Introduction Women, Migration and the Formation of a Blues Culture 1. The Sexual Politics of Women's Blues 2. Policing the Black Woman's Body in an Urban Context 3. Black Women's Blues, Motown and Rock and Roll 4. They Put a Spell on You Black Feminist Interventions 5. White Woman Listen! Black Feminism and the Boundaries of Sisterhood 6. Race and the Academy: Feminism and the Politics of Difference 7. National Nightmares: The Liberal Bourgeoisie and Racial Anxiety 8.

America Inc. - The Crisis at Yale: A Tale of Two Women Fictions of the Folk 9. Reinventing History/Imagining the Future 10. Proletarian or Revolutionary Literature? C.L.R. James and the Politics of the Trinidadian Renaissance 11. Ideologies of Black Folk: The Historical Novel of Slavery 12.

On Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee 13. The Politics of Fiction, Anthropology and the Folk: Zora Neale Hurston Dispatches from the Multicultural Wars 14. Schooling in Babylon 15. Multiculture 16. The Racism behind the Rioting 17. The Blackness of Theory 18. The Canon: Civil War and Reconstruction 19. The Multicultural Wars, Part One 20.

The Multicultural Wars, Part Two 21. Imagining Black Men: The Politics of Cultural Identity Acknowledgments Index.