Art on my mind: visual politics

Foreword / by Mckalene Thomas

Introduction: Art matters

Art on my mind

The poetics of soul: Art for everyone

Talking art with Alison Saar

Altars of sacrifice: Re-membering Basquiat

Subversive beauty: New modes of contestation

In our glory: Photography and Black life

Diasporic landscapes of longing

Talking art with Carrie Mae Weems

Facing difference: The Black female body

Talking art as the spirit moves us

Critical genealogies: Writing Black art

Beauty laid bare: Aesthetics in the ordinary

Women artists: The creative process

Being the subject of art

Workers for artistic freedom

Black vernacular: Architecture as cultural practice

Architecture in Black life: Talking space with LaVerne Wells-Bowie

Aesthetic interventions

Straighten up and fly right: Talking art with Emma Amos

Intervening printmakers: Talking art with Margo Humphrey

Representing the Black male body

The radiance of red: Blood works.