CONTENTS // 1. Liberation Scenes: Speak ibis Yearning...1 // 2. The Politics of Radical Black Subjectivity...15 // 3. Postmodern Blackness...23 // 4. The Chitlin Circuit: On Black Community... 33 ? // 5- Homeplace: A Site of Resistance...41 // 6. Critical Interrogation: Talking Race, Resisting Racism...51 // 7. Reflections on Race and Sex...57 // 8. Representations: Feminism and Black Masculinity...65 // 9- Sitting at the Feet of the Messenger: Remembering Malcom X 79 // 10. Third World Diva Girls: Politics of Feminist Solidarity...89 // 11. An Aesthetic of Blackness: Strange and Oppositional... 103 // 12. Aesthetic Inheritances: History Worked by Hand...115 // 13. Culture to Culture: Ethnography and Cultural Studies as // Critical Intervention...123 // 14. Saving Black Folk Culture: Zora Neale Hurston as // Anthropologist and Writer...135 // 15. Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness...145 // 16. Stylish Nihilism: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies... 155 // 17. Representing Whiteness: Seeing Wings of Desire...165 // 18. Counter-Hegemonic Art: Do the Right Thing... 173’ // 19- A Call For Militant Resistance...185 // 20. Seductive Sexualities: Representing Blackness in // Poetry and on Screen...193 // 21. Black Women and Men: Partnership in the 1990s...203 // 22. An Interview with bell hooks by Gloria Watkins: // No, Not Talking Back, January 1989...215 // 23. A Final Yearning: January 1990 ...225 // Bibliography...231