Introduction : picturing us / Deborah Willis -- When you meet Estella Smart, you been met? / Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor -- A Sunday portrait / Edward P. Jones -- In our glory : photography and Black life / bell hooks -- In my father's house there were no images / E. Ethelbert Miller -- Gazing colored : a family album / Christian Walker -- Grandmother's face and the legacy of Pomegranate Hall / Adele Logan Alexander -- My grandmother died last night / Lisé Hamilton -- The plaintiff speaks / Clarissa T. Sligh -- Finding a space for myself in my film about color consciousness / Kathe Sandler -- Affirmative action and the white backlash : notes from a child of apartheid / Luke Charles Harris -- The erotic image is naked and dark / Carla Williams -- Mug shot : suspicious person / Claudine K. Brown -- The continuing drama of African American images in American cinema / St. Clair Bourne -- How come nobody told me about the lynching? / Jacquie Jones -- Hard core poverty / Paul A. Rogers -- Afro images : politics, fashion, and nostalgia / Angela Y. Davis -- Making noise : Marcus Garvey Dada, August 1922 / Robert A. Hill.