Feminism and Race brings together a wide range of writings on 'race', racism, and feminism that have been published in the past two decades. It aims to provide readers with an overview of the history of these debates as well as to suggest future directions for feminist scholarship and practice in this field. Notes on Contributors xi Introduction 1(16) Kum-Kum Bhavnani Part I. The Basis for the Debates Challenging Imperial Feminism 17(16) Valerie Amos Pratibha Parmar Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory 33(7) Bell Hooks Angry Women are Building: Issues and Struggles Facing American Indian Women Today 40(5) Paula Gunn Allen Black Women in White America 45(5) Gerda Lerner Rape, Racism and the Myth of the Black Racist 50(15) Angela Y. Davis Transforming Socialist Feminism: The Challenge of Racism 65(9) Kum-Kum Bhavnani Margaret Coulson Gender and Race: The Ampersand Problem in Feminist Thought 74(15) Elizabeth V. Spelman The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House 89(4) Audre Lorde La Conciencia de la Mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness 93(15) Gloria Anzaldua Colonialism and Modernity: Feminist Re-presentations of Women in Non-Western Societies 108(13) Aihwa Ong Part II. Engaging the Debates `Race', Gender and the Concept of 'Difference' in Feminist Thought 121(13) Mary Maynard Moving the Mountains, Making the Links 134(11) Molara Ogundipe-Leslie The Persistence of Vision 145(16) Donna Haraway Bold Omissions and Minute Depictions 161(10) Trinh T. Minh-Ha 'Race', Identity and Cultural Criticism 171(13) Lola Young The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought 184(19) Patricia Hill Collins Practising Feminist Research: The Intersection of Gender and 'Race' in the Research Process 203(17) Ann Phoenix 'Somebody Forgot to Tell Somebody Something': African-American women's Historical Novels 220(13) Barbara Christian The Occult of True Black Womanhood: Critical Demeanor and Black Feminist Studies 233(28) Ann Ducille US Third World Feminism: The Theory and Method of Oppositional Consciousness in the Postmodern World 261(20) Chela Sandoval Decolonizing Feminism 281(16) Marnia Lazreg Part III. Shifting the Debates Black Women's Employment and the British Economy 297(22) Gail Lewis Women, Migration and the State 319(12) Annie Phizacklea People or Population: Towards a New Ecology of Reproduction 331(17) Maria Mies Vandana Shiva Women and the Politics of Fundamentalism in Iran 348(18) Haleh Afshar Jewish Fundamentalism and Women's Empowerment 366(13) Nira Yuval-Davis Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality 379(15) Evelynn Hammonds I'm a Feminist But . . . 'Other' Women and Postnational Feminism 394(16) Ien Ang Environmental Management, Equity and Ecofeminism: Debating India's Experience 410(46) Bina Agarwal Difference, Diversity, Differentiation 456(23) Avtar Brah Crosscurrents, Crosstalk: Race, 'Post-coloniality' and the Politics of Location 479(13) Ruth Frankenberg Lata Mani Genealogies, Legacies, Movements 492(24) M. Jacqui Alexander Chandra Talpade Mohanty Exploding the Canon 516(21) Jane L. Parpart Marianne H. Marchand Index 537