Contents
Foreword: Black Pedagogy in Context | Joyce A. Joyce
Introduction. “Nothing without Intention” | Drea Brown and Ana-Maurine Lara
Part 1: The Roux
Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation | Toni Morrison
The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in America: Something like a Sonnet for Phillis Wheatley | June Jordan
Black Studies, All Studies: What Can Black Studies Teach Creative Writing? | John Keene
Centering Black Queer Womyn: Today All the Parts of Me Come Along | JP Howard
Excerpt from “Nudging the Memory—Creating Performance with the Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women” | Rhodessa Jones
Provocation 1: cochise be de name I gave dem: dem = student(s) who had dey funeral(s) befo mine | Avery R. Young
Part 2: What Is Black? Who’s Afraid?
Teaching with Blues Poems: Borrowing from Song to Write about What’s Wrong | Sheila Maldonado
Who’s Afraid of Poetry? | Rita Dove
What Is Black? | Sarah Webster Fabio
Discipline and Craft: An Interview with Sonia Sanchez | Sonia Sanchez and Susan Kelly
~Teaching Black Diaspora~Yoking Yemoja’s Breath~ | Meta DuEwa Jones
A Question of Victory: Teaching Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric | Drea Brown
Poetry Is Not a Luxury | Audre Lorde
Provocation 2: black out white wash fall out | Gabrielle Civil
Part 3: Bearing Witness
Baring/Bearing Anger: Race in the Creative Writing Classroom | Toi Derricotte
How Much Is Too Much?: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Queering the Classroom | Charles Rice-Gonzalez
Not Everything Faced Can Be Changed | Kelly Norman Ellis
Teaching as a Practice Rooted in Black Brotherhood | Jamal Adams and F. Douglas Brown
You Is Kind, You Is Smart, You Is Important: The Black Female Professor as “the Help” | Lauren K. Alleyne
Pony, Swim, or Freeze? | Gabrielle Civil
Teaching from the Front Porch | Anastacia-Renee Tolbert
Learning to Fly: A Letter to My Niece and All the Other Newly Minted Black Women Assistant Professors on the Eve of My Promotion to Full Professor | Lisa B. Thompson
Provocation 3: “an open letter to the school resource officer who almost shot me in my class” and “the surprising thing” | Matthew E. Henry
Part 4: Into the Cypher
Th/Inking in Black: Notes on Teaching Creative Writing | Nelly Rosario
Black Fugitive Pedagogies | Aricka Foreman
Note-to-Self, to My Sister Hennessy: Collecting Subjects in Black Queer Feminist Pedagogy | Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
What the Body Knows: A Theatrical Jazz–Inflected Pedagogy | Omi Osun Joni L. Jones and Sharon Bridgforth
young neesha or, a radical idea that black children should not be given white paper to create art that reflects themselves (or anything) | Avery R. Young
Provocation 4: Excerpts from Too Fly on the Wall: Negrotesque Workshop Tactics for Black Study | Douglas Kearney
Appendix A: So You Wanna Get a Black Education: A Primer
Appendix B: The Infiniphonic B Sides