Organized into two parts, "Literary Theory" and "Social and Political Theory," this Reader explores issues of community, identity, justice, and the marginalization of African American and Caribbean women in literature, society, and political movements. Organized into two parts, "Literary Theory" and "Social and Political Theory," this Reader explores issues of community, identity, justice, and the marginalization of African American and Caribbean women in literature, society, and political movements. List of Contributors vii Preface ix Acknowledgements xiii Editors' Introduction 1(10) I Literary Theory The Race for Theory 11(13) Barbara Christian Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature 24(33) Toni Morrison Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book 57(31) Hortense J. Spillers A Black Man's Place in Black Feminist Criticism 88(21) Michael Awkward Beyond Miranda's Meanings: Un/silencing the ``Demonic Ground'' of Caliban's ``Woman'' 109(22) Sylvia Wynter II Social and Political Theory Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory 131(15) bell hooks Women and Capitalism: Dialectics of Oppression and Liberation 146(37) Angela Y. Davis The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought 183(25) Patricia Hill Collins Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics 208(31) Kimberle Crenshaw Radicalizing Feminism 239(46) Joy James Appendix: Key Feminist Statements Combahee River Collective, A Black Feminist Statement (1977) 261(10) African American Women in Defense of Ourselves (1991) 271(2) Open Letter from Assata Shakur (1998) 273(12) Bibliography 285(4) Index 289