Names We Call Home: Autobiography on Racial Identity

Names We Call Home
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction, Storytelling As Social Conscience: The Power Of Autobiography
Word Problems
Part I. Blood Ties, Communal Relations
	1. \"When We are Capable
of Stopping, We Begin To See:\" Being White, Seeing Whiteness
	2. Mrs. Brent
	3. Red and Black in White America: Discovering Cross-Border Identities
and Other Subversive Activities
	4. Writing in Search of a Home: Geography, Culture, And Language in the Creation
of Racial Identity
	5. Alice\'s Little Sister: The Self Concealed Behind the
Self
	6. Place And Kinship: A Native American\'s Identity Before and After Words
Part II. Piecing Together History
	7. Locating Biafra: The Words We Wouldn\'t Say
	8. Afro Images: Politics, Fashion,
and Nostalgia
	9. Time Travelling and Border Crossing: Reflections
on White Identity
	10. A Hyphenated Identity
	11. Jews in the U.S.: The Rising Costs of Whiteness
	12. Chattanooga Black Boy: Identity
and Racism
Part III. Love Letters
and Conversations
	13. My Dear Niece
	14. Oxydol Poisoning
	15. Writing Life
	16. Birth of
a Negation: A Love Letter
	17. Tippin\' The Furniture: An Interview With Angela Maria Giudice
Part IV. \"Acts Of Creation: Sweat, Blood, Bone\"
	18. The Breakdown of
the Bicultural Mind
	19. Eating Salt
	20. Turning the Myths
of Black Masculinity Inside/Out
	21. \"Wandering Between Two Worlds, One Dead, The Other Powerless To Be Born\"
	22. Playing the Devil\'s Advocate: Defending a Multiracial Identity
in Fractured Community
	23. Black Women and The Wilderness
	24. Toward
the Light
	25. Waiting
for a Taxi
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