Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Libation vii
4. THE GROUND ON WHICH I STAND
5. Ecology Is Everything 3
6. Bigger Is Better 10
7. My Feminism 18
8. Identity and Solidarity 34
9. The Power of Story 42
10. The Truths Our Bodies Tell 47
11. THE HISTORIAN AS CURANDERA
12. False Memories: Trauma and Liberation 55
13. The Historian as Curandera 69
14. Night Flying: Power, Memory, and Magic 89
15. What Race Isn’t: Teaching about Racism 95
16. Raícism: Rootedness as Spiritual and Political Practice 99
17. The Politics of Childhood 104
18. SPEAKING IN TONGUES
19. On Not Writing English 111
20. Forked Tongues: On Not Speaking Spanish 115
21. Certified Organic Intellectual 121
22. Ban Me! 127
23. TRIBES
24. The Tribe of Guarayamín 133
25. Taíno Citizenship 140
26. Speaking of Antisemitism 145
27. BDS and Me 154
28. Puerto Ricans and Jews 157
29. PRIVILEGE AND LOSS
30. Class, Privilege, and Loss 175
31. Nadie la Tiene: Land, Ecology, and Nationalism 179
32. Torturers 192
33. Histerimonia: Declarations of a Trafficked Girl, or Why I Couldn’t Write This Essay 197
34. THE LONG HAUL
35. Building Radical Soil 207
36. Circle Unbroken: The Politics of Inclusion 211
37. Tai: A Yom Kippur Sermon, 5778/2017 217
38. A Note from the Author 223
39. Index 225