Intro
Contents
Acknowledgments
Contested Lives, Contesting Lives
Dakobijigaade mii miinawaa Aaba'igaade Gichimookomaanakiing: Tied and Untied in America
Negotiating National Identityand Well-Being in US Black Women's Diaries
"Strange Juxtapositions": Elliott Erwitt's Visual Diary of Cold War America
The Legacy of Conquest in Comics: Texas History Movies, Jack Jackson, and Revision
We Have Never Been a Nation of Immigrants: Refugee Temporality as American Identity
Archival Intervention: Surviving the "Savage Splintering" in Deborah Miranda's Bad Indians
Juneteenth

Moving Beyond the Urban/Rural Divide in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home
White Privilege and J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy
Indians in Monumental Places: Heid Erdrich and Jeff Thomas
Getting Schooled: Responses to Education as Neoliberal Identity-Formation in US Life Narratives
Disabling Birth: Prognostic Certainty and the Gestating Citizen of the Contemporary Midwifery Movement
"A small flashlight in a great dark space": Elizabeth Warren, Autobiography, and Populism
Autobiographical Reckonings in America's Restless Twenty-First Century
Contributors
Index