Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL: 1989 THROUGH 2001
6. 1 Whose Town? Questioning Community and Identity 81
7. 2 Places I’ve Lived 85
8. 3 Engaging and Escaping in 1994 88
9. 4 To Hell and Back: On the Road with Black Feminism in the ’60s and ’70s 95
10. 5 Censorship and Self-Censorship 111
11. 6 An Interview 114
12. PART II. MASS CULTURE AND POPULAR JOURNALISM
13. 7 Watching Arsenio 127
14. 8 Black Stereotypes in Hollywood Films: ‘‘I Don’t Know Nothin’ ’Bout Birthin’ No Babies!’’ 130
15. 9 When Black Feminism Faces the Music, and the Music Is Rap 134
16. 10 Storytellers: The Thomas–Hill Affair 138
17. 11 Talking about the Gulf 141
18. 12 Beyond Assimilation 144
19. 13 ‘‘Why Women Won’t Relate to ‘Justice’ ’’: Losing Her Voice 147
20. 14 For Whom the Bell Tolls: Why Americans Can’t Deal with Black Feminist Intellectuals 149
21. 15 Miracle in East New York 161
22. PART III. NEW YORK POSTMODERNISM AND BLACK CULTURAL STUDIES
23. 16 The Politics of Location: Cinema/Theory/Literature/ Ethnicity/Sexuality/Me 167
24. 17 Black Feminist Criticism: A Politics of Location and Beloved 179
25. 18 Why Are There No Great Black Artists? The Problem of Visuality in African American Culture 184
26. 19 High Mass 195
27. 20 Symposium on Political Correctness 197
28. 21 The Culture War within the Culture Wars 202
29. 22 Boyz N the Hood and Jungle Fever 215
30. PART IV. MULTICULTURALISM IN THE ARTS
31. 23 Race, Gender, and Psychoanalysis in Forties Films 223
32. 24 Multicultural Blues: An Interview with Michele Wallace 238
33. 25 Multiculturalism and Oppositionality 249
34. 26 Black Women in Popular Culture: From Stereotype to Heroine 264
35. 27 The Search for the Good Enough Mammy: Multiculturalism, Popular Culture, and Psychoanalysis 275
36. PART V. HENRY LOUIS GATES AND AFRICAN AMERICAN POSTSTRUCTURALISM
37. 28 Henry Louis Gates: A Race Man and a Scholar 289
38. 29 If You Can’t Join ’Em, Beat ’Em: Stanley Crouch and Shaharazad Ali 297
39. 30 Let’s Get Serious: Marching with the Million 309
40. 31 Out of Step with the Million Man March 311
41. 32 Neither Fish nor Fowl: The Crisis of African American Gender Relations 314
42. 33 The Problem with Black Masculinity and Celebrity 318
43. 34 The Fame Game 324
44. 35 Skip Gates’s Africa 328
45. PART VI. QUEER THEORY AND VISUAL CULTURE
46. 36 Defacing History 339
47. 37 When Dream Girls Grow Old 353
48. 38 The French Collection 357
49. 39 Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Problem of the Visual in Afro-American Culture 364
50. 40 A Fierce Flame: Marlon Riggs 379
51. 41 ‘‘Harlem on My Mind’’ 382
52. 42 Questions on Feminism 386
53. 43 Feminism, Race, and the Division of Labor 390
54. 44 Doin’ the Right Thing: Ten Years after She’s Gotta Have It 401
55. 45 The Gap Alternative 410
56. 46 Art on My Mind 417
57. 47 Pictures Can Lie 422
58. 48 The Hottentot Venus 426
59. 49 Angels in America, Paris Is Burning, and Queer Theory 430
60. 50 Toshi Reagon’s Birthday 454
61. 51 Cheryl Dunye: Sexin’ the Watermelon 457
62. 52 The Prison House of Culture: Why African Art? Why the Guggenheim? Why Now? 460
63. 53 Black Female Spectatorship 474
64. 54 Bamboozled: The Archive 486
65. Index 495