Introduction: The Heartbeat Of Cultural Revolution -- 1. Power To The Pussy: We Don't Wannabe Dicks In Drag -- 2. Altars Of Sacrifice: Re-membering Basquiat -- 3. What's Passion Got To Do With It?: An Interview With Marie-france Alderman -- 4. Seduction And Betrayal: The Crying Game Meets The Bodyguard -- 5. Censorship From Left And Right -- 6. Talking Sex: Beyond The Patriarchal Phallic Imaginary -- 7. Camille Paglia: Black Pagan Or White Colonizer? -- 8. Dissident Heat: Fire With Fire -- 9. Katie Roiphe: A Little Feminist Excess Goes A Long Way -- 10. Seduced By Violence No More -- 11. Gangsta Culture -- Sexism And Misogyny: Who Will Take The Rap? -- 12. Ice Cube Culture: A Shared Passion For Speaking Truth -- 13. Spending Culture: Marketing The Black Underclass -- 14. Spike Lee Doing Malcolm X: Denying Black Pain -- 15. Seeing And Making Culture: Representing The Poor -- 16. Back To Black: Ending Internalized Racism -- 17. Malcolm X: The Longed-for Feminist Manhood. Bell Hooks. Includes Index.