Introduction : the writer in the anthropologist / Maria D. Vesperi and Alisse Waterston
Speaking truth to power with books / Howard Zinn
Remember when writing was fun? : why academics should go on a low syllable, active voice diet / Karen Brodkin
The bard / Carolyn Nordstrom
Saggin' and braggin' / Lee D. Baker
Stories for readers : a few observations from outside the academy / Andrew Barnes
Writing poverty, drawing readers : stories in Love, sorrow and rage / Alisse Waterston
Write-ous indignation : Black girls, dilemmas of cultural domination and the struggle to speak the skin we are in / Signithia Fordham
Writing truth to power : racism as statecraft / Arthur K. Spears
Remembering Octavia / Sharon Ball
Believing in anthropology as literature / Ruth Behar
Walking in Zora's shoes or "seek(ing) out de inside meanin' of words" : the intersections of anthropology, ethnography, identity, and writing / Irma McClaurin
Off the shelf and into oblivion? / Catherine Kingfisher
"Don't use your data as a pillow" / S. Eben Kirksey
The trope of the pith helmet : America's anthropology, anthropology's America / Micaela di Leonardo
The book that wrote me / Roger Sanjek
Fighting words / Paul Farmer
Taking chances / Maria D. Vesperi.