Introduction / Angelyn Mitchell and Danille K. Taylor
Early African American women's literature / Frances Smith Foster and LaRose Davis
Women of the Harlem Renaissance / Cheryl A. Wall
Women writers of the Black Arts Movement / Eleanor W. Traylor
Contemporary African American women writers / Dana A. Williams
African American feminist theories and literary criticism / Robert J. Patterson
African American women and the United States slave narrative / Joycelyn Moody
Autobiography and African American women's literature / Joanne M. Braxton
"Even some fiction might be useful" : African American women novelists / Madhu Dubey
African American women poets and the power of the word / Keith D. Leonard
African American women in the performing arts / Olga Barrios
African American women writers of children's and young adult literature / Dianne Johnson
African American women essayists / Marilyn Sanders Mobley
African American women writers and the short story / Crystal J. Lucky
African American women writers and popular fiction : theorizing black womanhood / Herman Beavers.