Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents viii
3. [forced beds] 3
4. Grrrl Black in Kilmarnock 4
5. Prevalence of Ritual 6
6. Daughters of Harriet 7
7. Then I Will Speak on the Ashes 8
8. Erasures of History 9
9. My Mother the Lunch Lady 10
10. potters’ field 11
11. The History of Gynecology 12
12. weather report 14
13. The Oppression Tables: Genesis 15
14. greyhound bus station 1950 16
15. In Virginia 18
16. Drylongso 20
17. the kelley women: a story of africans and romas 21
18. and we’ll understand it better bye and bye 22
19. Black and Blue 24
20. The Disowning. 25
21. porch stories 26
22. colored hats 28
23. segregated blood 29
24. negroesbuyahouse 31
25. little negro lyes 32
26. (re)imagining hattie 33
27. this here aint a allen ginsberg poem! 34
28. Forgotten Negroes: Hospital for the Negro Insane 35
29. roun’ kilmarnock way 37
30. Persistence of Memory 38
31. act so there is no use in a centre. 39
32. Black Persists 40
33. Florence. 41
34. Negro-related Conditions 42
35. south 43
36. The Hunger Season 44
37. all the bushmen’s horses 45
38. The Color of Remembrance 47
39. A Day of Grace 48
40. To the People of Iraq: What You Can Expect from America in 2007 50
41. the hierarchy of humanity 52
42. And It Is the Presence 53
43. A Social Worker in Black 54
44. Africans unearthed beneath wall street 57
45. The Taxidermy of Grrrl Black 59
46. Comes the Colored Hour 60
47. let them be named 62
48. Her Marked Black Body 63
49. [Belly of the Black moon &] 64
50. Acknowledgments 65