From the Book - First edition.
Machine generated contents note: PART ONE --
Mothers, TN, Many Many Generations --
Show Me the Company You Keep I'll Tell You Who You Are, Part I --
A Lot See But a Few Know. Halls, TN. Always --
Mitochondrial Eve, Africa, 150,000 Years Ago --
When They Took Us, Benin and Togo, Circa 1560 --
Black Tax, America, 1650-Present --
Widows, Haywood County, 1790 --
Becoming a Free Woman Haywood County Circa 1840 --
Brinkley; Abridged. 1940 --
This Frightening Change --
Midnight Women, an Alternate Reality, the Past to the Present Day --
Walk Gentry Home, Haywood County, TN, Circa 1940 --
Stockings, Ripley, TN, 1944 --
So a Man Thinketh So Is He --
Lord Give Gentry Some New Monkeys Cause These Can't Dance --
Stillborn, Haywood County, 1957 --
Make a Fool out of You 1960 --
The Birth of a Young Son, Halls, TN, Circa 1960 --
The Colored Prom, 1960 --
The Only Pool in Ripley --
The Day Mccord Died, Just 25, Ripley, TN, Circa 1976 --
The Blood the Blood the Bride --
Patches of Green, Ripley, TN, 1984 --
District 10, Haywood County, Always --
The Most Judgmental Women Are Those Who Hate Themselves --
One-Sided Fights Ain't Nothin' but Abuse --
The Daughter Will Learn, Halls, TN, Summer 1969 -- 1981 --
Y'all Need to Stop Underestimating the Evil In Somebody Just Because They Say They're a Woman of God --
You Ain't Gotta Die and Go to Heaven or Hell to Get What You Deserve, Part I --
Show Me the Company You Keep I'll Tell You Who You Are, Part II --
Colonizers, 1990, Knox County, TN --
A Letter from the Womb, Teaneck, NJ, 2002 --
Darkskin/Lightskin 2008, Davidson County, TN --
When I Stop Calling Mom, Mommy --
When You Are Old Enough to Make Gumbo --
To My Mother, Who I Caught Crying in the Shower --
Things That Are Annoying --
"For a Black Girl," TN, 1970 -- Present --
American Blessings, America, Present Day --
The Day My Grandmother Died, Halls, TN, February 17th, 2017 --
Hair, Our Heads, Circa 2017 --
You Ain't Gotta Die and Go to Heaven or Hell to Get What You Deserve, Part II --
A Question of Privilege, AP Human Geography, District 5, Nashville, TN, 2018 --
Rant, 2019, Nashville, TN --
Bad Dreams, After the Death of George Floyd, 2020 --
Cannibalism, Present Day, Tennessee --
The Chosen People, TN, Always --
When We Realized We Were Black --
A Thousand Generations --
