The Routledge Companion to Black Women's Cultural Histories is an impressive and comprehensive reference work for contemporary scholarship on the cultural histories of Black women across the diaspora spanning different eras from ancient times into the twenty-first century.

Janell Hobson is Professor and Chair of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York, USA.

Introduction - Janell Hobson PART I - A FRAGMENTED PAST, AN INCLUSIVE FUTURE 1. Women are from Africa and Men are from Europe 2. Priestess, Queen, Goddess: The Divine Feminine in the Kingdom of Kush 3. Queen Balghis, "Queen of Sheba" 4. Black Women in Early Modern European Art and Culture 5. Black Women in Early Modern Spanish Literature 6. The Legend of Lucy Negro 7. (Anti-)colonial Assemblages: The History and Reformulations of Njinga Mbande PART II - CONTESTED HISTORIES, SUBVERSIVE MEMORIES 8. Preserving the Memories of Precolonial Nigeria: Cultural Narratives of Precolonial Heroines 9. Nana Asma'u: The Model for Literate Women Muslims 10. Finding "Fatima" among Enslaved Muslim Women in the Antebellum United States 11. Phillis Wheatley and New England Slavery 12. Sally Hemings: Writing the Life of an Enslaved Woman 13. The Persistence of Félicité Kina in the World of the Haitian Revolution: Kinship, Gender, and Everyday Resistance 14. The Then and Now of Subjugation and Empowerment: Marie Benoist's Portrait d'une Negresse (1800) PART III - GENDERED LIVES, RACIAL FRAMEWORKS 15. A History of Black Women in Nineteenth-Century France 16. Living Free: Self-Emancipated Women and Queer Formations of Freedom 17. "Blood, Fire, and Freedom": Enslaved Women and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Cuba 18. Black Women and Africana Abolitionism 19. Ethiop's Woke Women: The Nineteenth Century Re-imagines Africa 20. Singing Power/Sounding Identity: The Black Woman's Voice from Hidden Hush Arbors to the Popular 21. Jamettes, Mas, and Bacchanal: A Culture of Resistance in Trinidad and Tobago PART IV - CULTURAL SHIFTS, SOCIAL CHANGE 22. Wives and Warriors: The Royal Women of Dahomey as Representatives of the Kingdom 23. Reframing Yaa Asantewaa through the Shifting Paradigms of African Historiography 24. The Aba Women's War of 1929 in Eastern Nigeria as Anti-Colonial Protest 25. Black Women Writers in Early Twentieth-Century Paris 26. The Transnational Black Feminist Politics of Claudia Jones 27. Confronting Apartheid: Black Women's Internationalism in South Africa and the United States 28. Black Feminisms, Queer Feminisms, Trans Feminisms: Meditating on Pauli Murray, Shirley Chisholm, and Marsha P. Johnson against the Erasure of History PART V - BLACK IDENTITIES, FEMINIST FUTURES 29. Traces of Race, Roots of Gender: A Genetic History 30. Is Twerking African?: Dancing and Diaspora as Embodied Knowledge on YouTube 31. Sites of Resistance: Black Women and Beauty in Brazilian Communities of São Paulo and Bahia 32. Hail to the Chefs: Black Women's Pedagogy, Sacred Kitchenspaces, and Afro-Diasporic Religions 33. Black Women's Feminist Literary Renaissance of the Late Twentieth Century 34. Black Women, Sexual Violence, and Resistance in the United States 35. African Women's Political Leadership: Global Lessons for Feminism