Introduction / Marita Golden -- Introduction / Richards Shreve -- High yellow white trash / Lisa Page -- Whitegirls / Marita Golden -- The racism, of well-meaning white people / Naomi Wolf -- Overhand and underhand / Retha Powers -- Negative / Joyce Carol Oates -- Recitatif / Toni Morrison -- What Tina has to do with it / Beverly Lowry -- Legacies and ghosts / Patricia Browning Griffith -- Adjustments / Mary Morris -- Prudential Life Insurance / Susan Richards Shreve -- Across the glittering sea / Jewelle Gomez -- Loving across the boundary / Ann Filemyr -- The revenge of Hannah Kemhuff / Alice Walker -- Tulsa, 1921 / Susan Straight -- A worn path / Eudora Welty -- Contents under pressure : white woman/black history / Catherine Clinton -- Reaching across the feminist racial divide / Dorothy Gilliam -- Feminism in black and white / bell hooks -- Hello, stranger / Gayle Pemberton -- "Are we so different?" : a dialogue between an African-American and a white social worker / Cathleen Gray, Shirley Bryant.