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Tables of Contents for Testimony
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xiii
A Note to the Reader
xv
Introduction On Giving Testimony, or the Processes of Becoming
1
10
Part 1 A Spell of Finding: Beginning the Journey
11
32
A Spell of Finding
13
1
Trasi Johnson
The Ones Who Stole the Night
14
2
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Malik's Brother Died in 1963
16
2
Myronn Hardy
The Fire This Time
18
8
Michael Datcher
Livin' Just Enough for the City
26
5
Jelani Cobb, Jr.
In Remembrance Of
31
4
Taigi Smith
Memoirs after Surviving Well
35
4
Melanie Mims
Untitled
39
1
Jawanza Ali Keita
visitations
40
3
minkah makalani
Part 2 The Preserving: Family and Friends
43
42
Mississippi Midwife
45
1
Myronn Hardy
The Preserving
46
2
Kevin Young
uncle Tall twin
48
2
Tracie Hall
To Set upon a Shelf
50
9
Corey Olds
Questions I Have Not Asked My Mother
59
2
Sabrina Shange McDaniel
Yearning
61
4
Natasha Tarpley
the trio
65
5
Tracie Hall
Letters to My Sister
70
6
Deborah Turner
For My Sister
76
5
Lichelli Lazar-Lea
the wind still breezes your name
81
4
minkah makalani
Part 3 In Love and Trouble
85
32
we sit on the stairs sometimes
87
2
Yona C. Harvey
Obsessive Love
89
4
Tracy E. Hopkins
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
93
5
Tiya Miles
Why a Black Woman Could Never Be President
98
3
Paitra Russell
Shades of Grief: The Plight of a Battered Woman
101
3
Michelle White
When Words Contradict Actions
104
5
Askhari
A Liar in Love
109
7
Quinn Eli
Slow Dance
116
1
Natasha Tarpley
Part 4 The Eyes of Seers: Educating and Re-educating Ourselves
117
40
To Phillis Wheatley
119
8
Lisa Clayton
Southern University, 1962
127
2
Kevin Young
From White to Black Campus
129
4
Omar Tyree
Eastley Echoes (excerpt)
133
4
Dayle B. De Lancey
White Friends
137
1
Jennifer L. Vest
Untitled
138
3
Toure
Half Gold, Half Black: Thai Journals, 1979-80 (excerpts)
141
8
Faith Adiele
Accent
149
6
Damon Roberts
Field Trip
155
2
Kevin Young
Part 5 You Ask Me What Hip Hop Is: Art and Aesthetics
157
38
Billie's Blue
159
1
Yao Bhoke Ahoto
You Ask Me What Hip Hop Is
160
3
Godffrey Williams
The Battle
163
16
J. Phillip Pringle IV
This Poem
179
3
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Hazy Shade of Revolutionary
182
6
Adisa Sebaku Banjoko
Pimp 4 Life
188
7
Lichelli Lazar-Lea
Part 6 Coming into Myself: Establishing Black Identity
195
24
Untitled
197
1
Jennifer L. Vest
ABC
198
4
Faith Adiele
Coming into Myself
202
4
Riche Richardson
Living Out Loud
206
4
John Frazier, Jr.
How It Was for Me
210
5
Sarah Van't Hul
Becoming the Third Wave
215
4
Rebecca Walker
Part 7 MOVE: Revolution and Solution
219
44
Youth
221
1
Jennifer L. Vest
For All the ``Think-They-Conscious'' Writers
222
2
Jennifer E. Smith
2,190 Days in the Life of a B-Boy: A Freestyle Chronicle of a Culture
224
7
Jelani Cobb, Jr.
The Darker the Berry
231
5
Tracy E. Hopkins
The Straight and Narrow
236
6
Tiya Miles
Keiko Morris
Nia Song
242
1
Jennifer E. Smith
On Generation X
243
5
Samuel Frederick Reynolds
African-Based/African-Centered African Females and Males: Messengers and Manifestations of MA'AT
248
11
Cecil Gray
X1 (unknown)
259
4
Yao Bhoke Ahoto
Contributors
263
8
Credits
271