 53 // Part II The Moving Image 55 // Overview 56 // 4 Some Reflections on the Negro Actress: The Tattered Queens - Ruby Dee 59 // 5 Daughters of the Dust - Jacqueline Bobo 63 // 6 Below the Line: (Re)Calibrating the Filmic Gaze - C. A. Griffith 85 // 7 In My Mother’s House: Black Feminist Aesthetics, Television, and A Raisin in the Sun - Sheri Parks 106 // Supplementary Readings and Media Resources 123 // Part III Art 125 // Overview 126 // 8 African-American Women Artists: An Historical Perspective -/ Arna Alexander Bontemps and Jacqueline Fonvielle-Bontemps 129 // 9 In Search of a Discourse and Critique/s that Center the Art of Black Women Artists - Freida High W. Tesfagiorgis 146 // 10 In Their Own Image - Kellie Jones 173 // 11 The Freedom to Say what She Pleases: A Conversation with Faith Ringgold - Melody Graulich and Mara Witzling 184 // Supplementary Readings and Media Resources 210 // Part IV Music and Spoken Word 213 // Overview 214 // 12 Black Women and Music: A Historical Legacy of Struggle - Angela T. Davis 217 // 13 Never Trust a Big Butt and a Smile - Tricia Rose 233 // 14 Divas Declare a Spoken-Word Revolution - Evelyn McDonnell 255 // 15 “A Laying on of Hands”: Transcending the City in Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf - Carolyn Mitchell 262 // Supplementary Readings and Media Resources 280 //
Part V Material Culture 281 // Overview 282 // 16 The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power - Andre Lorde 285 // 17 African American Quilts: Paradigms of Black Diversity - Questa Benberry 291 // 18 Harriet Powers: Portrait of an African-American Quilter - Gladys-Marie Fry 300 // 19 Empathy, Energy, and Eating: Politics and Power in The Black Family Dinner Quilt Cookbook - Sally Bishop Shigley 311 // Supplementary Readings and Media Resources 323 // Media Resources Directory of Distributors 324 // Bibliography 325 // Index 328