Audre LordeÕs now classic, ÒThe Uses of Anger,Ó was first delivered at UCONN, Storrs in 1981. One of two keynote lectures, it offered LordeÕs address of the National WomenÕs Studies Association conference topic of Òwomen responding to racism.Ó In their introduction, Gordon, Orozco Mendoza, and Zane reflect on the inheritance, lessons, and responsibilities that UCONN WomenÕs, Gender, and Sexuality Studies must grapple with if it is to deepen and fulfill its radical mission. Guided by the imperative to look backward to understand the present and forge a future, the book closes with a sankofic interview with M. Jaqui Alexander and Beverly Guy-Sheftall, conducted by Briona Simone Jones.