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Tables of Contents for Home Girls
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to the Rutgers University Press Edition
xiii
Acknowledgments
xix
Introduction
xxi
Poem
lix
Akasha (Gloria) Hull
The Blood --- Yes, The Blood
For a Godchild, Regina, On the Occasion of Her First Love
3
3
Toi Derricotte
The Damned
6
2
Toi Derricotte
Hester's Song
8
2
Toi Derricotte
The Sisters
10
3
Alexis De Veaux
Debra
13
2
Michelle T. Clinton
If I Could Write This in Fire, I Would Write This in Fire
15
16
Michelle Cliff
The Blood---Yes, The Blood: A Conversation
31
21
Cenen
Barbara Smith
Something Latino Was Up With Us
52
5
Spring Redd
``I Used to Think''
57
3
Chirlane McCray
The Black Back-Ups
60
4
Kate Rushin
Home
64
9
Barbara Smith
Artists Without Art Form
``Under The Days'': The Buried Life and Poetry of Angelina Weld Grimke
73
10
Akasha (Gloria) Hull
The Black Lesbian in American Literature: An Overview
83
11
Ann Allen Shockley
Artists Without Art Form
94
12
Renita Weems
I've Been Thinking of Diana Sands
106
4
Patricia Jones
A Cultural Legacy Denied and Discovered: Black Lesbians in Fiction by Women
110
14
Jewelle L. Gomez
What It Is I Think She's Doing Anyhow: A Reading of Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters
124
21
Akasha (Gloria) Hull
Black Lesbians---Who Will Fight For Our Lives But Us?
Tar Beach
145
14
Audre Lorde
Before I Dress and Soar Again
159
2
Donna Allegra
LeRoy's Birthday
161
3
Raymina Y. Mays
The Wedding
164
6
Beverly Smith
Maria de las Rosas
170
2
Becky Birtha
Miss Esther's Land
172
18
Barbara A. Banks
The Failure to Transform: Homophobia in the Black Community
190
12
Cheryl Clarke
Where Will You Be?
202
5
Pat Parker
A Home Girls' Album
Selected Photographs
207
6
A Hell of a Place to Ferment a Revolution
Among the Things That Use to Be
213
2
Willie M. Coleman
From Sea to Shining Sea
215
7
June Jordan
Women of Summer
222
25
Cheryl Clarke
The Tired Poem: Last Letter from a Typical Unemployed Black Professional Woman
247
5
Kate Rushin
Shoes Are Made for Walking
252
10
Shirley O. Steele
Billy de Lye
262
2
Deidre McCalla
The Combahee River Collective Statement
264
11
Combahee River Collective
Black Macho and Black Feminism
275
10
Linda C. Powell
Black Lesbian/Feminist Organizing: A Conversation
285
27
Tania Abdulahad
Gwendolyn Rogers
Barbara Smith
Jameelah Waheed
For Strong Women
312
3
Michelle T. Clinton
The Black Goddess
315
3
Kate Rushin
Women's Spirituality: A Household Act
318
21
Luisah Teish
Only Justice Can Stop a Curse
339
4
Alice Walker
Coalition Politics: Turning the Century
343
14
Bernice Johnson Reagon
Contributors' Biographies
357