Introduction : picturing us / Deborah Willis
When you meet Estella Smart, you been met? / Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor
A Sunday portrait / Edward P. Jones
In our glory : photography and Black life / bell hooks
In my father's house there were no images / E. Ethelbert Miller
Gazing colored : a family album / Christian Walker
Grandmother's face and the legacy of Pomegranate Hall / Adele Logan Alexander
My grandmother died last night / Lisé Hamilton
The plaintiff speaks / Clarissa T. Sligh
Finding a space for myself in my film about color consciousness / Kathe Sandler
Affirmative action and the white backlash : notes from a child of apartheid / Luke Charles Harris
The erotic image is naked and dark / Carla Williams
Mug shot : suspicious person / Claudine K. Brown
The continuing drama of African American images in American cinema / St. Clair Bourne
How come nobody told me about the lynching? / Jacquie Jones
Hard core poverty / Paul A. Rogers
Afro images : politics, fashion, and nostalgia / Angela Y. Davis
Making noise : Marcus Garvey Dada, August 1922 / Robert A. Hill.
