Toward an intellectual history of Black women

Introduction: Towards an intellectual history of black women / Mia Bay, [et al.] – Part I: Diasporic beginnings

Born on the sea from Guinea: Women's spiritual middle passages in the early black Atlantic / Jon Sensbach

Phillis Wheatley, a public intellectual / Arlette Frund

The Hart sisters of Antigua: Evangelical activism and "respectable" public politics in the era of black Atlantic slavery / Natasha Lightfoot

Part II: Race and gender in the postemancipation era

The battle for womanhood is the battle for race: Black women and nineteenth-century racial thought / Mia Bay

A taste of the lash of criticism: Racial progress, self-defense, and christian intellectual thought in the work of Amelia E. Johnson / Alexandra Cornelius

Frances E.W. Harper and the politics of intellectual Maturity / Corinne T. Field. Part III: Redefining the subject of study

Ann Petry's Harlem / Farah J. Griffin

Daughter of Haiti: Marie Vieux Chauvet / Kaiama L. Glover

The polarities of space: Segregation and Alice Walker's intervention in southern studies / Thadious M. Davis

Story, history, discourse: Maryse Conde's Segu and Afrodiasporic Historical Narration / Maboula Soumahoro

Part IV: Intellectual activism

From ladies to women: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti and women's political activism in post-World War II Nigeria / Judith A. Byfield

Living by the word: June Jordan and Alice Walker's wuest for a redemptive art and politics / Cheryl Wall

Not to rely completely on the courts: Florynce Kennedy and black feminist leadership in the reproductive rights battle / Sherie M. Randolph

Professor Merze Tate: Diplomatic historian, cosmopolitan woman / Barbara D. Savage

Histories, fictions, and black womanhood bodies: Race and gender in twenty-first-century politics / Martha S. Jones