Prologue: Naming black women's ideology critique -- Introduction: Resistance and legitimacy -- "They won't believe what i say": theorizing freedom as an economy of violence -- The production of "emancipation": race, ritual, and the reconstitution of the antebellum order -- "Wondering under which head i come": sounding Anna Julia Cooper's Fin-de-Siècle song -- "Mammy ain't nobody name": Power, privilege and the bodying forth of resistance -- Conclusion: Roll call
Summary
The book analyzes black women's engagement with the liberal problematic--the gap between democratic promise and dispossession--as a form of resistance
