Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-277).
Contents
Introduction: Race talk -- Killing rage: militant resistance -- Beyond Black rage: ending racism -- Representations of Whiteness in the Black imagination -- Refusing to be a victim: accountability and responsibility -- Challenging sexism in Black life -- The integrity of Black womanhood -- Feminism: it's a Black thing -- Revolutionary feminism: an anti-racist agenda -- Teaching resistance: the racial politics of mass media -- Black beauty and Black power: internalized racism -- Healing our wounds: liberatory mental health care -- Loving blackness as political resistance -- Black on Black pain: class cruelty -- Marketing Blackness: class and commodification -- Overcoming White Supremacy: a comment -- Beyond Black only: bonding beyond race -- Keeping a legacy of shared struggle -- Where is the love: political bonding between Black and White women -- Black intellectuals: choosing sides -- Black identity: liberating subjectivity -- Moving from pain to power: Black self-determination -- Beloved community: a world without racism.
Summary
With insight and passion, Bell Hooks challenges the way that the focus of masculine identity has emerged as the critics' favoured answer to the crisis of black politics.