Black folk could fly: selected writings

A Change Is Gonna Come: A Letter To My Godson --

Part I: Comfort Me. Scuppernongs and Beef Fat: Some Things about the Women Who Raised Me --

The Rooster, the Rattlesnake, and the Hydrangea Bush --

Greens: A Mess of Memories about Taste --

Swine Dreams: or, Barbecue for the Brain --

Chinquapin: Elementary Particles --

Ode to Billie Joe --

Comfort Me with Barbecue --

Ghost Dog: or, How I Wrote My First Novel --

Part II: Where Am I Black? Come Out the Wilderness --

Where Am I Black?: or, Something about My Kinfolks --

Blackness on My Mind --

An Ahistorical Silliness --

Notes Toward an Essay on Imagining Thomas Jefferson Watching a Performance of the Musical Hamilton --

The Many Lives of Eartha Kitt: or, Taking the Girl out of the south --

The Good ship Jesus: Baldwin, Bergman, and the Protestant Imagination --

There's a Hellhound on Your Trail: How to See Like Gordon Parks --

Part III: That Eternal Burning. Finding the Forgotten --

Chitlins and Chimichangas: A Southern Tale in Black and Latin: A Proposal for a Documentary --

Letter from North Carolina: Learning from Ghosts of the Civil War --

That Eternal Burning --

Love and Labor --

Letter to Self.