Introduction: Dreams reimagined : political possibilities and the black cultural imagination / Robert J. Patterson
Freedom now : black power and the literature of slavery / Madhu Dubey
Generations : slavery and the post-civil rights literary imagination / Lisa Woolfork
Slavery now : 1970s influence post-20th-century films on American slavery / Monica White Ndounou
Movin' on up and out : remapping 1970s African American visual culture / Courtney R. Baker
"Can you kill" : Vietnam, black power, and militancy in black feminist literature / Nadine M. Knight
The future in black and white : Fran Ross, Adrienne Kennedy, and post-civil rights black feminist thought / Samantha Pinto
Renegotiating racial discourse : the blues, black feminist thought, and post-civil rights literary renewal in Gayl Jones's Corregidora / Jermaine Singleton
From blaxploitation to black macho : the angry black woman comes of age / Terrion L. Williamson
From the ground up : readers and publishers in the making of a literary public / Kinohi Nishikawa
A woman's trip : domestic violence and black feminist healing in Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls / Soyica Diggs Colbert
Afterword: Post-soul : post-civil rights considerations in the 21st century / Robert J. Patterson.