This is a pretty lengthy anthology and took me awhile to get through and interesting collection of writing and ideas. Not super heavy on academic language but still a dense read worth taking your time with. My favorites were Michael Awkward's A black Man's Place in Black Feminist Criticism, When Fighting Words Are Not Enough: The Gendered content of Afrocentrism, Phallus(ies) of Interpretation: Toward Engendering the Black Critical "I", AIDS the secret, silent, Suffering Shame, and Olympia's Maid: Reclaiming Black Female Subjectivity. ( )