Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : runnin with the rabbits, but huntin with the dogs : on the makings of an intellectual autobiography
  • Teaching interlude I : method men and women. "Before I'll be a slave, I'll be buried in my grave" : Black student protest as discursive challenge and social turn in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literacies
  • Teaching interlude II : through their window. "I want to be African" : tracing the Black radical tradition with "students' rights to their own language"
  • Teaching interlude III : undoing the singularity of "ethical English" and language-as-racial-inferiority. "Ain't we got a right to the tree of life?" : the Black arts movement and Black studies as an untold story of and in composition studies
  • Teaching interlude IV : "not like the first time, talkin bout the second time". "The revolution will not be [error analyzed]" : the Black protest tradition of teaching and the integrationist moment
  • Teaching interlude V : "your mother is weak". What a difference an error makes : ongoing challenges for "white innocence," historiography, and disciplinary knowledge-making
  • Outerlude : leaving the Emerald City.