Introduction: Invisible Center - Russell FERGUSON

Other Questions: Critical Contexts

The New Cultural Politics of Difference - Cornel WEST

Modernism, Postmodernism and the Problem of the Visual in Afro-American Culture - Michele WALLACE

The Straight Mind - Monique WITTIG

What is a Minor Literature? - Gilles DELEUZE, Félix GUATTARI

The Other Question: Difference, Discrimination and the Discourse of Colonialism - Homi K. BHABHA

Missionary Positions: AIDS, Africa, and Race - Simon WATNEY

Uneven Development: Public Art in New York City - Rosalyn DEUTSCHE

Please Wait By the Coatroom - John YAU

On Collecting Art and Culture - James CLIFFORD

Wild Tongues: Affirming Identities

The Names We Give Ourselves - Martha GEVER

How to Tame a Wild Tongue - Gloria ANZALDUA

Repetition as a Figure of Black Culture - James A. SNEAD

Mourning and Militancy - Douglas CRIMP

Black Hair/Style Politics - Kobena MERCER

Complexion - Richard RODRIGUEZ

Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference - Audre LORDE

Coming to Terms - Richard DYER

The Site of Memory - Toni MORRISON

Marginalia: Displacement and Resistance

Cotton and Iron - TRINH T. Minh Ha

Talking Back - bell hooks

marginality as site of resistance

Castration or Decapitation? - Hélène CIXOUS

Reflections on Exile - Edward SAID

Ons Stel Nie Belang Nie/We Are Not Interested In: Speaking Apartheid - Linda PECKHAM

Explanation and Culture: Marginalia - Gayatri CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK

Thoughts on Nomadic Aesthetics and Black Independent Cinema: Traces of a Journey - Teshome H. GABRIEL

Socioacupuncture: Mythic Reversals and the Striptease in Four Scenes - Gerald VIZENOR