List of PlatesShout-outsChapter One Steppin Out on FaithChapter Two "When Do You Plan on Getting Married And Starting A Family?"Chapter Three Quest for Knowledge and LiberationChapter Four Who We Be: The Language Wars In And Outside Of The AcademyChapter Five Doin Battle In The Language Wars: Black Language And The AcademyChapter Six Doin Battle In The Language Wars: Black Language And The LawChapter Seven Maintaining My Authentic SelfChapter Eight The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: Reparations and Affirmative Action Chapter Nine African American Language and Literacy Program and Black Studies In The Twenty-First CenturyChapter Ten "What Is Africa To Me?": Longing And Looking For HomeEpilogue The Rhyming Tonal Semantics of History Index