Contents:
  • Foreword / D. Soyini Madison
  • Introduction / E. Patrick Johnson and Ramon Rivera-Servera
  • Sugar : a work-in-progress / Robbie McCauley
  • Interview with Robbie McCauley / E. Patrick Johnson
  • "I've got the sweetest hangover" : Robbie McCauley's Sugar / Sandra L. Richards
  • Big-butt girls, hard-headed women / Rhodessa Jones
  • Interview with Rhodessa Jones / E. Patrick Johnson
  • In the space between living and dying : Rhodessa Jones's Big-butt girls, hard-headed women / Lisa Biggs
  • Passing solo / Nancy Cheryll Davis-Bellamy
  • Interview with Nancy Cheryll Davis-Bellamy / Jennifer Devere Brody
  • Performing passing and passing as performance : on Nancy Cheryll Davis-Bellamy's Passing solo, based on Nella Larsen's novella Passing / Bryant Keith Alexander
  • Adventures of a black girl in search of academic clarity and inclusion / Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe
  • Interview with Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe / Omi Osun Joni Jones
  • "How does it feel to be a problem?" : Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe's Adventures of a black girl in search of academic clarity and inclusion / Renee Alexander-Craft
  • Delta dandi : ritual/jazz theater / Sharon Bridgforth
  • Interview with Sharon Bridgforth / Anita Gonzalez Aquanova
  • Collapsing time in the lives of Sharon Bridgforth's Delta dandi / Stephanie Batiste
  • Quiet frenzy / Stacey Robinson
  • Interview with Stacey Robinson / Diana Paulin
  • The body, trauma, and history in Stacey Robinson's Quiet frenzy / Nadine George Graves
  • Milkweed / Misty DeBerry
  • Interview with Misty DeBerry / Raquel Monroe
  • Witness and the politics of readdressing black pain and pleasure: Misty DeBerry's Milkweed / Francesca Royster
  • Acknowledgments / E. Patrick Johnson and Ramon H. Rivera-Servera.