The Other Side of Terror : Black Women and the Culture of US Empire

CONTENTS
Introduction: What Was to Come

PART I Imperial Grammars
1 Inform Our Dreams: Black Women and the Long War on Terror
2 The Imperial Grammars of Blackness: Iraq War Circuits and the Picture of Black Militarism
3 “What Kind of Skeeza?”: New Black Femininity and the Seductions of Emergency

PART II Insurgent Grammars
4 Scenes of Incorporation; or, Passing Through
5 Perfect Grammar: June Jordan and the Intelligence of Empire
6 “How Very American”: Black Feminist Literature and the Occult of Paranoia
Afterword