Reacties van Afro-Amerikaanse vrouwen op de hearing van het U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee over de geschiktheid van Clarence Thomas voor het ambt van rechter in het Supreme Court van de Verenigde Staten, waar Anita Faye Hill, eveneens Afro-Amerikaans, hem aanklaagde wegens seksuele intimidatie jegens haar. De drie dagen durende zitting werd gedurende 'prime time' op TV uitgezonden. De bundel bevat de volgende bijdragen: On the turning up of unidentified black female corpses / door Toi Derricotte: Statement of Clarence Thomas to the Senate Judiciary Committee: Statement of Anita F. Hill to the Senate Judiciary Committee: Where I'm coming from / door Barbara Brandon: Observations of a Journalist on the wretched spectacle / door Susan Watson: A righteous rage and a grassroots mobilization / door Barbara ransby: Social and political thought on Anita Hill from the feminist and black communities : the scapegoat and the sacrificial lamb / door Patricia Coleman-Burns: Whose 'Boy' is this? / door Margaret Walker Alexander: High-tech lynching on Capital Hill : oral narratives from African American women / door Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis: Imaging lynching : African American women, communities of struggle, and collective memory / door Elsa Barkley Brown: The circling of the wagons : the Odyssey of Anita Hill / door Harriette Pipes McAdoo: Faults in the movement : the end of one era and the beginning of another / door Dianne M. Pinderhughes: Anita at the Battle of the Bush : THomas on the Hill : Dark Town Strutters Ball / door Nettie Jones: Making sense of our differences: African American women on Anita Hill / door Beverly Grier: The Year of the Woman or the Woman of the Year : was there really an 'Anita Hill effect'? / Julianne Malveaux: For pleasure, profit, and power : the sexual exploitation of black women / door Darlene Clark Hine: Clarence Thomas as lynching victim : reflections on Anita Hill's role in the Thomas confirmation hearings / door Angela Y. Davis: Of metaphors and meaning : language, ways of knowing, memory holes, and a politic recall / door Linda Susan Beard: A forensic psychiatrist reflects on sexual harassment / door Rosalind B. Griffin: The tongue or the sword : which is master? / door Denise Troutman-Robinson: Testifyin, sermonizin, and signifyin : Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas and the African American verbal tradition / door Geneva Smitherman: Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the crisis of black political leadership / door Linda F. Williams: Where I'm coming from / door Barbara Brandon.