Introduction: toward a Black feminist politics of freedom
Ain't your mama on the pancake box?: Aunt Jemima and the reproduction of the racial state
Love and violence / maternity and death: enslaved infanticide and monstrous motherhood in Toni Morrison's Beloved
Hysterical bodies as embodied history: Corregidora's genealogy of resistance
Our founding (m)other: Sally Hemings and the problem of miscegenation
"A picture of me and my mother": planned parenthood, precious, and the rationalization of Black reproductivity
Coda: lest we forget: a litany for survival.