New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000 collects a selection of essays and reviews from Barbara Christian, one of the founding voices in black feminist literary criticism. Touching on her roles as a scholar, teacher, feminist, intellectual, and university activist, this collection of Christian's work demonstrates the scholarship of a passionate pioneer. These pieces, which were published between the release of her second landmark book, Black Feminist Criticism, and her death, include evaluations of black feminist criticism as a discipline: reflections on black feminism in the academy: reviews: and essays on Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Paule Marshall, and others.