Section One: Smashing stereotypes and embracing icons: I ain't yo' uncle / Robert Alexander
The Little Tommy Parker celebrated colored minstrel show / Carlyle Brown
Remembering Aunt Jemima: a menstrual show / Breena Clarke, Glenda Dickerson. Section Two: Black men at risk: Fierce love / Pomo Afro Homos
Tod, the boy, Tod / Talvin Wilks. Section Three: Reconstructing Black womanhood: Big butt girls, hard-headed women / Rhodessa Jones
Shakin' the mess outta misery / Shay Youngblood
Come down burning / Kia Corthron. Section Four: The Black family in crisis: Crying holy / Wayne Corbitt
Before it hits home / Cheryl L. West
Imperceptible mutabilities in the third kingdom / Suzan-Lori Parks.
