I.
3 Etymology of Ain’t
5 Conjuring the Whole Note
7 The Dreamlife of Dr. Bledsoe's Inner Pickaninny
9 A Brief History of Okra (Master's Take)
11 The Tragic Mulatto, or One-Drop Rule Hits the Silver Screen
13 Eye of the Beholder
15 Metachromasis
17 Dusk of the Afrikaner
19 South Africa: 25 Exposures
27 Some Other Place, or Masks
31 Neckrollology
33 The Token's Final Word (on Being Asked to Provide the Black
Perspective in Class)
II.
37 On a Fieldtrip to the Botanical Gardens,
Kenya Gets a Lesson (not in the Lesson Plan)
39 On a Fieldtrip to the Jim Crow Museum,
Kenya Learns (the Meaning of No)
41 Genealogy of the Byrd Family
45 The Stuttering House Negro Diviner Speaks: Byrd Plantation, 1863
49 Things My Father Gave Me (Which I Never Asked For)
51 Home
55 Afternoon Breezes
57 Uncle Charlie Comes to da Family Reunion
59 Mama Mabry Remarks on Brown v. Board of Education
50 Years Later (at Commencement, Booker T. Washington
High School, Atlanta)
61 An Everyday God
65 On Closing Woodruff Park, Atlanta (for renovation for the
1996 Summer Olympics)
69 The Barbershop Philosopher's 1st Law on Social Mobility
71 Urban Percussions
III.
79 Unmanifesto (Notes on Post-Postcolonialism: a 3rd Draft in CP Time)
81 Conjurewoman
83 Once, During an Eclipse, I Happened to Look into the Sun
85 The Veil
87 Lovesong at the End of the World
89 Day Negative 7
91 A Sharecropper’s Pantoum
93 Of Ash & Dust
