Words of witness : black women's autobiography in the post-Brown era / Angela A. Ards.

Introduction: Post-Brown political aesthetics
Beyond the strong black woman in Melba Beals's Warriors Don't Cry
Reclaiming the radicalism of social interdependence in Rosemary Bray's Unafraid of the Dark: A Memoir
Honoring the past to move forward in June Jordan's Soldier: A Poet's Childhood
Collective storytelling as diasporic consciousness in Edwidge Danticat's Brother, I'm Dying
Cultivating liberatory joy in Eisa Davis's Angela's Mixtape
Epilogue: Teaching "the people": bodies, material histories, and the project of black feminist autobiography.