Yearning

Preface to the New Edition 1. Liberation Scenes: Speak this Yearning 2. The Politics of Radical Black Subjectivity 3. Postmodern Blackness 4. The Chitlin Circuit: On Black Community 5. Homeplace: A Site of Resistance 6. Critical Interrogation: Talking Race, Resisting Racism 7. Reflections on Race and Sex 8. Representations: Feminism and Black Masculinity 9. Sitting at the Feet of the Messenger: Remembering Malcolm X 10. Third World Diva Girls: Politics of Feminist Solidarity 11. An Aesthetic of Blackness: Strange and Oppositional 12. Aesthetic Inheritances: History Worked by Hand 13. Culture to Culture: Ethnography and Cultural Studies as Critical Intervention 14. Saving Black Folk Culture: Zora Neale Hurston as Anthropologist and Writer 15. Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness 16. Stylish Nihilism: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies 17. Representing Whiteness: Seeing Wings of Desire 18. Counter-Hegemonic Art: Do the Right Thing 19. A Call for Militant Resistance 20. Seductive Sexualities: Representing Blackness in Poetry and on Screen 21. Black Women and Men: Partnership in the 1990s 22. An Interview with bell hooks by Gloria Watkins: No, Not Talking Back, January 1989 23. A Final Yearning: January 1990