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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Transnational Feminist Cultural Studies, Visual Culture, and the Ethnographic Project -- The See/Saw of Mixed Race -- Out from Underneath the Imagery of the "Picturesque" -- Whose Narrative Eye in the Caribbean? -- The DR as a Site of Study -- Small Talk and the Big Picture -- Ay/I/Eye -- 1 Sites of Identity: Facebook, Murals, and Vernacular Images -- "Maldito Feisbu" -- Raisa and Ingrid: Social Networks as Sites of Identity -- Sites of Resistance -- Rewriting Master Narratives -- Everybody's Protest Mural -- Off the Wall -- Photographic Resistance -- Paloma: La Calle Será la Calle -- 2 Me Quedo con la Greña: Dominican Women's Identities and Ambiguities -- Fluctuations in Racial Meaning -- To Be Black or Latina? -- Marked on the Body -- Michelle and Dulcina: Ambiguity and Alienation -- "Mi Negra" -- Navigating a Transnational World -- Michelle: "Negra Caribeña Soy" -- 3 Whiteness, Transformative Bodies, and the Queer Dominicanidad of Rita Indiana -- "La Hora de Volvé" -- Ritaindianístico Pastiche -- The Privilege of Being a Transformista -- Queerness and Whiteness in the Dominican Imaginary -- "El juidero" as Masculinity Deployed -- Rita Indiana's Brand -- Racial Vacillations and the Epistemic Knowledge of Mixed Race -- 4 A Thorn in Her Foot: The Discomfort of Racism and the Ethnographic Moment -- La Plaza and El Mall -- Patricia: Dominican German Feminism -- Who Is Afrodominicana? -- Yessica y Ambar: Different Razas -- 5 The Camera Obscura: Teatro Maleducadas' Production of La Casa de Bernarda Alba -- A Looking-Glass World -- Other Worlds Are Possible -- Seeing Gender, Seeing Race -- Whiteness as Metaphor -- The Wrath of Bernarda -- Seeing and Policing Bodies -- 6 Feminist Rage and the Right to Life for Women in the Dominican Republic.

Through intimate testimonies from Black women victim/survivors, commentaries from acclaimed African-American scholars and community leaders, impacting archival footage, spirited music, dance, and performance poetry, NO! unveils the reality of rape, other forms of sexual violence, and healing in African-American communities. Winner of both a juried award and an audience choice award at the 2006 San Diego Women Film Festival, NO! explores how the collective silence about acts of rape and other forms of sexual assault adversely affects African-Americans, while simultaneously encouraging dialogue to bring about healing and reconciliation between all men and women