Foreword / Anne Pasternak 10 Acknowledgments 12 Revolutionary Hope: Landmark Writings, 1965-85 / Catherine Morris and Rujeko Hockley 16 Spiral, the Black Arts Movement, and "Where We At" Black Women Artists / Connie H. Choi 26 1. Why Spiral? (1966) / Jeanne Siegel 33 2. Any Day Now: Black Art and Black Liberation (1969) / Larry Neal 39 3. Africobra: African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists, 10 in Search of a Nation (1970) / Jeff Donaldson 52 4. "Where We At" Black Women Artists (1972) / Kay Brown 62 Race and Women''s Liberation / Rujeko Hockley 66 5. An Argument for Black Women''s Liberation as Revolutionary Force (1969) / Mary Ann Weathers 70 6. What the Black Woman Thinks About Women''s Lib (1971) / Toni Morrison 75 7.

In Search of Our Mother''s Gardens: The Creativity of Black Women in the South (1974) / Alice Walker 84 8. Black Feminism: A New Mandate (1974) / Margaret Sloan 94 9. A Litany for Survival (1978) / Audre Lorde 99 Faith Ringgold''s Radical Activism / Catherine Morris 100 10. For the Women''s House: Interview with Faith Ringgold (1972) / Michele Wallace 104 Collective Artist Actions in New York / Carmen Hermo 114 11. The Demands of Art Workers Coalition (1969) / Art Workers'' Coalition 120 12. To the Viewing Public for the 1970 Whitney Annual Exhibition (undated) / Women Artists in Revolution, Women''s Ad Hoc Committee, and Women Students and Artists for Black Art Liberation 122 13, Letter of withdrawal from Contemporary Black Artists in America , Whitney Museum of American Art, 1971 (1971) / John Dowell, Sam Gilliam, Daniel Johnson, Joe Overstreet, Melvin Edwards, Richard Hunt and William T. Williams 124 14. Letter in defense of the Judson Three (1971) / Flo Kennedy, Gerald Lefcourt, and Robert Pojanksy 126 15.

Letter of support of the Judson Threet (1971) / The Committee to Defend the Judson Three 128 16. Color Scheming (1981) / Lucy R. Lippard 130 Just Above the Midtown Gallery / Rujeko Hockley 134 17. Letter to her parents (1967) / Linda Goode Bryant 139 18. Cover artwork (undated) for Black Currant 1, no. 1 (May 1982) / Janet Henry 144 19. B Culture 1, no. 1 (1986) / Greg Tate and Craig Dennis Street 146 20.

Interview with Linda Goode Bryant (1994) / Tony Whitfield 148 Senga Nengudi''s Freeway Fets / Rujeko Hockley 166 21. Announcement card for Freeway Fets (1978) / Senga Nengudi 170 The Combahee River Collective / Rujeko Hockley 172 22. A Black Feminist Statement (1977) / The Combahee River Collective 176 Struggling for Diversity in Heresies / Catherine Morris 184 23. Letters between Combahee River Collective and Heresies Lesbian Issue Collective n "Women''s Traditional Arts--The Politics of Aesthetics," Heresies , issue 4 (1978) 188 24. Third World Women Speak (1978) / Lowery Stokes Sims 190 25. Editorial Statement in "Third World Women--The Politics of Being Other," Heresies , issue 8 (1979) / Lula Mae Blocton, Yvonne Flowers, Valerie Harris, Zarina Hashmi, Virginia Jaramillo, Dawn Russell, and Naeemah Shabazz 194 26. Mlle Bourgeoise Noire Goes to the New Museum, in "The Women''s Pages," Heresies , issue 14 (1982) / Lorraine O''Grady 197 27. Editorial Statement and Heresies Collective Statement in "Racism Is the Issue," Heresies , issue 15 (1982) / Vivian E.

Browne, Cynthia Carr, Michele Godwin, Hattie Gossett, Carole Gregory, Sue Heinemann, Lucy R. Lippard, May Stevens, Cecilia Vicuña, and Sylvia Witts Vitale 198 28. Some Do''s and Don''ts for Black Women Artists in "Racism Is the Issue," Heresies , issue 15 (1982) / Emma Amos 205 29. Untitled, in "Racism Is the Issue," Heresies , issue 15 (1982) / Lorna Simpson 206 30. Black Dreams in "Racism Is the Issue," Heresies , issue 15 (1982) / Lorraine O''Grady 208 Ana Mendieta''s Dialectics of Isolation / Stephanie Weissberg 210 31. Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists of the United States , excerpts (1980) Introduction / Ana Mendiata 214 Artist''s Statement / Beverly Buchanan 216 Artist''s Statement / Janet Henry 218 Artist''s Statement / Senga Nengudi 220 Artist''s Statment / Howardena Pindell 222 32. On Making a Video-- Free, White and 21 (1992) / Howardena Pindell 224 Gender Politics at the Intersection of Race, Class, and Sexual Identity / Carmen Hermo 230 33. Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers (1981) / Gloria Anzaldúa 234 34.

Revolutionary Hope: A Conversation Between James Baldwin and Audre Lorde (1984) / James Baldwin and Audre Lorde 242 The Eighties / Rujeko Hockley 252 35. Art (World) & Racism: Testimony, Documentation and Statistics (1987) / Howardena Pindell 257 36. Confession--Filming Family: An Interview with Artist and Filmmaker Camille Billips (1996) / bell hooks 292 37. Photo spread of Rodeo Caldonia (1987) 300 38. She Came with the Rodeo (1994) / Lisa Jones 302 Sources 314 Copyright Credits 316 Artists in the Exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85 317 Brooklyn Museum Board of Trustees 318.