List of Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

Editors' Introduction

I Literary Theory

The Race for Theory

Barbara Christian

Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature

Toni Morrison

Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book

Hortense J. Spillers

A Black Man's Place in Black Feminist Criticism

Michael Awkward

Beyond Miranda's Meanings: Un/silencing the ``Demonic Ground'' of Caliban's ``Woman''

Sylvia Wynter

II Social and Political Theory

Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory

bell hooks

Women and Capitalism: Dialectics of Oppression and Liberation

Angela Y. Davis

The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought

Patricia Hill Collins

Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics

Kimberle Crenshaw

Radicalizing Feminism

Joy James

Appendix: Key Feminist Statements

Combahee River Collective, A Black Feminist Statement (1977)

African American Women in Defense of Ourselves (1991)

Open Letter from Assata Shakur (1998)

Bibliography

Index