Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction. In the Spirit of Zora—Traveling with the “Eternal Feminine”
Chapter 1. Returning to the Margin—Changed
Chapter 2. African American Literature: Like a Bridge over Troubled Water
Part I
– Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes: Envisioning the (New) “Negro Artist”
Chapter 3. Striking Down Colorism in Color Struck: A Play in Four Scenes
Chapter 4. We are Not Tragically Colored
Chapter 5. Langston Hughes Writing about the “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain”
Chapter 6. Transgressing Boundaries of White Male Power in The Ways of White Folks
Part II
– Blackness from the Inside Out
Chapter 7. Seeing “Women Loving Women”
Chapter 8. “What If Mama finds out?” Entering a Life-Changing Place of Self-Liberation
Chapter 9. When “Nobody was Lesbian, Nobody was Feminist, Nobody was Gay”
Part III
– “Still Children of the Night”: Survivors against the Odds
Chapter 10. Black Boys’ Lives Still Matter: In Search of a Loving Father
Chapter 11. “Spilled Salt” on a Black Mother’s Table and the Struggle for Maternal Survival
Chapter 12. No Shame: Recovering Our Mother’s Way(s) of Being
Chapter 13. Getting to the Heart of the Lessons: Black Women Teaching “Other” Ways of Loving
Epilogue: Continuing to Teach in the Image of “An Alternative Black Man”
References
Author Contact Information
Index
First and foremost, this book is written for educators, students, and administrators—from high school to college level. Also, this book aims to attract individuals in professional organizations committed to human rights and social justice activism. I have also purposed this book to appeal to all classes of people—in and outside academic and professional arenas. Sharing stories of personal survival against systemic and institutionalized oppression and domination, my students and I—in dialogue—aim to bring ALL people together across differences to embrace the writings in this book.
