Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- FOREWORD by Laurel Wilkening -- INTRODUCTION by Johnnella E. Butler -- PART I: ETHNIC STUDIES AND WOMEN'S STUDIES: INTERRELATIONSHIPS -- 1. The Difficult Dialogue of Curriculum Transformation: Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies by Johnnella E. Butler -- 2. Funding Women's Studies by Caryn McTighe Musil and Ruby Sales -- 3. Private Foundation Grants to American Ethnic Studies Departments and Programs, 1972-1988: Patterns and Prospects by Katharine Bolland and John C. Walter -- 4. Different Voices: A Model Institute for Integrating Women of Color Into Undergraduate American Literature and History Courses by Johnella E. Butler and Betty Schmitz -- PART II: THE CUTTING EDGE OF THE LIBERAL ARTS: SOME ESSENTIALS IN PEDAGOGY AND THEORY BUILDING -- 5. Transforming the Curriculum: Teaching About Women of Color by Johnnella E. Butler -- 6. Teaching "White Women, Racism and Anti-Racism" in a Women's Studies Program by Ruth Frankenberg -- 7. Gender and the Transformation of a Survey Course in Afro- American History by John C. Walter -- 8. Black Studies in Liberal Arts Education by Johnnetta B. Cole -- 9. Towards an Epistemology of Ethnic Studies: African American Studies and Chicano Studies Contributions by R. A. Olguin -- 10. Is Jewish Studies Ethnic Studies? by Howard Adelman -- 11. The Politics of Jewish Invisibility in Women's Studies by Evelyn Torton Beck -- PART III: THE CUTTING EDGE OF THE LIBERAL ARTS: SOME IMPLICATIONS FOR SCHOLARSHIP -- 12. Gender in the Context of Race and Class by Elizabeth V. Spelman -- 13. Asian American Literary Traditions: Real vs. Fake by Frank Chin, Jeffery Chan, Lawson Inada, and Shawn Wong -- 14. Time and Time-Again: Notes Toward an Understanding of Radical Elements in American Indian Fiction by Kathryn Shanley.

15. The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window: Toward a Transformative Aesthetic by Johnnella E. Butler -- 16. Armenian American Women: The First Word . . . by Arlene Avakian -- PART IV: ETHNIC STUDIES, WOMEN'S STUDIES, AND THE LIBERAL ARTS CURRICULUM: RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT -- 17. A Black Feminist Perspective on the Academy by Beverly Guy-Sheftall -- 18. A Critical Assessment of Bloom: The Closing of an American Mind? by Jonathan A. Majek -- 19. Praxis and the Prospect of Curriculum Transformation by Johnnella E. Butler and John C. Walter -- Contributors -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.