Negotiating difference: race, gender, and the politics of positionality

Introduction : Reading across the lines

Race, gender, and the politics of reading

A black man's place in black feminist criticism

Negotiations of power : white critics, black texts, and the self-referential impulse

Representing rape : on Spike, Iron Mike, and the "desire dynamic"

"Unruly and let loose" : myth, ideology, and gender in Song of Solomon

"The crookeds with the straights" : on Fences, race, and the politics of adaptation

"A slave to the rhythm" : essential(ist) transmutations; or, the curious case of Michael Jackson.