Mind the Gap -- The Thenar Space -- Fool's Gold -- Grown Folks' Business -- Poems as a Mapping of Human Potential -- Disparate Impacts : Moving to Minnesota to Live Just Enough for the City -- The Dangers of Teaching Writing While Black -- Tilted Uterus :When Jesus Is Your Baby Daddy -- Making the Invisible Visible : Mapping Racial Housing Covenants in South Minneapolis -- What's Understood Don't Need to Be Explained -- You Can Miss Me with That, 'Cause Plantations Were Diverse, Too -- Sometimes I Feel like Harriet Tubman

"A Black woman in America is always on the run, desperate to survive, thrive, and finally find freedom. Using a powerful blend of perspectives that move between a first-person lens of lived experience and a wider-ranging critique of U.S. culture, policy,and academia, Taiyon J. Coleman explores what it means to write her story and that of her family--an act at once a responsibility and a privilege--bringing forth the inherent contradictions between American ideals and Black reality"--