A Change Is Gonna Come: A Letter To My Godson

Part I: Comfort Me. Scuppernongs and Beef Fat: Some Things about the Women Who Raised Me

The Rooster, the Rattlesnake, and the Hydrangea Bush

Greens: A Mess of Memories about Taste

Swine Dreams: or, Barbecue for the Brain

Chinquapin: Elementary Particles

Ode to Billie Joe

Comfort Me with Barbecue

Ghost Dog: or, How I Wrote My First Novel

Part II: Where Am I Black? Come Out the Wilderness

Where Am I Black?: or, Something about My Kinfolks

Blackness on My Mind

An Ahistorical Silliness

Notes Toward an Essay on Imagining Thomas Jefferson Watching a Performance of the Musical Hamilton

The Many Lives of Eartha Kitt: or, Taking the Girl out of the South

The Good ship Jesus: Baldwin, Bergman, and the Protestant Imagination

There's a Hellhound on Your Trail: How to See Like Gordon Parks

Part III: That Eternal Burning. Finding the Forgotten

Chitlins and Chimichangas: A Southern Tale in Black and Latin: A Proposal for a Documentary

Letter from North Carolina: Learning from Ghosts of the Civil War

That Eternal Burning

Love and Labor

Letter to Self.