Catherine Morris is Sackler Family Senior Curator for the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, the editor of "Workt by Hand": Hidden Labor and Historical Quilts (2013), and coeditor of Materializing "Six Years": Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art (2012) and Judith Scott—Bound and Unbound (2014).
Rujeko Hockley, formerly Assistant Curator, Contemporary Art, at the Brooklyn Museum, is now Assistant Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Foreword / Anne Pasternak 10
Acknowledgments 12
Revolutionary Hope: Landmark Writings, 1965-85 / Catherine Morris and Rujeko Hockley 16
Spiral, the Black Arts Movement, and "Where We At" Black Women Artists / Connie H. Choi 26
1. Why Spiral? (1966) / Jeanne Siegel 33
2. Any Day Now: Black Art and Black Liberation (1969) / Larry Neal 39
3. Africobra: African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists, 10 in Search of a Nation (1970) / Jeff Donaldson 52
4. "Where We At" Black Women Artists (1972) / Kay Brown 62
Race and Women's Liberation / Rujeko Hockley 66
5. An Argument for Black Women's Liberation as Revolutionary Force (1969) / Mary Ann Weathers 70
6. What the Black Woman Thinks About Women's Lib (1971) / Toni Morrison 75
7. In Search of Our Mother's Gardens: The Creativity of Black Women in the South (1974) / Alice Walker 84
8. Black Feminism: A New Mandate (1974) / Margaret Sloan 94
9. A Litany for Survival (1978) / Audre Lorde 99
Faith Ringgold's Radical Activism / Catherine Morris 100
10. For the Women's House: Interview with Faith Ringgold (1972) / Michele Wallace 104
Collective Artist Actions in New York / Carmen Hermo 114
11. The Demands of Art Workers Coalition (1969) / Art Workers' Coalition 120
12. To the Viewing Public for the 1970 Whitney Annual Exhibition (undated) / Women Artists in Revolution, Women's Ad Hoc Committee, and Women Students and Artists for Black Art Liberation 122
13, Letter of withdrawal from Contemporary Black Artists in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1971 (1971) / John Dowell, Sam Gilliam, Daniel Johnson, Joe Overstreet, Melvin Edwards, Richard Hunt and William T. Williams 124
14. Letter in defense of the Judson Three (1971) / Flo Kennedy, Gerald Lefcourt, and Robert Pojanksy 126
15. Letter of support of the Judson Threet (1971) / The Committee to Defend the Judson Three 128
16. Color Scheming (1981) / Lucy R. Lippard 130
Just Above the Midtown Gallery / Rujeko Hockley 134
17. Letter to her parents (1967) / Linda Goode Bryant 139
18. Cover artwork (undated) for Black Currant 1, no. 1 (May 1982) / Janet Henry 144
19. B Culture 1, no. 1 (1986) / Greg Tate and Craig Dennis Street 146
20. Interview with Linda Goode Bryant (1994) / Tony Whitfield 148
Senga Nengudi's Freeway Fets / Rujeko Hockley 166
21. Announcement card for Freeway Fets (1978) / Senga Nengudi 170
The Combahee River Collective / Rujeko Hockley 172
22. A Black Feminist Statement (1977) / The Combahee River Collective 176
Struggling for Diversity in Heresies / Catherine Morris 184
23. Letters between Combahee River Collective and Heresies Lesbian Issue Collective n "Women's Traditional Arts—The Politics of Aesthetics," Heresies, issue 4 (1978) 188
24. Third World Women Speak (1978) / Lowery Stokes Sims 190
25. Editorial Statement in "Third World Women—The Politics of Being Other," Heresies, issue 8 (1979) / Lula Mae Blocton, Yvonne Flowers, Valerie Harris, Zarina Hashmi, Virginia Jaramillo, Dawn Russell, and Naeemah Shabazz 194
26. Mlle Bourgeoise Noire Goes to the New Museum, in "The Women's Pages," Heresies, issue 14 (1982) / Lorraine O'Grady 197
27. Editorial Statement and Heresies Collective Statement in "Racism Is the Issue," Heresies, issue 15 (1982) / Vivian E. Browne, Cynthia Carr, Michele Godwin, Hattie Gossett, Carole Gregory, Sue Heinemann, Lucy R. Lippard, May Stevens, Cecilia Vicuña, and Sylvia Witts Vitale 198
28. Some Do's and Don'ts for Black Women Artists in "Racism Is the Issue," Heresies, issue 15 (1982) / Emma Amos 205
29. Untitled, in "Racism Is the Issue," Heresies, issue 15 (1982) / Lorna Simpson 206
30. Black Dreams in "Racism Is the Issue," Heresies, issue 15 (1982) / Lorraine O'Grady 208
Ana Mendieta's Dialectics of Isolation / Stephanie Weissberg 210
31. Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists of the United States, excerpts (1980)
Introduction / Ana Mendiata 214
Artist's Statement / Beverly Buchanan 216
Artist's Statement / Janet Henry 218
Artist's Statement / Senga Nengudi 220
Artist's Statment / Howardena Pindell 222
32. On Making a Video—Free, White and 21 (1992) / Howardena Pindell 224
Gender Politics at the Intersection of Race, Class, and Sexual Identity / Carmen Hermo 230
33. Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers (1981) / Gloria Anzaldúa 234
34. Revolutionary Hope: A Conversation Between James Baldwin and Audre Lorde (1984) / James Baldwin and Audre Lorde 242
The Eighties / Rujeko Hockley 252
35. Art (World) & Racism: Testimony, Documentation and Statistics (1987) / Howardena Pindell 257
36. Confession—Filming Family: An Interview with Artist and Filmmaker Camille Billips (1996) / bell hooks 292
37. Photo spread of Rodeo Caldonia (1987) 300
38. She Came with the Rodeo (1994) / Lisa Jones 302
Sources 314
Copyright Credits 316
Artists in the Exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85 317
Brooklyn Museum Board of Trustees 318
Paper ISBN: 978-0-87273-183-7