Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Prelude “The Fierce Urgency of Now”: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation xi
5. Introduction Dissolving Dogma: Improvisation, Rights, and Difference 1
6. Chapter 1 Sounding Truth to Power: Improvisation, Black Mobility, and Resources for Hope 33
7. Chapter 2 Improvisation and Encounter: Rights in the Key of Rifference 57
8. Chapter 3 Improvising Community: Rights and Improvisation as Encounter Narratives 99
9. Chapter 4 Improvisation, Social Movements, and Rights in New Orleans 141
10. Chapter 5 Art to Find the Pulse of the People: We Know This Place 171
11. Chapter 6 “The Fierce Urgency of Now”: Improvisation, Social Practice, and Togetherness-in-Difference 189
12. Coda 231
13. Notes 245
14. Works Cited 263
15. Index 281