Introduction : Can I get a witness? / Dolan Hubbard
Witnesses and practitioners : attitudes toward miscegenation in Barbara Chase-Riboud's Sally Hemings / Emma Waters Dawson
The two Marys (Prince and Shelley) on the textual meeting ground of race, gender, and genre / Helena Woodard
Harriet Wilson's Our nig : the demystification of sentiment / Debra Walker King
Gender, genre, and vulgar secularism : the case of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and the AME Press / Frances Smith Foster
Anna J. Cooper : the international dimensions / David W.H. Pellow
The "invisible woman" abroad : Jessie Fauset's New horizon / Erica L. Griffin
A blend of voices : composite narrative strategies in biographical reconstruction / Sandra Y. Govan
Before the stigma of race : authority and witchcraft in Ann Petry's Tituba of Salem Village / Trudier Harris
Reading Ann Petry's The narrows into Black literary tradition / Joyce Pettis
The unmasking of Virginia Brindis de Salas : minority discourse of Afro-Uruguay / Caroll Mills Young.