Table of Contents
Preface: Bearing Witness.
Part I: Foundations.
Overview.
1. Their Fiction Becomes Our Reality: Black Women Image Makers. (Mary Helen Washington).
2. Toward a Black Feminist Criticism. (Barbara Smith).
3. New Directions for Black Feminist Criticism. (Deborah E. McDowell).
4. But What Do We Think We Are Doing Anyway: The State of Black Feminist Criticism(s) or My Version of a Little Bit of History. (Barbara Christian).
Supplementary Readings.
Media Resources.
Part II: The Moving Image.
Overview.
5. Some Reflections on the Negro Actress: The Tattered Queens. (Ruby Dee).
6. Daughters of the Dust. (Jacqueline Bobo).
7. Below the Line: (Re)Calibrating the Filmic Gaze. (C. A. Griffith).
8. In My Mother's House: Black Feminist Aesthetics, Television, and A Raisin in the Sun. (Sheri Parks).
Supplementary Readings.
Media Resources.
Part III: Art.
Overview.
9. African-American Women Artists: An Historical Perspective. (Arna Alexander Bontemps and Jacqueline Fonvielle-Bontemps).
10. In Search of a Discourse and Critique/s That Center the Art of Black Women Artists. (Freida High W. Tesfagiorgis).
11. In Their Own Image. (Kellie Jones).
12. The Freedom to Say What She Pleases: A Coversation with Faith Ringgold. (Melody Graulich and Mara Witzling).
Supplementary Readings.
Media Resources.
Part IV: Music and Spoken Word.
Overview.
13. Black Women and Music: A Historical Legacy of Struggle. (Angela Y. Davis).
14. Never Trust a Big Butt and a Smile. (Tricia Rose).
15. Divas Declare a Spoken-Word Revolution. (Evelyn McDonnell).
16. '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).
Supplementary Readings.
Media Resources.
Part V: Material Culture.
Overview.
17. The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power. (Audre Lorde).
18. African American Quilts: Paradigms of Black Diversity. (Cuesta Benberry).
19. Harriet Powers: Portrait of An African-American Quilter. (Gladys-Marie Fry).
20. Empathy, Energy, and Eating: Politics and Power in The Black Family Dinner Quilt Cookbook. (Sally Bishop Shigley).
Supplementary Reading.
Media Resources.
Contributors.
Media Resources Directory of Distributors.
Bibliography.
Index.
