From the Book - First edition.
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 --
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 --
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 --