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Title Page
Copyright
Contents
GIVING THANKS
Introduction. Post-Oppositional Resistance? Threshold Theories Defined and Enacted
1. Beyond Intersectionality: Theorizing Interconnectivity with/in This Bridge Called My Back:
2. “American” Individualism, Variations on a Theme; or, Self-Reliance, Transformed!
3. “I am your other I”: Transformational Identity Politics
4. “There is no arcane place for return”: Revisionist Mythmaking with a Difference
5. From Self-Help to Womanist Self-Recovery: or, How Paula Gunn Allen Changed My Mind
6. Pedagogies of Invitation: From Status-Quo Stories to Cosmic Connections
Appendix 1. Abridged Syllabus for a U.S. Women of Colors Course
Appendix 2. Guidelines for a Workshop on Our Spoken Word: Poetry for Self and Community
Notes
Works Cited and Consulted
Index