Julia S. Jordan-Zachery is Director of Black Studies and Professor of Public and Community Service at Providence College. She is the author of Black Women, Cultural Images, and Social Policy and Shadow Bodies: Black Women, Ideology, Representation, and Politics. Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd is Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Political Science at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. She is the author of Gender, Race, and Nationalism in Contemporary Black Politics.

• List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgmentsBlack Women’s Political Labor: An IntroductionJulia S. Jordan-Zachery and Nikol G. Alexander-FloydPart I: Black Feminists Doing Intersectionality Work 1. Why Political Scientists Don’t Study Black Women, but Historians and Sociologists Do: On Intersectionality and the Remapping of the Study of Black Political WomenNikol G. Alexander-Floyd2. "I Ain’t Your Darn Help": Black Women as the Help in Intersectionality Research in Political ScienceJulia S. Jordan-ZacheryPart II: Black Feminist Policy Analysis 3. The Politics of Black Women’s Health in the UK: Intersections of "Race," Class, and Gender in Policy, Practice, and ResearchJenny Douglas4. Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women Felons Reentering SocietyKeesha M. Middlemass5. Lost Tribes: An Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis of How US HIV/AIDS Policy Fails to "Rescue" Black OrphansJulia S. Jordan-ZacheryPart III: Diasporic Black Women and the Global Political Arena 6. El pan, el poder y la politica: The Politics of Bread Making in Honduras’s Garifuna CommunityK. Melchor Quick Hall7. Woman Out of Place: Portia Simpson-Miller and Middle-Class Politics in JamaicaMaziki Thame8. "We Want to Set the World on Fire": Black Nationalist Women and Diasporic Politics in the New Negro World, 1940–1944Keisha N. BlainPart IV: Discourses, Movements, and Representation 9. Morrisonian Democracy: The Literary Praxis of Black Feminist Political EngagementJudylyn S. Ryan10. Illegitimate Appetites: Michelle Obama’s Anti-Obesity Campaign as Sexual RegulationGrace E. Howard11. "We Always Resist: Trust Black Women": Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Activism in the Wake of Health Care ReformTonya M. WilliamsContributorsIndex

"…an important edited collection … Black Women in Politics challenges United States-based political scientists to undertake a radical project of disciplinary transformation." — New Political Science"Black Women in Politics offers a new perspective on Black women as political actors. Jordan-Zachery and Alexander-Floyd have assembled a stellar group of essays that speak to the broad experiences and concerns of Black women as political actors. Together, the essays present a compelling story of what we learn when we center Black women's voices in policy debates, democratic theory, and notions of political leadership." — Wendy Smooth, The Ohio State University