Originally published: 1994.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The heartbeat of cultural revolution -- Power to the pussy : we don't wannabe dicks in drag -- Altars of sacrifice : re-membering Basquiat -- What's passion got to do with it? : an interview with Marie-France Alderman -- Seduction and betrayal : The crying game meets The bodyguard -- Censorship from left and right -- Talking sex : beyond the patriarchal phallic imaginary -- Camille Paglia, "black" pagan or white colonizer -- Dissident heat : fire with fire -- Katie Roiphe, a little feminist excess goes a long way -- Seduced by violence no more -- Gangsta culture : sexism and misogyny : who will take the rap -- Ice Cube culture : a shared passion for speaking truth -- Spending culture : marketing the black underclass -- Spike Lee doing Malcolm X : denying black pain -- Seeing and making culture : representing the poor -- Back to black : ending internalized racism -- Malcolm X, the longed-for feminist manhood -- Columbus, gone but not forgotten -- Moving into and beyond feminism : just for the joy of it -- Love as the practice of freedom.