Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (essays) 1981
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (essays) 1984
Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black (essays) 1988
Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics (essays) 1990
Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life [with Cornell West] (essays) 1991
Black Looks: Race and Representation (essays) 1992
A Woman's Mourning Song (essays) 1992
Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self Recovery (essays) 1993
Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations (essays) 1994
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (essays) 1994
Art on My Mind: Visual Politics (essays) 1995
Killing Rage: Ending Racism (essays) 1995