Examines some of the earliest articulations of U.S. Black feminist theory, in poetry and prose developed primarily outside the academy, with a particular focus on the ways race, gender, class, and other social, cultural, and political markers are interconnected and the ways Black communities are particularly oppressed systemically and systematically, Black women’s relationships with Black men, motherhood, Black queer communities, work inside and outside of the home, religion and spirituality, and other concerns. Also, applies Black feminist analysis to Black women’s film from the late 1980s to the present.