Preface
Chronology
Introduction. Recovering the radical Black female subject: anti-imperialism, feminism, and activism
Women's rights/workers' rights/anti-imperialism: challenging the superexploitation of Black working-class women
From "half the world" to the whole world: journalism as Black transnational political practice
Prison blues: literary activism and a poetry of resistance
Deportation: the other politics of diaspora, or "what is an ocean between us? We know how to build bridges."
Carnival and diaspora: Caribbean community, happiness, and activism
Piece work/peace work: self-construction versus state repression
Notes
Bibliography
Index.