President's Foreword / Beverly Daniel Tatum
Director's Foreword / Linda Shearer
Preface & Acknowledgments / Andrea Barnwell Brownlee and Valerie Cassel Oliver
Reflections on Art as a Verb: Twenty Years Later, in the New Millennium, Interview with Maren Hassinger, Senga Nengudi, and Howardena Pindell / Leslie King-Hammond and Lowery Stokes Sims
Power to the People: Video's Legacy as a Medium for Social Change / Merrill Falkenberg
Amateurism & Auteurism: Contrary Instincts in Black Women's Experimental Film Forms / Romi Crawford
Between Artifice & Authenticity: The Black Female Body in Performance / Valerie Cassel Oliver
The Skin I'm In: Black Women, Color, and Video Art / Andrea Barnwell Brownlee
Transformer: Video Installation, Space, and the Art of Immersion / Isolde Brielmaier
Interview with Camille Billops / Rhea L. Combs
Race, Representation & the Moving Image / Valerie Cassel Oliver
Plates
Exhibition Checklist
Art, History & Culture: Select Chronology of Black Women and the Moving Image
Artists' Biographies
Select Bibliography
Select Filmography
Contributors
Index