Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Note on usage -- Black feminism -- Why Black feminist thought? -- Fighting words-- : or yet another version of the emperor's new clothes -- Black sexual politics 101 -- Resisting racism, writing Black sexual politics -- Still brave? : Black feminism as a social justice project -- Sociology of knowledge -- Learning from the outsider within revisited -- Going public : doing the sociology that had no name -- Changing times : sociological complexities -- The racial threat -- Rethinking knowledge, community and empowerment : an interview -- Critical education -- Critical pedagogy and engaged scholarship : lessons from St. Joseph's community school -- Teaching for a change : critical pedagogy and classroom communities -- Another kind of public education -- Making space for public conversations : an interview -- Racial politics -- Coloring outside the color line -- Are we living in a post-racial world? -- On the brink : violence and U.S. society -- Who's right? : what's left? : family values and U.S. politics -- Intellectual activism revisited -- Toward a new vision : race, class, and gender as categories of analysis and connection -- Where do we go from here? -- Index.