| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要(Abstract in Chinese) | 第6-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-11页 |
| INTRODUCTION | 第11-17页 |
| Chapter One CHALLENGING STEREOTYPES AND QUEST FOR SELFHOOD | 第17-32页 |
| ·Stereotypes and Their Meaning | 第17-20页 |
| ·Connotations of stereotypes | 第17-18页 |
| ·Stereotypes and Black feminism | 第18-20页 |
| ·Stereotypical Images of Black Women | 第20-28页 |
| ·Stereotypes enforced upon Black women | 第20-22页 |
| ·Stereotype internalized by Black women | 第22-24页 |
| ·Presentations in Meridian | 第24-28页 |
| ·Fighting against Stereotypes | 第28-32页 |
| ·Questing for self-autonomy | 第28-30页 |
| ·Practice of love | 第30-32页 |
| Chapter Two CONSTRUCTING A LANGUAGE OF THEIR OWN BASED ON AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC | 第32-42页 |
| ·Music and African American History | 第32-33页 |
| ·Music and Spiritual Quest | 第33-36页 |
| ·Church and religious music | 第34-35页 |
| ·The enlightening musician | 第35-36页 |
| ·Music in Discursive Struggle | 第36-42页 |
| ·The Other's silence | 第37-38页 |
| ·Music as black women's own language | 第38-42页 |
| Chapter Three BUILDING THE UNITY ROOTED IN AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY | 第42-57页 |
| ·African Philosophy V.S.Western Philosophy | 第42-44页 |
| ·Coalition with the Black Male | 第44-51页 |
| ·The black male's predicament | 第45-47页 |
| ·Truman's complex | 第47-49页 |
| ·Truman's return | 第49-51页 |
| ·Coalition with the White Female | 第51-57页 |
| ·Lynne's complex | 第52-53页 |
| ·Interracial hostility among Black women | 第53-54页 |
| ·Black Feminists' contention of sisterhood | 第54-57页 |
| CONCLUSION | 第57-59页 |
| WORKS CITED | 第59-61页 |
