Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-438) and index

Director's foreword / Marcia Tucker -- Introduction : invisible center / Russell Ferguson -- The new cultural politics of difference / Cornel West -- Modernism, postmodernism and the problem of the visual in Afro-American culture / Michele Wallace -- The straight mind / Monique Wittig -- What is a minor literature? / Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari -- The other question : difference, discrimination and the discourse of colonialism / Homi K. Bhabha -- Missionary positions : AIDS, Africa, and race / Simon Watney -- Uneven development : public art in New York City / Rosalyn Deutsche -- Please wait by the coatroom / John Yau -- On collecting art and culture / James Clifford -- The names we give ourselves / Martha Gever -- How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldúa

Repetition as a figure of Black culture / James A. Snead -- Mourning and militancy / Douglas Crimp -- Black hair-style politics / Kobena Mercer -- Complexion / Richard Rodriguez -- Age, race, class, and sex : women redefining difference / Audre Lorde -- Coming to terms / Richard Dyer -- The site of memory / Toni Morrison -- Cotton and iron / Trinh T. Minh-ha -- Talking back : marginality as site of resistance / Bell Hooks -- Castration or decapitation? / Hélène Cixous -- Reflections on exile / Edward Said -- Ons stel nie belang nie : we are not interested in : speaking apartheid / Linda Peckham -- Explanation and culture : marginalia / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- Thoughts on nomadic aesthetics and Black independent cinema : traces of a journey / Teshome H. Gabriel -- Socioacupunture : mythic reversals and the striptease in four scenes / Gerald Vizenor

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