Introduction : writing in the margins of the twentieth century
Ethnographic meaning making and the politics of difference
Standing on the middle ground : Ella Deloria's decolonizing methodology
"Lyin' up a nation" : Zora Neale Hurston and the literary uses of the folk
A romance of the border : J. Frank Dobie, Jovita González, and the study of the folk in Texas
Re-writing culture : storytelling and the decolonial imagination
"All my relatives are noble" : recovering the feminine on Waterlily
"De nigger woman is de mule uh de world" : storytelling and the black feminist tradition
Feminism on the border : Caballero and the poetics of collaboration
Epilogue: "What's love got to do with it?" : toward a passionate praxis.